Jared McColloch Part 2: The Helpers

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It was the first weekend in November of 2023 when Jared McColloch left his home in Louisiana and set out on what appears to be a spur-of-the-moment trip to visit his son in Illinois. During Jared’s drive across several states, the time changed, falling back one hour, which has caused confusion as his loved ones worked to establish a definitive timeline of his disappearance based on phone pings, surveillance footage, and receipts.

At some point during Jared’s trip, he veered off course and headed east, away from his intended destination, and no one seems to know why. There was an unconfirmed sighting of Jared, his truck, and dogs at a restaurant near the border of Illinois and Indiana. Jared’s truck was later found abandoned in Indiana. According to records, his vehicle ran out of gas, and the battery died around 6:30 PM. Jared’s phone last synched around that same time, as well. Law enforcement searched around the vehicle to no avail. Others stepped up to help with the search efforts and were stumped. Jared left behind a trail of bizarre clues that no one has been able to piece together to solve this mystery- at least not yet.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to the vanished ad free right now.
0:05.0	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or Apple Podcasts. I don't know if there's a connection there. I mean I've been investigating and I feel like a CSI here and trying to figure out every possible reason why he would go that direction.
0:29.0	My whole deal is finding him first and the more we get his story out there, maybe the better resources we can get out on the river to find him.
0:36.0	Part of what's so hard about this situation is there are so many unanswered questions and even answers that we do get bring even more questions.
0:48.0	When we've seen him on camera and Carmine and confirmed it was him, You know you feel excited because yes it's him you
0:56.1	see it for real it's really him but then come on with questions well why was
1:00.5	he there how long was he there what was he there? How long was he there? What was he doing that? So it's such a hard thing because even when you feel like you're getting answers you just get five more questions.
1:12.0	It was the first weekend in November of
1:14.4	2023 when Jared McCullough left his home in Louisiana and set out for what
1:19.6	appears to be a spur of the moment trip to Illinois to visit his son.
1:23.7	During Jared's drive across several states, the time changed, falling back one hour,
1:29.4	which has caused confusion as his loved ones worked to establish a definitive timeline of his disappearance
1:35.6	based on phone pinks, surveillance footage, and receipts.
1:39.3	At some point during Jared's trip, he veered off course and headed east, away from his intended destination,
1:46.0	and no one seems to know why.
1:48.0	There was an unconfirmed sighting of Jared, his truck and dogs at a restaurant near the border between Illinois and Indiana.
1:54.8	According to records, his truck ran out of gas and the battery later died around 630 p.m.
2:00.4	Jared's phone last synced around that same time as well.
2:04.0	Law enforcement searched around the vehicle to no avail.
2:07.0	Then others stepped up to help with the search efforts and were stumped.
2:11.0	Jared left behind a trail of bizarre clues that no one has been able to piece together
2:16.3	in order to solve this mystery, at least not yet.
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