00:00Two workers arrived to work at a hotel that was still under construction, but when they crossed the parking lot,
00:05they saw something that left them completely shocked.
00:08Lying on the asphalt, there was a man. He was half naked, he wasn't wearing pants, and he didn't have
00:13any shoes either.
00:15His body was bruised all over, and he was no longer alive, and around him, there was money scattered everywhere.
00:22These bills were US dollars, Canadian dollars, and German marks. In total, almost $4,000 in cash.
00:31A few meters from the body, they found a black bag with receipts and maps.
00:36And inside this funny pack, there was gold and platinum.
00:40The way this man died didn't make much sense.
00:43But the way he ended up in that parking lot was even harder to explain.
00:48Because he didn't live in Tennessee, he didn't even live in the United States.
00:51He crossed almost an entire country, and nobody knew what he was doing in that place.
00:56The man they found in that parking lot was named Robert Dennis Blair Adams.
01:02Blair was Canadian. He lived in Surrey, in Canada.
01:06And that was really far from Tennessee.
01:09He was practically on the other side of the continent.
01:12And in the weeks before he died, Blair had changed a lot.
01:16His mom had noticed this right away.
01:18He was nervous, he was restless, and he wasn't acting like he usually did anymore.
01:22But he told his friends that someone was trying to kill him.
01:25According to him, there was a person, or maybe several, who wanted to end his life.
01:30On Friday, July 5th, 1996, he had gone to the bank.
01:36He withdrew almost all the money he had.
01:38Then he went to his safety deposit box to do the same.
01:41He took out everything he kept there.
01:42Cash, jewelry, gold, and platinum.
01:45On Monday the 8th, Blair went to his job and handed in his resignation.
01:49Blair left without collecting his last paycheck.
01:52In the early morning of Tuesday, July 9th, Blair was found by Canadian border agents trying to cross into the
01:58United States on foot.
02:00But his journey didn't end there.
02:02After they let him go, he didn't return home.
02:04He kept moving from place to place.
02:06He rented a Nissan Altima and headed once again toward the United States border.
02:12This time, he managed to cross.
02:13On that last day, July 10th, he was first spotted in Knoxville, at a nearby hotel, the Fairfield Inn.
02:21At this hotel, security cameras recorded Blair in the lobby.
02:26For about 40 minutes, he was walking back and forth, going in and out of the hotel.
02:30A hotel employee said that she saw Blair looking very paranoid that night.
02:35He was nervous, agitated, and it seemed like he was waiting for someone to come into the hotel looking for
02:41him.
02:41At 7pm, Blair paid for a room with a $100 bill.
02:46But when the receptionist tried to give him the change, he just turned around and left the hotel, not even
02:51waiting to get his change.
02:53After leaving the lobby, he walked away and disappeared into the darkness of the night.
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