Investigators may have found more clues about the disappearance of 15-year-old Sebastian Rogers after mysterious surveillance footage emerged.
Rogers, an autistic teen, is believed to have left his family home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, with a flashlight in the early hours of February 26.
Officials have now been able to analyze home security video from the Hendersonville neighborhood and discovered signs of what may have happened to Rogers.
Footage shows two people near the family’s home at around 3:10 am on the day the teen went missing.
The camera, which was placed at the back of the house, captured two light sources far away and another light source named ‘Subject One’ closer to the house.
Another light source named ‘Subject Two’ can be seen briefly appearing in the footage and and moving toward Subject One before being obscured by bushes.
A few seconds later, Subject One can be seen moving out of frame. Subject Two then reappears in the video and follows Subject One.
While officials have not been able to determine if one of the light sources was Rogers, they believe the video has provided them with solid proof that another person was outside Rogers’s house that night.
But father Seth Rogers has said that his son would not get into a stranger’s vehicle.
‘It’s up in the air for me. He would not get into a vehicle unless he knew them,’ he told the channel.
Earlier this week, the troubled father said he was at his wits’ end trying to work out what happened to his son with no leads that make sense.
He said Sebastian was not one to wander off, and due to an experience as a young boy, would never go far without shoes on.
‘He decided he wanted to step into a mound of what he thought was dirt. It was fire ants, and since then he doesn’t like to get his feet in the dirt. He likes to have his shoes and socks on,’ he said.
Rogers was also confused about why so little trace of his son could be found, saying there were ‘missing pieces to the puzzle.’
‘With the information that I’ve gotten from Sumner County and Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and the fact that dogs aren’t 100 percent they’re not picking up his scent,’ he said.
‘One dog tracked him to a construction area over there and it just disappeared, and it’s confusing. There are missing pieces to the puzzle, and I’m having difficulty solving this.’
Searches were scaled back last week, and Rogers hoped a tip-off to police would help track his boy down.
Police and volunteers have spent the past two weeks searching nearby woods blasting Eye of the Tiger, which is Sebastian’s favorite song.
Almost 100 miles north, Kentucky State Police also searched a landfill in Hopkins County for clues, but came up empty.
But with the emergence of this new video, officials may be closer to figuring out what happened to missing teen.
