Hi Crime Junkies and Happy Friday. I know today is usually just

fan club Friday where all of you fan club members get Monday's episode early and

add free and that episode is still there waiting for you in the

Crime Junkie fan club app but I also wanted to drop in with a little something else

for everyone today. You probably know by now that I can do this thing where I fall down rabbit holes hard.

And if there is a case just like ripe with conspiracy where there are so many theories that you need a string board, I'm there. And there is a case like that,

currently being investigated with so many twisty paths that have to be explored.

And it is all about to start unfolding.

Around 2.30 a.m. on November 2nd 2007 18-year-old Justin Gaines left a popular club called Wild Bills.

Now before leaving the club, he made maybe a dozen phone calls to his friends and people

he knew looking for a ride home, but no one was able to pick him up.

So he got into a black car with a

blonde woman but he's never been seen again. Law enforcement and even a private

investigator believed that they would find Justin within a week.

But all of these years later, his family is still looking for him,

still looking for answers.

In Drowning Creek, a new podcast from Waveland.

Host Sean Kipe takes on the most complex case he's encountered yet

as he works to pick apart two decades of mystery.

And you guys, I know I alluded to this earlier but there is a lot of

mystery and so many wild theories in this case. Rumors about Justin being

murdered circulated all over and there were theories about infamous killers being involved

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