Post by hi224 on Feb 29, 2020 4:25:36 GMT
Facts
Bradley Worobeck finished his shift as a bartender at 11:30pm on January 17th, 2008. The name of the bar is Palomino Steakehouse and it is still located in Downtown Calgary, Alberta by the LRT tracks, the transit system Bradley used to get home in the neighborhood of Deer Run.
While Downtown Calgary is home to fine restaurants, posh buildings that serve as headquarters for oil and gas companies it's also known for its drug epidemic and homelessness. The bar where Bradley worked is located in an area frequented by homeless and drug addicts, the only people roaming the streets after all the entertainment venues close.
Hours before Bradley left work, he reportedly had to intervene in a fight between a customer and two drug addicts that took place outside the bar. There's no evidence, however, that anybody got seriously injured or that the incident was related to his disappearance.
Half-an-hour after finishing his shift, Bradley phoned his mother from the now defunct King Henry VIII Pub on Stephen Avenue. Although just a few minutes walk from his workplace, this bar was in the opposite direction from the LRT station. Therefore, I'm assuming that he went there to meet someone or with someone, possibly friends from work, something I couldn't confirm from the available information. All that we know is that Sandy, Bradley's mother, never heard from him again.
Since the great majority of missing people are found alive and well within a few days and there was no evidence of foul play, police didn't start an investigation until 11 days after his disappearance.
When going back to his Deer Run home Brad would stop at the LRT Canyon Meadows station and walk through or by the Fish Creek Provincial Park. There's at least one bus that connects the station to Deer Run, but given the time at which Bradley was off it's possible that no buses were available or that the waiting time was way too long which explains the walk by the park. When it was evident that Bradley was a long term missing person, police checked the cameras at the Canyon Meadow station. Footage showed a man who looked like Bradley, but they had no way to make certain that it was indeed him. This sight was followed by a search around Fish Creek, but no new clues were uncovered.
Theories
He got killed in Downtown on his way home. One would assume that fueled by their dependence, drug addicts are on the hunt for inebriated people walking around empty streets as people in such conditions are an easy target for robberies. At the same time, the harder I think about this theory the less believable it becomes. Reports of random assaults by drug addicts in Calgary are extremely rare and if Bradley happened to be on of the few victims it's hard to see how his killer(s) would manage to get rid of his body. Concealing a body in the middle of the city is next to impossible for a drug addict who is high, undergoing a withdrawal syndrome or whose cognition has been hindered by drug abuse and an unhealthy lifestyle.
He got in a car at gunpoint. This is my main theory with cases like that of Jason Jolkowski where the timeline and his surroundings make everything else highly unlikely. For one, Bradley might have been one of those rare cases where men are randomly forced to get in a car with the intention of robbery. However, the trajectory from King Henry VII to the LRT station is short an most of it takes place along Stephen Avenue, which is mostly a pedestrian street, or on the curb besides the rail, where only city buses and service vehicles are allowed. Bradly being forced into a car is possible but improbable.
He got involved with someone dangerous. As mentioned before, very little is publicly known about the company he kept at King Henry VIII Pub, but I imagine police followed the leads offered by his coworkers/friends and his mother, assuming there were any in the first place. Him going to someone else's apartment is a possibility which would mean he never made it to Canyon Meadows and the man in the surveillance video isn't him. Once in the apartment he could've been killed intentionally or by accident and the person involved just hid his body. If it was a stranger he left with the chances of LE ever finding out what happened are pretty slim as there would be very little evidence to establish a link between the victim and the perpetrator.
He perished in the park on his way home. To put things in context, Calgary is a city with unpredictable weather. Even if January of 2008 is described as "mild", night temperatures at that time of the year are usually below freezing. Many people don't dress properly for the weather and risk succumbing to hypothermia, particularly when they've been drinking. Walking at night in a park like Fish Creek reduces your chances of receiving help. This park is a massive chunk of wilderness in the middle of the city. Going off trail because of the combined effect of hypothermia and alcohol can be fatal and finding a body in such a dense forest is a huge challenge. Moreover, this park is a branch of the wild areas that surround much of the city, so wildlife sightings aren't that uncommon. It wasn't for no reason that LE decided to search the place.
In any case, it's incredibly sad that his family hasn't found out hat happened to this young man.
Sources:
01/17/08: Bradley Worobeck, 27, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mother pleads for help a year after son vanishes
Police seeks help in search for missing bartender
Bradley Worobeck finished his shift as a bartender at 11:30pm on January 17th, 2008. The name of the bar is Palomino Steakehouse and it is still located in Downtown Calgary, Alberta by the LRT tracks, the transit system Bradley used to get home in the neighborhood of Deer Run.
While Downtown Calgary is home to fine restaurants, posh buildings that serve as headquarters for oil and gas companies it's also known for its drug epidemic and homelessness. The bar where Bradley worked is located in an area frequented by homeless and drug addicts, the only people roaming the streets after all the entertainment venues close.
Hours before Bradley left work, he reportedly had to intervene in a fight between a customer and two drug addicts that took place outside the bar. There's no evidence, however, that anybody got seriously injured or that the incident was related to his disappearance.
Half-an-hour after finishing his shift, Bradley phoned his mother from the now defunct King Henry VIII Pub on Stephen Avenue. Although just a few minutes walk from his workplace, this bar was in the opposite direction from the LRT station. Therefore, I'm assuming that he went there to meet someone or with someone, possibly friends from work, something I couldn't confirm from the available information. All that we know is that Sandy, Bradley's mother, never heard from him again.
Since the great majority of missing people are found alive and well within a few days and there was no evidence of foul play, police didn't start an investigation until 11 days after his disappearance.
When going back to his Deer Run home Brad would stop at the LRT Canyon Meadows station and walk through or by the Fish Creek Provincial Park. There's at least one bus that connects the station to Deer Run, but given the time at which Bradley was off it's possible that no buses were available or that the waiting time was way too long which explains the walk by the park. When it was evident that Bradley was a long term missing person, police checked the cameras at the Canyon Meadow station. Footage showed a man who looked like Bradley, but they had no way to make certain that it was indeed him. This sight was followed by a search around Fish Creek, but no new clues were uncovered.
Theories
He got killed in Downtown on his way home. One would assume that fueled by their dependence, drug addicts are on the hunt for inebriated people walking around empty streets as people in such conditions are an easy target for robberies. At the same time, the harder I think about this theory the less believable it becomes. Reports of random assaults by drug addicts in Calgary are extremely rare and if Bradley happened to be on of the few victims it's hard to see how his killer(s) would manage to get rid of his body. Concealing a body in the middle of the city is next to impossible for a drug addict who is high, undergoing a withdrawal syndrome or whose cognition has been hindered by drug abuse and an unhealthy lifestyle.
He got in a car at gunpoint. This is my main theory with cases like that of Jason Jolkowski where the timeline and his surroundings make everything else highly unlikely. For one, Bradley might have been one of those rare cases where men are randomly forced to get in a car with the intention of robbery. However, the trajectory from King Henry VII to the LRT station is short an most of it takes place along Stephen Avenue, which is mostly a pedestrian street, or on the curb besides the rail, where only city buses and service vehicles are allowed. Bradly being forced into a car is possible but improbable.
He got involved with someone dangerous. As mentioned before, very little is publicly known about the company he kept at King Henry VIII Pub, but I imagine police followed the leads offered by his coworkers/friends and his mother, assuming there were any in the first place. Him going to someone else's apartment is a possibility which would mean he never made it to Canyon Meadows and the man in the surveillance video isn't him. Once in the apartment he could've been killed intentionally or by accident and the person involved just hid his body. If it was a stranger he left with the chances of LE ever finding out what happened are pretty slim as there would be very little evidence to establish a link between the victim and the perpetrator.
He perished in the park on his way home. To put things in context, Calgary is a city with unpredictable weather. Even if January of 2008 is described as "mild", night temperatures at that time of the year are usually below freezing. Many people don't dress properly for the weather and risk succumbing to hypothermia, particularly when they've been drinking. Walking at night in a park like Fish Creek reduces your chances of receiving help. This park is a massive chunk of wilderness in the middle of the city. Going off trail because of the combined effect of hypothermia and alcohol can be fatal and finding a body in such a dense forest is a huge challenge. Moreover, this park is a branch of the wild areas that surround much of the city, so wildlife sightings aren't that uncommon. It wasn't for no reason that LE decided to search the place.
In any case, it's incredibly sad that his family hasn't found out hat happened to this young man.
Sources:
01/17/08: Bradley Worobeck, 27, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Mother pleads for help a year after son vanishes
Police seeks help in search for missing bartender