The stays of a tech exec who went lacking 18 months in the past had been discovered at an deserted constructing a couple of blocks from the place an Uber driver stated he left the person on the day he disappeared.
Police in Santa Monica confirmed Monday that the lifeless individual was Beau Mann, who had final been seen on Nov. 30, 2021. A tip led them to the stays on April 25, and the constructive identification was made Might 6.
The map above exhibits places the place Mann is assumed to have been within the final hours earlier than he disappeared. The 39-year-old man was founder and CEO of Sober Grid, an app offering assets to folks in restoration from habit.
1 / Mann spent the morning of Nov. 30, 2021, in Brentwood, the Los Angeles neighborhood the place he lived. In a name the earlier evening along with his fiance, Jason Abate, who was residing in Michigan, Mann reportedly stated his automotive wasn’t beginning and he was utilizing Uber to get round. In accordance with interviews his household and mates have given, his Uber and debit card exercise within the early afternoon locations him in downtown Los Angeles after which in North Hollywood.
2/ Round 2 p.m., an Uber automotive introduced him to a 7-Eleven in Studio Metropolis. He purchased a fountain drink and different objects; video from the shop exhibits he left round 2:06 p.m. The identical Uber driver who had introduced him there drove him on the subsequent leg of his journey.
3/ At 2:19 p.m., a textual content from his telephone was obtained by Los Angeles 911 operators. Although a Santa Monica police spokesperson characterised it as “gibberish” in an announcement to the Los Angeles Occasions, it might extra appropriately be described as a truncated message with no request for assist. LAPD information say it learn “I'm taking a visit with Uber. Grey” and that it's thought to have been despatched from a car on westbound Freeway 101 close to Laurel Canyon Boulevard. A 911 operator tried twice to contact the sender, however there was no response, the police stated.
4/ The Uber driver says he left Mann at 2:35 p.m. on Berkeley Avenue simply north of Santa Monica Boulevard, a residential neighborhood of small condominium buildings.
5/ The stays had been discovered April 25, 2023, within the courtyard of an deserted constructing within the 2900 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. The property was fenced and largely hidden by vegetation and particles, police stated. It had been vacant and boarded up at the least since early 2021.