Missing
Justin Glen Gaines
Gaines, approximately 2007; Age when reported missing: 28 (approximately 2017); Martin Wilkie; Thelma Ballew; Dustin Glass
Date and time person was reported missing : 11/02/2007
Missing location (approx) :
Duluth, Georgia
Missing classification : Endangered Missing
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White
DOB : 03/31/1989 (32)
Age at the time of disappearance: 18 years old
Height / Weight : 5'10 - 5'11, 210 - 230 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : A gray long-sleeved Abercrombie shirt, ripped jeans, flip-flops and diamond stud earrings.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos
: Caucasian male. Brown hair, blue eyes. Gaines may use the alias names Brad Allen and/or Brad Shewe, and he reportedly has false identification for those names. His ears are pierced and his hair was styled in a buzz cut at the time of his disappearance. He has a very muscular build as a result of weightlifting.
Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Gaines was last seen at Wild Bill's, a nightclub off Pleasant Hill Road in Duluth, Georgia, at 1:30 a.m. on November 2, 2007. He was a regular patron of the club. He did not have his car or his wallet with him and he was trying to find a ride to his mother's home in Snellville, Georgia.
Witnesses reported he appeared to be either intoxicated or under the influence of drugs, and he may have gotten into an altercation with another patron at the club. He made several cellular phone calls to friends asking for a ride home, but none of them were able to assist him.
Although his parents had told him he could always call them for a ride no matter how late it was, he never called them. The last time his phone was used was shortly before 2:00 a.m. Gaines never arrived home and has never been heard from again.
In June 2007, several months prior to his disappearance, Gaines was arrested after police found him drunk and passed out in his car. An open bottle of vodka was located in the vehicle, as well as false identification.
Gaines was charged with possession of alcohol by a minor, second-degree forgery and having an open container of alcohol. He had a court hearing on the matter scheduled for November 21, weeks after his disappearance, but he never showed up.
Gaines's family was aware of the charges against him and they do not believe the court case is related to his disappearance. He had a reputation as a partier.
In September 2011, Martin Leonard Wilkie was charged with concealing a death in Gaines's case. Dustin Dylan Glass, a career criminal and self-described gang member who's in federal prison on unrelated charges, told authorities that he and Wilkie had assaulted Gaines and Gaines was ultimately shot to death.
Wilkie and Glass then supposedly put his body in a toolbox and took it to Walton County, Georgia. Glass's mother, Thelma Ruth Ballew, claimed she'd helped her son and Wilkie dispose of the body. She lead investigators to a Walton County property and said Gaines's body had been dumped in a well there, but a week-long search turned up nothing and Ballew was charged with making a false statement.
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