Missing /// Tyler Davis /// Part 2

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So at this point, you have not talked to Tyler since 4.10 a.m.

You've been searching.

It's now past daylight.

It's 10.30 in the morning.

You don't know what to do.

And it's serious.

And you need to call Tyler's parents.

I'm not trying to worry anybody.

Like, that was the one thing that I was terrified to do.

I was like, I can't call his mom.

I can't.

Like, I cannot call her and tell her this.

Like, I have to, we have to go find him first.

And, you know, like, he's going to be so mad.

Him and his parents are so close.

I'm like, he's going to be so mad if I call his mom right now.

And Adam's like, Brittany, he was like, you have to check out of here in an hour and a half he's like then where are you gonna go then what are we gonna do

so I sat down and I called I called Rhonda and I was like this is a situation I don't know what to do and she was like okay calm down I'm sure everything's fine you know and at this point I had already called Franklin County Jail.

I'd already called all the hospitals.

I had already called, you know what I mean?

Like, I'm thinking all options.

Maybe he got

a public in talks.

Maybe he's in in jail somewhere.

You know what I mean?

Maybe he hurt himself and somebody took him to the hospital.

I'm like looking at any of these

different

things to try to,

I don't know, like make some sense of this really.

So I, you know, I told Rhonda and she's like, okay, you know, don't don't freak out yet.

You know, she asked me if I had called all the jails and asked me if I'd call the hospitals and all that stuff.

And I was like, yeah.

And she's like, okay, well, Kevin's on his way.

He's on his way right now and we're going to figure it out and I was like okay

so it took Kevin probably about

45 minutes to get there so after I got off the phone with her Adam's like well let's go let's go drive around again let's go see if we can see something else you know there's another street that I wanted to look at or something I don't know so we get back in the car and me and Adam drive around again so Kevin gets there and you know, he's like, what happened?

Like, what do you guys do?

Blah, blah, blah.

I told him everything, you know, the story.

And he was like, okay.

And he was like, I'm going to go find him.

I need to start walking.

And I was like, okay.

And this man literally probably walked 30 miles.

He didn't leave till it was dark.

He went through every single patch of those woods on foot that day by himself.

So now that you contacted his parents, when do you contact the police?

So, yeah, so Rhonda calls me right after

Kevin gets there and she's like, Brittany, it's like we're not the violin missing persons report right now.

And I just was like, no, like, I'm sure he's going to, to shoot us like Brittany.

And it was just like, right when she told me that, it got really real, really.

Like, I knew it was real because I was already like sick worried.

But then that was just like a whole other level.

You know what I mean?

Like, I just, I was just already terrified.

And now I have to, like, so when did you call them?

I called them around,

like, 11:30.

They actually weren't even there until 12:30.

I met them in the parking parking lot of the Hilton and I gave the officer my,

you know, I told him everything.

I said, this is what he was wearing.

This is what last time I see him, Lefton, I talked to him.

And literally, the first thing this man says to me is, well, you know, your husband, he's not elderly and he's not a minor.

So as far as I'm concerned, a 29-year-old man can leave on his own accord.

Well, technically, that's the law.

Yeah, no, it is the law.

But it's like, I feel like, and even since I've been going through this, there are so many, when it comes to missing people, it is such like a broad area, like there's not really a place to start.

Like they literally are like, well, 72 hours, we'll let you know, type guilty thing.

And I was like,

are you kidding me?

Well, in the missing persons unit, there's eight detectives.

They did roughly 8,000 cases last year.

So they're kind of crunched for time anyways.

And I think anytime that it is an adult that goes missing, they have to start with the idea that they could have gone missing because they wanted to.

Right.

Well, and you know, I understand people that hear my story and people that see this, they're like, half of them are like, oh, he probably just walked away.

And I can put this on my whole, like, I know that man so well.

He's literally my best friend.

Like, we were really good friends before we ever even got together.

You know what I mean?

Like,

I know everything about him, seriously, everything.

And

I know he would never, he wouldn't just, like, if Tyler didn't want to be with me, okay,

he would tell me that.

He doesn't play games.

He's not childish.

Like, he's a very, very blunt person.

He's very upfront.

He loves his son more than anything in the whole world.

He literally named my son after.

a freaking football quarterback.

Like, I'm being dead serious.

Him and his parents are, him and his mom are so close.

I've never seen a relationship between like a son and a mother like that before in my life.

So, even if he left you and didn't tell you, he would still be contacting his mother.

Oh, definitely, definitely.

Like, you take me, you take me and my son.

Like, you take us completely out of this equation.

He would not do this to his mom or his dad, but not his mom.

No, his mom, not his family, like not his friends.

He's a really, like, he, with his job alone, he has so many responsibilities he never missed a day of work i'm talking like he has never missed a day of work how was the first conversation with law enforcement it was

not good

i had so i filed a police report he has like got it in the system around like 1 p.m and you know me and adam we still drove around and we were looking in all these places and we've met up with kevin a couple times and it was about five and Kevin's like Brittany I think you I think you need to go get Aaron I think it's I think you need to go back to the house and get Aaron and I was I can't like I can't leave him up here by himself like we you know what I mean like I can't I can't leave him but I had to like I needed to go get my son and so I did so Adam took me back to my in-laws house in Circleville I had literally just got there so this was probably around like five six o'clock and he the detective called me and

I mean, he wasn't very nice,

but at the same time, it's like, I understand that your job is not to be nice to me.

You know what I mean?

Like, your job is to find my husband.

That's what your, that's what your duty is.

It's not to call me 27 times a day to tell me what you've heard and what you haven't heard.

It's not to, you know what I mean?

Like your job is to find my husband.

So, but the first, now I know this, like literally like 46 days later, I know this, but

that day when he called me this is like super new like I didn't go to sleep I still hadn't been in bed at this time have you been trying to call Tyler's phone oh yeah I was calling it all day all day

the cops did a pretty extensive search from what I've heard when did that search take place technically he went this scene on the 24th They didn't do their first search until Tuesday.

They're telling me they've been doing everything.

Yeah, and when when I talked to detectives, they explained to me the search, and it seemed very extensive.

They also pulled a lot of security footage from the mall.

Yeah, so the first day,

so this was

Monday, and I'll tell you again,

I didn't go to bed

until

Tuesday.

I didn't go to sleep until Tuesday.

Sunday night after I actually got back to Londo's, that night

I put Erin to bed and I told her and I asked her if it was okay for um for me to leave, if she would mind.

Like Erin was asleep and she was completely fine with it.

And me and a couple of Tyler's friends, we went back up to Easton and we searched all those woods by ourselves.

And this was before so this was like

a Sunday night,

going in the early hours of Monday.

So we we were there.

Who went with you guys?

It was me, um,

Alex, and Nick.

And these are just, you know, friends of ours.

So we got there

probably

around one, one in the morning, and we just, we just started searching.

Like, we went everywhere.

I'm talking like we didn't leave there until, oh, I'm sorry.

Yeah, it was me, Alex, and Nick, and then two of Tyler's employees actually met us up there as well.

Two younger kids that worked for him.

As soon as we got there, I went directly to the hilton i spoke with the night manager i let him know the situation showed him a picture of my husband you know talked to him for a minute and he was like yeah let me um let me see if i can start pulling footage and i was like okay cool like i really appreciate it then we walked down to eastern security i let them know the situation i talked to them i told them um you know i'm going to be

out here tonight I just want you to know like these are my two friends like we're gonna go and we're gonna search to see if we can and they were completely cool with it.

They were like, yeah, Cody, go ahead.

Again, it's also like 1 a.m., so nobody's there.

And,

you know, we go out there and we're there for hours.

And when I went and talked to Eastern Security, there was actually an officer for CPD in the area.

And he was super nice.

He came up to me.

You know, he told me, he was like, I just got on shift.

He was like, I just learned about

your husband.

And we're still trying to get everything together.

He was like, don't think we haven't started started yet.

He was like, but we literally just got the report.

We haven't even got, we just got the report like 12 hours ago.

It's pretty much what he was saying.

I was like, okay, well, I'm here, so I'm looking.

That's what I'm doing.

And then the Eastern Security Office, they told me they had already started pulling footage and that they saw Tyler walking back to the hotel at

4.15.

They saw him walking to the hotel at 4.15, which to me made perfect sense because if we're on the phone at 4.10 and he says, I'll be there in a couple minutes, you know, I see the hotel, I'm walking.

And they said they had him on camera walking towards towards the Hilton.

And that's what they told me.

Come to find out, it wasn't Tyler.

It was like Tyler and his friend, they have the same

body type, like same size and same height.

You know what I mean?

And apparently,

with

the way those cameras work at nighttime, I guess they're they're not the most perfect vision.

So they assumed that it was Tyler and it wasn't.

But it was his friend.

But how could it be his friend when at the time of that call or at that moment, he's leaving or with you?

That's what I didn't understand because when Tyler had called me

around

410, you know, he was like, he was right beside me.

And then I realized that when me and

Gary got off the phone we both kind of like but we didn't like walk up the street like we walked to do you do you know the Easton area very well yeah okay so like we walked like if we were standing on the corner right in front of Hilton we walked to the left and we both were kind of like on that main strip and we both like walked down the street but like he did one side and I did the other side like I'm sorry we were both on the same side of the street but he went one direction and I went the other direction.

And so I don't know if that was then,

you know, because when we were like, he could have been turning around.

It could have been that time.

So we were it's not like we both went out and like were like searching.

It was kind of like we were just like walking down to see if we might see him somewhere.

Well, there's tons of shops around there and there's tons of cameras.

It's surprising that he's not picked up on any of the footage anywhere.

So back to the search that night.

So we go and we search a bunch of stuff.

We don't stop until it was daylight.

It was like seven, seven or eight in the morning.

And we're trying to, like at this point, like me and Nick and Alex and

the others, we're just trying to like, okay,

trying to like pretty much think like Tyler thinks, I don't know, it probably sounds stupid, but we're like, okay, if he said that he's walking out of the woods and he sees the Hilton, we went to every single patch of woods and like just like around to see, like, if you could see the Hilton from this patch of woods, we searched it.

Well, and Tyler doesn't know this area.

He's been drinking.

He's exhausted.

So is it, it's, it's possible that he's not even looking at the correct hotel.

Right, exactly.

Like, he's looking at the wrong place.

And that's something we also considered.

So there is a, I think it's a Marriott a little bit down from, it's like on the other side of the actual town center, like a shopping center.

And it looks like they're all made by like all these hotels in the area.

It's the same company that owns them.

It looks just like the Hilton.

It's a little smaller, but it looks just like the Hilton.

Puts out the same amount of light at nighttime.

So we went around there as well.

So you guys are searching everywhere.

You don't know when the cops are going to search or if they're going to search.

But they end up searching on that Tuesday, and then they contact you after.

They called me and pretty much said, I just want to let you know that we searched

the ponds behind Costco and we've been working on pinging this phone and we pinged this phone and around Costco.

But I guess what it was is like I mistook it because there's a cell tower back there.

And if you ping a phone out, it automatically goes to like that cell phone tower.

But that radius is like two miles.

So his phone could be anywhere in that two miles.

It doesn't necessarily have to be like at the tower.

So they subpoenaed his phone records?

They subpoenaed his phone records.

Oh like they still don't have them and it's like over a month ago.

It was like all the beginning of March.

Have they subpoenaed your phone records yet?

Oh, not that I know of.

But I mean I've been more than welcome to like, you know, here's my cell phone.

You can look through it, do whatever you need to do to it type deal thing.

Have you thought about taking screenshots of your call log?

I uh went to like my, because I have Verizon, so I got on like My Verizon, and we did this with Tyler.

So Tyler is on a phone plan with his parents, and I'm on one with mine.

So I literally got on mine, and I took a picture of my call log,

and I sent it to the detectives, and then I did the same thing for Tyler.

So I was like, this is, like, I know it's not

exact everything you need, but this is what I can give you as of right now.

This was like Monday, I think,

Monday or Tuesday, that I got that to them.

And law enforcement during the search, they were using dogs.

They searched the woods.

Did they search the ponds?

Search the ponds.

I guess they have dogs about, and they said that the dogs actually hit on one of the ponds.

So they drug it completely at the sonar.

I think it was like a dive team.

And there was nothing in there.

And then they actually searched that same pond again.

Like the ponds in that area have been searched multiple times.

They have had multiple different searches, like good searches and different, like, I know there are like wooded areas there and since he did say like woods on the phone the last time they've been

pushing towards the woods more, you know, like when they do search, which is understandable and

they just don't have,

it's like there's like there's literally nothing there.

Like there's no, like not a shoe, not a wallet, not literally nothing at all.

And Tyler doesn't have a transportation app like Uber on his phone that you know of.

That I know of, no.

Do you guys share social media accounts or do you have access to Tyler's social media accounts?

We don't share any, no.

Oh, crap.

Um, we do not share any.

I don't have access.

I mean, I think I know what his password is, but, um, I was told not to try it type of thing.

I think that the detectives are actually, like, looking into his Facebook and stuff.

But as far as I know he has like a Snapchat, I don't know what his password of that is.

I know like the password to his Gmail and I had actually contacted the detectives to make sure that I could continuously check his Gmail because like our friend that was with us that night, he's super like techie.

And he's like told me like a lot of things about like apparently if you have a galaxy, you can and like you're signed up with Gmail, like Gmail like literally tracks your phone.

And that was something that the detectives also ended up finding and that caught him down by Abbott Labs.

And then that's why they did another search on, I think that was the south part of Easton.

Right, so they get a hit at Abbott Labs.

That's pretty far from Easton, walking-wise.

If I'm correct, I think it's about half a mile.

And that's where it stopped.

Do you have access to his financial records?

Oh, yeah.

So I basically, like, it's just flagged.

and um, we have a lady at the bank who just checks on it constantly.

And, like, anytime there's any type of notice that comes on there, like, she literally calls me to tell me that my Netflix came out, like, type stuff, you know what I mean?

Like, anything that pops up on there, but there hasn't been any activity from Tyler, like, nothing.

This is just weird hearing hearing this from Brittany's perspective, hearing it directly from somebody that was there, somebody that was searching for their loved one, for, you know, as she says, her best friend.

The weight to this story,

it's just got a certain heaviness to it that's really like got my head spinning right now, Captain.

I'm kind of like questioning a lot of different things here.

I'm trying to think through a lot of things as I visualize the story as she tells it.

One thing that I was thinking about along the way is kind of going back to their night out.

They go out around 8:30,

and she was very detailed in their timeline and what they were doing.

And then he goes missing.

I'm calling at 4:10, 4:11 a.m.

is when he goes missing.

That seems to be when he's truly unaccounted for and communication drops off.

But you wonder the call before at 3:37

is he lost and he just doesn't know it yet.

Right.

And how far could he be from the actual hotel?

The thing is, and I know this is kind of really out of the box and

very likely not super important, but she keeps talking about how exhausted he would have been or she thinks that he is the last time she sees him.

I didn't hear any mention of, you know,

we had food at this place.

You know, I'm factoring all these things in, how tired this guy could be,

how

drunk Tyler may have been.

One, just disoriented from waking up in an Uber, and now you're in front of your hotel in an area that you do not know well.

And so I'm factoring in all these things here.

He's not super equipped or dressed well for that temperature at that hour.

There's a lot of things factoring into

the thought that I have a hard time believing that if he were on foot

I don't know how far he would have made it until he would have just hit the wall to be completely exhausted right

this is an area that has had its ups and down

as far as reputation so the more he travels the more likely he is to run into somebody

But this makes it very unique in this case because she has

the records of when they paid for things and roughly what the bill was.

So when she's saying, I think he had three drinks, that's based off of also looking at the bill

and just knowing the total and going, well, I had a couple, so he must have had a few.

And in most missing person cases, take Brian Schaefer's, for example.

We don't know how much he drank.

We don't know what he drank.

We don't have a clue.

With Mara Murray, we don't know if she was drinking or not.

I mean,

this, we have detailed accounts of what he was doing hours before he went missing.

Yeah, and the thing, though, too, is, you know, and this is why they say, hey, obviously, don't drink and drive.

Don't drive drunk.

But, you know, there's also that big movement and has been for years about don't do buzzed driving either.

And I think all that's very important to keep in mind when we try to analyze this stuff from the outside looking in.

When you talk about alcohol, I know my personal experience with drinking is you can't always figure out how intoxicated you might be in one specific setting.

I know there are times where I'll have two or three drinks and I'm sober as a judge.

There's other times I'll have two or three drinks and I feel like I've been drinking all night.

There's a lot of factors that go into that.

Exhaustion.

How much have you ate?

What have you been doing that day?

And I just kind of keep going back to the thought and the feeling that I feel like this guy, I feel like Tyler got disoriented.

I feel like he's in a place that he doesn't know very well.

And at some point, I just picture him, you know, thinking he is in a certain location, getting slightly turned around and going, I know it's right up here.

I'll just keep walking this way.

And then we've done this before.

Everybody out there has done this before, where you get a little bit turned around in an unfamiliar area.

Next thing you know, you've walked

quite a distance away from where you thought you were going or where you were trying to get to.

And regarding that Abbott Foods,

Abbott Nutrition is actually what I think she called it Abbott Labs.

Right.

But there is an area, there's a building and a business over there.

I think it could be a distribution center or like their home office, but there's a place called Abbott Nutrition that is over there.

And that would be 1.1 miles from the Hilton.

and at that location it's if he made it there on foot that's a difficult location that would be about 20 to 25 minutes of walking distance depending on uh that's according to my phone all right i just i i was looking that up but in that area there are plenty of buildings in that area that are not hotels that that one might think in a disoriented state that they see it and go, yeah, I'm right by the hotel.

Yeah, I'm very close to the hotel.

I can see it from here, and I'll be there shortly.

And it's, I just see the situation of this guy maybe getting further and further of where he wanted to be.

And I'm, by this point in the story, I'm terribly fearful of what could have happened to him after he got a good distance from that hotel.

Well, let's be very clear because it was misreported in one of the interviews Brittany gave.

The report states states that he called at 4.10 and said, you know,

I see the hotel and I'll be there shortly and I'm sorry.

And it's reported that she said that he sounded confused.

And that's not what she said at all.

She actually thought he sounded pretty coherent on the phone call.

Okay.

What she was saying in that interview was when he got out of the car, when he got out of the Uber, when they got back to the hotel, she thought he seemed a little confused and rightfully so he just fell asleep and he woke up and maybe he was confused because he was like wait hilton are we staying here i thought we're staying somewhere else right i mean who knows they just checked in a couple hours ago it's not a place that they go frequent so let's be very clear that she didn't think he was confused on the phone call She thought he was confused getting out of the Uber car.

And one thing that I think is missing from her story,

and what I feel like is it's a part of the story that she likely just does not know.

But the one part that I kind of question here, Captain, is I know it's only like, what's she say, 3.18 when the Uber pulls up, and by 3.37,

he's kind of missing, and there's a phone call.

Right.

Okay, so we have less than 20 minutes takes place.

So not a very large window of time, but it also seems to me like she doesn't fully know

exactly when Tyler and his friend got separated or where the friend left or went in a different direction than Tyler.

Well, right, because one, she went back up to the hotel room, charged her phone, but also she's been drinking at this point

and quite a bit.

I mean, she said she had three drinks at one place and a few drinks at another place.

So

there's a lot of question marks here.

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So since that search on that Tuesday, what's been happening with the investigation?

Thursday, on February 28th, one of the detectives called me asking me to meet two detectives at me and Tyler's house house because they wanted to get into our Wi-Fi router to try to establish an iMac ID.

Apparently, it can trace the phone even if it's dead or get a better location on the cell phone at any time.

But the thing about doing that is that if you

if you're hooked up to your Wi-Fi router, it has like an expiration date if you're gone.

So if we leave on a Saturday, it's only going to be in there for like four or five days.

And they literally got here like one day too late to get this number out of my router

so the next day Friday they weren't able to retrieve the router so they called me again and they said do we need Tyler's box for a cell phone like what we need the box and I save everything I knew it was in here somewhere so I came back and I like go through my whole house and I found like three until I realized that Tyler's current phone that he has is actually a refurbished phone that he got a couple months ago and that didn't come in a box they like sent it to us and bubble wrap you know and then that Friday, I just stopped because, like I said, work from Wilmington.

There's like three different law enforcement agencies in this town.

There's like a Sadie's office, Sheriff Department, Police Department.

I let them all know the situation, and I was like, Really?

I've been really like on edge also because the night that we went out, I didn't take my purse.

So I gave Tyler my ID to hold his wallet.

So my ID is in there.

So what do you think was on Tyler at the time he went missing?

Cigarettes, lighter?

Yeah, he had cigarettes, he had a lighter, he had on his wedding ring, he had his wallet.

And also your credit card and your ID.

He didn't have my bank card.

He just had like the bank card.

Well, because like his bank account is

our bank account, it's got like the most money in it.

But like the bit the one with all of our, you know,

just money.

He's got the credit card.

He's got my ID.

He's got his ID.

Yeah.

So back to the night that he goes missing, you know, you said that you went up to the hotel, so he's out of sight.

His friend's out of sight.

Is there any way that while you're not there, there was a confrontation between the two?

No.

When his friend came back without Tyler,

how was he acting?

Was he acting funny?

No, he didn't.

Well, and that's the thing, because obviously the situation is super crazy, and people are going to look at me and they're going to look at our friend just because of the situation.

But neither of them, well, first off, neither of them are, they're not very confident, they're not confrontational people, you know what I mean?

Like they don't like even raise their voice really.

They just don't,

I've never seen any of them like,

again, I don't know his friend as well as he does, but I've never even seen Tyler get into any type of like disagreement or like fight, you know what I mean?

They've been, they've known each other for 10 plus years.

They went to college together.

They are really good friends.

Tyler talks to him every day.

They play a lot of online video games together.

Like he literally helped design my wedding ring.

They've always been really close.

You know, he's come over to our house multiple times.

I don't think that it was

that

he had any part in.

I think it just was really a wrong time

this

wrong situation.

And at that time, like when we were doing it, like when all this was happening, obviously, we didn't think it would be too almost like you know, over well over a month, and we still wouldn't

think that was going to be the last time we saw any.

Well, and like we said, we're not saying the friend's name, but because you guys were the last to see him, there is going to be some suspicious,

and you're putting out this information.

Are you getting any backlash or

harassment online?

It's been really bad because so when I didn't, I wasn't even able to do my first.

I didn't even even wasn't even able to get it out there until like March 13th,

you know, and by this point, we had already went and we'd passed out over 2,000 flyers.

We went to so many different places, and

it's just

there were so many people

that are

asking for a story.

And I always tell the same story, but it's like, it doesn't matter what I tell the news or the media.

It's like, however the hell they want to spin it, which isn't fair because I've talked to like three or four different people and three or four different

media pages have three or four different stories.

So everybody looks at me like, why aren't you telling the fool?

And I'm like, I am telling the fool.

I am not writing these articles.

Like, I'm not telling I'm just trying to tell everybody what happened like I'm trying to be honest I'm trying to I'm doing everything and anything I can to get my husband home and while you're searching for clues and talking with the police how has this been on you

it's been awful

on so many levels like

Tyler is my best friend

And it sucks really bad when you're with somebody for so long and like you're you like you get into a routine, you know what I mean?

Like you're used to coming home and that being there, like you're used to them coming home to you every day and it's just like awful because I have like we have a a really young son who asks for him every day.

And he for the first like week and a half, he literally woke up every night at the time Tyler's supposed to get off working and sit there and he would ask for his dad.

And he'd be like, Dad, dad, for hours.

Last night he literally brought me

Aaron has like a like an old PlayStation controller that Tyler gave him that's broke and he would always sit there with Tyler while he would play his games and Aaron would have his little controller and he like brought me his controller and he was like, dad, dad, like it's really hard because he's so young and it's not like I can explain any of this to him.

And then I go from being like a stay-at-home mom and a stay-at-home wife to

it's just me.

So like I am a single parent.

I am trying to be an advocate for my husband and I'm trying to like hear his story as public as I possibly can

and I'm trying to figure out I've never had to pay all the bills before by myself like

I literally this like last month was the first time I ever paid any of the bills like I actually sat down like I had things that I was responsible for but I never

sat down and paid the rent you know what I mean like

he did all of that and it's just it's been a learning process it's been really hard yeah and it just doesn't make any sense for somebody to up and vanish no and that's the thing.

And I keep, I'm like trying so hard to like let people know because I understand like from the outside looking in, if

I was just somebody that scrolled by and read this story, I'd be like, that's not right.

Like something's wrong.

Like, you know what I mean?

But he's not, this is not the type of, he's not the type of person.

He is.

a very responsible person.

Like he knows his responsibilities.

Like he

has always been such a wonderful husband.

Like, I am spoiled.

Aaron gets anything and everything.

Like, you,

he's just a really good, he's a really good dad.

My kid's not even two, and he knows there's like, he knows how to spell work.

Like, there's words that he knows how to spell.

Tyler has literally taught him so much stuff.

And,

and it just makes me feel like a bad mom because I genuinely feel like he, like, out of the two of us, like, he is the better parent.

Like, he

spends so much time with our son and

you can tell that he genuinely like enjoys the play with him for hours like I'm not talking about somebody who gets down and like throws the ball at their kid for 15 minutes like this is somebody who spends all of his time that he can with Aaron and he loves every minute of it like he's always told me he wanted to be a dad he was so excited when he found out that Aaron was going to be a boy he literally named my son after the quarterback for the Green Bay Packers like

it's just I can't explain anything I can't explain this stuff to anybody.

You know what I mean?

Like, it's like, yeah, you hear the story, but they don't know me.

Like, they don't know my husband.

Like, they don't know the type of life that we live.

You know, it's like, we're not very exciting people.

We don't go out and do stuff ever.

And it just, it sucks to try to constantly

defend yourself and like defend everybody.

And because you know that's not what happened.

Now, has Tyler's friend been cooperative with everybody?

Definitely.

He's, um,

you know he's checked on me and Erin multiple times.

You know we've been passing out flyers.

Like I've had a lot a lot of help from all of our friends and all of our family just like helping pass out flyers.

We actually just did another round on what is today today is what I we were on Saturday.

So on Saturday we did like another thousand flyers and

he's actually the closest one, you know,'cause he lives in Columbus.

So there have been multiple times where I've called him, like, hey, I need you to go here.

I've had a lot of people like donate flyers and stuff or, you know, stuff that he can do during the week, such as like,

there's a lot of homeless shelters in the area, and we've had all of them, but a lot of them have really weird hours.

And he's super cool about dropping off flyers at all of them.

And then that one day we found that stuff out about Abbott Labs.

And he left work immediately as soon as we found out and went directly there to just see what it looked like and what it looked like type stuff.

In a lot of missing person cases, we don't have identifiers on somebody's body to identify them quickly.

But with Tyler, he has kind of a unique birthmark.

Okay, yeah.

So, Tyler has

a really big birthmark on his right arm.

It actually goes, it starts at the tips, like it starts on his hand, on his right hand, on his fingers, and it goes all the way up his arm, goes up to his shoulder, it goes to the

top right of his chest and the

top right of his back as well.

So it's very large and it's red.

So when he uses cold, it like changes to purple.

Like it changes colors, but it's very, very noticeable.

So even if like you would, if he had, if you had to cover that up, you would have to wear like gloves, a long sleeve shirt, and like something around his neck.

So what do you think happened to Tyler?

What do I think happened?

If you had to guess.

I mean it's just this whole situation is just

it's really really crazy to me.

I really think my personal opinion I think somebody took

there have been Ohio is like number four in human trafficking.

There have been like five other men that went missing in Columbus around the same age as Tyler

in the past like month

which blows my mind because it's like you don't see any of this stuff in the media.

It's like I was asking one of the detectives and he said something about like inducing panic.

He was like, Well, we don't want to induce panic.

I'm like, We shouldn't be inducing panic.

Like, people are literally getting taken.

And I don't know why it's like all of a sudden, I think I'm just now really noticing it because I'm in this situation, but there are people that literally go missing every single day.

If

you could say something to Tyler right now and knew that he could hear you,

uh what would you say to him?

I would tell him that I'm not ever giving up, ever.

Nobody can stop me trying to find him and

I will find you, I really will find you and I don't know what kind of situation you're in, but um I just I need you to get out of it and I need you to be safe and I need you to get home.

And I miss you so much and I really

I really just,

I'm just trying to, I'm just trying so hard to get you home.

I miss my best friend and

I'm son of his dad.

Again, we're very appreciative of Brittany Davis and her giving us a chance to talk with her and spread the word about her husband, Tyler Davis.

And again, if you have any information regarding the missing persons case of Tyler Davis, please contact the Columbus Police Department at 614-645-4545.

Or contact the Brain Tyler Holm Facebook group on Facebook.

And here's a little recommended reading for everybody out there.

Please check out the book, Anatomy of a False Confession, The Interrogation and Conviction of Brendan Dassey.

And you don't have to write that title down.

You can find that and all of our recommendations at truecrimegarage.com on the recommended page.

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