Now, one of the things that I learned early on is detective, though, was all possibilities are reality, right?

So at the same time, he's been murdered, same time he just left, same time somebody broke into his house and stole the stuff, and he's just been missing.

So all these possibilities are true.

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anasiga Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation

discoveries true conviction.

And this is Anatomy of Murph.

Most people, whether by choice, by luck, or just by coincidence, find their adult lives landing squarely in the mainstream.

9-to-5 job, a car, house or apartment, maybe a family to feed, and of course, monthly bills to pay.

But there are also plenty of people who occupy what we might call the fringes of this

mainstream society, people who dare to walk to the beat of their own drummer, who are not

afraid to stand out, shake things up, or just pursue a lifestyle that's not always easy for the

rest of us to understand or appreciate.

And while that bohemian lifestyle can obviously add to certain adventures, if you will,

it can also come with added challenges.

Sometimes the downside, things like irregular routines,

unstable housing, even unemployment.

Not the least of which is contact with other individuals who may see someone's lack of ties to a community as an opportunity to take advantage of them and to get away with it.

Sean was somebody that was known locally. He was our local paper reporter. He worked a crime beat. So he was also kind of a standout because of the way that he looked. He was kind of a bohemian.

Sergeant Danny Harnett spent 29 years at the Pensacola Police Department before he retired back in 2022. But in August of 2012, he was still a detective who knew many crime reporters, including

a 30-year-old local guy named Sean Dugas.

We called him, like, the hippie reporter.

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