54 Year Old Douglas Schantz, a Houston Energy Exec Missing Since March 5, 2010 in New Orleans, LA (Update: Found Deceased)
54 year old Douglas Schantz has been missing since March 5, 2010 from New Orleans, Louisiana. Douglas Schantz is president of Houston, TX based Sequent Energy Management, one of the largest wholesale gas marketers in the country. Schantz was last seen by colleagues between 1 and 2 am on Friday in a Bourbon Street bar. He was wearing a blazer and tie. Douglas Schantz was reported missing when he failed to meet his daughter for a flight home.
54 Year Douglas Schantz Missing in New Orleans, LA
Colleagues last saw Schantz wearing a blazer and tie between 1 and 2 a.m. Friday in a Bourbon Street bar, Assistant Police Superintendent Marlon Defillo said on Saturday.
Schantz’s wife reported him missing after he failed to meet his daughter for a flight home later that morning. Schantz’s hotel key card had not been used since Thursday, and his bank and phone accounts were untouched, Defillo said.
Schantz Description:
- white male
- about 5 feet 11 inches tall
- 200 pounds
- medium build
- blue eyes
- short, straight, dirty-blonde hair.
Video surveillance shows missing Texas exec leaving Bourbon Street, New Orleans bar.
Surveillance cameras show a missing Texas energy executive leaving a New Orleans night club early Friday, but no other clues have been made public in his disappearances.
New Orleans Police Assistant Superintendent Marlon Defillo said video from a nearby camera on Bourbon Street shows 54-year-old Douglas Schantz leaving the Razzoo Bar and Patio about 2 a.m. Friday.
Authorities suspect foul play in the disappearance of the 54 year old Houston Energy executive. Crime Stoppers is offering a $5,000 reward for information in this case. $5000 reward for an executive that was compensated millions. Really?
Anyone with information regarding Douglass Schantz should call 911, the Orleans Police Department at 504.821.2222, or Detective Gwen Guggenheim at 504.658.5300.
UPDATE I: No new information in search for Houston exec
UPDATE II: Body Found in Mississippi River Identified as Missing Businessman Douglas Schantz
The body found in the Mississippi River has been positively ID’d as Douglass Schantz, the Houston, TX business man who went missing in New Orleans, LA.
New Orleans Police have positively identified the body found this morning in the Mississippi River as Douglas Schantz.
Tim Miller from Texas Equusearch, who was key in the search in Aruba for missing teen Natalee Holloway of Birmingham, AL, aided in the search on the Mississippi River for the missing Houston, TX businessman.
Schantz, a 54- year old oil executive from Houston has been missing since early Friday morning.
Houston Executive Douglas Schantz’s Body Found in Mississippi River
Schantz may not have met with foul play at all, but may have fallen into the water after a night of drinking on Bourbon Street.
Michael Schantz said that one video showed his father “stumbling” and “grasping for a wall” as he made his way to the dock.
“[In the video] he walks down near the water and there is a gate that he opens,” the son said. “I’m sure he just wanted to go reflect or look at the boat.”
“There is only one way for him to come back and the tape never shows him coming back,” he said.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune reports that a video camera spotted Schantz walking up the narrow gangplank of the Natchez, and then suddenly disappear.
For more updates, information and to provide your own opinion, go to Scared Monkeys.net Missing Persons Forum: Douglas Schantz.
To bad he was drunk.
Comment by pat | November 30, 2010