A medical student at the Ohio State University, 27-year old Brian Shaffer went into the Ugly Tuna Saloona bar in Columbus on the evening of 31st March 2006 and has never been seen again. His father, Randy, orchestrated a mammoth campaign to raise awareness of the case but was killed when a tree hit him during a heavy windstorm in 2008. Armchair detectives continue to espouse theories about this case but Shaffer sadly will likely always be “the man who vanished into thin air”.
Two stories to keep beside you
Annie Börjesson (1975 – 2005, AKA ‘The Girl on the Beach’)
Mystery surrounds both the life and death of “kind-hearted” but sometimes “naïve” Annie Börjesson and, according to the Scottish Review, “the story of the last weeks of [her] life is disturbing in its emotional complexity and profound sense of incompleteness.” Born in Sweden, but resident in Edinburgh at the time of her death, Börjesson’s body […]
Rex Leyland
Once described by the Evening Standard as “an excitable bearded man,” Leyland lives on a houseboat near Kew Bridge and was one of the duo behind the immensely successful Foxtrot Oscar. Here is a gent with a passion for all things culinary that is nothing other than utterly infectious. Now a Restaurant Doctor, he divides […]
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Madeleine McCann vanished into thin air or so we are led to believe. The detective in charge, Goncalo Amaral thinks differently and knows who dun it. JUSTICE FOR MADELEINE!!!! CHARGE THEM !!! CHARGE THEM NOW !!!!!!