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Chapter 1: What happened to Kevin Nguyen on December 8, 2018?
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Our card this week is Kevin Nugent, the 10 of spades from Indiana. Since 2018, the mystery of Kevin's disappearance has become the subject of rumors and Reddit threads. Some of you have even reached out to us directly to look into this case.
And that's because even though there is video footage of Kevin in the hours before he vanished on a cold December night, what we can see on the footage just leads to more questions than answers. And police aren't showing all of their cars. They're keeping a lot of details close to the vest.
even as they release new clips to us in hopes that someone remembers seeing Kevin that night before he walks off screen for the last time and is never seen again. I'm Ashley Flowers, and this is The Deck. The mystery of what happened to Kevin started on December 8th, 2018, a Saturday night.
25-year-old Kevin had made plans to spend the evening at the Brass Rail Bar at the corner of Broadway and Sturgis Street in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana. His little sister, Leanne Yankee, 19 years old at the time, told us that she still remembers dropping him off that night.
I remember that he really just wanted to go out and see a band for some sorts at a bar. And I said, that's fine. Obviously, with a bar, you're going to drink. So typically on that day, I'm not going to let you drive there.
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Chapter 2: What details are known about the night Kevin disappeared?
He ordered a drink and then another and another. According to police, surveillance video shows Kevin kind of falling into his own world.
We were able to view on the surveillance footage from the bar that Kevin was kind of dancing to him with himself.
As one of the early investigators assigned to the case, Detective Brian Martin has watched hours of video footage related to Kevin's disappearance. He's a 14-year veteran homicide and cold case detective with the Fort Wayne Police Department. We asked Detective Martin if we could see all of the videos he has from that night.
But because the investigation is still ongoing, the department would only share one new excerpt with us. That's a clip from outside the bar. And it is something that has never been released to the public, but more on that later. For what happened inside the brass rail, we have to rely on Detective Martin's account.
Kevin's behavior in the bar was somewhat erratic. He appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
We don't know if Kevin was high that night. His family is adamant that he didn't do any kind of hard drugs. And police don't see him take anything during the times when he's on camera. He's just drinking. Perhaps drinking a lot more than the two drinks his sister warned him to stop at. We contacted the bar's owner to ask how many drinks Kevin was served, but they didn't respond to that question.
But Detective Martin said that Kevin knocked back several drinks over the course of the night, though he wouldn't provide us with an exact number. We were able to get a copy of Kevin's bar receipt, but it's not itemized. His tab came in at around $36. Which doesn't seem like a lot, but the Brass Rail in Fort Wayne is known for cheap drinks.
In fact, around this time, they were running a $2 beer special, something that they did often back in 2018. Detective Martin says that as Kevin drank more, he began to push his way through the crowd that gathered to watch the band. And he started getting in people's faces.
I can't say what exactly was going on with Kevin and his behavior. I did observe that he was talking to patrons at the bar. What I would refer to as close talking maybe made people uncomfortable.
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Chapter 3: What do the surveillance videos reveal about Kevin's behavior?
The footage shows him walking towards the Arby's and then four minutes later, walking back in the direction of the bar. Detective Martin says the surveillance footage shows Kevin reappearing near the pizza truck and the bar at 1.53 a.m. The bar staff then escorts him away two more times, once at 1.54 and again at 1.57, according to police. At about 2 a.m., footage of Kevin drops off.
He cannot be seen in the area in front of the bar. And around that time, Leanne's phone rang, and it was her brother.
And I was half asleep when he called me. So when he called me to come pick him up, I go, okay, I'll come pick you up. I went to go open my door, and my mother was still awake. So she said, no, you stay home. I'll go pick him up. Because at the time, I was still young. So my mom was like, I don't think you need to be going out that late. She's like, I'll go do it. And I go, okay, like...
As a normal person, as a normal person would, I'd go, OK. And then I went straight back to sleep.
Kevin reappears on camera near the brass rail, now wearing his glasses again at 2.23 a.m., according to police. He had just called home for a ride, so he knew his family was on the way to get him at the bar. But two minutes later, the brass rail staff escorted him down the street. Kevin decided to come back in front of the bar at 2.30 a.m.
And this time, Detective Martin says the situation between Kevin and the bar staff escalated.
you can see him kind of standing and looking at towards the pizza truck and towards the bar staff and then all of a sudden he just runs right at them you can see on video where he was tackled to the ground he was appears to be punched a couple times and then once kevin is on the ground you see bar staff get up they're obviously communicating with him telling him something and at one point you even see one of the individuals who tackled kevin
Again, police haven't released this video footage to the public, so we haven't seen this. But Detective Martin says that he was able to verify that after one employee helped Kevin up, the staff from the brass rail and the food truck worker walked him back down Sturgis Street. and then returned without him at 2.39 a.m.
We know Kevin's mother shoots him a text at 2.44 a.m., likely to let him know that she was about to pull up. Because according to police, surveillance video shows Kevin's mom arriving in front of the brass rail shortly after at 2.45. She's in her car, and when she realizes that Kevin isn't out front, she begins circling the block looking for him.
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