He Walked Into a Bar on Camera. He Never Walked Out. | The Brian Shaffer Case

At 1:55 a.m. on April 1, 2006, a security camera outside the Ugly Tuna Saloona in Columbus, Ohio recorded 27-year-old Ohio State medical student Brian Shaffer saying goodbye to two women and walking out of frame. No camera ever recorded him leaving the building. Twenty years later, he has never been found. This documentary walks through the night he disappeared, the surveillance footage, the investigation, the phone that rang six months later, the hoax message to his father, and the theories that remain. If you have any information about the disappearance of Brian Shaffer, please contact: Columbus Division of Police — 614-645-4545 Central Ohio Crime Stoppers (anonymous) — 614-461-8477 CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 1:32 The Med Student 4:08 The Last Night 7:04 Five Minutes To Two 9:11 The Cameras 12:47 The People Around Him 14:42 Signals 17:39 The Note 19:35 The Theories 23:25 Last Seen On Camera 24:47 Twenty Years SOURCES Surveillance footage: South Campus Gateway escalator camera, April 1, 2006 (released by Columbus Police). Photos of Brian Shaffer: FBI ViCAP missing person poster (fbi.gov). Wikipedia — Disappearance of Brian Shaffer; NewsNation; Columbus Navigator / 614NOW; ABC News 4; Columbus Monthly (2014). PHOTO CREDITS (Wikimedia Commons) The South Campus Gateway — Carvalho.26, CC BY-SA 4.0 The Ohio State University, The Oval and Thompson Library — Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0 Columbus, Ohio (Short North) — Jsjessee, CC BY-SA 2.0 Hilliard Methodist Episcopal Church — Wdzinc, CC BY-SA 3.0 Pearl Jam, Los Angeles 7-10-06 — KidMoxie, CC BY-SA 2.0 Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands — P. Hughes, CC BY-SA 4.0 Revolución street, Tijuana — Alen Ištoković, CC BY 3.0 Mobile phone mast — Diacius, CC BY-SA 4.0 King's Cross Station, London — Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0 / CC BY 3.0 Columbus High Street at night — Tysto, public domain Pickerington, Ohio — Berniethomas68, public domain Maps © OpenStreetMap contributors. Stock footage: Mixkit. #BrianShaffer #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrime #MissingPerson #Documentary Columbus skyline foggy night (2 photos) — Kevin Payravi, CC BY-SA 4.0