Andrew Blaine Compton was an 18-year-old culinary arts student from Carmel, Indiana, living on campus at Sullivan University in Louisville when he was last seen on October 28, 2010. Surveillance shows him leaving Gardiner Point Residence Hall that night; he took only his wallet, cell phone, and an mp3 player, leaving his backpack and other belongings in his undisturbed room. That evening he had arranged to meet 40-year-old Gregory M. O’Bryan, whom he had met on an online dating site, and the meeting occurred at O’Bryan’s apartment around 9:00 p.m.

When Andrew didn’t make his daily call home his family reported him missing. His bank account was untouched and his phone was turned off. Investigators recovered emails between Andrew and O’Bryan and executed a search warrant at O’Bryan’s residence, where officers found blood in multiple locations. O’Bryan initially said Andrew left on foot, then told police Andrew died accidentally during a sexual encounter and that he panicked, disposed of the body in a cardboard television box placed in a dumpster, and destroyed Andrew’s cards and phone.

Andrew’s body was never recovered despite searches of a landfill in Indiana. O’Bryan was later charged in connection with Andrew’s disappearance and death and entered plea(s) resulting in a prison sentence. Did anyone who knew Andrew at Sullivan University or in Carmel notice anything unusual about his contacts or online activity before October 28, 2010?