Episode 5 · Mysteries by Chenzo
Brian Shaffer: The Ohio State Med Student Who Vanished From a Columbus Bar in 2006
He Walked Into a Bar and Never Walked Out.
Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old Ohio State medical student, was recorded going up the escalator to the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus around 1:15 a.m. on April 1, 2006. At about 1:55 a.m. a camera caught him outside the bar's entrance, talking briefly with two women. It is the last time any camera is known to have seen him. No camera ever showed him leaving the building. Twenty years later, he is still missing.
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Into the Bar, Never Out
Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old medical student, was last seen on camera at a bar near the Ohio State campus in Columbus in 2006. No camera showed him leaving, and he is still missing.
- Who
- Brian Randall Shaffer, 27
- When
- Missing since April 1, 2006
- Where
- Ugly Tuna Saloona (now closed), South Campus Gateway, N. High Street near Ohio State University, Columbus, Franklin County, OH
- Status
- Missing person · Open case, still missing
- Agency
- Columbus Division of Police
- Case no.
- 060286094
- Tip line
- 614-645-2358