Thinking Sideways: Blair Adams

your real name. This week, we've got another mystery, which is not how do we do the same bit every week, but instead a real mystery. Uh. This week we're gonna be talking about Well, this is kind of an oddball mystery to me, and it's one of those ones that keep reading over and over and over and you just kind of scratch your head, going what's going on? Yeah? Yeah, And this is the death of a gentleman by the name of Blair Adams for we forget this was just

by Denise you. We do get to them, yes, we do. Usually is it really? And it just keeps growing? Okay, We'll let me give everybody a quick summary before we get into the story because there is kind of a bunch of details here. Blair Adams was a Canadian man whose body was found on the eleventh of July in the parking lot of a hotel that was currently under construction in Knoxville, Tennessee. Uh. He was wearing a ripped shirt and nothing else. Was it ripped or had just

been torn open like ripen without on button. I think it was probably torn open, but you hear it referred to as ripped. So we'll go which wherever one you like? There was somewhere Here's what really kind of catches everybody's attention. There was somewhere between four to six thousand dollars in paper currency laying on the ground around him, and that was in US, Canadian and German currencies. He also had a bag near him which had about two thousand dollars

in precious metals and jewelry. And was that that was That was his fanny pack, right, that was his fanny pack. So that wasn't that wasn't on him, that was near him? Right? No, No, it wasn't on him. But thanks for giving away the fact that I was holding on it that he had a fanny pack ruined the night. But by all indications, Blair had no reason to be in Knoxville, and it doesn't appear that he knew anybody there, so we don't

really know what happened and why he died there. Yeah, and it's obviously not a robbery, not unless there was like four times as much for and they just left it some behind because they're like, well, there's so much here, make it look like it wasn't for that. Yeah. No, no, that's unlikely. Well, let's go ahead and start at the very beginning of the story. Blair Adams was thirty one years old and he lived in Surrey, British Columbia, which is right on the border between the US and Canada.

And it's uh, I couldn't ever tell if it was just kind of if it was its own city or a sub community of Vancouver, you know. I don't know. Maybe it's Sara quivalent of the county. I don't know. I looked it up. But the point is it's right there. And this is kind of important in that that relationship of the border because if you look at the West Coast, I five or Interstate five, runs from the bottom of California up through Oregon up through Washington and where he

hits the Canadian border, that's Surrey. So it runs right into there, right there at pace arch before right. I don't know that I have. I haven't. I've never been to Canada. I've never been to Canada. Really, yeah, I know it's weird, right at I've lived here my entire life and I've never been to Canada. Yeah, it's not that far. You should go to Vancouver sometime. It's a cool town. Yeah, Okay. So Blair, he was a foreman at a construction company, and by all accounts, he was

a nice, normal, well liked guy. You do see some things in the internet reading that hint at some other problems that he might have had, but will address those later. Basically, there was nothing unusual about his character. Yeah, nothing stood out. According to his mother, though, in the beginning of the summer of he started acting more and more radic, to the point that he started having to her what seemed like mood swings. She describes him as pretty a ratic

or strong mood swings. And he was single, right, Yes, she was a single man. Pretty much the closest relationship of his that I got that impression She did eventually ask him, you know what's going on here, and he replied, I don't think I should tell you about it, which you could read a lot of things into that, but that's what he said. Uh, there have been some after

the fact reporting. I'm going to call it after the fact reporting that says that he told other people around him that someone was out to kill him, which makes him sound pretty paranoid unless somebody was actually have to kill him, that's alway said, unless there actually was somebody. Yeah right, it's like you're only paranoid unless unless something actually does happen, and then it's too late. Yeah, nobody

leaved you, if only they had. On the fifth of July, Blair went to the bank and he drained his savings account and he emptied out his safety deposit box, so he got all of his money in cash, and then he went to the safety deposit box and that's where he got the coins and the jewelry, the precious metals that he would have on him when he was found dead. And forgive me, I may have missed it, but has it ever explained why he owned those things so that

it wasn't like a family heirloom. It wasn't like, I don't know. I mean, I know that some of the medals were coined, so it may have been that he was a coin collector, but I don't know if it was maybe the families. Some people like to buy gold. Yeah, that's true. Actually, you know, I was planning, if I hadn't been cheated out of my one point six billion dollar powerball jack weeks ago, I was planning, I'm buying a stout wooden chest and filling it with golden silver

coins and burying it in your basement. No, I was just gonna have it out so like that could just open it up and my hat into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. To answer your question, I don't know why. Okay, okay, okay. So Blair goes to the bank, gets all his money. By the way, the Fannie pack is where he, like we said he was keeping all of it has been a big fanny pack. Well that's where he. I don't think he kept the cash in the Fannie pack. Well, I've heard it both ways. I've heard it in the

fanny pack. I've heard he stuffed it into his duffel bag. That amount of money four to six thousand dollars, and I don't know the exact conversion to say how many bills were in what versus what, But that's still a lot of cash. It seemed like too much to put into a Fannie pack. Not really. If you get it in twenties, that's it's gonna be. Uh, it's gonna be a hundred bills in a packet, as simbing some packets. So that's two thousand bucks. So basically three packets of bills,

not that much. Thanks for just at rolling that on me, Joe. On top of yeah, it would have been it would have been a tight squeeze. Yeah. Some of those fanny packs were pretty big, remember, Yeah. Yeah, back to our story though, enough about fanny packs. So he went to the bank on the fifth, which was Friday. On Sunday, which was July seven, he went to the US border

and tried to cross. And this was this is by car or car Now I heard this he was going to get I think it was he You drove to the ferry, if I remember correctly, and the ferry took you across, so it wasn't like he was just driving down the road. Well, this is the part I don't really get is that why if you're if you live in Surrey, why would you Because I had heard that he arrived from Vancouver Island, which means you get there by ferry, But when you're at Surrey, you just drive

a little way south and you're at the border. Why would he Why would he go by go over to the island and then catch a fair are from the island and it's that's just a really expensive way to go. So there are so many things that he did that are so unexplainable that I don't even know where to begin with that question, let alone a bunch of the other questions that we're going to have. Yeah, I have. I can't answer that, Joe, Yeah, it's it's yes. Again.

This has been kind of muddled because I almost wonder if he just thought it would be easier to get across there, you know that like on the ferry, he could just blend in with a group of people and you know, sneak through somehow or something like that, versus that is one thing about especially if you catch a big ferry, then it's just suddenly those guys are the custom shed all of a sudden are overwhelmed with people. There are a lot you know, and I've been through

that whole thing. Yeah, yeah, and going up to Victoria and yeah, it's a lot of people getting off that boat all. So that would be my guess is that maybe he just thought, since he probably thought just by his actions, it seems like he was he was trying to blend in. He was trying to hrying to not be stopped at the border. And if you're driving across in a car, you're gonna get stopped. They're going to

search you, versus if you're just blending. They don't search everybody, but they'll pick out the ones that are acting suspicious, which he was. He was very agitated. Customs stops him, checks him out, realizes he's got all his cash on him, the flag him as being involved in the drug trade in some way, either as a dealer or a curier. Yeah, because he's a white male, he's unmarried, and he's got a boatload of money on him. Yeah, we're not letting you across the border. So they turn him around and

they send him home next time. You know, I mean, the smart thing to do in situations like that, it's to like duct tape the money to your back instead of having a fanti pack. Yeah, I don't know, but okay, so let's move forward here. We're gonna go to the next day, which is Monday, the eighth of July. Blair

went to work and promptly quit. And as for his paycheck, okay, I have read conjecture in both directions of whether he did or did not get that check and if he did or did not get it cashed at the bank. So I can't say if he did that, but he got a job out of the way. He then turned around, he went to the airport and he bought a ticket for the next day to go to Germany. Spend seventeen hundred bucks going to get an airplane ticket, which you know means he wants to get out of town. He's

trying to get out of town. And that explains why he had German money in Okay, that totally does um and then um se h bucks. You probably could have got a better deal if you bought it like a little earlier, if things had been planned instead of what seems to be spurred the moment. Although in the nineties it was a little easier to just kind of get you know that, like really flags you these days, right, if You're like, I need to get out of this

country immediately. I will take the first flight. Blair is doing everything in cash at this point, but I'm just saying like that is the sort of thing that these days people are probably not but in the nineties that didn't stand out at all. But he couldn't wait to leave the country the next lead. Flying out the next day was not soon enough for him. So what he

does is he he has a ticket. He then goes to a friend's house that night and knocks on the doors in the middle of the night, saying, Hey, can you take me the border? Can you get me out of town? I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. His friend has her kids at home, says Claire, my kids are here. I can't just drive you to the border, at which point he gets all flustered and frustrated and leaves. And then we know that the next day he does make it to the airport. He does go to the

Vancouver airport. That's this is going to be Tuesday the night, but instead of getting on his plane, he cashes out his ticket, turns around and rents a car and drives south to Seattle. He manages to get across the border this time, Well, he's seventeen thou less, No, I got as far as I can tell, he gets his money back, his money back. But yeah, and then he got it in cash. He didn't get it as a voucher. I am under the impression that he got in his cash,

but I cannot say. I just wonder, because of the things that happened next, he could have gotten it as a voucher maybe, and that would have been less suspicious crossing the border. We know, there's some weirdness about the cost of talking. But what We're almost there, so okay, he this is again, We're still on Tuesday. He drives across the border. He doesn't get stopped this time. He goes to Seattle. He then books a ticket at the airport. I believe he would have been at sea tack at

this point. He books a ticket to Washington, d C. Okay, weird thing about the getting This is what I what I was just pointing at, is again he buys a one way ticket. That one way ticket costs seven and seventy bucks. He could have got a round trip ticket

for three to four hundred dollars. Well, and that's I mean that's maybe a little bit why I wonder if it wasn't that he got a voucher or it was like part cast, part part cash, part voucher that they gave they would refunds so much, right that they would only refund certain percent. And then they said, you know what he got. Actually they said, all right, fine, here's a voucher for you know, a ticket that it didn't really matter. That could be I don't know that the

value of the ticket is just so weird. I'm a natural cheapskate. Though, even if I don't intend to come back on the return flight, I'm totally going to go for the cheaper. I mean, it's not so much that case anymore. But at that time, one way flights were obscenely expensive compared to round trips. Yeah. Yeah, but I don't know that's that was one of the things that I was thinking, is that, like it would make sense that he didn't really care how much he had spent

on the plane ticket because he had that voucher. Who cares? So he had you know, eight nine or maybe a thousand dollars on the voucher, and it was like, I don't care, it doesn't matter. It's there. I have to spend it to say that, based on his behavior, subsequent behavior, in previous behavior, he didn't seem to really care that much about money. The money was no object, it was not it was not high on the list at all. Yeah, Blair got on the plane to Washington, d C. Is

one way ticket. The flight, uh didn't leave on Tuesday. He actually left sometime in the early part of Wednesday, so that again, this would be July tenth. Just moving forward in the timeline, I have no idea what he did during the time that he was waiting for that plane to take off. I'm guessing he just milled about the airport. Oh. I was going to say he went and set up the mystery soda machine. Honestly, I don't

think that was it. Regardless, though he gets on his flight, he lands in d C. He then goes ahead and he rents another car. He rents a white Toyota camera and he starts driving south. Talk about let's talk about the things that are expensive one way. A rental car one way incredibly expensive. He's incredibly expensive. I don't know

that the rental was a one way. I know that he was due to return the rental on the twelfth of But I'm just I'm trying to remember, and I don't know that it was ever said where he was supposed to be taking it back to. It's insanely expensive to get to to return to any kind of car rental facility that's, you know, not within two miles of the original one. It's insane, Yes, it is. It's super expensive. But the point is he takes his car and he

drives Chad south. We know he heads south because he shows up in Knoxville, Tennessee, which is at a He's actually at a gas station on Strawberry Planes Pike, which is about five hundred miles south. It's kind of it's worth the driving, kind of. I don't even know if it's within the city limits of knox It does not look like it's actually in the It's on the outskirts. It's one of those freeway interchanges where they got a bunch of gas stations, a couple of fast food places,

a few hotels. It's nothing but gas stations and hotels. Yeah, this area where he shows up Strawberry Planes Here's uh, here's where things start to get even weirder. Okay, so Blair gets his gas, He pays for it, and then he can't get his car started. He goes up to the attendant. The attendant, being nice, comes and see what's going on. What's wrong? He says, I can't start the car.

He says, oh, well, let me see your key. He figures out quite quickly that Blair has the wrong key for the car, as in, he's driving a Toyota and he's got a key for a completely different brand of vehicle. Okay, which begs the question how the hell did he get there? Well, also, you know, when you're driving a rail car, the key always has one of those little tags hanging on. You have like four keys on there. Yeah, they're they're they're

giant wads of plastic and stuff. They're they're not convenient at They're made to be obtrusive so that you don't forget that you have them. Yes, yeah, So gas station attendant says, you can't use this key, it's the wrong key. He tries to help me, says, okay, let's go through your pockets, let's go through your stuff. They can't find the proper key to this vehicle that he drove to the gas station with. Anywhere is there surveillance footage of at this gas station, not that I am aware of now.

I don't think that it was. It's vance footage, wasn't. I just I just wonder, because you know, maybe he wasn't driving the car. That is a very good question, and that does show up later on in our theory. Sex. But the attendant, the gas station attend didn't say anything about seeing somebody with him. But I don't know that you would necessarily notice itself, sir. You're doing other stuff. You might not notice who shows up in every car.

That's completely One would think that if Blair was like, oh, yeah, but my friend had the key, so if there was a second person, yeah, you would think that would happen. Now we're used, we're really used to this now. But this is the mid nineties when chipped keys were really starting to take off. So for anybody who says, well, it was a nineties car, they should have just had a locksmith figure out what it was and they could

have cut a new key. That wasn't a possibility. So it was so they were that cam was a chipped I did have chip keys. Toyota in the nineties was starting the chipping. I know that they were because I know that Fords in the nineties had the chips, and Fords were the slowest to pick up the technology. Yeah, so I'm I'm pretty sure that it would have been a chip key. But even if they did, I mean, it's not as though, like, you know, you take a car with no key to a locksmith and they've come

you a new key. It's especially at what five thirty in the evening, right, It's not as though you just like walk up to a locksmith and they're like, oh, yeah, give me like five minutes and I'll do that. It's a process. The work day out a lot. You would want to go to the rental place, I think, and they were closed, Yeah, they were closed. But here's the deal. I can't remember. I don't actually rent cars very often.

It's been a while since I have. But it seems to me that when you rent a car, they give you two keys. Okay, okay, this is actually this is like on the heels. They do give you two keys, but they lock them together with one of those a brand or a Rivet Rivet. They like clamp it together on a big ring, so they're they're two key, but it's on the same key rank, it's the dumbest thing in the world. Why give me two keys if I

can't separate them? You can't separate them, Yeah, I think you can if you I think it's because you're only meant to have the one driver unless you actively say we're gonna have two drivers, and I presume that they can separate them. At that point they say, Okay, here's your two keys. But typically they just hand you a lot of keys that are on that same thing. I rent cars a lot, as it turns out, um, and they do they stick them together. That's stupid. I agree,

it's very it's super stupid. Car rental is the worst. But I just wanted to say though, just coincidentally, I lost my keys just this morning, and well, and in my defense, I gotta say I had only had one cup of coffee and I frankly didn't get a good, nice sleep last night. Yeah you want to talk about not good Yeah you too. But anyways, but he could have done the same thing that I did this morning.

I'm patting out my pants with or not there, so I go look in the usual places where the usual place where I leave them, and I like at other flat surfaces like the kitchen, counters and everywhere the bureau of my bedroom, you know, and and uh no, nothing. So I go through my my jacket pockets not there, And I go through there's a pair of pants laying in my bed. I don't remember if I wore those yesterday or not. But I go through the pockets, not there, and I go go do the whole thing over again.

Finally find my keys because I was wearing a fleece and they were in the pocket of the fleece. And like I said in my defense, it might have been the same thing. He might have actually had his keys on him, but they were like the shirt pocket or something. He realized that he didn't think too. He didn't think to check. It's happened to me more than once. It's possible.

I mean, it's totally possible. But the long and the short for Blair in his situation is because the rental place is closed, it's now past five thirty and he can't get into his car. They call a tow truck and they told the car to a garage and say call him in the morning. Figure out how to get your key in the morning when they're open. Man. So this is said now I heard in one place that he the toe company is the tow truck told him to a hotel. So you will see I have seen

this as well. And it's not that they took the car to the hotel. Is that they took Blair or to the hotel, or and then took the car to the shop, or they took the car to the shop and Blair walked or hitchhiked to his hotel. Ye seen directions, Yeah, Gord to the Knox the Knox County Sheriff's Department. They had a thing on. They said that he was given a ride by the tow truck driver. And I'm inclined to believe that he got a ride. But you do see some places where people will say and then he walked,

or they will say he hitchhike. I'm not inclined to buy that. I mean, if you've got a tow truck driver, then you get a ride from the tow truck driver because you don't know where you are, usually dirt. But you'll see it both ways. He's now at a hotel, because we've just talked about that. He gets to this hotel somehow and he walks into the hotel and he uh, and I'm almost certain that he, by the way, was

at the Fairfield in in suits. Yeah, And he goes ahead and he walks into the lobby, he hangs out, and then he does he exhibited some very odd behavior. He's there for an hour, in and out of the lobby a total of five times before he finally gets a room. People have watched the surveillance taping the room or asks for a room. He pays for a room. Okay, so no, I mean that's a big difference, right. It's one thing to just be this random person who's walking

in back and forth. It's another to like walk up to the counter and say I need a room and then kind of hang out. Let me clarify. He walked in and out, hung out, hung out, hung out that entire hour before requesting the clarification. I was so he he hung out in the lobby, wandered around like he was waiting for somebody. Is what the tape looks like, and then finally goes up to the counter pays for a room, which, by the way, again this is another

point where he doesn't seem to care about money. He pays for a fifty dollar room with a hundred dollar bill and doesn't stick around for his change. Did he have a cell phone, Not that I know of. I've never seen mention of a cell phone, never seen mention of anything like that at all. And that's between about six and seven pm, right on the night. So he left the hotel. From the footage, he walked out of

the hotel at seven pm. He got there somewhere around someone like that, and then did his milling about before leaving, at which point he leaves the hotel. And we have no idea what he does at all for the rest of that evening and over the course of that fall allowing night. Actually I have an idea what he did. He got killed. He died in between the Yeah, that's true, that's accurate. We did solve this mystery, kind of do that. Okay. So the next day, which laughing shouldn't be I'm laughing

at Joe, I'm not laughing at the case. At seven thirty in the morning, a construction crew shows up at their work site, which is another hotel. Again, there's hotels. This place is just lousy with hotels. That's strip. I mean, every every place has that strip outside of town. I personally think this particular spot has an excessive number of hotels. That counted, there's thirteen hotels there and it's like a mile and a half by a mile and a half.

It's there's there's a stretch of road right outside of d i A that has like fourteen or fifteen but that's by an airport. Yeah, well this is outside of a major city. Okay, okay, So he is found. This construction crew finds player's body. He is in the parking lot of the it's probably the red roof in It's possible that it could have been the Super eight as well,

because by each other. Yeah, it's on Crestwood Road, but it's on the opposite side of Interstate forty because Interstate forty cuts through this whole little pocket of gas stations and restaurants and hotels where he was at and his hotel was on one side of the freeway, and he was found dead in the parking lot of another hotel on the opposite side of the freeways. Yeah, it actually was like a parking area. I don't know if it had been paved yet or not. The hotel was under

construction at the time. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know if it was paved, and I'm gonna so there's gonna be a bunch of people who were going to remember this case because they saw it on Unsolved Mysteries, which by the way, I managed to track it down. But we need to remember that Unsolved Mysteries is doing re enactments. So what you what I saw immediately it was like, oh, look at that the parking lot was paved and it was this colored building and oh, I

can't I can't use those details because their re enactment details. Yeah. Yeah, and I saw a screen cap from that, and it was obviously not the same hotel because it was the red roof. It was the red roof, whereas body was rough. Yeah, the red roof, red red roof, it was Yeah, it wasn't red roof in the red roof is not like anything like the hotel in the picture. And so yeah, obviously just went out and found the nearest motel or

hotel or something like that, which makes sense. It's okay, So I can I can point out something I watched that segment. There's a building number on the hotel that they take him to stay at. The building number does doesn't match anything in the area, So this is just kind of a clue that you can't rely on that. But the police obviously are called because there's a body. We got Blair dead on the ground with blood around him and money, uh, And so the cops investigate and

they ruled it a homicide. Blair had so I couldn't get his actual autopsy or any of the records like that. I can't find him on the net. And I think part of that is because this case is technically still open. A cold case unit started looking into it again, I think four or five years ago. I think it's what I read, okay, But there are some things that indicate that he had defensive wounds on his hands and some smaller wounds on his body. And like we said, of

course there's all that cash strewn about him. But the one thing about the defensive wounds U and one of the newspaper articles that I read about this that was written at the time shortly thereafter, he said that he had one wound on one hand that could have been a defensive wound it and I was, yeah, I'm when I haven't seen a whole lot to describe what the wounds are, so I I kind of have to take it at face value. That were defensive, but you're very You have a great point that it could have been

that his hands were just banged up from something. Yeah, it's something totally unrelated to that way. You know. Actually I called the reporter that wrote that article. She works She works for the Knoxville News Sentinel. Yeah, because I told a couple of their articles. Yeah, I called her. Surprisingly, she answered her phone. She was very friendly and chatty, and so I asked her about this and she didn't

remember it, and it was like twenty years ago. She was like, she covers like crime and murder, she said, she was I and I described it to her. She said, oh yeah, that kind of rings a bell, but I understand. She was like, you know, but I covered this murder stuff all the time, and you were like that feeling every week. So that's the game. But she gave me a phone number two to call the Knoxville p D. And I called them. I left a message, and they

haven't called you back yet. No, actually they called me back to and it was just and that he told me that actually it's not their case, it's the Noxville County Sheriff's case. Okay, And so you gave me a name and a number to call. So so I called and left a message and I haven't heard back, Like this has to end. And then I haven't heard back. Yeah, and now i'll if I do hear back, we'll do

an update or something. Yeah. Well, I mean something that could be construed as a defensive wound writers, like scrapes on the palms of your hands outside your hands, or like when you fall on gravel and like skid or you know, catch yourself or too angry and punch a wall that can be missing. Punching a wall could be misconstrued. Yes, I will agree scraping your hands on the ground not so much as much, but a little. I mean, it

depends on how you fall. Very true. So Blair has he's got his Fannie pack near him and it's got all his money. His duffel bag is around the corner, by the way. It's not right with his body, it's kind of around the side of the building. And did we see his duffel bag in the foot. Yes, he had that duffle bags with him the whole time, and he kept it close like you would. He's laying on the ground that like I said, there was blood around.

The body was face down up. I've never seen it described which way he was if they haven't released, it's hard to tell. Yeah, but okay, so let's describe the what we do know. We do know that he his shoes were off. We know that his socks were off and they were inside out, and we know his pants were pulled off when they were inside out. His socks were pulled off inside out. His socks were not on him and they were inside out. Okay, and the same goes for his pants. There's no mention of underwear, so

I'm going to presume he was going commando. I'm just gonna make that presumption. Or it could be at the murderer pants and took the underwear. And that's really just some sort of a psycho that's really in the underwear. And he didn't care about the money. He just wanted those. She's one of those shorts hear the worst. This is the sort of thing. This is why we have to

keep an eye on Joe. Uh. And then Blair's shirt was torn open like and like we said in the beginning, it may have just been popped open if it was a button up shirt and not actually shred tear open. Yeah, this is uh, it would really be helpful, and I guess the police they're probably withholding these details. But there was blood because there was violence and there was blood.

Would be helpful to know if the blood was on the inside of the outside of his pants, because that would tell us that the pants were pulled off after he was killed or before he was I haven't heard anything that ever said that there was blood on his pants inside or outside. But yeah, I've never seen anything that that said that mentions the blood on his clothes. I'm sure there was blood on his shirt because he was laying but I don't know of anything ever talking

about it on his pants. The same thing with his socks and shoes. Just that kind of seems to me that if the killer, if if he was actually killed by somebody, that they were looking for something and they didn't care about them. That is that that fuels at least one, if not two, theories. Absolutely does. I don't know, you know what, they weren't looking for his car key to his white no to his white rental, his white toy camera. It was ten feet away from his body.

What so he had the key the whole time? Or whoever killed him other key or we can go down that rabbit hole. I know it's totally the theory section in this, by the way, is going to feel like a mess. I've tried to organize, but it's the key is there. And by the way, we haven't said this, but what he died of, yeah, because there was blood around his body. And I don't know why there was blood around his body At good point, I don't know.

I don't know why there was blood around the body because the cause of death was blunt force trauma, which ruptured his stomach. That's hurt and hasn't hurt. Also, I don't Mike asp of anatomy is not the best, but I don't understand how that happens. But okay, so Joe actually again, Joe made the good move of contacting an expert. Force talked to our. I didn't talk to you. I send an email to our one of our listeners, Jeff,

Hi Jeff, and he wrote me back. I just said what I was asking him was, if you get hit hard enough in the abdomen interrupture your stomach, would how long would it take you to die? And his answer, you know, does this does your heart stop? Because all the all the gross stuff in your stomach spills out and stops your heart and your back. He said, well, it all just depends, you know. It's it could be an hour, you know, several hours about bleeding out. Uh,

you know, it just all depends. But the other thing is that it's super hard to rupture the stomach. Well, it's it's really hard to unless the stomach is full. Likely, yeah, you have to be stuffed like and this is one

of the things that that mystifies me. And of course, uh, you know again, security cameras were probably not a piquitous back in, but still that one hotel you once you had security cameras, I wouldn't be surprised if the nearby McDonald's and in other places had them usually, So I would say that according to what Jeff said, Um, if his stomach ruptured, it must have been full and he must have which means he must have had a nice big meal. So why didn't mean Nick canvass the area?

Nobody saw him more than that? It seems like they should have been able to. Like, It's it's not as

though his food would have been like fully digested. Really, probably if his stomach was full, enough that a blow would his stomach shouldn't have been digests couldn't have been digest So then they should have been able to test the contents of that and say, oh, it was a meal that was kind of like this, and these are the Donalds, or it's you know, it's the red robin around the corner, or he had a steak in these four places? Do steak with him? Are reasonable? Yeah? Yeah,

so that's that's interesting. This is a bit of a puzzler for me. Yeah, how did he how did he get his stomach full without And then also like, how did he just die? Because it seems like that it seems reasonable to assume that this is the scene of the crime, right, his body wasn't really I think actually I don't think so. Yeah, if he was alive for several hours or even an hour, he could have come

from a long distance away. I'm not a long distance, but he could have actually staggered, he could have actually have traveled some distance. So it's it's very possible that where he died is not where he sustained his injury. Yeah. Oh, and um, so we do have possibly one time frame indicator for the whole thing with Blair at the at

the parking lot at the construction site. The security guard at the area for the construction area said that he heard at three thirty am a loud, short scream, which people say means it must have been Blair, but there's no way to know because that area has got people pouring in and out of it. Yeah, it could have been anybody. It also seemed again it's one of those

things where it's like a trauma that's ongoing. Probably if he's bleeding out over the course of an hour or more, just scream and then follow like that's not going to happen. Probably know that's only the move. And the security guard also, I thought he said it sounded like a woman to him. Yeah. And also, by the way, what kind of a security guard was he? I mean, here's shaggy obviously. Yeah. I'm going to stay in here with my cookies. Yeah obviously, Yeah, cookie,

you got that. Should we move on to the theories, Yeah, we have a boatload of theories on this way. Yeah. And again, just just to reiterate the so, the only people who who testified to having had contact with him were the gas station attendant, the hotel receptionist, and that's it. Well, and at the total driver, Oh yes, yeah, yeah, those are the three people that we know for sure that came forward and had interactions with him. Anybody else you met him never said a word. So yeah, but again

he must have been those hours. He must have gone to a McDonald. You have to stop saying that because people are going to think they're sponsoring us. Oh yeah, good point. Okay, not McDonald's, I take that back, forget it, white people brains. Yeah, let's let's say Jack in the box, Whitecastle. Yeah. Okay, So now that we've got that, let's go into theories. Okay, theory number one, the unnamed assassin bunk next. Ye, this is a popular one. It was very popular. So we've

got to at least talked about a little bit. Is that people say that because Blair said that somebody was trying to kill him, that some unknown organization was after him. Okay, he worked for constructions company, So let's just let's pretend that he figured out that his company was doing something on the sly, you know, whether they're getting contracts directly or doing shoddy We're okay, we're just gonna say that's it, and we have no way of saying that's it, but

we're just gonna run with that. So then his boss figures it out, or he thinks his boss figures it out, at which point he freaks out and decides to get out of town. The problem with this whole thing is that the assassin would have a squandered the chance over the course of the weekend to knock him off when he was still in town at home, and then chase him all over North America. Also, it's a pretty ineffective

way to kill somebody. Well, that's it. It's inexact. It's not you don't know that you're actually gonna kill him. That functioned him in the gut like that. If if he's if that's what caused something to be rough, unless you're a ninja assassin, you know, and you know the killer deathblow. Yeah, it could be cobra strike. Okay, No, I mean I think it seems like he had been feeling like something was wrong for some time, so had he actually found out about something, he would have been

murdered assassinated way earlier than that. It's really easy to make a construction thing look like an accident, right, Like, why wouldn't they just have that happen. They would have done that absolutely, Yeah, no, uh there. Now I do want to bring up so you will see this bandit about that the assassin was following him and when he got to the gas station in Knoxville swapped out his key so that he couldn't leave Nashville, which is Ville, which is so far so the assassin. Here's what I think.

I think the assassin strangled the gas station attendant. The gas station attendant picked his pocket and swapped out the key. Yeah, okay, okay, I like him that one. Yeah, and I think the I've seen that one too, and that's the most absurd thing I've ever seen it. Yeah, and if if it's an assassin, you the assassin would have stayed with him until he was dead. If it's if it's an assassin

worth their salt, and why then't then it makes me wonder. Okay, So what kind of weirdo is the assassin that they strip him? Oh? Well, I was bored. I just want to see if he'd move. I mean, it doesn't make any sense. It's the assassin one, I really it's it's it's weak sauce. So the only thing I could say for for the assassin. Thing is, if the assassin was looking for something again, that would be a good reason

to pull his close off. And now they've made note of the money from the from the fanny pack scattered around the body. He's searching for something, tears up and tears up with the shirt, pulls off the path, shoes, everything, turns all that stuff inside out, looking for something. Could just be a piece of paper, might be a piece of jewelry, even gets it in the fannie pack, pulls out bottles of money and just throws it because he doesn't care about that. He's looking for something. Yeah, that's

not that's not their target. And and so he and so he and he might and he might not not. He may have meant only to temporary disabled this guy. He may have not actually intended to kill Blair. Maybe he just accidentally did so. But he was after or whatever he was after. And again, it could have been something in that. It could have been it could have

been a sticky note with a password on it. I mean, it could have been something could Yeah, yeah, and so and and that's uh and so maybe that would that would explain the money being scattered around. Yeah, and so of course it's just a theory. Yeah, so well it's also again, this is all again to follow him all the way to Knoxville and not get and not lose him and also not be seen. But that's really good. Yeah,

we're going to move on to the next theory. I do want to say one thing about about why we're gonna move on to the next theory. I know, the lost key. Okay, let's have it. If he really truly was being pursued, or at least believe he was being pursued by an assassin, it might be they only pretended to lose his key, so we'd have an excuse to halt, to call a guy to tow it away, to lock it up in a shop overnight so it couldn't be spotted. Yeah, I mean, I guess. Yeah. In other words, yeah, he

wants to spend the night. He was up the whole previous night on an airplane. But the problem with that one is that presumably that person is following them, They're watching the whole thing. They're going to watch for that car, so there's going to be they're gonna see where he checks in. I mean, it would explain why he checked into a hotel paid for a hotel and then left right,

but then they'll see him leave probably too. I mean, it's well, that's that's the thing is like maybe he felt like they had he had shaken them off, but that they were but they were all they were going to be looking for his car. Would explain why he was going in and out, like trying to make sure that he wasn't seeing the person he was fully wandered into. But be what if territory I'm sorry, I mean the the assassin one. I don't think it works, but and

it's a total well what if? But you can so lose yourself in there and then reality just goes out the window. Yeah. Yeah, but that's just I'm a theorious to the lost because obviously had it on him the all time. I mean, or which or there's something else that could be and that's our next theory, which is the next theory is that he had an unknown traveling companion.

Here's where you brought this up earlier, Devon. Okay, if you go through some of the early articles about Blair and the whole situation, one of them talks about the fact that in his Duffle bag he had receipts for every most of the things from his trip, and one of the things that was in his bag was a receipt for the rental car, which was signed for by somebody else, a fellow Canadian who is never named, by

the way. So I can't I can't say, oh it was this person, but it's completely possible that Blair and

this other person drove across the border. Blair and this other person got on a plane together, landed in d c and one and Blair rented the car and the other person got in the car and they drove that whole distance, at which point, as we talked about a little bit earlier, unknown person gets out of the car to go use the bathroom, has the car key with him, Blair has, you know, let's say it's his own key, trying to use and then completely flips out and this

whole thing goes sideways. Now, why what happens between Blair and his now stranded traveling companion. I can't even fathom a gas. Well, he must have been in that, that's the thing. Though. He must have been in the bathroom hell of a long time. Well, it wasn't eight hour drive, I mean, not only not only what you have had to have been he or she had been the bathroom

for a long time. I also just have a hard time with it because barring any kind of like psychotic break or something else going on with Blair at the exact same time, he would have said, oh, maybe my friend has it right, Like, there's no reason for him to have just ignored the fact that his totally amicable

traveling partner had the key. Or even even if they were like, even if they had had this huge fight and the other person wandered off, he still probably would have said, oh crap, I think the other person of the key. He wouldn't have been like, I don't know, I must have lost it first. This sign the signer was Blair, just signed a different name. That's always possible.

The thing about it is if the friend was in the bathroom and you know, I made the bathroom part up completely, Yes, yeah, I'm totally I grabbed the bathroom so that the attendant didn't see this person. Okay, the friend could have been in the a bile or gone across the street to the taco. But the friend would have come back. Here's the deal. Yes, he would have come back. He would have found Blair and the car gone.

He would have asked the guy what happened to my friend in our car, and that guy would have told the police about it. He didn't do that unless they had agreed the part ways at this place. Maybe the friend was going to meet somebody there and then go off on his own. I meansible, but I kind of doubt it. I I don't. I don't think that's it. Yeah, let's move to theory number three. Canadian drug dealers. They're

the scariest, by the way. In articles, again this is again early reporting, you will see this line repeated over and over, which is and I quote there was a history of mental illness in his family, and Adams had spent years battling alcohol and drug addictions. I can't find the foundation of the statement. I just see it stated over and over. So it may just be a copy paste scenario that somebody tacked on by inferring something that somebody else said. I don't know where it came from. Yeah,

I don't know. I also want to make the point that there was no drug and alcohol or drug or alcohol found in his system when autopsy was done. He cleaned a whizzle. Yeah, well, yeah, it doesn't mean he didn't used to have a problem. He could have just cleaned up his act. That's absolutely right. This is actually and this is a perfect guy for a drug curier. You don't want a junkie, no, you want to you

want a guy who's clean as can be. And it's entirely possible that Blair may have fallen in with the wrong people. And let's just say again, let's just presume that he was doing something. Let's presume that he was a courier. I think we talked about that earlier when

he was trying to cross the border. He's a courier, and he's working for some bad people, and then he does something that makes them mad or thinks that they're mad him and that they're gonna get him, and has to get out of town because everybody knows that snitches get stitches. So he may have oh, oh, oh, I gotta go, I gotta get out of here. They are

so gonna kill me. Yeah, I don't know. I agree that a clean person is usually the ideal candidate for drug slash money currying of any kind, but typically not somebody who's recovering. So if there was actually a history, if he was an ex drug abuser. Usually you aren't like, hey, I know you used to have this thing with drugs, but you're totally clean now. But we're gonna give you a bunch of drugs and just usually that's not the plan, not according to Hollywood. Well, okay, Hollywood, can you can

You're you're pointing where Hollywood can stick. Okay, But here's the deal about this, the snitching too. There's lots of deals tonight. So he's he's a Surrey, right, So he's he's snitching to the sury Pah. Let's say he gets bust it. Yeah, so he's he's turned state's evidence, that's right. So so he's he's ratting out his friends to these guys.

He's agreed to become an informant for them. And so if that's the case, and if you have Knoxville or p D and or the Knox County Sheriff's calling you up inquiring about this guy, aren't you isn't somebody going

to make note of the fact that he was an informant? Okay, flip side on this, right, If he was an informant, if they still have an active sting going on, right, if it was a couple of people, and you don't want to like freak them out by saying, yeah, there was a c I in there, but he got killed, because then they'll think, oh, they're like, there might be more of the clean house. But here's the deal. It's been twenty years. I agree, they had plenty of time

to wrap up that investigation and then then of murderers. Absolutely, yeah, so okay, fine, So therefore he couldn't have been a rat. But like you were saying with I mean, you call this reporter who reported on it and she was like, I don't come remember that case. It's possible it just fell through the cracks. You know, at the time they said, listen,

we can't hold any information about this person. Okay, great, and then you know that was that, and then that's a possibility to just you know, somebody in the drug department in our go department in Surrey was not that wasn't their top priority of following up with the Knoxville Sheriff's department. But here's there's there's a deal one why I think it didn't fall through the cracks. So our drug kingpin here, a Canadian drug kingpin. His name is

John Smith. He's got a file Blair is informing on him, and so Blair turns up dead through a violent sort of violent incident. So aren't you going to make a note in his and John Smith's file that somebody who was informing on him turned up dead through violent accident

or possible? But it's but it's so far away, that's that's is so far away now that you will see things that say that, well, it was some kind of work, and they they faxed out his picture to all their yes, facted out his picture to all their gangs, and one of the gangs spotted him and did him in and take the money because it was it was proof of death, is what they needed to get paid. But like you would take the money though, you would, yeah, right, totally

would take the money. No, I don't think it's a Canadian drug. I don't care how trailer park boys that is. I just they're not. Okay, let's go on to our our next international suspect, because we have another theory. Serious, Yes, this is actually out there, which is it's the Germans. If they were angry Germans otherwise known as sauer Krauts.

You will see information out there from the sources that say that Blair had spent some time in Germany doing construction work, anywhere from two months to a year, depending on the source. Yeah I heard. I in one source, I heard three months. Four Yeah, yeah, it's it's all over the map. And that he also left before the job was done for unknown reasons. And also there is supposedly a woman involved, the German woman woman girl maybe yeah, you hear, you hear it's a young woman. Blair at

this time. He was one when he died, so he probably Let's let's presume that this is accurate, because I have some serious concerns with some of this. But let's say that it's accurate. That means he would have been at the most thirty at that time, so hard to say it says she was underage. And then from here we get two theories. So this one, as we're going to see a lot of these, breaks into two different directions.

The first direction is that Blair left Germany because her parents were angry and he had to go yep, and they maybe she was pregnant, or maybe she was ill. They were high profile something like that, um or maybe he they wanted him to pay up and he eventually did, or he was willing to do it, and then he

realized that they were gonna betray him. Sounds like spy novel, I know, uh, And so he decides to go on the run, and then realizing that he's going to stiff him, these folks turn around and chase him down to collect their final payment, which is not in the form of money or The other direction this goes is that Blair decided he was going to go back to Germany to meet this girl, which is why he bought the ticket

to Germany. But then something happened from some relation that scared him off, and that's why he went on the run. The the only thing that really ties is the German currency and the ticket to Germany. Well that's how that's

where this this seems to come from. I guess part of it also maybe is if he wasn't some kind of trouble and you know, he was moody and trying to figure out what was going on, and his mom said, Blair, what's wrong and he he obviously isn't going to be like, I don't know, mom, I've knocked up a fifteen year old in Germany. That's what's wrong, you know, right, It's possible But here's where my concern with this whole German

angle comes from. Oh, I had lots of concerns. Oh there's there's a very simple concern, which is how they find him. No, No, not at all. It's the source. The source of the German angle is what really makes

me question it. Because there's a web website called sitcoms Online dot com and it's a forum, and in that forum, there is a user who is only posted six times, and all of them were about Blair's case, and that user goes by the name of nerd Girl, and nerd Girl talks all about Blair and their relationship and the whole thing that when I read it, because I've read Oliver posts, they sound either like trolling or attention, you know,

garnering attention because I'm involved in this case. So nerd Girl was claiming to be the young woman that nerd Girl was a friend slash previous girlfriend of Blair and gives all these details. This is everything that you ever cite it find anywhere else that talks about his interactions in Germany and this potential issue. They're all stem from

this set of posts. And I found one other person who also had a one time post that seemed to reveal a bunch of information about the case in this same thread, was that post one time that was something, right, I don't remember that particular person us or now that was, but that was the one who, if I recall right, revealed real quote unquote that he was bisexual, right, yes, and that yeah, yeah, yes, she claimed to be female

to know him. And I think she posted at least twice and that's right if I remember, right, But you know it doesn't. And I think that that could all be just totally live. That's my problem. I'm not ripping on forums, but I'm also saying that when the only source of information comes here, I can't give it a whole lot of credit. Yeah, so, but again I want to I want to leave that where it is, knowing that, yeah,

and there was also just just for for fun. Speaking to the German angle, the amount of variation on that was. Somebody out there said that it's possible that this girl was from a Muslim family, and since there's a substantial um Must population in Germany back then there was now there's a really substantial Muslim population in Germany. But and so it could have been an honor killing but again this runs this, This runs a ground on the rocks of Again, how the hell did they find him? Yeah,

how did they track him down? He did a really good He did exactly what you do when you're trying to shake a tail. He changed his plants constantly, and he wouldn't know where that made sense. So yeah, that's that's where the whole thing runs a foul. Let's move to our next theory. Actually, this is the next one. Is the header for several theories, because again this is used dashes, not bullets. Let's see who you are, a heathen who doesn't know how to organize things obviously. Okay,

our next theory is what's going on? It's that Blair was having some kind of mental break, some kind of socio effective disorder gets effective, is it schizer schitzo effective? I knew I was mispronouncing that, so that's why I double checked this time instead of just pretending I knew what the word was. I got us in trouble before.

So it's possible that his behavior leading up to the time that he left town was showing when whatever he was suffering from was building steam and getting worse and worse and worse and From there we can split into several sub theories. The only actually, the only problem I have with this entire thing is that I don't I think typically if you're if you're a guy, and you're gonna get schizophrenia, it comes on between like eighteen and

twenty five years ago. It's later than that. No, that's typical. I looked it up. It's between eighteen and it can it can set in later. So it is it's possible. It's not such a narrow band. Yeah, it's not not as likely as I would say. I've never I've never actually heard of anybody you know, getting a thirty one. Usually if you make it passed about your home free. Just to add if the accusations that Blair was a drug and alcohol abuser, there's a really strong causal connection.

It's like not a proving connection, but a causal connection between drug and alcohol abuse and gets so effective disorders. And we talked about this in the bam er one right that like one, you know, it exacerbates the problem a little bit, but so that it's possible that maybe Blair was a little bit exhibiting signs in his like you know, and then just was trying to self medicate with drugs and alcohol, not exacerbated the problem with a little bit um and then when he took himself off

of those things, it really came in full force. I don't know, that's I mean, again, I'm not a doctor, so I don't know. But what I have read is what Joe has read, that it's the eighteen but that it's not unheard of for somebody to kind of be self medicating. And then when you know, somebody says, hey, you're an alcoholic, you gotta go clean, and you say, okay, you go clean, and then all this other stuff things

that were being masked by the by the addiction. Yeah. Absolutely, Okay, So we're gonna go into sub theory one, which is Blair made the wrong person mad. Yeah, because you know, people who have mental issues often uh say, and do an inappropriate things or come across come across like that. Yeah. No,

I mean it's it's it's entirely possible. So I mean, if you think about it, if he is in an altered state and he leaves the place that he's familiar with and he's in this somebody's out to get me mindset, the farther he gets away from what he's familiar with. The deeper and deeper he's going to fall into this story that he's created for himself. And that would that would explain why he was acting so irrational or so

strange in the hotel and and and then leaving. But he could have he could have gone to one of the restaurants. He could have gone to a gas station. He could have gone to a store in the area. He could have met the raunch trucker who didn't like what he was saying. He could have met somebody at McDonald's he or at Taco Bell, or he might have met the guy who was just frustrated and tired after driving his fifty ft RV all day long. I mean, it could be anybody who then gets upset by something

he says or does an attacks. Because we've said this before, the people who were both likely to be hurt victims are are victims of mental illness. They're the ones who were likely to be the violent or experienced the violence, especially geo effective disorders. Yes, yeah, so he could have done that. And so somebody could have cot poed at him and taken a couple of swings at him and landed a lucky blow and then didn't know that they had done it. And then Blair wanders off. He goes

to this hotel parking lot that's under construction. He's ill now because his stomach has been ruptured. It's hurting, probably feeling a little lightheaded from all the blood loss too. There's that he could have potentially could have had a very rapidly on setting fever of some kind. You know, his his temperature could have elevated, he could have felt like he was hot. He's in an altered state. Get these clothes off. They're hot, which to me explains why

everything is inside out. A dude, and I'm lazy. I dropped my pants and I start stepping on him and pulling my legs out, and that pulls. If I'm wearing thicker socks, that'll pull both my pant leg inside out and start my sock going inside. Well. I mean, the other things think about is like if he died, for his stomach was ruptured, so he would have had one heck of a stomach ache, right, and like when my stomach rds, I don't my entire torso needs to have

Like I do not want anything no pressure. Why their hurts so bad, so like I would strip my pants off too. I would just be like, these these hurt really bad, you know, especially if you are in an altered mental state, which probably are because your body's experienced some pretty big trauma. It's it's a damn shame though, that he didn't go get help, because where he was at he was in he was at this hotel is under construction, but it was right between two at the hotels. Well,

I almost wonder. I almost wonder if he thought he was where he was supposed to be, or if or if he's still in his delusion he's hiding, or if if perhaps he's lost so much blood that he can't think straight. I don't know, but he was. He was actually he actually could have saved himself. I mean he was just, like I said, really close to two hotels or even I mean he was a construction worker, right, so like maybe in his kind of like going to

and he was like, oh, I know like construction. Yeah that's a place I recognize, I know people who are there. I'll go there. Yeah, that's a great point. That's a familiar night. It's dark and like it's not great, but it's actually all that dark there because there was so many things around there that the place would have been fairly decently lit. But also you don't know what's going on. I mean, people's brains do really weird things when they're

they've experienced that trauma. So to that he wasn't shocked probably, I'm sure it wasn't shocked because of the blood loss. Yeah. Yeah, although you know, it's interesting. You know he's he goes to the construction site. He's in construction. Did he actually maybe know somebody that was working on that project was at the point of making his little stop off in Knoxville, you are reaching for the brother. Oh my gosh, stop that.

Let's move on to sub section two of this theory, which infers that it was some kind of self inflicted wound. I don't know if you can punch yourself that. No, So the way that this goes is there's one of in this one again the splinters. But there's two ways. Either he is blindly running and he runs into something let's just say there's you know, boards or something, and

he hits himself in the gut. Or he climbs on something and falls off of it and falls down onto something that is sticking upright, and it hits him in the lower abdomen, below the ribs that would exude enough force. It also, to me, maybe would explain why people say it looks like defensive wounds, because if he fell, if he was falling, he either he would try to stop himself or his hands would flail and hit the things

around him. Now, I don't think that that is what it is, but people say that it's possible that I'm wearing in that construction area, he may have fallen down on something or run into something. Wouldn't have to fall that far either, really, not really, He got take out and was choking and was trying to self Heimli, that's a good one. I like that one. That actually is a good one. Yeah, and missed that is reported to

be found. Oh, but he could have wandered away from wherever he was eating at well after right, he like tried to self Timelick stopped choking obviously, you know, coughed up the little bit, was like, no, I don't feel good, all right, better try to walk back to my hotel. Confused about what hotel, because there's a jillion of them there and he obviously wasn't paying that much at tension.

That's entirely possible, because that would be a thing. I mean, it would be pretty easy to if you were really really fall yeah accidentally, I don't know how easy it would be, but just as easy as it is to self inflict that wound, like at all. Right, Yeah, Now, if you really really wanted to self inflict the wound, you could actually probably do it if you found self and that that's sticking out of the wall and you're

run into it with great force. Just you can't punch yourself in the gut that no, No, you'd have to run into something entirely. Yeah. The third sub theory in this group is that Blair was hit by a car. I don't put any stock in this because if he was hit by a car, I would expect more physical damage to his body, like broken bones, kind of damage that hard. Yes, although you know, you never know, because that's a that's a one in a million hits. It's

not not that it's not possible, but it's unlikely. And don't tell where he was staying. The Fairfield end was on the opposite side of I forty from where his body was found, and he might have been crossing the freeway at night because I actually were a couple of restaurants on the other side of it. Maybe he's haading to get some food, he's crossing the freeway, gets hit by a car. Yeah, that's true, he would be but he's crossing back over and he gets hit by the car.

If he's hit by a vehicle that's on a freeway doing sixty plus miles and again, so much more physical damage should have been done to his body. It would yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. So again I I don't. I don't put a whole lot of stock in that. That's well yeah, and there's there's the other thing too, is it would have done other damage like so example that it hits him, doesn't break any ribs or anything like that, but it's gonna knock him over and he's gonna he's gonna he's got

contusions on the back of his head. He would be covered in scrapes and bruce. So I'm not I'm not moving. I'm not saying that one's a viable one, which takes us to our last one that you will see put out there, which is and there's no supporting evidence for this, but the area that he was at Strawberry Parkway Pike,

Strawberry Planes. Thanks you. Yeah, it's complicated. It was not exactly the nicest place to be in the mid nineties, and the cops have talked about the fact that it's kind of a truck stop and prostitutes were known to be there, and it's believe that possibly Blair decided to I don't care, I'm just heading you off. This is a dumb theory because there's money all over him. Are

you kidding me? Even if he did get a prostitute and either she tried to rob him, or he did something that freaked her out and she attacked him, or her pimp attacked him, they would not literally leave money on the table that does. So that's yeah, the whole, the whole prostitute angle is out there. But I don't think that that that's at all applause, that's not that's

actually the end of all of our theories. I personally, I lean more towards the fact that he was probably in some kind of altered state and probably got hit by the wrong person physically, you know, had a physical alteration, not hit by a car. That's that's the one that what did I say alteration well, it was an alteration

of the stomach. That's true technically, Yeah, yeah, I mean that's entirely conceivable that you know, some a guy or a couple of guys, you know, because if he truly was sets aphrenic, and I don't know that he really was, I'm just calling it an altered state because I don't know why I can't even get some kind of mood disorder. Yes, yeah, yeah,

I can see him. What you know, I see those guys walking down the street angrily, angrily talking to themselves, you know, and I can see somebody like hearing that

and taking offense thinking is directed at them. I mean maybe I don't know or you know, you, I mean, there's I've seen this, the same thing you see walking down the street and someone comes into their field of vision and it's a completely different person to them, and they are having a completely different experience and in somebody's face, and that person is like, WHOA, get away from me, you're freaking me out. You're in my bubble. And it

usually involves some yelling and some shoving. So that's why, that's why I'm inclined to believe that that maybe what happened. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about it. I think probably the Nazis that was a theory, right, the Nazis never actually were aliens? Was that a theory? They were, but they got caught in the third revision of the script the night. Yeah, I don't know where I stand. I'm sorry, I can't go to my two tropes I said,

I'm done. I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. I'm inclined to think that it was some about half and half I'm going to go six sixty that it was some sort of an accident, and forty that it was a fight a fight. I just don't think. Yeah, I don't really. The assassination thing does seem really crazy. But also I don't have a good explanation as to why he couldn't find his car keys. That's the big outlier

for me. Well, again, I kind of like my theory is that he was pretending to not be able to find his car keys so that he could have a toad. And that makes no sense, Joe, because my person you was following him would have had to have been close enough for him to realize that they were there. I mean, I guess I pull that room. Unless you thought you thought you were being followed and you weren't, And if it was totally in his mind, he thinks he's being followed,

he thinks he's shaking them. But he doesn't want to leave the car out or it could be found and spotted, you know, by somebody. So while he's overnight in a hotel, he wants a car to be locked up somewhere behind closed doors. And it was found at a shop. It was found at a mechanic spot. It doesn't mean it was actually locked up in the shop. That it doesn't matter. It's it's not at a hotel and as far away

and as far away from him. So yeah, and so that it could have been part of the whole paranoia thing. It's expense, it's an expensive way to deal with that. But he obviously didn't care. Apparently not the money was he was spending money. He didn't, He didn't really care. Well, if you have thoughts on this particular case, you are more than welcome to share those with us. You can go ahead and send us an email. Our email address is Thinking Sideways Podcast at gmail dot com. You can

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