Hi, crime junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt.

And the story I have for you today is about a 28-year-old Broadway star leaving home on a seemingly normal day.

And the only alert that something is wrong is an SOS crash alert sent from his phone.

Except there is no crash scene. His phone is nowhere to be found.

And neither is he.

This is the story of Zellig Williams. Music. Thank you. I'm going to I'm going to I'm I'm It's around 10 o'clock in the morning on October 3, 2024, when Kathy Williams' phone starts buzzing with a New York number that she doesn't recognize.

Now, it's not all that weird. She's in South Carolina, but her 28-year-old son Zellig used to live in New York. She knows it's not him because he'd recently moved back to South Carolina and is living with her. I mean, she just saw him less than 20 minutes ago, leaving with his headshots in hand. She thought he was going to make copies. So she answers the phone anyways, and it is one of her son's friends asking if he's okay.

And she's like, what do you mean?

And they tell her they just got an SOS notification that he had been in a wreck.

Now, she doesn't need to hear anything more.

She hangs up and she is out the door immediately, heading straight for the staples five miles up the road where she thinks he was going

to make copies. But she gets there and there's no sign of him. So she gets back in touch with that

friend that called her and they tell her, no, no, no, no, the SOS ping didn't come from

nearby the house or Staples or whatever. The location that came through was from 20 minutes away

on a road

outside of a place called Angels Diner. And why are friends in New York getting these

notifications when he's in South Carolina? Well, like I said, he'd just moved back there and he had

been living in New York working on Broadway before. And truly, he was in some huge musicals,

Hamilton, MJ the musical, Hugh Jackman's

World Tour. But he came back because his grandmother had recently passed. So he'd been staying

with his mom. I'm assuming he just hadn't, like, updated his emergency context in his phone yet.

So anyways, she drives over to this diner next, expecting to pull up to a crash scene.

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