re: Is there an update on missing 40 year old man?

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him being “hammered” may not have been from just drinking.

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Probably was the case at the point in time he was sitting in Happy’s.

I’m sick of Baton Rouge crime, and New Orleans for that matter, and read these threads but try to avoid posting in them with the idea that a parent or spouse may read it, and these threads are just comment after comment of hard truths.

At any rate, I’m assuming he and the other coworker or client or business partner, whatever, had plans for coming down to work Saturday morning, but tie one on during and after the game Friday night. But, the guy who called BRPD at 9AM the next morning, figured it was his only alternative given what transpired the night before, and how they parted ways hours earlier.

I’m guessing both got drank, 40y/o guy more than his friend, stuck out like a sore thumb to the proprietor of a local traveling apothecary,and were offered a key bump to sample his stock. Probably laced with something peppy, it got the engine cranked enough to suddenly realize there was more partying available to do…. “I’m just gonna hit the ATM with this dude real quick. It’s cool I’ll be right back.

Chopping up and railing lines at 1/2 AM(just the of them two/no women because they just wanted to get a little drunk), inevitably watching the sun creep out of the horizon and hearing the coke birds chirp as they ran out of blow in a few hours, hungover, on the way to the job site, wasn’t a great strategy for looking presentable at 8 AM with whoever else was having to be there.

Could d be the reason for the second withdrawal and smaller purchases, while in the convenience store, to pick up beer or smokes, or whatever.

I don’t have a clue, obviously, but it seems like the guy just got loaded, while his associate/partner that was with him enjoyed the evening, ate, had some drinks, and for old time’s sake got shot down by some miserable Baton Rouge women who were out pretending they like men for funsies. At the point he realized that at one in the morning, as things needed to be winding down, this guy just decided he had other plans.

Being more of a professional relationship than personal, or friends, he probably voiced his concern and made his feelings known, ….once. When the guy took off for the ATM, he most likely said something like, “don’t forget, you have to be there at fricking 8!”

With all that said, if it was similar in reality, there’s a chance he wasn’t murdered. The alternatives aren’t any better. But, it would explain why suspects were brought in for questioning, then released.

So your best guesses are that he was doing drugs. Gotcha.

Your 2nd scenario does not follow what Happy’s lawyer said about it. He was not served alcohol at Happy’s. When he left, he went and sat at an outside table at the place next door. He then walked off heading East on Convention.

There are a LOT of possibilities still out there. If his “client” was a friend, why is unreasonable that after the basketball game they went up to his room for a beer while Nathan put on some cologne or something.
How about maybe he was really really drunk and started down Convention because someone earlier told him he could find some company in a park going that direction, but ran into some bad dudes.
Why can’t it be that he just said frick it, I’m tired of my family and want to go off the grid so I’m gonna get someone to buy my bus ticket and take out cash for me, which is why he kept his ID for the future elsewhere
Why can’t it be that he decided it was all over and wanted to do some acts of kindness on his way out of this life and then went and jumped off a bridge

There are a LOT of possibilities. My hope is that he tried to go live off the grid and this Texas search company finds him.

Or maybe he was a big cocaine guy and decided he wanted to go on a bender and is stuck up high as a kite in some drug encampment, then hopefully they find him there.

Either way, I really hope they find him, for the sake of his wife and kids.

The Coke birds are always such a disheartening sound. I haven’t heard them in a very long time but those rascals and that feeling of “shite, I fricked up again’ can make make a man do some some very risky things to just get a bit more pep in his step for the day.

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didn’t say he was. They said they didn’t serve him because he was too intoxicated right?

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I drank my arse off for 25 years straight and can only remember getting cutting off a couple of times. Dude must have been really fricked up.

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I drank my arse off for 25 years straight and can only remember getting cutting off a couple of times. Dude must have been really fricked up

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Ya, you'd think that if he was that wasted a lot of people would have noticed him because he would have been acting a fool or at least stumbling around.

Of course i don't think this being CYA by the bar can be ruled out.

A lot of this doesn't make sense. Now the timelines might not be very accurate online. They get to the bar at 11:30 after leaving the game, he's too drunk to be served but they stay till 1:30. Bartender claims she is just serving him water. Like others have mentioned you need to be pretty hammered to get cutoff in LA. And if he is that hammered his friend doesn't walk him back to the hotel? I am guessing the client has told the police a lot more than we are being told.

They mentioned that he can be seen behind the guy at the ATM. Could be another guy behind him with a gun to his back.

But not sure what you can believe since they said in the NY Post story that Happy's is South of LSU.

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This also makes sense why “the client” was quick to worry when he didn't show up for the meeting. He knew what kind of state he last saw him in.

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Smashed to the point of Happy’s not serving you is not a good sign.

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I’m also skeptical about being that being Happy’s story. Too close to the recent rape/death of Madison Brooks. You are there with a client and do more than a social beer or 2? You drink until getting cut off? Maybe the client verified.

And then the client lets him leave by himself without making sure he gets back to the hotel safely?

People make bad decisions often, but that seems like an unusual sequence of bad decisions from 2 people in a business relationship.

I blame lsu for this. They keep killing people and getting away with it

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A lot of this doesn't make sense. Now the timelines might not be very accurate online. They get to the bar at 11:30 after leaving the game, he's too drunk to be served but they stay till 1:30.

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Where are you seeing this? Everything I’ve read and seen, including the team conducting the search today, have said NM left the bar around 11:30 while the client stayed. The lawyer for Happy’s said they have NM on video leave and go to the place next door and sit on the patio and then walk East on Convention

Also, I have known many people that have walked back alone when drunk AF. I’m sure the client wanted to stay for whatever reason and was like, he can make it a block…you can see the hotel sign from outside Happy’s. Hindsight, he probably feels bad, but if he’s able to walk out the bar without issue, why not trust a grown man(42) can walk a block

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How do you know he had asked to be served alcohol at happys?

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Someone else said he was cut off or they wouldn’t serve him. I didnt read it anywhere official.

Either way, either he was drunk as frick and the client let him go alone. Or he wasn’t bad off and the client calls hotel and the police bc he is an hour late the next morning??? Neither scenario makes much sense to me.

I’d imagine the client friend has more info that we don’t know yet.