00:00:00
They reported him missing, but kept his phone. When Cole Thomas was reported missing, police first talked to his
00:00:05
co-workers who were the last ones with him. And [clears throat] they say that Cole was driving, then he started acting
00:00:11
paranoid, pulled over, ran off. And many people assumed that when Cole ran off, he would have taken his phone with him.
00:00:16
That's why they didn't have it, right? But that wasn't true, because later the co-workers that he was with casually
00:00:21
just like handed it over to police. They had it the whole time. And having a missing person's phone isn't just a
00:00:27
detail that you forget. And here's what the phone shows. Cole's location stopped
00:00:31
moving at 1:07 a.m. where the car was left. And he left his phone in the car. But after he's reported missing, the
00:00:37
phone starts moving again. The co-workers say they called someone to pick them up after Cole ran off. And if
00:00:42
this is true, that would mean that they like took Cole's phone with them instead
00:00:46
of leaving it with the car in case he came back. And then, just after 4:00 a.m., Cole's phone goes dark. And the
00:00:53
story just keeps getting stranger. You can find our look into the disappearance of Cole Thomas on Crime Junkie.