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To Live and Die in LA

The Curious Case of Matthew Weaver [Bonus Episode 2]

To Live and Die in LA

Tenderfoot TV & Audacy

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.631.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In the midst of the Adea Shabani investigation, a 21 year old named Matthew Weaver went missing in Neil’s neighborhood. Listen as he and Jayden start putting together the puzzle pieces of a very strange story involving a car hanging off a cliff, a driver who’s nowhere to be found, and a disturbing cry for help that was never answered.

Transcript

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I want to sit here and be able to have good thoughts and map you and laugh at all the memories

0:42.0

and all the time I shared with him and stuff. But it's like how can I do that until I know I can

0:48.3

confirm that he's no longer here. You know I know in my heart, I know in my heart something happened

0:53.2

to him. You know people when they find bodies it's like you almost you don't hope that's him

1:02.4

but it it almost would be better to have an answer rather than doing this because this is awful.

1:15.0

This is the story of Matthew Weaver. He's a 21 year old who loves racing cars and rescuing

1:21.5

dogs and was training to follow in his father's footsteps as a line man for an 18T subcontractor

1:28.8

when he disappeared 10 months prior to the date I'm recording this.

1:35.2

What's different about this from the Aidea Shabani case is that it took place in my backyard

1:40.9

in Malibu, California and on August 10th 2018 just moments before he went off the grid.

1:48.2

Matthew Weaver left a very strange cry for help behind.

1:57.8

At 11.30 he calls Melissa Sanchez and we have a training shot of her communications with him.

2:06.9

She doesn't answer she texts him back at 11.49 saying I met work what's up.

2:13.7

Then he texts her back and I'm going to read this to you just as he wrote it.

2:22.0

And he said like some crazy is going on shit going on.

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