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Chuck Bryan

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Selects: The Disappearance of Lars Mittank

And he said later on, he didn't know about the Lars Matant case at the time, but he said later on he found out about it and said, oh, man, that's got to be the kid that I picked up.

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And so his mom shook down the story.

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And I don't think that...

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she ever got in touch with the truck driver or else the truck driver was just like, here's what I think, but I can't say either way and I don't know where he went.

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So there's like a be on the lookout among, you know, Lars Matonk watchers in Brandenburg from that story.

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Yeah.

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But it's stuff like that that kept her going.

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Totally.

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I saw there was another one about a man in Dusseldorf that the whole thing lasted for about two hours.

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That's how fast things get done.

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She posted pictures that somebody had sent her of a man, a homeless man in Dusseldorf, and asked for more pictures.

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And within two hours, the cops in Dusseldorf had picked the guy up and verified that it was not Lars.

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Yeah, I mean, I think the head injury and loss of memory โ€“

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Like he would want to get back to Germany.

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By all accounts, he had a good life, enjoyed his job, was a pretty happy guy and loved Germany.

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So like the idea of him choosing to stay there of his own like sound mind just doesn't seem likely at all.

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No, and unfortunately that really strongly suggests foul play is a possibility too.

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The fact that he has not turned up, he has every reason to, like you say, turn back up again, get back to his life.

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I saw that on the State Department's website for Bulgarian human trafficking, like Bulgaria does have a human trafficking problem, but it seems to be typically targeting Bulgarians, right?

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especially Romani people who end up getting forced to beg on the streets or forced into hard labor if you're a man, that it doesn't necessarily target tourists.