From NBI Studios, this is Truth Injustice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time.

I'm Bob Run.

On the night of March 31, 2006, in Columbus, Ohio, an Ohio State medical

student named Brian Schaefer went out to the bar with friends to celebrate the

completion of his midterm exams and to kick off the beginning of his spring break.

Brian was scheduled to catch a flight with his girlfriend to go on vacation

three days later, but by the time the plane was scheduled aboard, Brian was nowhere

to be found.

On the night Brian went missing, he was seen entering a bar called the ugly tuna on a surveillance

video, and that was the last time anyone has ever seen it.

It's now been 14 years since Brian's mysterious disappearance, and no one has ever found so much

as a clue as to his whereabouts. But that's not for a lack of trying. I'm joined today by a Columbus

native, affectionately known to his audience as the captain. The captain and his friend

Nick hosts an amazing podcast called True Crime Garage, and for years they continue to

circle back to this case, hoping to find an answer. This is season 9, Episode 3, the case

of the disappearance of Brian Schaefer.

Captain, thanks for joining me today, buddy. Yes, it's always good to talk to you, my friend.

Good to hear from you, and today we're going to talk about a case that's really interesting

and intriguing to me. I don't want to have you kind of break down the case for us, and we're

going to talk some theories and things like that. It's the disappearance of Brian Schaefer. But

before we get to that, I've got a couple questions I think a lot of my listeners want to know.

Can you tell us a little bit of Captain, what is your background and how did that background

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