On a cold December night in 2018, 25-year-old Kevin Nguyen went to see a band at a Fort Wayne bar and never came home. Surveillance cameras captured his final known hours in eerie fragments before he vanished. What happened next has fueled years of rumors, online theories, and bitter disagreements between investigators and Kevin’s family. With unreleased video evidence, mysterious tips about a possible killing, and no trace of Kevin ever found, his disappearance remains one of Indiana’s most haunting unsolved mysteries.
Kevin Nguyen is featured as the 10 of Spades.
Source: Fort Wayne Police Department
Episode Info
If you know anything about the disappearance of Kevin Nguyen, detectives want to hear from you. Please call the Fort Wayne Police Department Detective Bureau at 260-427-1201 or Crime Stoppers at 260-436-STOP (7867). Anonymous tips can also be submitted through the P3 Tips app.
Kevin’s Brass Rail Receipt. Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Still image taken from video surveillance footage of Kevin standing next to a food truck. Courtesy: Fort Wayne Police Department.
A sample of Kevin’s art work. Courtesy: Lian Yankey
Front left to right: Kevin Nguyen, Xavier Yankey. Rear. Lance Yankey. Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Left to right: Xavier Yankey, Lian Yankey, Sandy Yankey, Kevin Nguyen, Lance Yankey. Courtesy: Dee Campbell
A “Missing Since” Poster of Kevin Nguyen. Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Kevin Nguyen Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Left to Right: Lance Yankey, Lian Yankey, Kevin Nguyen, Kevin Nguyen Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Xavier Yankey, Lian Yankey, Kevin Nguyen Courtesy: Dee Campbell
Episode Source Material
- Original Reporting by Regine Wright and T.J. Raphael
- Det. Brian Martin. Ft. Wayne Police Department email to Audiochuck reporter, Feb. 17, 2026
- Corey Radar, Brass Rail, email to Audiochuck reporter, March 9, 2026
- National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs). Missing Persons Case No. 54509. Accessed March 16, 2026.
- Fort Wayne Police Department, surveillance video, food truck on Sturgis Street, December 9, 2019.
- Fort Wayne Police Department, surveillance video, Arby’s located on W. Jefferson Blvd, December 9, 2019.
- WANE. “Family desperate for help finding missing loved one.” WANE, Dec. 16, 2018. Accessed April 10, 2026
