The Disappearance of Brian Wehrle, Part 1: After the Flood
The Fall Line: True Crime
The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC
4.6 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this two-part series, we cover the disappearance of 39-year-old Brian Wehrle, who drove through the great Atlanta Flood of 2009 to be in his hometown of Carrollton, GA for a court date—one he never made.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the first episode in a two-part series. |
| 0:18.0 | This is the fall line. |
| 0:20.0 | In September 2009, the floods came. |
| 0:24.0 | 17 counties in Georgia would be declared disaster areas. |
| 0:28.0 | Creeks overflowed, streets filled with water, homes and businesses destroyed. |
| 0:32.0 | The rain beat down on the Atlanta Metro, turning areas of highways 75 and 85 and 20, |
| 0:40.0 | into virtual land. |
| 0:42.0 | 10 people died during the floods, and even after the storm stopped, travel was treacherous. |
| 0:48.0 | Parts of the interstates were still shut down. |
| 0:51.0 | The Atlanta flood, as it's called, lasted seven days, September 15th until September 22nd. |
| 0:58.0 | And a man named Brian Wurley, who had a court date in Carrollton, |
| 1:02.0 | was a former state of the state. |
| 1:05.0 | September 15th until September 22nd. And a man named Brian Wurley, who had a court date in Carrollton, |
| 1:12.0 | Georgia, on September 24th, had to make his way through its aftermath. |
| 1:17.0 | Brian lived with his partner Jeff in the Intellinant Lanna neighborhood of Morningside, |
| 1:22.0 | and had for years. |
| 1:24.0 | But Brian was from Carrollton, and he'd been staying down there a lot recently, |
| 1:29.0 | caring for his elderly mother. |
| 1:31.0 | He'd made that 50-mile drive countless times. |
| 1:34.0 | On a good day, it might take an hour and change to take I-20 from Atlanta to Carrollton. |
| 1:40.0 | After the flood, Brian was on the road for six to eight hours. |
| 1:45.0 | He was rerouted many times. |
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