Energy Executive Disappears From Bourbon Street

Energy Executive Disappears From Bourbon Street

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Douglas Schantz, the president of natural gas firm Sequent Energy Management, was hanging out on Bourbon Street in New Orleans with coworkers around 2 a.m. last Friday morning. He hasn't been seen since.

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I can't really say that people go missing like this. I wonder how and why. The birth of another conspiracy or just a pawn in a huge game board?

Especially when it's about an alternative energy source to fossil fuel.

Something large in the making? Anyone got a clue or is it just another missing person case.

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(visit the link for the full news article)

Web bot hasn't been mentioned in a while. One of the previous reports said something about 'people disappearing from one steep to the next' or something like that with no rational explanation for it. Perhaps this is the beginning?
dunno. musings.

I've been to New Orleans many times and I love that place- the food, the people, the music, the smells...Wonderful city but coming up missing, robbed, beaten, killed, etc. is an everyday occurrence.

You gotta stay with the group and don't go wandering off on less traveled streets, especially at 2:00 am...

I would say its just another missing persons case, although probably a robbery/homicide would be my wild guess. New Orleans, in particular, doesn't have a stellar reputation for being safe by any stretch of the imagination, especially at 2AM.

[edit on 8-3-2010 by vor78]

Unless I'm confused, his hotel was only a few blocks away from the bar but supposedly the surveillance video shows him possibly leaving in a taxi and going the wrong way?

reply to post by Skittle


Energy Executive Disappears From Bourbon Street
Well if he isn't severely hungover or sleeping a two day bender off at some brothel then yes something sinister has happened IMO.

We will just have to wait and see.

S & F

Good catch.

One year there was a lot of people missing from Manhattan after
leaving a bar.
Then found offshore in the waters.
Did they walk off into the river.
No there was a gang that set up for these people.
They apparently go to different cities with this method.

Originally posted by Signals
I've been to New Orleans many times and I love that place- the food, the people, the music, the smells...Wonderful city but coming up missing, robbed, beaten, killed, etc. is an everyday occurrence.

You gotta stay with the group and don't go wandering off on less traveled streets, especially at 2:00 am...

I concur!!

No surprise here. I have been to New Orleans several times and had co-workers beat, robbed, etc. One dumba** won a Rolex at our Convention that afternoon and lost it on the way into a Strip Club that evening. You don't walk around Bourbon streat bragging about winning a Rolex!

I got a little too comfy with a stripper one night and wound up walking home alone at about 3 a. m. I was pretty nervous and decided to walk down the middle of the street and avoid any hiding spots where someone could jump out and get me. Not a bad idea, but not enough! A car swooped in front of me and pulled to the middle of the road and two guys got out and started walking toward me. A million scenarios went through my mind, but my only option was to be bold, so I held my head up, took my hands out of my pockets, made eye contact with each guy and said "What's up Fella's, Nice night!" and bumped/brushed past the bigger of the two as I walked past. I watched the shadows on the ground and heard them talking a minute or so and then the car doors shut and they drove away! Phew! I was that close to being a "Missing Tire Company Exec." LOL!

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Bet things would be diferent if he had a MAC10.
Any one agrees with me?

Originally posted by Mr.Jcury
reply to post by getreadyalready

 

Bet things would be diferent if he had a MAC10.
Any one agrees with me?

Well, there is really no defense for a smash and grab, or an out and out murder. I had a 0.380 auto in my inside pocket, but I didn't have much of an opportunity or desire to use it.

Things happened so quickly that they could easily have 1. shot me first, 2. hit me with their car, 3. grabbed and struggled with me before I could get my hand in my pocket. If things went very badly, I probably could have fought them off a while, and maybe got my hands on my gun eventually, but in reality if a group of grown men swoop up and intend you harm, there is very little reaction time. It all depends on what type of criminal you are dealing with.

A professional criminal will disable you immediately, before you even know a danger exists! I am all for carrying a weapon, I always have, and I always will, but I am not so naive to think that it makes me safe all the time. It is terrific for coming to someone else's defense. It is a great deterrent, and it is probably useful against a majority of punks that want to threaten and taunt, but have no desire to actually kill you. It is probably worthless against somebody that wants me dead and sees me before I see them!

reply to post by kosmicjack


Yeah, that is what has been confusing me. My initial thought was that he was drunk and went the wrong way, but the more I think about it, he probably either went to meet an escort (we don't call them prostitutes ) and was killed or went for more drinks and was killed.

As far as that section of Bourbon Street, an escort is more likely than other blocks. Most of the strip clubs are in that immediate area and the likelihood of prostitution of course goes up. Walking it at 2am is not as dangerous as it may sound though, I'm in the quarter nearly every weekend at that time and I will see plenty of people around.

Hopefully for the family, some resolution comes of this.

*Edit - Clarity

[edit on 3/8/10 by niteboy82]

Originally posted by getreadyalready

Originally posted by Mr.Jcury
reply to post by getreadyalready

 

Bet things would be diferent if he had a MAC10.
Any one agrees with me?

Well, there is really no defense for a smash and grab, or an out and out murder. I had a 0.380 auto in my inside pocket, but I didn't have much of an opportunity or desire to use it.

Things happened so quickly that they could easily have 1. shot me first, 2. hit me with their car, 3. grabbed and struggled with me before I could get my hand in my pocket. If things went very badly, I probably could have fought them off a while, and maybe got my hands on my gun eventually, but in reality if a group of grown men swoop up and intend you harm, there is very little reaction time. It all depends on what type of criminal you are dealing with.

A professional criminal will disable you immediately, before you even know a danger exists! I am all for carrying a weapon, I always have, and I always will, but I am not so naive to think that it makes me safe all the time. It is terrific for coming to someone else's defense. It is a great deterrent, and it is probably useful against a majority of punks that want to threaten and taunt, but have no desire to actually kill you. It is probably worthless against somebody that wants me dead and sees me before I see them!

Good point, and I agree with you, but as you said yourself, majority of cases are not done by a person who is out to kill you by any means.

From some of the posts I see that the city has a high crime rate so I assume that they would try to mug him.

A little bit more information:

www.fox8live.com...

Surveillance cameras shed more light on his actual route.

I'm thinking there is more to his trip than maybe his family knew and it took him to some seedier areas of the city.

Considering the general direction he was heading and in the direction of the river as highlighted in the most recent news report. He have been drunk and got disorientated. In the drunken haze, he may have fallen in the Mississippi River and drawn?

However, a body would have been recovered by now. The Mississippi is a big place and the grasslands and bayous surrounding it are quite massive. Perhaps, the body got run over by a boat or a barge and washed out to sea. Or the body was found and consumed by an alligator. Either way, I feel sorry for the family about this disappearance and having no answers. It is shaping up to be a mystery. Moreover, some co-workers of his if they let him go off on his own after a company bender. Still, he probably fell in the river and drown.

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That is the general direction he was headed but it's very difficult to fall into the Mississippi River in N.O. on accident.

Originally posted by kosmicjack
reply to post by Jakes51

 

That is the general direction he was headed but it's very difficult to fall into the Mississippi River in N.O. on accident.

Thanks for the response! I only put two and two together about what was mentioned in the news report about his last known location. If he was robbed and murdered were the heck is the body? Some think that is what may have happened. Could he be at the bottom of Lake Pontchartrain weighted down by those who committed the crime, if indeed that is what happened?

Maybe he is in one of the abandoned buildings still in disrepair following Hurricane Katrina? Thanks for clearing things up about the Mississippi River angle of this mystery. I have never been to the NO, but is it possible for him to fall in if highly under the influence of alcohol? Again, thanks for the reply, hopefully the recover something that pertains to this man's disappearance?

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I supposed anything is possible - from walking away from his life to random crime to falling/jumping into the river to some sort of MIC twist, as he is an energy company executive.

New Orleans – Police no longer suspect foul play in the disappearance of Houston oil executive Douglas Schantz. Schantz was last seen by friends leaving a bar on Bourbon Street in the early hours of Friday morning. New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley said Tuesday morning that investigators now believe Schantz fell into the Mississippi River near the Natchez River Boat. Several business surveillance cameras follow Schantz from Bourbon St. to the riverfront around 2:40 a.m.

From www.fox8live.com... story/Police-Missing-Houston-man-fell-in-river/3CcKbDoaKUur2EOkKeXYEw.cspx

reply to post by TXRabbit


Yep.

www.wwl.com...

Riley says security video supplied by French Quarter businesses show Schantz leaving a bar and headed in the direction of the river, and one video from near the riverboat Natchez landing shows Schantz walking to the Riverboat Natchez.

"He walks across a restricted area," Riley explained. "The last video of Mr. Schantz is that, is when he was near the boat Natchez, walking on a two to three feet wide walkway near the river."

Riley says after he walked out of frame, Schantz never shows up in the video again over several more hours of recordings.