The condo building that EATS people.... (mystery thread)

[AAP]

Not really eats them... but one of the greatest mysteries in Ft Lauderdale currently.

Ok...... over the past three years 4 men have gone missing from the same condo building. Never to be seen/heard from again. No clues, nothing. Here are the facts.. and weird this is the uncanny similarities...

'02 - Guy from unit 422 goes missing. June 29
'03 - Guy from unit 202 goes missing. June 22
'03 - same day as above Guy from unity 212 goes missing June 22
'04 - Guy from unit 1232 goes missing. June 27

Notice how they all lived in unit with two 2's in the number?

More similarities....
They were all reported missing between the time frames of June 22 - June 29.
No forced entry into their homes was evident.
Left behind was their car and house keys, car was still in parking lot, and their wallet was left on the bed.
All four wallets were found on their beds. No money missing, no credit cards gone, nothing. And all four of the men were never known to leave their wallets on the bed - as in laying on the covers.
All had been out clubbing the night before, but actually returned to their homes previously.
Drugs were found in all apartments, even though friends/relatives/employers swore the victims never used drugs. Also from the nature of the drugs and how they were found, detectives have always said they were planted there to be found for some reason.

So.... anyone want to buy a condo? Cheap? I know a great building.

 

[geminitwins]

aliens

 

[Becoming]

I think I saw one of those cases on tv...

One dude came back with a dude he met in a club or a boyfriend or something... he woke up, went for a walk in the middle of the night and never came back... even the security cameras did not see any evidence of him leaving the building.... as you said he left all his stuff behind...

Best they could figure is he went to visit someone in another apartment in the building and never came back...

 

[from zero]

Dude. I wanna live there.

 

[AAP]

I think I saw one of those cases on tv...

One dude came back with a dude he met in a club or a boyfriend or something... he woke up, went for a walk in the middle of the night and never came back... even the security cameras did not see any evidence of him leaving the building.... as you said he left all his stuff behind...

Best they could figure is he went to visit someone in another apartment in the building and never came back...

Yeah... that was on Unsolved mysteries. It was directly about this case.

The disturbing part was that they or someone else was in the apartment and planted the drugs to make it look like drugs were related to the disappearance. However, in a police interview, it was revealed that while there were drugs in the apartments in each case, the drugs were for some reason unuseable. Maybe they hadn't been cooked up or unwrapped or whatever. It is like someone left them there to throw them off the trail.

 

[AAP]

Personally, I think it is someone in the building that is killing them and chopping them up and removing their bodies bit by bit.

 

[SoreArms]

I'd stay away from any meatloaf specials

 

[GoldenDelicious]

all of them are even numbered units, so i would look for some feature about those units that make them similar - ie all on the same side of the building, all accessed by the same service shaft/garbage chute/laundry chute, same stairwell etc...something taht would make access, or escape from the rooms easier...

same timeframe in the summertime makes me think that someone is on vacation - either the killer, or a relative/friend of the killer in the building, something like that. all the victims are male, makes me think that it may be a sex crime. I would also think about profiling blood types, organ matches, that sort of thing - since butchering people for organs is a growing business.

anything else specific to the building? nearness to, say, the gay part of town? brothels? who actually owns the building? the condos?

sounds seedy

 

[Yarg!]

thad make a great horror movie. like the killer lives in the boiler room or something and drags the people down through the walls

 

[AAP]

I think it is a building tenant that is luring them to his apartment, killing them with something like a poison, chopping them up in the bathtub and then dumping the parts in the Everglades. The last images of these guys were all coming INTO the condo building, there are no images on the security cams or from the front desk of them leaving the building (cams run 24 hours). We know they came home... but then what?

Also, if you left your condo, just to walk down the hall... you would take your keys with you right? Their keys were left behind.