The Disappearance of Brian Wehrle, Part 1: After the Flood

The Fall Line: True Crime

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True Crime, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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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. Listen to Wondery’s Dr. Death: The Miracle Man on the Wondery App, or anywhere you get podcasts Written, researched, and hosted by Laurah Norton, with research assistance from Bryan Worters and Kim Fritz/Interviews by Brooke Hargrove/Produced, scored, and engineered by Maura Currie/Content advisors are Brandy C. Williams, Liv Fallon, and Vic Kennedy/ Theme music by RJR/Special thanks to Angie Dodd Sources at our website: https://www.thefalllinepodcast.com/sources Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefalllinepodcast 2021 All Rights Reserved The Fall Line Podcast, LLC Want to advertise/sponsor our show? We have partnered with AdvertiseCast to handle our advertising/sponsorship requests. They’re great to work with and will help you advertise on our show. Please email [email protected] or click the link below to get started. https://www.advertisecast.com/TheFallLine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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