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On April 1, 2006, 27-year-old medical student Brian Shaffer walked into an Ohio bar with friends and vanished off the face of the earth. Surveillance cameras famously captured Brian entering the crowded venue, but never showed him leaving, leaving investigators with an impossible mystery: how does a grown man completely disappear from a single-exit building surrounded by cameras?

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Over the past couple of years, there has been a lot of discourse regarding the ethics of AI. It seems that in just the few years that AI has become available to the public, it has infiltrated our lives. It’s almost impossible to avoid. It’s being used in the workplace, on social media, to send emails or deal with complicated social situations…the list goes on and on. And those are just the immediate effects that we can visualize now. That’s not even getting into what AI is doing to our environment, to our social skills, to the nature of learning, and our perception of reality.

So it makes sense that AI is at the center of the case I’m going to be talking about today. Because, as I posited this question to myself last week…if AI is everywhere, it must’ve already presented itself within the landscape of true crime, right?

1) https://abc7news.com/post/open-ai-microsoft-face-lawsuit-chatgpts-alleged-role-connecticut-murder-suicide/18275966/
2) https://abc7ny.com/post/chatgpt-allegedly-played-role-greenwich-connecticut-murder-suicide-mother-tech-exec-son/17721940/?userab=kfsn_content_recs-582*variant_a_control_kfsn-2512%2Ckabc_content_recs-577*variant_a_control-2480%2Cwls_content_recs-584*variant_b_trending_wls-2517%2Cwtvd_content_recs-585*variant_a_control_wtvd-2518%2Cktrk_content_recs-587*variant_a_control_ktrk-2522%2Cwpvi_content_recs-586*variant_a_control_wpvi-2520%2Cotv_web_content_rec-539*variant_c_trending-2268%2Cotv_web_topic-580*variant_a_topic-2508%2Cotv_search_page_design_unification-546*variant_b_search_redesign-2300%2Cvertical_video_web-519*enabled-2164%2Cabcn_popular_reads_exp_followup-648*variant_a_control-3455%2Cotv_mobile_web_content_recs-639*variant_a_control-3429%2Ckgo_content_recs-583*variant_a_control_kgo-2514%2Cotvlink_abcnnav-576*variant_c_localnews-3316
3) https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5642599/a-new-lawsuit-blames-chatgpt-for-a-murder-suicide
4) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/open-ai-microsoft-sued-chatgpt-murder-suicide-connecticut/
5) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Suzanne_Adams
6) https://greenwichfreepress.com/news/obituaries/suzanne-eberson-adams-83-236015/

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In this episode, we talk about it all! What our favorites were, how we research for cases, and what cases we would recommend for those of you who are new to Small Town Mysteries! We close out the episode with a case update.

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