This case has always baffled me.
This case has always baffled me.
Originally Posted by marakisses
Happy Birthday! I hid a dead body in your backyard to celebrate. Good luck finding it under the cement. You can only use a stick to look for it.
This was added as an update to the article on 7/12/2026.
Since this story first ran, more details have emerged through reporting by 614NOW, which spoke with Kelly Bruce, host of the podcast Brian Shaffer Dead or Alive, who collaborated on the True Crime Garage series.
According to that reporting, a listener sent Bruce the name of a person he believed authorities should look into.
When Bruce shared it with a Columbus police detective, she says he told her his unit had received the same name from a friend of Shaffer’s shortly after the 2006 disappearance.Two tips, nearly 20 years apart, pointing at the same person. Neither police nor the researchers have made the name public, and no arrest has been made. The reporting also surfaced investigative details that hadn’t been widely known.
In the weeks after Shaffer went missing, his cell phone could still be traced by his carrier to a series of locations around Columbus, though not precisely enough to act on.
And at one point, police obtained a search warrant to dig into the basement floor of a house near Lane Avenue. They found only an old fuel oil tank.
I want to know who it is!
I know!!! It is driving me crazy. It makes me think it was someone who knew him.I want to know who it is!
I did not realize that True Crime Garage had posted the name of the suspect three months ago.
https://www.facebook.com/truecrimega...7465490867056/
https://www.reddit.com/r/BrianShaffe...s_been_leaked/
Last edited by Bewitchingstorm; 08-05-2026 at 12:28 PM.
Interesting. If he did something to him, I still want to know how they think he got the Brian or his body out without being seen.
I know. That is the part that is puzzling.
Curious to know their relationship....how did he know Brian?
Happy Birthday! I hid a dead body in your backyard to celebrate. Good luck finding it under the cement. You can only use a stick to look for it.
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