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Unsolved Mysteries

What Happened to the BBQ Man?

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.73.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On June 16, 2011, a fire destroys the North Carolina home of Daniel Moses, the beloved “BBQ Man” and he is nowhere to be found. Now, almost eleven years later, Daniel is still missing, and investigators still cannot say whether or not the fire and Daniel’s mysterious disappearance are related. Where is the BBQ man? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

They burned my granddad's house to the ground.

0:07.0

My mother lived there 65 years and no one ever bothered her.

0:14.0

Whoever hurt Daniel, they came to that little town to hurt him.

0:21.0

It was someone who knew him and knew him well.

0:33.0

59-year-old Daniel Moses was known in the world community of Rohobeth, North Carolina as the barbecue man.

0:40.0

In fact, the last time his neighbors remember seeing Daniel, it was on a Saturday.

0:45.0

And as usual, he was around back of his house, cooking up his next batch of barbecue to sell to the locals.

0:51.0

Five days later, on Thursday, June 16, 2011, Daniel's house burns to the ground.

0:58.0

And no one has seen or talked to him in days.

1:04.0

I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, what happened to the barbecue man.

1:19.0

Daniel was my oldest brother and he was so wonderful and he loved his little sisters and brothers.

1:37.0

He was as this kind gentle soul.

1:42.0

Sheila Moses is the youngest of 10 children born and raised in Rohobeth.

1:47.0

So my family, my grandfather, my grandmother, Moses family, we are from Northampton County, North Carolina.

1:57.0

Roor, roor, roor, North Carolina.

2:01.0

They have two stoplights and one high school in the entire county.

2:06.0

We live in a little area called Rohobeth.

2:10.0

And on Rohobeth Road, I was born on Rohobeth Road.

2:13.0

The house that my grandfather, Braxton Jones, purchased in 1956 for $3,000.

2:23.0

That's my granddad, he's laying.

2:27.0

Daniel was the oldest of the 10 Moses children raised on the family homestead.

2:32.0

At the age of 17, he decides to leave North Carolina and makes his way north to New Jersey, hoping to find more opportunity there than in Hampton County.

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