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Jeremy Sides

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Jeremy Beau Sides is an American civilian underwater diver who investigates missing person cases. In 2021, he found the bodies of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel, who had been missing for 20 years.

Early life

Sides is from Acworth, Georgia.[1]

Career

After high school Sides worked for the United States Navy, before working aviation hydraulics and later in the automotive industry.[1][2]

Diving

Sides' friends gave the nickname Nug due to his propensity for finding gold nuggets with a metal detector.[1] Before diving full-time, he searched for American Civil War relics around his hometown.[1]

Sides choses unsolved missing person cases via the Charley Project online missing persons database,[3] focussing on cases where drivers went missing near bodies of water.[4] His initial work was undertaken in collaboration with a group of divers who operated the YouTube channel Adventures With Purpose.[5] He launched his own YouTube channel Exploring with Nug in 2016.[6]

Missing person cases

In October 2021, Sides supported the Adventures with Purpose team while they found the truck owned by Thomas Theorton, a missing Vietnam War veteran from Tyler County, Texas. A body was found inside the truck, which police said was likely Theorton's.[7][4]

In November 2021, Sides found a car containing the body of Miriam Ruth Hemphill, who had been missing since July 2005.[8] The same month he discovered another car, which contained the bodies of Ohio couple Brian Goff and Joni Davis, who had been missing for three and a half years.[9][4]

In December 2021, he found the car containing the bodies of two teenagers in the case of the disappearance of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel.[6][4][10]

Personal life

Sides is a father of two children.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Emerson, Bo. "Diving for YouTube views, solving cold cases, finding the disappeared". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. ISSN 1539-7459. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  2. ^ a b Flynn, Sheila (2021-12-17). "The scuba-diving YouTuber who is solving some of America's toughest cold cases". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  3. ^ Vnuk, Helen (2021-12-31). "Within a few weeks, YouTuber Jeremy Sides solved two cold cases that baffled police for decades". Mamamia. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  4. ^ a b c d Holpuch, Amanda (2021-12-10). "Scuba-Diving YouTuber Finds Car Linked to Teens Missing Since 2000". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  5. ^ MARKS, A. The Scuba Sleuths of Youtube. Rolling Stone, [s. l.], n. 1363, p. 58–59, 2022. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=156477100&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 21 jul. 2022.
  6. ^ a b Peiser, Jaclyn. "Two teens went missing 21 years ago. A scuba-diving YouTuber solved the cold case." Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2021, p. NA. Gale General OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A686196232/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=e66d95f2. Accessed 21 July 2022.
  7. ^ Gibson, Raegan (October 25, 2021). "Body, submerged vehicle found by volunteer dive teams in case of missing Tyler County man". 12newsnow.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  8. ^ Simlot, Vinay (November 11, 2021). "YouTuber finds car with human remains in Melton Hill Lake, linked to missing person case from 2005". wbir.com. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  9. ^ "Divers explain how missing Belmont County couple's car was found". WTRF. 2021-11-12. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  10. ^ Kellar, Liz. "After 20 years, Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel laid to rest after YouTube star finds car". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved 2022-07-21.