MISSING: Brian Wehrle
Brian Wehrle vanished without a trace during a trip to his hometown of Carrollton, Georgia. Everyone suspects foul play, but no one knows what could have happened to him. And nearly 14 years after his disappearance, his family is hoping someone out there has the information they need to bring Brian home.
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Brian Wehrle
Photo Courtesy: Amanda Rickles
Brian and Jeff
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The Wehrle home in Carrollton, GA
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A Google map showing Brian’s parents’ house
Photo Courtesy: Google Earth
Tracy Sargent’s search dogs alerted outside and inside the Wehrle’s boathouse.
Photo Courtesy: Carrollton Police Department
Tracy Sargent’s search dogs alerted outside and inside the Wehrle’s boathouse.
Photo Courtesy: Carrollton Police Department
Police dug up the Wehrle’s boathouse floor but didn’t find anything.
Photo Courtesy: Carrollton Police Department
Tracy Sargent made this diagram to show where her search dogs alerted.
Photo Courtesy: Tracy Sargent
Chance, one of the dogs who searched the Wehrle property.
Photo Courtesy: Tracy Sargent
Cinco, one of the dogs who searched the Wehrle property.
Photo Courtesy: Tracy Sargent
Draco, one of the dogs who searched the Wehrle property.
Photo Courtesy: Tracy Sargent
Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following cases:
Brian is white, and at the time of his disappearance, he had blond hair, blue eyes, and weighed about 140 pounds. He’s 5’7… and if he’s alive today, he’s 52-years-old.
If you have any information about Brian’s disappearance – or know how his car ended up in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the fall of 2009 – please contact the Carrollton Police Department at 770-834-4451.
To help Brian’s family raise money for billboards, you can donate to their GoFundMe page, Find Brian Wehrle.
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Episode Source Material
- The Fall Line Podcast – The Disappearance of Brian Wehrle
- Carrollton Police Department records provided by The Fall Line; Carrollton Police
- Times-Georgian: Family, friends baffled by man’s disappearance by Bennett Rolan
- Times-Georgian: Family still searching for missing man by Bennett Rolan
- Times-Georgian: Missing man’s car found in Tennessee by Bennett Rolan
- Times-Georgian: A family searches, holding on to hope by Amanda Thomas
- Times-Georgian: One year later: Where is Brian Wehrle? by Amanda Thomas
- Find Brian Wehrle Facebook group
- WithBensEyes: Missing Person: Brian Anthony Wehrle, Part 4
- Websleuths thread
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