When Milwaukee's most successful nightclub owner is murdered with a crossbow bolt to the chest,

he uses his last words to name his killer. However, the investigation reveals a different

suspect in the case ultimately goes cold in this episode of Last Seen a Lie. Also included in this

episode, a segment on the April 24 disappearance of Bryant Palacio Suniga from Redwood City, California.

Information on his case is urgently needed.

Music Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co-host, Scott. Carl Lotharius was last seen alive on December 20th, 1981.

He was 47 years old at the time and lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

For the time of his murder, he was a well-known member of his community, locally notable for

his business saviness, particularly in relation to the city's nightlife scene.

However, he had not begun life in Milwaukee or the Midwest or even the United States. Carl was originally from the German

city of Trier. Trier is a charming, medium-sized city in the south. And Scott, when I say old,

I very much mean old in the European sense, rather than the usual American one.

Because here in the U.S., when we call a place old, we're usually referring to a place that's a few hundred years old, if that.

Trier, though, was founded by the Romans during the first century, B.C., and is still a thriving city, home to about 100,000 people.

I'm impressed it's withstood the test of time so well.

Yeah, and growing up, Carl was, of course, one of those citizens.

As a kid there, he had his first job working in a beer hall that was owned by members of his family.

And this experience would influence his later career in business dealings quite a bit, actually.

But Carl would end up living out his tavern-centric business ambitions across the Atlantic in the Midwestern U.S.

Here's how that came to be.

When Carl was in his 20s, he was still living in Trier and still working in a local beer hall.

One day, he met a guy named Bob Zableski. Bob was an American

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