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Sebastian Rogers

Seth Robert Rogers Interviews

Feb. 25, 2024: Sebastian Rogers is last seen by his mother, Katie Proudfoot before going to bed.

Tennessee Bureau of Investigation along with Police in Sumner County, Tennessee, issued an Endangered Child Alert . According to the alert, Sebastian Rogers had been seen early morning hours on February 26, 2024 in Hendersonville, Tennessee, wearing a black sweatshirt, black sweatpants and glasses.

More than 200 searchers are sent out to search for the missing teen, including K-9 units, mounted officers, drones and helicopters.

Seth Robert Rogers Interviews

Interviews


Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers – Kaitlin Miller Fox

March 4, 2024

Host: When was the last time you got to see Sebastian?

Seth: I was supposed to have him last weekend, but two weekends prior, he was at my house. I got to see him, and we played video games and watched TV. We had a great weekend.

Host: What is it like working with LE? Are they helping you with this search?

Seth: They are definitely doing everything that they can to find my son and I appreciated. I hope that they find him.

Host: He is autistic, does he have any tendencies he may have? Does he like hanging out in the trees or by water?

Seth: He loves to go fishing with me. But if he is in city limits he plays video games. He probably would be in the arcade. or something.

Host: Has he ever done something like that? Just leave the house?

Seth: No

Host: How much sleep have you lost since last week, walk me though what that experience is been

Seth: I haven’t sleep at all, I drink energy drinks

Host: Any particular places are you are looking he might be at?

Seth: I am looking everywhere. I am not from this area.

Host: You live in Clarksville right?

Seth: Yes

Host: But you’ve been out here in Hendersonville ares searching for him last week?

Seth: Everyday

Host: Are you in close contact with his mother and stepfather?

Seth: Not really. We are in communication at least once a day but that’s about it.

Host:Lots of speculations on Social Media whats your reaction?

Seth: I don’t have Social Media. Instead of being a keyboard warriors they need to be feet on the ground looking for my son.

Host: How well do you know stepfather and mother is there anything you would like to say about that? and How he just disappeared from the house?

Seth: I have nothing to say about that.

Host: Message to Sebastian

Seth: I love you son, I miss you body call 911 so we can find you.


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Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 11, 2024

Host: hey you on the mic with the Pascal show what’s your name and where you calling from

Seth: calling from Clarksville Tennessee my name is Seth Rogers Seth

Host: first thank you so much for calling in um let me just say that first off um thank you so much for calling in how are you doing

Seth: about as best as I can my son’s missing and I wanted to tell you thank you because you’re getting this out to more people we’ve been passing Flyers out we’ve got all the way to Chatanooga we’ve got Billboards all the way up to Memphis reach out the balls to see if we can get Flyers out there to try to find him and I want to tell you thank you everybody just helped me try to find my son I appreciate it

Host: of course uh I mean well you know of course we’re we are only here to bring your your son back home you know of course home to safety um you have a second of course you called in and again I know that you’re really busy what what have you been up to uh all day today so far can you give us like a little bit of a breakdown of what the day has been been so far for you guys out there

Seth: I’ve been out because it’s it’s me and some of his extended family have been doing flyers and stuff so I’ve been passing out flyers and everything. I’ve been going to businesses passing out flyers in my town in Clarksville, everybody knows and everybody’s seeing it. tomorrow I have a trip planned um I’ve got seven different locations I’m going to see if I can find anything that and put more flyers up. I’m doing I’m going to the south side of Nashville tomorrow to put flyers up everywhere you know

Host: I understand that, have there been any leads any any leeway any semblance of any type of Hope in finding Sebastian in your search

Seth: I always have hope I always have hope um I just I always have hope I got to have hope because I can’t believe that he’s dead

Host: yeah if you mind me asking

Seth: I get up every morning and I hit the road I drive around you know put flyers out and I hope that I get to see him, I hope I get to make a left hand turn and he’s there or I jump on the interstate right he’s walking himself to me yeah I just keep praying.

The Morning of :

Host: of course and and we’re all praying with you trust me brother we are all praying with you um if you if you mind me asking what what when where were you when you got the phone call that he was missing

Seth: well I just got off work at 7:00 in the morning, and I turned around, and I got to my vehicle got in there and there was a text message from stepfather call me it’s 911, and I called him and he told me that my son was missing. and I left from there and drove straight to his mom’s house.

I was there all day waiting for something some type of information. I saw them bring the dogs in, I was sitting there watching police come in and out, ask questions and they asked those questions, the first thing they did is where were you? and I’m like I’ve been at work the last 12 hours, you know, they turn around they they took our phones make sure that everything that we stated was verifiable.

Host: Sebastian’s not known to just go and wander off or or just to just to run off the way he that he did correct?

Seth: correct he’s never been one to do that sort of stuff

House the morning of:

Host: when you went into the house was there anything different or anything off, maybe in the house when you were there?

Seth: no I walked in the house it seemed normal, everything was clean everything was pristine like it normally is, except for his his room.

Host: I gotcha except for his room okay okay.

Parents Search:

Host: Have the stepdad and the mom have been out searching at all or have they just stayed home?

Seth: from my understanding, and my talks with Chris and Katie, they’ve been out putting flyers and posters in the ground

Host: okay okay I do have another question um because you did make a statement it was in an article um it it wasn’t I don’t know if it was in this uh video that we just watched this interview which by the way there’s a longer version of this interview right

Seth: I haven’t seen the interview I mean okay I was interviewed but I haven’t seen it yet

Dog Scent:

Host: there is something that you said in the interview that was actually put into an article, you said something about there being no scent, okay like the dogs weren’t picking up a scent but one dog followed a scent out into a construction site and then it disappeared could you maybe expand on that or explain a little bit more about that?

Seth: one of the Dog Handlers told me first day Monday, that the dog popped into a trail and they followed it and it went all the way around and it ended in a construction site, but it just ended that it’s like there was nothing. that leads me to believe that well if it ends normally the thing ends when you stop traveling on foot, from my understanding that would mean that he got into a car

Not Sharing Information with Seth:

Host: if he got into a car just so I understand the construction site itself was did the scent stop in the middle of the construction site or did it stop on the side of the road

Seth: They didn’t tell me, I’m not part of that sheriff’s department, so yeah, they’re not going to share information with me; on top of that, I’m emotionally attached, so they don’t want me involved in the investigation. So, everything I do is on my own. If I go search somewhere, I’m under pretty much orders to turn around and call TBI and tell them where I’m going so that they know because they know I’m searching by myself, and if I come up missing, they want to know where I was because they don’t want me coming up missing

School issues:

Host: you were still very tight you’re still very tight with Sebastian so I’m curious did he tell you of any issues at school did he have any you know did he have any was he dealing with any type of bullies enemies anything like that at school?

Seth: not that I am aware of I am tight with my son, I moved from California to Tennessee, so I could be close enough to go pick up my son not far enough that when I pick him up he. I don’t want to be in her backyard right because she’s she’s not my wife

Online and games:

Host: was there any online forums or anything of that sort did he game a lot did he could he have been online somewhere talking to people

Seth: yeah he play games at my house, my PlayStation is pretty much locked down for my own sake. Because if I don’t know you, I don’t want you popping in to talk to me so it’s like everybody on my PlayStation that are on my friends list, I know personally, so there’s no way that he would have been talking to somebody without me knowing because they’re my friends they’re not his friends. yeah no I mean they would call me up and be like you know your son’s on your account right I’m like yeah sitting next to him he’s in his recliner I’m in my recliner

Games:

Host: right right you guys are spending time together

Seth: he’s playing there and I’m on my phone playing Call of Duty and he’s on the PlayStation playing Modern Warfare, you know I mean I know what he’s doing because I’m I’m right next to him yeah so it’s like any conversations or anything that he was, he didn’t have the headphones right so and it’s a PS4 it’s not a PS5 so it doesn’t you know it doesn’t pick up your stuff through the remote or anything yeah so it’s like only way he would have had contact with any of them is if he had had headphones on and I made him not wear headphones because you’re not going to talk to random people right you don’t know who you know and I explain to him you don’t know who these people are they could tell you one thing and they could be some guy that’s like in his 50s or something looking for some kid Link

Home and problems with mom:

Host: did he ever express any issues about his home environment at all

Seth: not at his mom, he never expressed anything about his mom and dad’s stepfathers, he liked the dogs, you know he was supposed to come live with me at the end of school, summer break he was supposed to move in with me full time this is what I this this is what both me and him have wanted for years Link

Host: yeah yeah no I understand that and now now you’re out looking for him now

Seth: I gotta find it so he can come live with me

Host: yeah yeah I understand um of course you know I’m not I’m not trying to point any blame or anything of that sort um but you know the the the situation in which he just vanished Into Thin Air is very suspicious in in my personal opinion what are your thoughts as far as him Vanishing in the way that he did vanish

Seth: I’m missing something like I’ve stated since day one nothing none of this none of this makes sense yeah there’s something missing out of this puzzle and I don’t know what it is and I hope that law enforcement has has figured out the missing piece so that they can bring my son back to me right

Host: I totally understand that has there been any been has there been any that you’ve heard so far maybe maybe a piece of a clue or anything you said I know I understand that there’s pieces to this puzzle that are missing but did did they happen to give you at least something that could be some semblance of a piece to a puzzle

Seth: no they they they’re not including me in on they tell me what they do but they’re not including me in on what they find.

Host: I understand, I do understand especially with your expert you know with your experience of course being a police officer as well I can only imagine

Seth: I am Deputy Sheriff, I take my oath to the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Tennessee very very dearly to my heart as a deputy sheriff you know that’s that’s what we’re supposed to to do you know make sure people don’t infringe upon people’s constitutional rights Link

Last conversation with Sebastian:

Host: When was the last time you had a conversation with Sebastian?

Seth: Thursday. Thursday before he left.

Host: before he disappeared or you mean before he left?

Seth: before he left, I mean because he’s he’s gone, I mean he’s gone he’s left the house of his own free will or or he didn’t and you know if he went outside I don’t know what happened to him Link

Calls to Sebastian:

Host: absolutely so then let me let me ask you this then do did you guys correspond or at least make phone calls often like was it a daily thing or would it be sporadic every once in a while you you get it chance to talk to Sebastian I’m just curious about the Rhythm here because it seems like Thursday and then it’s just Flat line no communication whatsoever so how often were you actually corresponding with your son

Seth: I called him Thursday and I don’t call him on Friday Saturday or Sunday because he’s with his mom, that way when I have him Friday Saturday and Sunday it’s just a mutual thing yeah other than that normally I would call him it every day or every other day at about 3:30 cuz he would be home from school by then and either be working on his homework or if he didn’t have any homework he was doing chores that his mom had him doing and I would call him to ask him how school was, normally we would talk for maybe two or three minutes. you know and it was just it was routine call him up how was a school you know did your mama leave you any chores

Seth Weekends pickup:

Host: but this was a Monday through through Friday type of thing but then the weekends you would leave him leave him be to spend time with Mom correct?

Seth: I would pick him up on Fridays on my weekend. I would pick him up I’d be waiting at their house, when he got out of the off the bus

Host: But this particular weekend was not your weekend right?

Seth: no that was his mama’s weekend

Christopher Proudfoot work:

Host: when did Chris go to to Memphis do you do you have any knowledge of that when he actually left for that job on on Monday

Seth: well I don’t think he left Monday, I think he’d already been been there all week Link

Host: so he was out there all weekend from what you know?

Seth: The weekend I have him Sebastian’s mom would go to Memphis. if I had Sebastian over the weekend she would normally go to Memphis

Video proof:

Host: so there’s that Friday Saturday and Sunday where he could have disappeared that could have been time somewhere around that that time. are there cameras in in the house or around the actual house

Seth: Sebastian disappeared sometime Sunday night Monday morning. There’s evidence there’s video proof of Sebastian with Katie Sunday evening.

Seth: No, they went to dinner

When you see him:

Host: Seth do you have anything that you want our listeners to know about the the search about Sebastian anything that can help finding him

Seth: I just ask people keep your head up and your eyes open, if you see him please call 911, you know if he’s hungry give him some food, if you see him outside your house do not let him in your house, call 911 get him something to eat get him something to drink.

Medication:

Host: was there any possible medication that he took that could give him some sort of mental break or some sort of psychotic break where he would just wander off without shoes on in the middle of the night

Seth: I have no idea. I’ve asked TBI and Sumner County to check to see if that is and nothing

Host; and he’s never done anything like this before correct true

Seth: yes sir

When Sebastian mad at his dad:

Host: not out of spite or out of anger out of protest he’s never done anything like just leave or walk off or anything like that out of just being a teenager with angst you know

Seth: I love my son and I love my son a lot. I have thoroughly aggravated him at at different points in times of course because I’m his dad. I was gonna say you’re not a dad if you’re not doing that you know what I mean and he has never once walked out my out my front door no matter how mad.

I’ve made him, you know, he has stormed off to his room, he has sat there, and I don’t want to talk to you, and I’m like, well, you can get over it, and I’m going to talk to you whether you want to talk to me or not. You are giving me an attitude; go load the dishwasher right. You know your attitude is going to stop the fact that you live in this house, and there are things that need to be done. You know. I’ve taught him not to let people get him mad or angry. You know you are losing control, and they control you. You know, don’t be like that, be better than that.

I understand that my son is autistic, and I love him unconditionally. I also know how cruel kids can be, especially in school. We’ve all dealt with it—if you weren’t one of the popular ones, you might have been teased or made fun of. I wanted him to already understand that the people who do that are often just insecure and looking for control or power over others. Getting angry only gives them exactly what they want: power over you. Instead, I’ve taught him to look at them, smile, and brush it off because their opinions simply aren’t worth it. Kill them with kindness—it’s always the better choice.

He discussed scent that was picked up by dog on Monday and tracked to that construction site where it ended.

  • Seth stated this typically means they got into a vehicle when scent ends abruptly like this.
  • Seth also talks about Sebastian playing on PlayStation, but that he only plays under his account, with Dads “friends” on there, and doesn’t play with strangers.
  • Said Sebastian never expressed anything about living with Mom and step-dad.
  • He also stated that Sebastian was going to come live with him full time once summer started.
  • Says he is not getting any specific info from LE Last conversation he had with Sebastian was Thursday the 22nd.
  • Usually talked a few minutes during the week and picked him up Fridays on his scheduled visitation.
  • Said to his knowledge, step-dad had been in Memphis all week working.
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Seth Rogers – News Channel 5

March 11, 2024

“With the information that I’ve gotten from Sumner County and TBI 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’s missing pieces to the puzzle and I’m having difficulty solving this.” Mr Rogers added that it makes “absolutely no sense there’s been no trace of him.” “I’m hoping he’s still alive,” the father said. “That is my main hope right now.”

On Sunday, dozens of people from the community gathered for a prayer vigil at Beech High School in Hendersonville, near where Sebastian was last seen, just down the street from his home. They wore green, Sebastian’s favorite color.

Sebastian’s mother and stepfather were not at the vigil, but provided a statement that was read aloud:

“We want to let the community know that we don’t have words to express our gratitude for the support for have received in searching for our son. We pray that everyone continues to help search and pray that we find him and bring him home safe.”

“In order for him to do something that’s out of the normal, something would’ve had to happen that he felt like he just couldn’t deal with it anymore,” Mr Rogers told [ WTVF] in his first interview during a prayer vigil on Sunday.

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Dutchess – Chris and Katie Proudfoot

March 17, 2024

Dutchess: Interview on Missing Autistic Teen Sebastian Rogers

Guests: Chris (Stepfather), Katie (Mother),

Host: Thank you for joining us tonight as we continue to discuss the case of missing autistic teen Sebastian Rogers. It has now been 21 days since he disappeared, and we know this has been an extremely difficult time for his family. We appreciate Chris and Katie for joining us to answer some of the questions circulating online and to help clear up any misinformation.

Chris, I know this has been incredibly difficult for you and Katie. We appreciate your time. Can you start by telling us what these past 21 days have been like for you?

Chris: Thank you for having us. It has been devastating. Every day, we are doing everything we can to find Sebastian. We’ve been handing out flyers, doing interviews, and just trying to keep his face out there. We need everyone to be on the lookout for our son. If you see him, please call 911 immediately.

Host: I know there are some things you wanted to clear up, and I appreciate you taking the time to do that. There have been a lot of questions from the public, and we’ll try to address them one by one.

Timeline of Events

Host: Katie, can you walk us through the day before Sebastian disappeared?

Katie: Sure.

  • Sunday morning, we had a fun breakfast. Sebastian loves to brag about his food, so we FaceTimed with family.
  • Later, we picked up our niece and went to BJ’s to meet her mom.
  • We went to the bowling alley, played games, and then had dinner—just the two of us.
  • When we got home, he took out the trash (his chore), then played in his room before bed.
  • At bedtime, I told him, “It’s time to go to bed.” He said, “Goodnight, Mama, I love you.” He also said goodnight to his puppies.

Host: And then you went to bed at midnight?

Katie: Yes, I was on the phone with my husband, who works out of town. I usually fall asleep on the couch, and he tells me to get up and go to bed. That’s what happened that night. I put the puppies up and went to sleep.

Host: What happened the next morning?

Katie: At 6:00 AM, I went to wake Sebastian up for school, and he wasn’t there. I searched the house and called Chris, then called 911.

Key Questions and Clarifications

Did Sebastian Leave the House Voluntarily?

  • Host: Was the door locked when you woke up?
  • Chris: Yes, the door was locked. Sebastian habitually locks the door behind himself.
  • Katie: There were no signs of forced entry.
  • Host: Did he take anything with him?
  • Chris: The only thing missing was a small keychain flashlight.
  • Host: Did he leave barefoot?
  • Katie: All of his shoes were still inside. He never goes outside barefoot.

Surveillance Footage of Flashlights Outside the House

  • Host: There is video footage of two people with flashlights behind your house at 3:10 AM. What do you make of that?
  • Chris: We don’t know who they were or why they were there. Law enforcement is investigating it.

Was Sebastian Having Issues at Home or School?

  • Host: Did Sebastian have friends?
  • Chris: He had a couple of friends at school, but he mainly kept to himself.
  • Host: Did he have any issues at school?
  • Katie: Not that we know of. The school staff is great and keeps an eye on all the students.
  • Host: Did he have meltdowns?
  • Chris: He had some emotional regulation issues, but no violent behavior.

Did Law Enforcement Conduct Thorough Searches?

  • Host: Have law enforcement searched all areas thoroughly?
  • Chris: Yes. They searched the construction site next to our neighborhood multiple times.
  • Katie: A retention pond was drained—nothing was found.
  • Chris: All electronic devices from both homes and his school have been analyzed.

Clearing Up Online Speculation

Did Chris and Katie Take a Polygraph Test?

  • Host: There have been questions about whether you both took polygraph tests. Can you confirm?
  • Chris: Yes, all three parents took polygraph tests and passed.

Why Didn’t Chris and Katie Attend the Vigil?

  • Chris: We were with law enforcement at the time. We had a representative speak on our behalf.

Why Did Sebastian’s Dad Start a GoFundMe?

  • Chris: There was a mutual agreement among all three parents not to start a GoFundMe. Seth’s sister started it anyway. We asked her politely to take it down. She refused.

Final Messages to the Public

Host: If someone has Sebastian, what would you say to them?

Katie: “Please let my son go. He is loved, and he belongs with us.”

Chris: “If you are out there with him, do the right thing. Bring him home.”

Host: And if Sebastian is out there watching?

Chris: “Buddy, we love you. We are looking for you. Come home.”

How You Can Help

📍 Share Sebastian’s flyer. 📍 Check your security cameras. 📍 Call 911 if you see him. 📍 Report any tips to:
📞 Sumner County Sheriff’s Office: 615-451-3838
📞 TBI: 1-800-TBI-FIND

We will continue to update you on Sebastian’s case. Thank you for your support. Let’s bring Sebastian home!

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Sebastian Rogers – Nancy Grace

March 20, 2024

“Autistic Boy Sebastian Rogers MISSING: New Clues”

Source: YouTube Video
Host: Nancy Grace
Guest: Seth Rogers, father of missing teen Sebastian Rogers

Introduction by Nancy Grace

(00:01) Where is a missing autistic teen, Sebastian Rogers? The hunt is on for this boy. Did he wander away from home entirely barefoot?

This as eerie surveillance footage emerges outside Sebastian’s home, reportedly showing two people with flashlights. What does that mean?

I’m Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Sirius XM11.

First of all, listen to this:

(00:48) [Audio of Sebastian’s mother]
“When I woke him up for school, he wasn’t there. I took a second and walked through the house looking for him in case he’d gotten up and was trying to get breakfast or something because he did that sometimes. About 3 minutes in, give or take, I was on the phone with my husband. I said, ‘I can’t find him.’ He said, ‘What do you mean you can’t find him?’ I said, ‘He’s not in the house.’”

You are hearing Sebastian’s mother describing the moment she realized her autistic son was gone.

The search for Sebastian is on, and let me give you the tip line right off the top:

📞 615-451-3838 📞
Repeat: 615-451-3838

Look at him. This boy needs our help.

Interview with Seth Rogers (Sebastian’s Father)

(01:31) Joining me now is Sebastian’s father, Seth Rogers.

Nancy Grace: Mr. Rogers, thank you for being with us. Can you recount for us when you first learned Sebastian was missing?

Seth Rogers: I know it just seems completely surreal. There’s no words for it. When I found out he was gone, I headed over to Katie’s house to see what was going on. And he’s not there. I don’t know where he’s at. I’ve been looking for him every day.

Nancy Grace: Seth, what have you been doing to look for him every day?

Seth Rogers:

  • Handing out flyers every day.
  • Speaking on podcasts.
  • Doing face-to-face interviews on the news.
  • I’ve been to the south side of Nashville, Franklin, Bellevue, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Clarksville, and Oak Grove, Kentucky—all to spread flyers.
  • I want everybody to see my son and know that he’s missing.
  • If you see him, call 911.
  • I need my son back.

Details of the Disappearance

Nancy Grace: I’m trying to get my mind around what you and Sebastian’s mom are going through. When I go to wake up my twins, if they are not in bed, I immediately check the bathroom. If they aren’t there, I start panicking. Tell me your understanding of what happened.

Seth Rogers:

  • Katie told me that when she woke up Monday morning, Sebastian wasn’t in his room and she couldn’t find him.
  • I got off work at 7:00 AM.
  • I checked my phone at 7:20 AM and saw a missed call and text message from Chris (Sebastian’s stepfather).
  • I called Chris, and he told me, “Sebastian is missing. I don’t know what happened.”
  • I immediately went to the house.

Nancy Grace: Was there any burglar alarm in the home?

Seth Rogers: I don’t know. I don’t live there.

Nancy Grace: Was Sebastian’s window open?

Seth Rogers: Not that I am aware of.

Nancy Grace: Was anything stolen from the home?

Seth Rogers: Not that I was informed of.

Routine and Autism Considerations

Nancy Grace: What was Sebastian’s routine?

Seth Rogers:

  • He woke up every morning and went to school.
  • He attended Beech High School—about 6 miles from home.
  • He took the bus every day.
  • He was in the Y-We Tri Program, which is for special needs children.

Nancy Grace: What is the severity of his autism?

Seth Rogers:

  • Very intelligent.
  • Smart, but lacks social skills and struggles with reading body language.
  • Likes routine and controlling his environment.

Key Evidence & Concerns

Nancy Grace: Was anything missing from the home?

Seth Rogers: The only thing missing was his key-chain flashlight.

Nancy Grace: But all of his shoes were still inside?

Seth Rogers:

  • Yes. His:
  • Old sneakers
  • New sneakers (his mom had just bought him)
  • Boots (I bought him)
  • He never went outside barefoot—especially after stepping into a fire ant hill years ago.

Nancy Grace: So you are telling me he never left the house barefoot before?

Seth Rogers: No. At my house, if he had to go outside, he put on slippers.

Surveillance Footage of Two People with Flashlights

Nancy Grace: Surveillance footage shows two people with flashlights outside the house at 3:10 AM.

  • Who are these two people?
  • Why were they behind the house?

Erin Crell (News Channel 5):

  • The neighborhood is dark—no streetlights.
  • The flashlights were seen in a common area behind the house.
  • No motion sensor lights came on.

Nancy Grace: Why do they keep assuming he wandered off?

  • K9 dogs did not pick up a scent.
  • No signs of forced entry.
  • No shoes missing.
  • His phone was still inside the house.

Landfill Search

Nancy Grace: Why is law enforcement searching a landfill?

Erin Crell:

  • Garbage workers noticed something “off” about the weight of the trash.
  • Law enforcement followed up on this tip by searching the landfill.

Final Thoughts from Seth Rogers

Nancy Grace: Seth, what are your final thoughts?

Seth Rogers:

  • I just want my son back.
  • I need people to look at his picture.
  • Call 911 if you see him.
  • Something about this isn’t adding up.

📞 Tip Line: 615-451-3838 📞

critical points from the interview with Seth Rogers and Nancy Grace.

On the morning, Sebastian went missing

  • 6:40 am Stepfather Chris called and sent messages to Seth.
  • 7:00 am Seth had just gotten off work
  • 7:20 am he got to his car when he noticed had a missed text message from 6:40 am and a call from the stepfather Chris. He called the stepdad and was told Sebastian was missing. He didnt know what had happened. He got in his car and went straight to the mom’s house
  • 8:00 am he arrived to the house and was there the entire day.
  • Seth stated that the mom’s house was clean, like always
  • Seth Rogers doesn’t know if anything was stolen from the home
  • Sebastian mother said they are missing a key chain flashlight that’s that’s it his key chain flashlight.
  • In Seth House all Sebastian has an upper Drawer in his house for his items.
  • the police searched his house they looked through the Upper Drawer where his house key wallet “everything in his Upper Drawer house key wallet everything in his Upper Drawer.”
  • Sebastian goes to Beach High School 0.6 miles away from home.
  • Sebastian rode a bus to school
  • Sebastian is in Why We Try Program it’s for the special needs children where they are doing the same tasks that the mainstream does but they get a little bit extra time. In that program when everyone have 30 questions then Kids in the program get 20 and they get extra time.
  • Sebastian is very intelligent, he is very smart, he just lacks social skills in reading of reading of people’s body language.
  • Sebastian likes things to be in a routine he likes to control his environment.
  • He doesn’t know how Sebastian would be with strangers as he never seen seen him have to deal with this. Most of the time if he’s with Seth he gets his information from from him about interacting with people
  • When Seth meeting new people he tells Sebastian “son you can introduce yourself if you would like if he does he does, if he doesnt want I dont force him.
  • Seth sees him every other weekend.
  • Seth gets him whenever he is not in school except weekdays
  • The last time he had Sebastian was two weeks prior to Sebastian’s disappearance
  • The last time Seth spoke with his son was on Thursday, which is very typical.
  • Seth typically calls him every day or every other day on school days right when he gets off the bus and talk to him for two or three minutes to ask how his day was before he does his after school chores.
  • On the weekends, he has Sebastian, he gets there on Friday and waits for him to get off the bus.
  • Three pairs of shoes were at the front door: his old tennis shoes his new tennis shoes that his mama had just bought him and the boots that I had just bought him his mama wore another set of shoes his feet were growing
  • His Mom asked me to get him shoes and he wanted a pair of boots so we went to Boot Barn and got him a pair of boots is it possible he wore a different pair of shoes.
  • Seth doesn’t think Sebastian could have wore another pair of shoes because if he’s not fitting into him she gets rid of it.
  • Thee is no shoes in his room. “Shoes get taken off at the front door same as my house same here I always have people take their shoes off at the door so there were no shoes in his room all his shoes were still sitting at the front door.”
  • The only time he goes outside at night at my house is to put the trash in the trash can which is right outside my front door
  • Seth says Sebastian doesn’t have a social media
  • he have a cell phone at his mom and stepfather’s
  • He is glued to his phone when he has access to YouTube and stuff like that he is glued to his phone because he likes to watch videos about Minecraft and he likes to watch videos of people playing Minecraft
  • He doesn’t know if Sebastian is playing Mindcraft but he has a little game switch and he’s glued to that all the time
  • His phone was locked down he had no internet access he only had the ability to take pictures on his phone, text on his phone, FaceTime and telephone calls, everything else was locked down on his phone.
  • Police checked his phone
  • Sebastian got a pair of slippers that he wears so he doesn’t have to put on socks and shoes he puts those on if he’s going to go out to the trash or check the mail and doesn’t want to put socks on.
  • Q: has the mother and The Stepfather taken a polygraph “I know his mother has” (33:39)
  • False positive – Dogs followed Sebastian’s scent to a construction site near the home and then lost it. Seth states that for a dog to lose the scent like that, from his understanding, it would indicate that Sebastian got into a car. (Reporter on NG 43:44)
  • He stated that Sebastian’s and his mom went to dinner Sunday evening, and the police have verified that with photos.
  • it doesn’t add up for him to break routine and to leave the house with no shoes no socks on no coat some something just doesn’t make sense
  • According to another person in the NG interview: they did search perimeter of the house and I know one day when I was out there when they were searching they had a dive team out there they were searching the grounds. There is a lot of construction in the area.
  • Reporter Why Authorities searched landfill: “truck drivers that come to the house and when they picked up the the garbage can it just felt more more heavier than normal um so they just said that to the uh authorities so just to follow up on that tip they went out to the landfill to search because that’s where the trash is taken…”


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Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 28, 2024

  • He is not searching today – he is a Roman Catholic
  • The trash pickup starts at 5:00 am
  • The video of flashlights has the wrong timestamp

Q: so did how’s the searching going do what y’all gonna be searching again tomorrow 10:30 is that what you said?

Seth: right now that’s kind of up in the air. I don’t know what they’re planning on tomorrow

I’m Roman Catholic and it’s good Friday oh okay it’s time to go commune with the Lord maybe he will give me what I need maybe he will reach down and bless me.

Q: Do you think it’s a possibility somebody could be holding your son against his will?

Seth: I look at it like I’ve been on the internet I’ve been on the TV, I have even been on the radio which probably most people don’t even realize but if my son were able to hear me or see me on TV or on the Internet he would know to give me a call okay.

Q: have you ever known him to watch the news no okay never known him to watch the news?

Seth: No

Q: so if he is not watching the news he probably wouldn’t even know he was on the news then correct?

Seth: I mean I haven’t had cable in probably nine or 10 years

Q: now I know tonight in the news interview you said you know he’s probably somewhere playing video games, do you know if he played these video games online with other people?

Q: Naah

Q: no he didn’t or or now you don’t know?

Seth: I don’t know because that well it’s like at my house a lot of the games that he was playing were on my account and a lot of them were solo games like Spider-Man uh Batman Arkham Knights okay

Q: I play a lot of game in my you know certain games a lot of you know games where you’re in lobbies with other people I play a lot of online gaming

Seth: I do that, I will I do mobile on my phone, he would be sitting there playing video games he played on his Switch, he didn’t play online with people he played single player games.

Q: if I heard you say today that the TBI don’t think you’re a suspect they don’t think Chris is a suspect they don’t think Katie’s a suspect so there has to be some if you guys if they’re not like the internet is saying if Katie and Chris don’t got nothing to do with this then there’s another answer to what’s going on you know or there would be another answer another answer now do you think your would your son know to area do would he be easily lost does he get confused?

Seth: if you don’t if you stay all the time in your house and you’re only going from your house to the bus stop and then you know how to get to where you’re going to school and the rest of the time you’re in a vehicle would you really know how to get anywhere by foot

Q: guess if your bubble’s small you’re right you really wouldn’t know the area so if you got outside that bubble you could get lost

Seth: you get stuck in the woods and you’re used to Black Top you can get lost

Q: you know when I hear you say today that they don’t think they’re a suspect some of their the behavior is strange like the whole going out of town thing I think that was a little strange of them you know CU I would I’d be like you I’d be out here searching every day

Seth: Makes them seen no right

Q: if he’s out there lost you know he at this point he has to have some type of assistance right because he what where would he get food at or where would he you know he would need water he would need food he would need some type of assistance

Seth: he would and then again you ever been homeless?

Q: no I’ve never been homeless yeah I mean you think he’s you think he may be going eating out of dumpsters begging for

Seth: I don’t I don’t think he would be that way um I’ve been homeless before, homeless people take care of homeless people and homeless people have a have that that little piece in their heart that where they take care of the kids they always take care of the kids

Q: so you think he could possibly be in a homeless encampment

Seth: like now look now I’ve been out there in them Woods in Tennessee and I’ve done ran into a couple different homeless encampments out there that looked like people were living in and staying in in them woods so I know there’s people definitely living in the woods and I mean I’ve been out there I’ve looked for them I take a picture of my son you know one my parents came here the first week that’s the first thing they did they hit the homeless encampments there in uh Hendersonville with pictures of my so.

Q: anything come of that the homel you know I’m sure them homeless people ain’t gonna tell you much anyway

Seth: well if a child saying that he’s running in fear or something homeless people protect him

Seth: what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at the retention Pond do you think there is something to him or you think that’s just a busy area or what do you think?

Seth: honestly I don’t know you don’t know I only knew about those literally just because I listened to that call oh to the the the the dispatch

Q: I heard you say he could swim

Seth: yep

Q: You lived there does the trash run this early in the morning and the lights could be from a trash truck?

Seth: The trash truck runs at 5 in the morning, there is 3:11 am because the guys DVR recorder is stuck on 3:11. I watched the whole thing for 10 min of it, and the time didnt move. It was at 3:11 when it started it was at 3:11 when it finished. The timer on the DVR was broken.

Q: have you been in communication with Chris and Katie?

Seth: they called me today

Q: did are y’all kind of patching up the relationship I know they were a little mad at you about the Gufundme stuff and I’ve heard that you know everything, so are y’all working that out they got to understand that you’re out there searching for the boy and that you’re going to need help they got to understand that you know to be mad at you or anything they need Chris should be out there beside you helping you is what I believe they shouldn’t be mad at you you

Seth: eye roll and nothing

Q: I hope your family can work this out and that Sebastian safely and maybe it is just a upset with the stepdad and he’s took off you know and he’s okay it would make more sense than them them hurting him for no reason things

Seth: things just don’t make sense with this

Q: don’t know the reason that the CPS was called on at the house I just didn’t know that heard you say that you found out later that they didn’t tell you anything that there was any reason

Seth: that podcast there man

Q: that that the CPS have came to the house over I guess him going to school saying that his stepdad hit him with a belt

Seth: I guess because I mean I didn’t know about it until he said it in the podcast

Q: let me ask you this and this is important question for a dad ha have y’all ever discussed the discipline of your child with have you ever discussed it with Chris?

Seth: that there is supposed to be no Corporal discipline

Q: Chris and them talk about him and the mom talking about him like you know he uses the bathroom on himself he’s he’s function he a they make him sound like he’s not as functional as you make him sound you make him sound like he’s normal kid everything’s okay and they make it sound like a little bit different story there is

Seth: not to play word salad, there are three parts to every story, there is my part, their part in the truth

Q: I hope you’re telling the truth so I hope the truth is with you

Seth: first of all I don’t have a fucking shit to to hide, but at the same point in time I don’t talk a lot of shit, I don’t like the I’m not the monkey at the zoo I’m not throwing shit. I will not defend people that dig their own fucking grave.

you know when you guys are s talking about their behavior makes them look suspect it’s probably because **they want you to…** that’s their behavior. I ain’t their parents

I raised my son, that’s why this doesn’t make sense to me

was there supposed to be child support? no.

were we going back to court? no

our our decree says that we can change it the way we want to and we both agree to

Q: y’all had an agreement with y’all child that y’all would take care of whatever between that needed to be taken care of so there was never no child support me and my baby’s mother we made the same agreement you made we made the exact same agreement if my daughter needs something I will take care of it right

Seth: you know how many times Katie called me up hey he needs a new pair of glasses okay well tell me how much it is I’ll transfer the money

Q: there is no reason for her to hurt her child a lot of people I do believe think Katie may have hurt your child and I to do that there would have to be a some reasoning for it and I just haven’t seen any of that

Seth: so I don’t understand why. I was getting what I wanted since the divorce anyways I was okay with you know joint legal joint physical but I was getting what I wanted

Q: now he was getting to come get ready to come stay with you for the summer

Seth: I’ve already have him enrolled in school here.

Q: from your address?

Seth: yeah, live the summer with me but he was going to start going to school up here at the end of summer

Q: oh okay so you was going he was going to start living with you full time now that’s what I heard that’s what was rumored to me in the beginning that uh that he was coming there and then that he was going to be living with you

Seth: Yes, I was going to get him

Seth: had that been planned like how long when y’all discussed that with Kate like how long you go okay I’m gonna take him this Summer then he’s gonna live with me and go to school had y’all planned that have y’all y’all discussed that

Seth: since last year

Q: so this ain’t something that just popped up or so this has been planned that he was going to come stay with you

Seth: shakes his head yes

Q: more sense so there’s no reason in there for her to be like oh he’s going to take the kid

Seth: I’ve heard a lot and read a lot and you know some of them I find them hilarious like the gentleman that called in you know the snake the snake ate the boy

Q: I know it’s hard as a parent to definitely hear the crazy stuff of the internet right just theories and speculation I do it you know I say things I like I think this happened I think this happened. curious but some of the stories for me like some of the theories are so far out there even for me that I’m like okay okay that’s a little much that’s a little much

Seth: um I’ll just say that I’m missing aluminum foil and tfoil at my house because somebody’s wearing it as a hat there.

Q: I’ve seen parents of missing kids wearing aluminum tfold hats matter of fact parents are missing kids in Tennessee wearing illuminal tfold hats on live streams okay I send you a picture if you don’t believe me

Seth: believe yes I’ve seen I’ve seen a lot, nine (9) years in California and then I moved back here to the United States and I’ll tell you right now that I’ve seen them both

Q: now I’ve heard you say you’re innocent to proven guilty you work in correction right and I’ve heard you say you you’re not thereare to judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t do that you don’t get on the news and you don’t talk bad about people you try to stay neutral you know judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t it ain’t no reason really to ruffle a bunch of feathers like talking shit about people that you’re going to have to deal with for the rest of your life anyway you know that’s the mother of your baby um her old man’s a little, uh I think he’s like he overt talks her a lot you know I think he seems controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry

Seth: shakes his head in agreement and smiles and later says I heard that

Q: controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry he seems controlling and when they ask questions he answers the questions like he don’t give her a chance to speak and that’s what I think of making people go so this dude ain’t and he’s been married five times okay I mean how many times..

Seth: I’ve been married once I learn learned, I learned

Q: I think maybe if if it didn’t work out in five times it might not be in your you might not be the best dude.

Seth: I would say if I was looking out from the outside I would tell the person if you’ve been married so many times and it’s not working it can’t be the person you’re with it’s the person in the mirror

Q: yeah definitely sometimes it’s it’s it’s hardest to see your flaws you know like me I’m sure there I got plenty of flaws but it’s hard for me to see my own flaws but other people can see them you know um I know fla yeah I know some.

Seth: I know my flaws I don’t know all of them but I know the majority of them

Q: so when they tried to call you today did you speak with him

Seth: I did

Q: now let me ask you this when you went and met with the TBI today was Katie and Chris with you can you answer that

Seth: Katie was there (couldn’t hear what he said…Christopher)

Q: okay okay um all right well I ain’t gonna make you get you into something you know that you ain’t supposed to speak on

Seth: um if I answer something that if I answer something that I’m not supposed to answer I’ll know I’ll be in trouble later

Q: let me ask you this they show you a video

Seth: yeah okay

Q: did that video contain your son yes okay was that video from somewhere outside that house yes that means your son’s out there

Seth: they showed me a video that I had been asking for from the very beginning. I wanted to see a video of my son after I spoke to him Thursday and before he disappeared on Monday.

Q: this video of your son is from after time he went missing

Seth: no it was before it

Q: was it the video from the restaurant

Seth: Yeap

Q: I knew it was that video for rest you know I went to that restaurant the other night Seth I had chicken and I also spoke to the people there had chicken

Seth: huh you went to a steakhouse and had chicken?

Q: yeah I had chicken and a loaded baked potato and broccoli be I always go to the steakhouse and get chicken I don’t know why I do it at uh Outback too

Seth: yeah well unfortunately you can’t go to Chick-fil-A fil-A and get a hamburger

Q: so the video from the rest so there’s nothing from the the point that he you haven’t seen anything from the point he’s went missing

Seth: No

Q: so, just prior to it so they showed you a little PRI did everything seem happy in the in the video everything seemed good

Seth: everything seems good

Seth: okay all right um well well that’s that’s good but let me think I I want to dig in dig into a hole here

Seth: it’s because you’re not asking the right question (smiles)

Q: okay what do the police believe happened what are they telling you did they have hit you with anything

Seth: Nope (shakes his head)

Q: do they they just keeping you can’t answer that one huh

Seth: they didn’t tell you nothing they’re not going to tell me anything on the investigation

Q: well why I show you the video

Seth: because I’d asked

Q: so you asked

Seth: I asked I said I need to see proof of life before he went missing

Q: because you wanted to know he was alive before he went missing

Seth: I wanted to make sure he was okay beforeand and they showed it to me because I asked asked for

Q: and he was okay and everything was good with him normal and you said he he wouldn’t..

Seth: you are not asking, you still not asking the right questions

Q: okay well what’s tell me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth that we don’t know can you tell us what you know

Seth: I had two more meetings today afterwards. I had two more meetings afterwards

Q: after you seen the video

Seth: I had two more meetings afterwards I had meetings planned all day today

Q: with TBI law enforcement

Seth: nope (shakes his head nope)

Q: okay you met with somebody else

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head yes and smiles) you know why I am happy

Q: huh is it the FBI

Seth: no (shakes his head no, smiling)

Q: okay yeah why

Seth: more information that I didn’t have before

Q: oh all right let’s get it let’s get it Seth

Seth: just more information

Q: okay um see

Seth: I already told them I’m running my own investigation on my own as I didnt want to intrude upon their

Q: does he think that they will wrap up soon and his baby will be found she ask that question from the chat

Seth: always that’s that’s beyond a doubt that’s an every day when I wake up okay all right that being hope and know that the answer is out there and I’m going to find it

Q: now are are the police being like reassuring that they’re going to figure this out to you to figure this out to you

Seth: yep

Q: have you have you spoke with the FBI

Seth: yeap

Q: okay um now one of my things is this them houses out there in that neighborhood are really really nice houses most of them have security systems cameras why is he not on any of those cameras

Seth: don’t know don’t know I don’t know, but again if I lived in a house that cost 688,000 I damn well have a fucking security system on it

Q: I mean most of them houses out there or up there in that range they start at 500,000 they living a lot better than me um I noticed there was a lot cameras out

Seth: law enforcement they making a lot more than I am okay

Q: I said the same thing

Seth: the way they’re going I might turn around and have to go start flipping burgers for $22 an hour

Q: um so how is everything with your work did they understand what’s going on

Seth: I asked for a leave of absence when I ask for absence they know that I’m looking for my son

Q: okay so they’re not giving you a hard time at work so when you decide to go back to work everything’s going to be good with you

Seth: I’m hoping I haven’t heard from him

Q: um let me think anything else okay so you you met with a you had a couple more meetings today other than with to TBI you you gain you gain more information, um and we learned that the trash truck that was just trash truck it wasn’t flashlights

Seth: correct,

Q: um the shoe thing now I’ve heard you say this

Seth: it doesnt make

Q: yeah he stepped in the ant pile the fire ants I’m from Georgia I I know about them fire ants they’ll light your ass up boy I mean like cigarette Burns I had they got me good I fell as a kid I fell into one riding a bike as a cigarette burn because

Seth: I’ve never like been burnt by a cigarette but I’ve been burnt by a match head before what that’s what fire ants remind me of

Q: yeah it reminds me of a cigarette burn it’ll blister up it it hurts matter of fact my yard we got some fire ants in my yard that’ll get your ass I got the biggest ants you ever seen they did the biggest ants I’ve ever seen in my life to be at my house they are huge ass ants

Seth: are velvetine ants these look like monster ass (shows the size with his fingers)

Q: so you don’t think he had never ran off before if he was if he was to say hey I’m upset with my stepdad I want to get out of here why wouldn’t he take any shoes and why would everybody ask her that Chris speaks overher

Seth: I don’t know

Q: so certain like how does she know he took the flashlight

Seth: I don’t know again

Q: or they just missing a flashlight huh I mean are they missing the flashlight I mean I guess they’re missing a flashlight that’s what makes them think he took the flashlight because if she was in bed when he left how dides she know he had the flashlight

Seth: I would say that she’s saying that because they can’t find it

Q: yeah I would think so too and I’m sure being the mother she knows what shoes he has and all them shoes are accounted for

Seth: yep shoes go off at the front door at her house just like they go off at the front door at mine

Q: okay um it just seems a little odd that he would leave like that with no shoes on and have never done that before

Seth: yeap kind of weird

Q: does okay since does he ever have any episodes what do you mean by episod maybe where he don’t know what’s going on gets confused

Seth: he hasn’t had any of those type of seizures in years

Q: okay um okay so when he was young he would he he would have these type of medical but as he got older he he grew out he outgrew them

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head in agreement)

Q: heard you say something that he was has one side you didn’t want him playing football or baseball or anywhere he could get hit because he had like a some water on his brain or something a pocket on one side of his brain

Seth: yes he had a pocket of fluid on the right B lateral part of his brain

Seth: yes I believe my son is alive

Q: um so he so he he couldn’t really take a Blow To The Head or nothing if if it if he fa

Seth: hey hey hey I have phone call coming

Video

Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 29, 2024

Host: I just want you to know that so I appreciate you and I appreciate all that you have been doing because uh somebody’s got to do it and I don’t really see any other anybody else speak this situation go ahead I’m sorry

Seth: I am my son’s voice no doubt no doubt how have how has things been recently it’s been like a John Grisham novel to be honest

Host: when you say it’s like a John Grisham novel what do you mean by that exactly

Seth: just the amount of weird shit I mean can I cuss on here

Host: yeah you’re good bro

Seth: it’s a late night show it’s a Friday we good all right it’s just some weird weird stuff has been going on as of late that it’s just weird um my volunteers have been having people follow them while they handed out flyers and stuff like that

Host: so people are getting followed you said? do you mind expanding on that a little bit

Seth: well my my volunteers that get together to help pass out flyers for

Sebastian they noticed that Vehicles be falling them and I told them if them see anybody following them get their license plate number and I pass it off to TV that’s what’s up wow so people are getting followed allegedly people are getting followed who are just passing out flyers volunteers that are just contributing in trying to find your son that’s very odd have you seen anything like that yourself have you been followed can’t intimidate me I have a goal in mind gotcha have you already reported that because that basically says yes to me

Host: so have you reported that at all to TBI or any law enforcement at all that you you have been followed yeah has it changed as of late or are you still getting followed

Seth: I haven’t been followed today when you go ahead today if they want to know where I’ve been I mean they can ask me whoever wants to follow me I was at church three times a day it’s good Friday time to go to mass r

Host: when did you report that go ahead what were you saying

Seth: did you go to mass?

Host: not yet I’m a bad boy I’m I’m burning in the fiery pits of hell I know I know

Seth: I’ll reach down and help make sure that you don’t stay there long

Host: I appreciate that my brother I appreciate that but when was the when did you go ahead say that again it’s always time to change right always always always time but when did you report to TBI that you were actually getting followed was that yesterday or was that a few days ago

Seth: I reported uh I’ve reported some license plate numbers to TBI uh I let them know a couple weeks some of my volunteers were being followed

Host: that’s just so that’s just crazy to me okay

Seth: yeah it’s pretty weird

Host: that’s very very weird we might Circle back to that question here in a second or at least that topic here in a second but I do have some questions I know that there has been um some updates dates you and Katie proudfoot at least Katie proudfoot were in the same room with TBI and they gave you some updates can you tell me anything that came of that conversation with TBI

Seth: the video with the two flashlights on there they showed me the whole video and then they showed me the video in the daylight too and wasn’t flashlights it was literally the video that was showed to the public was like a small little portion of the screen not the whole actual screen and it was a trash truck it came through it’s why it was slow at the beginning because it was picking up trash and then after they picked up trash when it came back they were dipping out of the neighborhood

Host: interesting because Okay so we’ve seen that video we’ve all seen the at least what Nick Baris put out here now now and you’re trying to explain it a little bit I I wish I hope you can explain a little bit more when you went and saw it with TBI the nighttime stuff the flashlight the stuff that looked like fireflies for crying out loud and the black abyss was that the full picture or or is that was that a cropped video

Seth: that was like a that was like a 3×5 of a full TV screen really

Host: yes so okay so it’s a it was a cropped segment or a cropped section of a a very big picture

Seth: I’ve seen some people actually sit there and talk about well the trash don’t run at a quarter after 3: in the morning you’re right it runs between 5:00 and 5:30 in the morning right but the whole time that I watch this the the time on the DVR that they had stayed 3:11 for like 15 minutes

Host: okay so so broke equipment so it was broken okay so it stayed at 311 for for the whole time so 3:00 was not the time that it that this these trash guys came in these G garbage men came in and picked up the trash that was a little bit later on a little bit earlier in the morning if that makes any sense more like five or so right

Seth: correct

Host: and of course again this was a cropped video from a very very big video

Seth: yes, I honestly think somebody did it for clickbait I mean, so then okay you want to log in to follow and if he’s watching this now he knows why I’m not answering his phone calls and released this false information and something that’s going on trying to find my son

Host: I can see I can understand getting upset about that for sure I definitely can but there is actual movement in that area if he didn’t know I could see that you know I could see a little mistake happening there but as far as the rest of the image right because it was only cropped with a bunch of you know with those two white dots floating around for two seconds right what does the rest of the picture that you saw look like is just pitch black or was their movement elsewhere

Seth: it’s literally it’s dark because it’s at night but you can make out the road so it’s like whoever shared it with Nick and Nick Fuc put it out you could see the whole Road there was nothing there there was no cars on that road there was there was no movement on the road except for the trash truck that was it

Host: gotcha gotcha okay but you also saw footage from during the day as well right you just said that it was night time and day

Seth: yeah because that what they wanted to do is they showed me the video the footage from the night and then they turned around and they took from the same camera video footage from the day and showed me where the markings and everything were so that I had no doubt in my mind, some of those lights actually stay stationary and they’re on throughout the night and throughout the day and they literally showed me where it was and I’ve been in the neighborhood I even knew what house it was as soon as I saw it. I recognized the house so I knew the angle cuz the angle’s coming from at the end of the street it’s not pointing at like a common section it’s just literally at the end of the street so that the owner can watch all their vehicles

Host: Seth I mean I can’t wait for you to have an actual good night’s rest I know that won’t happen until you find Sebastian but still I know that you’re doing a lot of work to um try to bring your son home

Seth: I feel better today I’ve I’ve been to church three times I’ve done Mass I’ll be at church again tomorrow for Holy Saturday and then it’s Easter Sunday and I’m just praying for for a miracle

Host: same here same here

Seth: well go to mass for that then buddy I will be I will be for sure I will be sure for sure but one thing

Host: I do want to point out really quick to everybody real quick right now is that there is a GoFundMe right now this is to help Seth stay boots on the ground out in that area okay before we continue on in our conversation please guys I’m going to make sure that it is posted in the uh posted at the top of the chat in the family chat so that you guys can go please their goal is to just hit $ they’re almost there okay a dollar it doesn’t matter Penny it doesn’t matter whatever you can contribute is still a step in the right direction so please go over to his GoFundMe show some love show some show some support there’s some other one other things that I will be sharing with you guys as well if you want to contribute in other ways we will be talking about that a little bit later on in the conversation okay but go to that GoFundMe If It Moves you so all right this man is boots on the ground as we speak so go over there and help if you can okay and we will be talking about volunteers here in just a little bit as well okay just to give you guys all a heads up if you want to get out there and help search for Sebastian

Host: now you went there you checked out this this video the full scope of this video what we saw as regular people okay the people that are very passionate and really caring and that care about finding Sebastian, the footage that we saw was a cropped video up in the top right hand corner of this very big you know a much bigger picture

Seth: yes sir

Host: you saw day and night what else was being said or talked about or shown to you with TBI

Seth: I had requested video proof that my son was alive after I spoke to him on Thursday

Host: what footage was that

Seth: they showed me footage of him leaving Texas Roadhouse and getting into his mama’s vehicle with her.

Host: Texas Roadhouse so he was getting in a vehicle with Katie Proudfoot from eating at Texas Roadhouse correct

Seth: yes

Host: was Chris Proudfoot there no in the footage

Seth: no Chis was Memphis

Host: okay so Chris was definitely in Memphis okay but when you saw them leaving were they with anybody were they alone just the two of them going into this car

Seth: yeah

Host: okay quick quick question did you see any footage from inside

Seth: no, I wanted Proof of Life on Sunday to make myself feel better. You guys want to know why I was smiling that’s because yesterday I got to see my son I mean it’s not current it’s not up to date but there me a little bit better of a feeling that I got to see him.

Host: so when you saw him walking out of Texas Roadhouse with Katie proudfoot his biological mother was he wearing the same clothes that they’re describing that he was not seen in

Seth: No

Host: okay okay after seeing that footage I know it made you happy to see him of course you miss your son. I don’t know was there any interaction any exchange with Katie between you and Katie after seeing this footage

Seth: no

Host: when was the last time you spoke with Katie before TBI before the TBI meeting

Seth: it been a couple weeks it’s been a couple weeks

Host: Wow have you seen them Chris and K Proudfoot boots on the ground searching along with you

Seth: I haven’t

Host: at all even at the beginning when you came into town

Seth: when he first came into town uh Chris went with me for one night to go check out some leads that were coming off of Facebook but they were three days old I think and after that no. they say they’re out there doing it they say they’re out there handing out flyers putting out signs getting Billboards up things of that sort but they’re not are I’m at . I mean it kind of you know if you got more than one person doing it would be in the grand scheme of things it would make sense to split up to conquer the area right i

Host: so let me ask you let’s talk about the search that you had with Chris what was that like how was the interaction how was the search with him was it awkward

Seth: no it wasn’t it was not awkward uh I was the passenger side I was the passenger in the truck and he was driving around he’s familiar with the area a lot more than I am so he knew from the Facebook tip where to go and so I just jumped in the truck with him

Host: okay gotta and then that’s it you guys did a search and no strange no odd interaction action he didn’t say anything that would have made I don’t know spark any kind of red flags or anything of that sort

Seth: no

Host: okay I see so my question is too just going back to the TBI meeting the most recent one you had aside from those videos was there any new leads or anything that they told you

Seth: they’re not going to tell, it’s an active investigation they’re not going to tell me

Host: are you satisfied with their investigation thus far that’s

Seth: asking me that question is like asking me if I like the hamburger that I see you cooking I haven’t seen the finished result yet. Finished result is me getting my son back the sooner we do that the sooner I’ll tell you how happy I am if that makes sense,

Host: have you seen Chris when you saw when you saw Katie Proudfoot did you see Chris

Seth: no

Host: okay so he wasn’t there at all he wasn’t there physically

Seth: no

Host: gotcha okay are you uh looking into any private investigators or lawyers at all

Seth: investigators I’ve got four of them 1

Host: oh you got four right on

Seth: I’m not playing

Host: see see where I get my leads from gotcha seeing any uh footage or anything of that sort has that moved you to make any movements as of late

Seth: no I’ve gotten some tips uh United Navy was here they left they they they were getting the death threats

Host: yes I do want to talk to you about that as well um so I want to bring that up real quick because I’m a little confused uh to be honest but they are I’m just pulling this up really really quick Cajun Navy is calling off uh searching for Sebastian what’s up with that Seth why is that happening why did that happen what’s up with that

Seth: I mean they’re helping search to find my son and people are threatening them trying to run them over with a truck, throw staff. I mean those people helping me to find my son and this is kind of welcome they got from Tennessee from the state of Volunteers and those people came to volunteer to help. Not everybody is perfect that’s why I told everybody needs to drop their egos and Sebastian is the focus, the end goal to find Sebastian alive and well.

Host: Are they taking a day off whats the story here?

Seth: They called me this morning and told me they had to pull back because of the death threats not only are they getting threats but their family members are getting threats

Host: oh come on (Pascal almost screamed lol)

Seth: I don’t want I cannot viable for somebody I’m trying to find my son and the last thing I want is somebody I can’t I cannot on my conscious have somebody having their family getting threatened because they’re trying to help me find my son that I mean I’ve already told my voluntear you know be careful stay in groups you know at 5:00 I know we still got a couple hours of daylight left but I want my volunteers to be safe too so I’ve told them at 5 o’ I need you all to go ahead and call it quits for the night you may not want to you know but your life is precious as well, my son’s life is precious but I’m not willing to risk other people people’s lives for my son’s life

Seth: gotcha I I ain’t worried… mine on the other hand I’m not worried I’ll be your Huckleberry

Host: I heard that I heard that and yeah it is frustrating and tragic that they that’s frustrating and tragic that they left um I I got to be honest uh and as a you know as a father as well I I I can only imagine how that feels but as far as volunteers go has that changed in the volume and the the reception and the uh

Seth: attendance of volunteers down there a little bit I mean people are people are conscious of their own well-being I can’t expect people to you know be threatened or anything else to help me find my son yeah yeah I’m I’m sorry that’s happening to you brother but I want to bring this up really

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Seth Rogers – Dolly Vision

March 29, 2024

DOLLY’S EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH THE DAD OF SEBASTIAN ROGERS ⚠️NEW CLUES EMERGE

Host: Okay, what is going on?

Seth: Just tired. Exhausted.

Host: Now, I know you really can’t go into this, but you had a meeting with the TBI today, right?

Seth: Seems like everybody knew it before I did. The internet works fast.

Host: Word gets around these internet streets quickly.

Seth: I miss the dial-up days.

Host: AOL?

Seth: AOL.

Host: I watched a little bit of you and Josh last night. Josh is a good dude.

Seth: I saw you in chat, man.

Host: Yeah, I left your chat because you were in your hotel room, getting off the internet.

Host: Let me ask you this—was there anything positive that came out of today?

Seth: I found positivity in it.

Host: That’s good then.

Host: So, how’s the searching going? Are you all searching again tomorrow at 10:30?

Seth: Right now, that’s kind of up in the air. I don’t know what they’re planning for me tomorrow. I’m Roman Catholic, and it’s Good Friday.

Host: Oh, okay.

Seth: It’s time to go commune with the Lord. Maybe He will give me what I need. Maybe He will reach down and bless me.

Host: Definitely. So, based on what you heard today, do you think there’s a possibility someone is holding your son against his will?

Seth: I’ve been on the internet, on TV, and even on the radio, which most people probably don’t realize. If my son were able to hear me or see me on TV or the internet, he would know to give me a call.

Host: So, you don’t think he has access to that right now?

Seth: I don’t think he does.

Host: Have you ever known him to watch the news?

Seth: No.

Host: So if he was on the news, he probably wouldn’t even know it?

Seth: I haven’t had cable in probably nine or ten years.

Host: Now, in your news interview tonight, you said he’s probably somewhere playing video games. Do you know if he played online with other people?

Seth: No, he didn’t.

Host: Or do you not know?

Seth: I don’t know. At my house, a lot of the games he played were on my account, and most were solo games like Spider-Man and Batman: Arkham Knight.

Host: Okay.

Seth: Yeah, I play a lot of games, but mostly online multiplayer. He, on his Switch, played single-player games.

Host: I’m just wondering how someone might have gained access to your son. You mentioned today that the TBI doesn’t consider you, Chris, or Katie as suspects. If that’s the case, then there has to be another explanation for what’s going on.

Seth: Right.

Host: Do you think your son would know the area well enough, or would he get lost easily?

Seth: If you stay at home all the time and only go from your house to the bus stop, to school, and back home, mostly in a vehicle, would you really know how to get anywhere on foot?

Host: Yeah, I guess if his world was small, he wouldn’t really know the area. If he got outside of that familiar space, he could get lost—especially if he ended up in the woods and wasn’t used to that.

Host: Some of the behavior from Chris and Katie seems strange. Like, them going out of town—I think that was a little odd. If it were my child, I’d be searching every day. I have one daughter; she’s 24 years old, and I’d be out searching nonstop.

Seth: I get it.

Host: Their behavior might just be who they are, but it makes them seem suspicious—even if they aren’t actually involved.

Seth: Their behavior is just… their behavior.

Host: Some locals are still out searching. I hope more people continue to organize search parties to find him. If he’s out there lost, he’s going to need assistance. He would need food, water—some kind of help.

Seth: Yeah, and you ever been homeless?

Host: No, I’ve never been homeless.

Seth: Homeless people take care of each other, especially kids. If he’s with a homeless group, they’ll protect him.

Host: Do you think he could be in a homeless camp?

Seth: It’s possible. My parents checked the homeless encampments in Hendersonville with pictures of my son in the first week.

Host: Did anything come of that?

Seth: Nothing concrete.

Host: What do you make of the footprints near the retention pond? Do you think they mean anything?

Seth: Honestly, I don’t know. I only learned about them because I listened to that dispatch call.

Host: Do you think he could swim?

Seth: Yep.

Host: I went to the retention pond. It isn’t very deep, so I doubt he could have drowned there.

Host: Have you been in contact with Chris and Katie?

Seth: They called me today.

Host: Are you all patching things up? I know they were mad at you about the gun situation.

Seth: It’s a family thing.

Host: If it’s true that they’re not suspects and they had nothing to do with this, I hope your family can work things out. Maybe he just ran away because he was upset with Chris.

Seth: That would make more sense than them hurting him.

Host: People have speculated about Katie being involved, but I don’t see any motive. There was no child support issue, no legal battle. So why would she harm him?

Seth: Exactly. There was no reason.

Host: So, your son was supposed to come live with you for the summer and then permanently after that?

Seth: Yes. He was already enrolled in school up here.

Host: How long had that been planned?

Seth: Since last year.

Host: So, this wasn’t a sudden decision. It was planned.

Seth: Right.

Host: Some wild theories are out there on the internet. Do you read them?

Seth: Some of them. Some are just ridiculous.

Host: What do you know that we don’t?

Seth: I had two more meetings today after my meeting with TBI.

Host: With who?

Seth: I can’t say.

Host: FBI?

Seth: No.

Host: Did you get more information?

Seth: Yes.

Host: What do the police believe happened?

Seth: They haven’t told me anything about the investigation.

Host: But they showed you a video?

Seth: Yes.

Host: Of your son?

Seth: Yes.

Host: Was it from outside the house?

Seth: Yes.

Host: So, your son was alive before he went missing?

Seth: Yes, he looked normal.

Host: That’s good. At least we know that.

Seth: Exactly.

Host: Well, Seth, I appreciate you coming on here and sharing with us.

Seth: No problem.

Host: You take care.

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Seth Rogers – T-Rev

March 31, 2024

Host: Did you find it alarming that they don’t have an alarm?

Seth: I don’t have an alarm at my house.

When my son wakes up to use a bathroom he doesn’t turn on any lights. I do scare the shit out of him I ask what are you doing? I am going to the bathroom, Dad. Any type of the noise wakes me up.

Custody:

Seth: he was supposed to come and stay with me this summer and I enrolled him up here where i live. What we were doing, I am not getting full custody we are just switching custodians.

So where I was getting him every weekend, now she would be getting him every other weekend. (The statement changed now he says he was getting him every weekend)

Host: Was it smoothly done?

Seth: I was hoping for it, when Chris brought it up to me I was like ok let me enroll him at school. I want it my son to live with me I always wanted my son to live with me.

Host: What did you see on the video from TBI?

Seth: she and Sebastian walked out of the roadhouse and got into a vehicle. That’s what they showed me.

Host: Did he look Happy?

Seth: He is always happy when he is with me. He didnt look like joy of himself like he is with me. He is not there and i know why now. He wasn’t my normal kid.

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Seth Rogers – News Channel 5

March 11, 2024

“With the information that I’ve gotten from Sumner County and TBI 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’s missing pieces to the puzzle and I’m having difficulty solving this.” Mr Rogers added that it makes “absolutely no sense there’s been no trace of him.” “I’m hoping he’s still alive,” the father said. “That is my main hope right now.”

On Sunday, dozens of people from the community gathered for a prayer vigil at Beech High School in Hendersonville, near where Sebastian was last seen, just down the street from his home. They wore green, Sebastian’s favorite color.

Sebastian’s mother and stepfather were not at the vigil, but provided a statement that was read aloud:

“We want to let the community know that we don’t have words to express our gratitude for the support for have received in searching for our son. We pray that everyone continues to help search and pray that we find him and bring him home safe.”

“In order for him to do something that’s out of the normal, something would’ve had to happen that he felt like he just couldn’t deal with it anymore,” Mr Rogers told [ WTVF] in his first interview during a prayer vigil on Sunday.

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Sebastian Rogers – Nancy Grace

March 20, 2024

“Autistic Boy Sebastian Rogers MISSING: New Clues”

Source: YouTube Video
Host: Nancy Grace
Guest: Seth Rogers, father of missing teen Sebastian Rogers

Introduction by Nancy Grace

(00:01) Where is a missing autistic teen, Sebastian Rogers? The hunt is on for this boy. Did he wander away from home entirely barefoot?

This as eerie surveillance footage emerges outside Sebastian’s home, reportedly showing two people with flashlights. What does that mean?

I’m Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Crime Stories and on Sirius XM11.

First of all, listen to this:

(00:48) [Audio of Sebastian’s mother]
“When I woke him up for school, he wasn’t there. I took a second and walked through the house looking for him in case he’d gotten up and was trying to get breakfast or something because he did that sometimes. About 3 minutes in, give or take, I was on the phone with my husband. I said, ‘I can’t find him.’ He said, ‘What do you mean you can’t find him?’ I said, ‘He’s not in the house.’”

You are hearing Sebastian’s mother describing the moment she realized her autistic son was gone.

The search for Sebastian is on, and let me give you the tip line right off the top:

📞 615-451-3838 📞
Repeat: 615-451-3838

Look at him. This boy needs our help.

Interview with Seth Rogers (Sebastian’s Father)

(01:31) Joining me now is Sebastian’s father, Seth Rogers.

Nancy Grace: Mr. Rogers, thank you for being with us. Can you recount for us when you first learned Sebastian was missing?

Seth Rogers: I know it just seems completely surreal. There’s no words for it. When I found out he was gone, I headed over to Katie’s house to see what was going on. And he’s not there. I don’t know where he’s at. I’ve been looking for him every day.

Nancy Grace: Seth, what have you been doing to look for him every day?

Seth Rogers:

  • Handing out flyers every day.
  • Speaking on podcasts.
  • Doing face-to-face interviews on the news.
  • I’ve been to the south side of Nashville, Franklin, Bellevue, Hendersonville, Gallatin, Clarksville, and Oak Grove, Kentucky—all to spread flyers.
  • I want everybody to see my son and know that he’s missing.
  • If you see him, call 911.
  • I need my son back.

Details of the Disappearance

Nancy Grace: I’m trying to get my mind around what you and Sebastian’s mom are going through. When I go to wake up my twins, if they are not in bed, I immediately check the bathroom. If they aren’t there, I start panicking. Tell me your understanding of what happened.

Seth Rogers:

  • Katie told me that when she woke up Monday morning, Sebastian wasn’t in his room and she couldn’t find him.
  • I got off work at 7:00 AM.
  • I checked my phone at 7:20 AM and saw a missed call and text message from Chris (Sebastian’s stepfather).
  • I called Chris, and he told me, “Sebastian is missing. I don’t know what happened.”
  • I immediately went to the house.

Nancy Grace: Was there any burglar alarm in the home?

Seth Rogers: I don’t know. I don’t live there.

Nancy Grace: Was Sebastian’s window open?

Seth Rogers: Not that I am aware of.

Nancy Grace: Was anything stolen from the home?

Seth Rogers: Not that I was informed of.

Routine and Autism Considerations

Nancy Grace: What was Sebastian’s routine?

Seth Rogers:

  • He woke up every morning and went to school.
  • He attended Beech High School—about 6 miles from home.
  • He took the bus every day.
  • He was in the Y-We Tri Program, which is for special needs children.

Nancy Grace: What is the severity of his autism?

Seth Rogers:

  • Very intelligent.
  • Smart, but lacks social skills and struggles with reading body language.
  • Likes routine and controlling his environment.

Key Evidence & Concerns

Nancy Grace: Was anything missing from the home?

Seth Rogers: The only thing missing was his key-chain flashlight.

Nancy Grace: But all of his shoes were still inside?

Seth Rogers:

  • Yes. His:
  • Old sneakers
  • New sneakers (his mom had just bought him)
  • Boots (I bought him)
  • He never went outside barefoot—especially after stepping into a fire ant hill years ago.

Nancy Grace: So you are telling me he never left the house barefoot before?

Seth Rogers: No. At my house, if he had to go outside, he put on slippers.

Surveillance Footage of Two People with Flashlights

Nancy Grace: Surveillance footage shows two people with flashlights outside the house at 3:10 AM.

  • Who are these two people?
  • Why were they behind the house?

Erin Crell (News Channel 5):

  • The neighborhood is dark—no streetlights.
  • The flashlights were seen in a common area behind the house.
  • No motion sensor lights came on.

Nancy Grace: Why do they keep assuming he wandered off?

  • K9 dogs did not pick up a scent.
  • No signs of forced entry.
  • No shoes missing.
  • His phone was still inside the house.

Landfill Search

Nancy Grace: Why is law enforcement searching a landfill?

Erin Crell:

  • Garbage workers noticed something “off” about the weight of the trash.
  • Law enforcement followed up on this tip by searching the landfill.

Final Thoughts from Seth Rogers

Nancy Grace: Seth, what are your final thoughts?

Seth Rogers:

  • I just want my son back.
  • I need people to look at his picture.
  • Call 911 if you see him.
  • Something about this isn’t adding up.

📞 Tip Line: 615-451-3838 📞

critical points from the interview with Seth Rogers and Nancy Grace.

On the morning, Sebastian went missing

  • 6:40 am Stepfather Chris called and sent messages to Seth.
  • 7:00 am Seth had just gotten off work
  • 7:20 am he got to his car when he noticed had a missed text message from 6:40 am and a call from the stepfather Chris. He called the stepdad and was told Sebastian was missing. He didnt know what had happened. He got in his car and went straight to the mom’s house
  • 8:00 am he arrived to the house and was there the entire day.
  • Seth stated that the mom’s house was clean, like always
  • Seth Rogers doesn’t know if anything was stolen from the home
  • Sebastian mother said they are missing a key chain flashlight that’s that’s it his key chain flashlight.
  • In Seth House all Sebastian has an upper Drawer in his house for his items.
  • the police searched his house they looked through the Upper Drawer where his house key wallet “everything in his Upper Drawer house key wallet everything in his Upper Drawer.”
  • Sebastian goes to Beach High School 0.6 miles away from home.
  • Sebastian rode a bus to school
  • Sebastian is in Why We Try Program it’s for the special needs children where they are doing the same tasks that the mainstream does but they get a little bit extra time. In that program when everyone have 30 questions then Kids in the program get 20 and they get extra time.
  • Sebastian is very intelligent, he is very smart, he just lacks social skills in reading of reading of people’s body language.
  • Sebastian likes things to be in a routine he likes to control his environment.
  • He doesn’t know how Sebastian would be with strangers as he never seen seen him have to deal with this. Most of the time if he’s with Seth he gets his information from from him about interacting with people
  • When Seth meeting new people he tells Sebastian “son you can introduce yourself if you would like if he does he does, if he doesnt want I dont force him.
  • Seth sees him every other weekend.
  • Seth gets him whenever he is not in school except weekdays
  • The last time he had Sebastian was two weeks prior to Sebastian’s disappearance
  • The last time Seth spoke with his son was on Thursday, which is very typical.
  • Seth typically calls him every day or every other day on school days right when he gets off the bus and talk to him for two or three minutes to ask how his day was before he does his after school chores.
  • On the weekends, he has Sebastian, he gets there on Friday and waits for him to get off the bus.
  • Three pairs of shoes were at the front door: his old tennis shoes his new tennis shoes that his mama had just bought him and the boots that I had just bought him his mama wore another set of shoes his feet were growing
  • His Mom asked me to get him shoes and he wanted a pair of boots so we went to Boot Barn and got him a pair of boots is it possible he wore a different pair of shoes.
  • Seth doesn’t think Sebastian could have wore another pair of shoes because if he’s not fitting into him she gets rid of it.
  • Thee is no shoes in his room. “Shoes get taken off at the front door same as my house same here I always have people take their shoes off at the door so there were no shoes in his room all his shoes were still sitting at the front door.”
  • The only time he goes outside at night at my house is to put the trash in the trash can which is right outside my front door
  • Seth says Sebastian doesn’t have a social media
  • he have a cell phone at his mom and stepfather’s
  • He is glued to his phone when he has access to YouTube and stuff like that he is glued to his phone because he likes to watch videos about Minecraft and he likes to watch videos of people playing Minecraft
  • He doesn’t know if Sebastian is playing Mindcraft but he has a little game switch and he’s glued to that all the time
  • His phone was locked down he had no internet access he only had the ability to take pictures on his phone, text on his phone, FaceTime and telephone calls, everything else was locked down on his phone.
  • Police checked his phone
  • Sebastian got a pair of slippers that he wears so he doesn’t have to put on socks and shoes he puts those on if he’s going to go out to the trash or check the mail and doesn’t want to put socks on.
  • Q: has the mother and The Stepfather taken a polygraph “I know his mother has” (33:39)
  • False positive – Dogs followed Sebastian’s scent to a construction site near the home and then lost it. Seth states that for a dog to lose the scent like that, from his understanding, it would indicate that Sebastian got into a car. (Reporter on NG 43:44)
  • He stated that Sebastian’s and his mom went to dinner Sunday evening, and the police have verified that with photos.
  • it doesn’t add up for him to break routine and to leave the house with no shoes no socks on no coat some something just doesn’t make sense
  • According to another person in the NG interview: they did search perimeter of the house and I know one day when I was out there when they were searching they had a dive team out there they were searching the grounds. There is a lot of construction in the area.
  • Reporter Why Authorities searched landfill: “truck drivers that come to the house and when they picked up the the garbage can it just felt more more heavier than normal um so they just said that to the uh authorities so just to follow up on that tip they went out to the landfill to search because that’s where the trash is taken…”


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Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 28, 2024

  • He is not searching today – he is a Roman Catholic
  • The trash pickup starts at 5:00 am
  • The video of flashlights has the wrong timestamp

Q: so did how’s the searching going do what y’all gonna be searching again tomorrow 10:30 is that what you said?

Seth: right now that’s kind of up in the air. I don’t know what they’re planning on tomorrow

I’m Roman Catholic and it’s good Friday oh okay it’s time to go commune with the Lord maybe he will give me what I need maybe he will reach down and bless me.

Q: Do you think it’s a possibility somebody could be holding your son against his will?

Seth: I look at it like I’ve been on the internet I’ve been on the TV, I have even been on the radio which probably most people don’t even realize but if my son were able to hear me or see me on TV or on the Internet he would know to give me a call okay.

Q: have you ever known him to watch the news no okay never known him to watch the news?

Seth: No

Q: so if he is not watching the news he probably wouldn’t even know he was on the news then correct?

Seth: I mean I haven’t had cable in probably nine or 10 years

Q: now I know tonight in the news interview you said you know he’s probably somewhere playing video games, do you know if he played these video games online with other people?

Q: Naah

Q: no he didn’t or or now you don’t know?

Seth: I don’t know because that well it’s like at my house a lot of the games that he was playing were on my account and a lot of them were solo games like Spider-Man uh Batman Arkham Knights okay

Q: I play a lot of game in my you know certain games a lot of you know games where you’re in lobbies with other people I play a lot of online gaming

Seth: I do that, I will I do mobile on my phone, he would be sitting there playing video games he played on his Switch, he didn’t play online with people he played single player games.

Q: if I heard you say today that the TBI don’t think you’re a suspect they don’t think Chris is a suspect they don’t think Katie’s a suspect so there has to be some if you guys if they’re not like the internet is saying if Katie and Chris don’t got nothing to do with this then there’s another answer to what’s going on you know or there would be another answer another answer now do you think your would your son know to area do would he be easily lost does he get confused?

Seth: if you don’t if you stay all the time in your house and you’re only going from your house to the bus stop and then you know how to get to where you’re going to school and the rest of the time you’re in a vehicle would you really know how to get anywhere by foot

Q: guess if your bubble’s small you’re right you really wouldn’t know the area so if you got outside that bubble you could get lost

Seth: you get stuck in the woods and you’re used to Black Top you can get lost

Q: you know when I hear you say today that they don’t think they’re a suspect some of their the behavior is strange like the whole going out of town thing I think that was a little strange of them you know CU I would I’d be like you I’d be out here searching every day

Seth: Makes them seen no right

Q: if he’s out there lost you know he at this point he has to have some type of assistance right because he what where would he get food at or where would he you know he would need water he would need food he would need some type of assistance

Seth: he would and then again you ever been homeless?

Q: no I’ve never been homeless yeah I mean you think he’s you think he may be going eating out of dumpsters begging for

Seth: I don’t I don’t think he would be that way um I’ve been homeless before, homeless people take care of homeless people and homeless people have a have that that little piece in their heart that where they take care of the kids they always take care of the kids

Q: so you think he could possibly be in a homeless encampment

Seth: like now look now I’ve been out there in them Woods in Tennessee and I’ve done ran into a couple different homeless encampments out there that looked like people were living in and staying in in them woods so I know there’s people definitely living in the woods and I mean I’ve been out there I’ve looked for them I take a picture of my son you know one my parents came here the first week that’s the first thing they did they hit the homeless encampments there in uh Hendersonville with pictures of my so.

Q: anything come of that the homel you know I’m sure them homeless people ain’t gonna tell you much anyway

Seth: well if a child saying that he’s running in fear or something homeless people protect him

Seth: what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at the retention Pond do you think there is something to him or you think that’s just a busy area or what do you think?

Seth: honestly I don’t know you don’t know I only knew about those literally just because I listened to that call oh to the the the the dispatch

Q: I heard you say he could swim

Seth: yep

Q: You lived there does the trash run this early in the morning and the lights could be from a trash truck?

Seth: The trash truck runs at 5 in the morning, there is 3:11 am because the guys DVR recorder is stuck on 3:11. I watched the whole thing for 10 min of it, and the time didnt move. It was at 3:11 when it started it was at 3:11 when it finished. The timer on the DVR was broken.

Q: have you been in communication with Chris and Katie?

Seth: they called me today

Q: did are y’all kind of patching up the relationship I know they were a little mad at you about the Gufundme stuff and I’ve heard that you know everything, so are y’all working that out they got to understand that you’re out there searching for the boy and that you’re going to need help they got to understand that you know to be mad at you or anything they need Chris should be out there beside you helping you is what I believe they shouldn’t be mad at you you

Seth: eye roll and nothing

Q: I hope your family can work this out and that Sebastian safely and maybe it is just a upset with the stepdad and he’s took off you know and he’s okay it would make more sense than them them hurting him for no reason things

Seth: things just don’t make sense with this

Q: don’t know the reason that the CPS was called on at the house I just didn’t know that heard you say that you found out later that they didn’t tell you anything that there was any reason

Seth: that podcast there man

Q: that that the CPS have came to the house over I guess him going to school saying that his stepdad hit him with a belt

Seth: I guess because I mean I didn’t know about it until he said it in the podcast

Q: let me ask you this and this is important question for a dad ha have y’all ever discussed the discipline of your child with have you ever discussed it with Chris?

Seth: that there is supposed to be no Corporal discipline

Q: Chris and them talk about him and the mom talking about him like you know he uses the bathroom on himself he’s he’s function he a they make him sound like he’s not as functional as you make him sound you make him sound like he’s normal kid everything’s okay and they make it sound like a little bit different story there is

Seth: not to play word salad, there are three parts to every story, there is my part, their part in the truth

Q: I hope you’re telling the truth so I hope the truth is with you

Seth: first of all I don’t have a fucking shit to to hide, but at the same point in time I don’t talk a lot of shit, I don’t like the I’m not the monkey at the zoo I’m not throwing shit. I will not defend people that dig their own fucking grave.

you know when you guys are s talking about their behavior makes them look suspect it’s probably because **they want you to…** that’s their behavior. I ain’t their parents

I raised my son, that’s why this doesn’t make sense to me

was there supposed to be child support? no.

were we going back to court? no

our our decree says that we can change it the way we want to and we both agree to

Q: y’all had an agreement with y’all child that y’all would take care of whatever between that needed to be taken care of so there was never no child support me and my baby’s mother we made the same agreement you made we made the exact same agreement if my daughter needs something I will take care of it right

Seth: you know how many times Katie called me up hey he needs a new pair of glasses okay well tell me how much it is I’ll transfer the money

Q: there is no reason for her to hurt her child a lot of people I do believe think Katie may have hurt your child and I to do that there would have to be a some reasoning for it and I just haven’t seen any of that

Seth: so I don’t understand why. I was getting what I wanted since the divorce anyways I was okay with you know joint legal joint physical but I was getting what I wanted

Q: now he was getting to come get ready to come stay with you for the summer

Seth: I’ve already have him enrolled in school here.

Q: from your address?

Seth: yeah, live the summer with me but he was going to start going to school up here at the end of summer

Q: oh okay so you was going he was going to start living with you full time now that’s what I heard that’s what was rumored to me in the beginning that uh that he was coming there and then that he was going to be living with you

Seth: Yes, I was going to get him

Seth: had that been planned like how long when y’all discussed that with Kate like how long you go okay I’m gonna take him this Summer then he’s gonna live with me and go to school had y’all planned that have y’all y’all discussed that

Seth: since last year

Q: so this ain’t something that just popped up or so this has been planned that he was going to come stay with you

Seth: shakes his head yes

Q: more sense so there’s no reason in there for her to be like oh he’s going to take the kid

Seth: I’ve heard a lot and read a lot and you know some of them I find them hilarious like the gentleman that called in you know the snake the snake ate the boy

Q: I know it’s hard as a parent to definitely hear the crazy stuff of the internet right just theories and speculation I do it you know I say things I like I think this happened I think this happened. curious but some of the stories for me like some of the theories are so far out there even for me that I’m like okay okay that’s a little much that’s a little much

Seth: um I’ll just say that I’m missing aluminum foil and tfoil at my house because somebody’s wearing it as a hat there.

Q: I’ve seen parents of missing kids wearing aluminum tfold hats matter of fact parents are missing kids in Tennessee wearing illuminal tfold hats on live streams okay I send you a picture if you don’t believe me

Seth: believe yes I’ve seen I’ve seen a lot, nine (9) years in California and then I moved back here to the United States and I’ll tell you right now that I’ve seen them both

Q: now I’ve heard you say you’re innocent to proven guilty you work in correction right and I’ve heard you say you you’re not thereare to judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t do that you don’t get on the news and you don’t talk bad about people you try to stay neutral you know judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t it ain’t no reason really to ruffle a bunch of feathers like talking shit about people that you’re going to have to deal with for the rest of your life anyway you know that’s the mother of your baby um her old man’s a little, uh I think he’s like he overt talks her a lot you know I think he seems controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry

Seth: shakes his head in agreement and smiles and later says I heard that

Q: controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry he seems controlling and when they ask questions he answers the questions like he don’t give her a chance to speak and that’s what I think of making people go so this dude ain’t and he’s been married five times okay I mean how many times..

Seth: I’ve been married once I learn learned, I learned

Q: I think maybe if if it didn’t work out in five times it might not be in your you might not be the best dude.

Seth: I would say if I was looking out from the outside I would tell the person if you’ve been married so many times and it’s not working it can’t be the person you’re with it’s the person in the mirror

Q: yeah definitely sometimes it’s it’s it’s hardest to see your flaws you know like me I’m sure there I got plenty of flaws but it’s hard for me to see my own flaws but other people can see them you know um I know fla yeah I know some.

Seth: I know my flaws I don’t know all of them but I know the majority of them

Q: so when they tried to call you today did you speak with him

Seth: I did

Q: now let me ask you this when you went and met with the TBI today was Katie and Chris with you can you answer that

Seth: Katie was there (couldn’t hear what he said…Christopher)

Q: okay okay um all right well I ain’t gonna make you get you into something you know that you ain’t supposed to speak on

Seth: um if I answer something that if I answer something that I’m not supposed to answer I’ll know I’ll be in trouble later

Q: let me ask you this they show you a video

Seth: yeah okay

Q: did that video contain your son yes okay was that video from somewhere outside that house yes that means your son’s out there

Seth: they showed me a video that I had been asking for from the very beginning. I wanted to see a video of my son after I spoke to him Thursday and before he disappeared on Monday.

Q: this video of your son is from after time he went missing

Seth: no it was before it

Q: was it the video from the restaurant

Seth: Yeap

Q: I knew it was that video for rest you know I went to that restaurant the other night Seth I had chicken and I also spoke to the people there had chicken

Seth: huh you went to a steakhouse and had chicken?

Q: yeah I had chicken and a loaded baked potato and broccoli be I always go to the steakhouse and get chicken I don’t know why I do it at uh Outback too

Seth: yeah well unfortunately you can’t go to Chick-fil-A fil-A and get a hamburger

Q: so the video from the rest so there’s nothing from the the point that he you haven’t seen anything from the point he’s went missing

Seth: No

Q: so, just prior to it so they showed you a little PRI did everything seem happy in the in the video everything seemed good

Seth: everything seems good

Seth: okay all right um well well that’s that’s good but let me think I I want to dig in dig into a hole here

Seth: it’s because you’re not asking the right question (smiles)

Q: okay what do the police believe happened what are they telling you did they have hit you with anything

Seth: Nope (shakes his head)

Q: do they they just keeping you can’t answer that one huh

Seth: they didn’t tell you nothing they’re not going to tell me anything on the investigation

Q: well why I show you the video

Seth: because I’d asked

Q: so you asked

Seth: I asked I said I need to see proof of life before he went missing

Q: because you wanted to know he was alive before he went missing

Seth: I wanted to make sure he was okay beforeand and they showed it to me because I asked asked for

Q: and he was okay and everything was good with him normal and you said he he wouldn’t..

Seth: you are not asking, you still not asking the right questions

Q: okay well what’s tell me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth that we don’t know can you tell us what you know

Seth: I had two more meetings today afterwards. I had two more meetings afterwards

Q: after you seen the video

Seth: I had two more meetings afterwards I had meetings planned all day today

Q: with TBI law enforcement

Seth: nope (shakes his head nope)

Q: okay you met with somebody else

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head yes and smiles) you know why I am happy

Q: huh is it the FBI

Seth: no (shakes his head no, smiling)

Q: okay yeah why

Seth: more information that I didn’t have before

Q: oh all right let’s get it let’s get it Seth

Seth: just more information

Q: okay um see

Seth: I already told them I’m running my own investigation on my own as I didnt want to intrude upon their

Q: does he think that they will wrap up soon and his baby will be found she ask that question from the chat

Seth: always that’s that’s beyond a doubt that’s an every day when I wake up okay all right that being hope and know that the answer is out there and I’m going to find it

Q: now are are the police being like reassuring that they’re going to figure this out to you to figure this out to you

Seth: yep

Q: have you have you spoke with the FBI

Seth: yeap

Q: okay um now one of my things is this them houses out there in that neighborhood are really really nice houses most of them have security systems cameras why is he not on any of those cameras

Seth: don’t know don’t know I don’t know, but again if I lived in a house that cost 688,000 I damn well have a fucking security system on it

Q: I mean most of them houses out there or up there in that range they start at 500,000 they living a lot better than me um I noticed there was a lot cameras out

Seth: law enforcement they making a lot more than I am okay

Q: I said the same thing

Seth: the way they’re going I might turn around and have to go start flipping burgers for $22 an hour

Q: um so how is everything with your work did they understand what’s going on

Seth: I asked for a leave of absence when I ask for absence they know that I’m looking for my son

Q: okay so they’re not giving you a hard time at work so when you decide to go back to work everything’s going to be good with you

Seth: I’m hoping I haven’t heard from him

Q: um let me think anything else okay so you you met with a you had a couple more meetings today other than with to TBI you you gain you gain more information, um and we learned that the trash truck that was just trash truck it wasn’t flashlights

Seth: correct,

Q: um the shoe thing now I’ve heard you say this

Seth: it doesnt make

Q: yeah he stepped in the ant pile the fire ants I’m from Georgia I I know about them fire ants they’ll light your ass up boy I mean like cigarette Burns I had they got me good I fell as a kid I fell into one riding a bike as a cigarette burn because

Seth: I’ve never like been burnt by a cigarette but I’ve been burnt by a match head before what that’s what fire ants remind me of

Q: yeah it reminds me of a cigarette burn it’ll blister up it it hurts matter of fact my yard we got some fire ants in my yard that’ll get your ass I got the biggest ants you ever seen they did the biggest ants I’ve ever seen in my life to be at my house they are huge ass ants

Seth: are velvetine ants these look like monster ass (shows the size with his fingers)

Q: so you don’t think he had never ran off before if he was if he was to say hey I’m upset with my stepdad I want to get out of here why wouldn’t he take any shoes and why would everybody ask her that Chris speaks overher

Seth: I don’t know

Q: so certain like how does she know he took the flashlight

Seth: I don’t know again

Q: or they just missing a flashlight huh I mean are they missing the flashlight I mean I guess they’re missing a flashlight that’s what makes them think he took the flashlight because if she was in bed when he left how dides she know he had the flashlight

Seth: I would say that she’s saying that because they can’t find it

Q: yeah I would think so too and I’m sure being the mother she knows what shoes he has and all them shoes are accounted for

Seth: yep shoes go off at the front door at her house just like they go off at the front door at mine

Q: okay um it just seems a little odd that he would leave like that with no shoes on and have never done that before

Seth: yeap kind of weird

Q: does okay since does he ever have any episodes what do you mean by episod maybe where he don’t know what’s going on gets confused

Seth: he hasn’t had any of those type of seizures in years

Q: okay um okay so when he was young he would he he would have these type of medical but as he got older he he grew out he outgrew them

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head in agreement)

Q: heard you say something that he was has one side you didn’t want him playing football or baseball or anywhere he could get hit because he had like a some water on his brain or something a pocket on one side of his brain

Seth: yes he had a pocket of fluid on the right B lateral part of his brain

Seth: yes I believe my son is alive

Q: um so he so he he couldn’t really take a Blow To The Head or nothing if if it if he fa

Seth: hey hey hey I have phone call coming

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Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 29, 2024

Host: I just want you to know that so I appreciate you and I appreciate all that you have been doing because uh somebody’s got to do it and I don’t really see any other anybody else speak this situation go ahead I’m sorry

Seth: I am my son’s voice no doubt no doubt how have how has things been recently it’s been like a John Grisham novel to be honest

Host: when you say it’s like a John Grisham novel what do you mean by that exactly

Seth: just the amount of weird shit I mean can I cuss on here

Host: yeah you’re good bro

Seth: it’s a late night show it’s a Friday we good all right it’s just some weird weird stuff has been going on as of late that it’s just weird um my volunteers have been having people follow them while they handed out flyers and stuff like that

Host: so people are getting followed you said? do you mind expanding on that a little bit

Seth: well my my volunteers that get together to help pass out flyers for

Sebastian they noticed that Vehicles be falling them and I told them if them see anybody following them get their license plate number and I pass it off to TV that’s what’s up wow so people are getting followed allegedly people are getting followed who are just passing out flyers volunteers that are just contributing in trying to find your son that’s very odd have you seen anything like that yourself have you been followed can’t intimidate me I have a goal in mind gotcha have you already reported that because that basically says yes to me

Host: so have you reported that at all to TBI or any law enforcement at all that you you have been followed yeah has it changed as of late or are you still getting followed

Seth: I haven’t been followed today when you go ahead today if they want to know where I’ve been I mean they can ask me whoever wants to follow me I was at church three times a day it’s good Friday time to go to mass r

Host: when did you report that go ahead what were you saying

Seth: did you go to mass?

Host: not yet I’m a bad boy I’m I’m burning in the fiery pits of hell I know I know

Seth: I’ll reach down and help make sure that you don’t stay there long

Host: I appreciate that my brother I appreciate that but when was the when did you go ahead say that again it’s always time to change right always always always time but when did you report to TBI that you were actually getting followed was that yesterday or was that a few days ago

Seth: I reported uh I’ve reported some license plate numbers to TBI uh I let them know a couple weeks some of my volunteers were being followed

Host: that’s just so that’s just crazy to me okay

Seth: yeah it’s pretty weird

Host: that’s very very weird we might Circle back to that question here in a second or at least that topic here in a second but I do have some questions I know that there has been um some updates dates you and Katie proudfoot at least Katie proudfoot were in the same room with TBI and they gave you some updates can you tell me anything that came of that conversation with TBI

Seth: the video with the two flashlights on there they showed me the whole video and then they showed me the video in the daylight too and wasn’t flashlights it was literally the video that was showed to the public was like a small little portion of the screen not the whole actual screen and it was a trash truck it came through it’s why it was slow at the beginning because it was picking up trash and then after they picked up trash when it came back they were dipping out of the neighborhood

Host: interesting because Okay so we’ve seen that video we’ve all seen the at least what Nick Baris put out here now now and you’re trying to explain it a little bit I I wish I hope you can explain a little bit more when you went and saw it with TBI the nighttime stuff the flashlight the stuff that looked like fireflies for crying out loud and the black abyss was that the full picture or or is that was that a cropped video

Seth: that was like a that was like a 3×5 of a full TV screen really

Host: yes so okay so it’s a it was a cropped segment or a cropped section of a a very big picture

Seth: I’ve seen some people actually sit there and talk about well the trash don’t run at a quarter after 3: in the morning you’re right it runs between 5:00 and 5:30 in the morning right but the whole time that I watch this the the time on the DVR that they had stayed 3:11 for like 15 minutes

Host: okay so so broke equipment so it was broken okay so it stayed at 311 for for the whole time so 3:00 was not the time that it that this these trash guys came in these G garbage men came in and picked up the trash that was a little bit later on a little bit earlier in the morning if that makes any sense more like five or so right

Seth: correct

Host: and of course again this was a cropped video from a very very big video

Seth: yes, I honestly think somebody did it for clickbait I mean, so then okay you want to log in to follow and if he’s watching this now he knows why I’m not answering his phone calls and released this false information and something that’s going on trying to find my son

Host: I can see I can understand getting upset about that for sure I definitely can but there is actual movement in that area if he didn’t know I could see that you know I could see a little mistake happening there but as far as the rest of the image right because it was only cropped with a bunch of you know with those two white dots floating around for two seconds right what does the rest of the picture that you saw look like is just pitch black or was their movement elsewhere

Seth: it’s literally it’s dark because it’s at night but you can make out the road so it’s like whoever shared it with Nick and Nick Fuc put it out you could see the whole Road there was nothing there there was no cars on that road there was there was no movement on the road except for the trash truck that was it

Host: gotcha gotcha okay but you also saw footage from during the day as well right you just said that it was night time and day

Seth: yeah because that what they wanted to do is they showed me the video the footage from the night and then they turned around and they took from the same camera video footage from the day and showed me where the markings and everything were so that I had no doubt in my mind, some of those lights actually stay stationary and they’re on throughout the night and throughout the day and they literally showed me where it was and I’ve been in the neighborhood I even knew what house it was as soon as I saw it. I recognized the house so I knew the angle cuz the angle’s coming from at the end of the street it’s not pointing at like a common section it’s just literally at the end of the street so that the owner can watch all their vehicles

Host: Seth I mean I can’t wait for you to have an actual good night’s rest I know that won’t happen until you find Sebastian but still I know that you’re doing a lot of work to um try to bring your son home

Seth: I feel better today I’ve I’ve been to church three times I’ve done Mass I’ll be at church again tomorrow for Holy Saturday and then it’s Easter Sunday and I’m just praying for for a miracle

Host: same here same here

Seth: well go to mass for that then buddy I will be I will be for sure I will be sure for sure but one thing

Host: I do want to point out really quick to everybody real quick right now is that there is a GoFundMe right now this is to help Seth stay boots on the ground out in that area okay before we continue on in our conversation please guys I’m going to make sure that it is posted in the uh posted at the top of the chat in the family chat so that you guys can go please their goal is to just hit $ they’re almost there okay a dollar it doesn’t matter Penny it doesn’t matter whatever you can contribute is still a step in the right direction so please go over to his GoFundMe show some love show some show some support there’s some other one other things that I will be sharing with you guys as well if you want to contribute in other ways we will be talking about that a little bit later on in the conversation okay but go to that GoFundMe If It Moves you so all right this man is boots on the ground as we speak so go over there and help if you can okay and we will be talking about volunteers here in just a little bit as well okay just to give you guys all a heads up if you want to get out there and help search for Sebastian

Host: now you went there you checked out this this video the full scope of this video what we saw as regular people okay the people that are very passionate and really caring and that care about finding Sebastian, the footage that we saw was a cropped video up in the top right hand corner of this very big you know a much bigger picture

Seth: yes sir

Host: you saw day and night what else was being said or talked about or shown to you with TBI

Seth: I had requested video proof that my son was alive after I spoke to him on Thursday

Host: what footage was that

Seth: they showed me footage of him leaving Texas Roadhouse and getting into his mama’s vehicle with her.

Host: Texas Roadhouse so he was getting in a vehicle with Katie Proudfoot from eating at Texas Roadhouse correct

Seth: yes

Host: was Chris Proudfoot there no in the footage

Seth: no Chis was Memphis

Host: okay so Chris was definitely in Memphis okay but when you saw them leaving were they with anybody were they alone just the two of them going into this car

Seth: yeah

Host: okay quick quick question did you see any footage from inside

Seth: no, I wanted Proof of Life on Sunday to make myself feel better. You guys want to know why I was smiling that’s because yesterday I got to see my son I mean it’s not current it’s not up to date but there me a little bit better of a feeling that I got to see him.

Host: so when you saw him walking out of Texas Roadhouse with Katie proudfoot his biological mother was he wearing the same clothes that they’re describing that he was not seen in

Seth: No

Host: okay okay after seeing that footage I know it made you happy to see him of course you miss your son. I don’t know was there any interaction any exchange with Katie between you and Katie after seeing this footage

Seth: no

Host: when was the last time you spoke with Katie before TBI before the TBI meeting

Seth: it been a couple weeks it’s been a couple weeks

Host: Wow have you seen them Chris and K Proudfoot boots on the ground searching along with you

Seth: I haven’t

Host: at all even at the beginning when you came into town

Seth: when he first came into town uh Chris went with me for one night to go check out some leads that were coming off of Facebook but they were three days old I think and after that no. they say they’re out there doing it they say they’re out there handing out flyers putting out signs getting Billboards up things of that sort but they’re not are I’m at . I mean it kind of you know if you got more than one person doing it would be in the grand scheme of things it would make sense to split up to conquer the area right i

Host: so let me ask you let’s talk about the search that you had with Chris what was that like how was the interaction how was the search with him was it awkward

Seth: no it wasn’t it was not awkward uh I was the passenger side I was the passenger in the truck and he was driving around he’s familiar with the area a lot more than I am so he knew from the Facebook tip where to go and so I just jumped in the truck with him

Host: okay gotta and then that’s it you guys did a search and no strange no odd interaction action he didn’t say anything that would have made I don’t know spark any kind of red flags or anything of that sort

Seth: no

Host: okay I see so my question is too just going back to the TBI meeting the most recent one you had aside from those videos was there any new leads or anything that they told you

Seth: they’re not going to tell, it’s an active investigation they’re not going to tell me

Host: are you satisfied with their investigation thus far that’s

Seth: asking me that question is like asking me if I like the hamburger that I see you cooking I haven’t seen the finished result yet. Finished result is me getting my son back the sooner we do that the sooner I’ll tell you how happy I am if that makes sense,

Host: have you seen Chris when you saw when you saw Katie Proudfoot did you see Chris

Seth: no

Host: okay so he wasn’t there at all he wasn’t there physically

Seth: no

Host: gotcha okay are you uh looking into any private investigators or lawyers at all

Seth: investigators I’ve got four of them 1

Host: oh you got four right on

Seth: I’m not playing

Host: see see where I get my leads from gotcha seeing any uh footage or anything of that sort has that moved you to make any movements as of late

Seth: no I’ve gotten some tips uh United Navy was here they left they they they were getting the death threats

Host: yes I do want to talk to you about that as well um so I want to bring that up real quick because I’m a little confused uh to be honest but they are I’m just pulling this up really really quick Cajun Navy is calling off uh searching for Sebastian what’s up with that Seth why is that happening why did that happen what’s up with that

Seth: I mean they’re helping search to find my son and people are threatening them trying to run them over with a truck, throw staff. I mean those people helping me to find my son and this is kind of welcome they got from Tennessee from the state of Volunteers and those people came to volunteer to help. Not everybody is perfect that’s why I told everybody needs to drop their egos and Sebastian is the focus, the end goal to find Sebastian alive and well.

Host: Are they taking a day off whats the story here?

Seth: They called me this morning and told me they had to pull back because of the death threats not only are they getting threats but their family members are getting threats

Host: oh come on (Pascal almost screamed lol)

Seth: I don’t want I cannot viable for somebody I’m trying to find my son and the last thing I want is somebody I can’t I cannot on my conscious have somebody having their family getting threatened because they’re trying to help me find my son that I mean I’ve already told my voluntear you know be careful stay in groups you know at 5:00 I know we still got a couple hours of daylight left but I want my volunteers to be safe too so I’ve told them at 5 o’ I need you all to go ahead and call it quits for the night you may not want to you know but your life is precious as well, my son’s life is precious but I’m not willing to risk other people people’s lives for my son’s life

Seth: gotcha I I ain’t worried… mine on the other hand I’m not worried I’ll be your Huckleberry

Host: I heard that I heard that and yeah it is frustrating and tragic that they that’s frustrating and tragic that they left um I I got to be honest uh and as a you know as a father as well I I I can only imagine how that feels but as far as volunteers go has that changed in the volume and the the reception and the uh

Seth: attendance of volunteers down there a little bit I mean people are people are conscious of their own well-being I can’t expect people to you know be threatened or anything else to help me find my son yeah yeah I’m I’m sorry that’s happening to you brother but I want to bring this up really

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Seth Rogers – T-Rev

March 31, 2024

Host: Did you find it alarming that they don’t have an alarm?

Seth: I don’t have an alarm at my house.

When my son wakes up to use a bathroom he doesn’t turn on any lights. I do scare the shit out of him I ask what are you doing? I am going to the bathroom, Dad. Any type of the noise wakes me up.

Custody:

Seth: he was supposed to come and stay with me this summer and I enrolled him up here where i live. What we were doing, I am not getting full custody we are just switching custodians.

So where I was getting him every weekend, now she would be getting him every other weekend. (The statement changed now he says he was getting him every weekend)

Host: Was it smoothly done?

Seth: I was hoping for it, when Chris brought it up to me I was like ok let me enroll him at school. I want it my son to live with me I always wanted my son to live with me.

Host: What did you see on the video from TBI?

Seth: she and Sebastian walked out of the roadhouse and got into a vehicle. That’s what they showed me.

Host: Did he look Happy?

Seth: He is always happy when he is with me. He didnt look like joy of himself like he is with me. He is not there and i know why now. He wasn’t my normal kid.

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Seth Rogers – Teri Lynn

March 31, 2024

Interview Teri Lynn – March 31, 2024

Host: did you see him taking out the trash

Seth: I saw a video that could have been Sebastian taking out the trash. It was dark, but the shadow moved just like my son moves; my son runs everywhere

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Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 11, 2024

“With the information that I’ve gotten from Sumner County and TBI 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’s missing pieces to the puzzle and I’m having difficulty solving this.”

Mr Rogers added that it makes “absolutely no sense there’s been no trace of him.”

“I’m hoping he’s still alive,” the father said. “That is my main hope right now.”

On Sunday, dozens of people from the community gathered for a prayer vigil at Beech High School in Hendersonville, near where Sebastian was last seen, just down the street from his home. They wore green, Sebastian’s favorite color.

Sebastian’s mother and stepfather were not at the vigil, but provided a statement that was read aloud:

“We want to let the community know that we don’t have words to express our gratitude for the support for have received in searching for our son. We pray that everyone continues to help search and pray that we find him and bring him home safe.”

“In order for him to do something that’s out of the normal, something would’ve had to happen that he felt like he just couldn’t deal with it anymore,” Mr Rogers told [ WTVF] in his first interview during a prayer vigil on Sunday.

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Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 20, 2024

On the morning, Sebastian went missing

  • 6: 40 am Stepfather Chris called and sent messages to Seth.
  • 7: 00 am Seth had just gotten off work
  • 7: 20 am he got to his car when he noticed had a missed text message from 6:40 am and a call from the stepfather Chris.
  • He called the stepdad and was told Sebastian was missing. He didn’t know what had happened. He got in his car and went straight to the mom’s house
  • 8:00 am he arrived to the house and was there the entire day.
  • Seth stated that the mom’s house was clean, like always
  • He doesn’t know if anything was stolen from the home
  • Sebastian mother said they are missing a key chain flashlight that’s that’s it his key chain flashlight.
  • In Seth House all Sebastian has an upper Drawer in his house for his items.
  • the police searched his house they looked through the Upper Drawer where his house key wallet “everything in his Upper Drawer house key wallet everything in his Upper Drawer.”
  • Sebastian goes to Beach High School 0.6 miles away from home.
  • Sebastian rode a bus to school
  • Sebastian is in Why We Try Program it’s for the special needs children where they are doing the same tasks that the mainstream does but they get a little bit extra time. In that program when everyone have 30 questions then Kids in the program get 20 and they get extra time.
  • Sebastian is very intelligent, he is very smart, he just lacks social skills in reading of reading of people’s body language.
  • Sebastian likes things to be in a routine he likes to control his environment.
  • He doesn’t know how Sebastian would be with strangers as he never seen seen him have to deal with this. Most of the time if he’s with Seth he gets his information from from him about interacting with people
  • When Seth meeting new people he tells Sebastian “son you can introduce yourself if you would like if he does he does, if he doesn’t want I don’t force him.
  • He sees him every other weekend.
  • He gets him whenever he is not in school except weekdays
  • The last time he had Sebastian was two weeks prior to Sebastian’s disappearance
  • The last time Seth spoke with his son was on Thursday, which is very typical. He typically calls him every day or every other day on school days right when he gets off the bus and talk to him for two or three minutes to ask how his day was before he does his after school chores.
  • On the weekends, he has Sebastian, he gets there on Friday and waits for him to get off the bus.
  • Three pairs of shoes were at the front door. his old tennis shoes his new tennis shoes that his mama had just bought him and the boots that I had just bought him his mama wore another set of shoes his feet were growing
  • His Mom asked me to get him shoes and he wanted a pair of boots so we went to Boot Barn and got him a pair of boots is it possible he wore a different pair of shoes.
  • He doesn’t think SR could have wore another pair of shoes because if he’s not fitting into him she gets rid of it.
  • Thee is no shoes in his room. “Shoes get taken off at the front door same as my house same here I always have people take their shoes off at the door so there were no shoes in his room all his shoes were still sitting at the front door.”
  • The only time he goes outside at night at my house is to put the trash in the trash can which is right outside my front door
  • Seth says Sebastian doesn’t have a social media
  • he have a cell phone at his mom and stepfather’s
  • He is glued to his phone when he has access to YouTube and stuff like that he is glued to his phone because he likes to watch videos about Minecraft and he likes to watch videos of people playing Minecraft
  • He doesn’t know if Sebastian is playing Mindcraft but he has a little game switch and he’s glued to that all the time
  • His phone was locked down he had no internet access he only had the ability to take pictures on his phone, text on his phone, FaceTime and telephone calls, everything else was locked down on his phone.
  • Police checked his phone
  • He got a pair of slippers that he wears so he doesn’t have to put on socks and shoes he puts those on if he’s going to go out to the trash or check the mail and doesn’t want to put socks on.
  • Q: has the mother and The Stepfather taken a polygraph  Seth: “I know his mother has” (33:39)
  • False positive – Dogs followed Sebastian’s scent to a construction site near the home and then lost it. Seth states that for a dog to lose the scent like that, from his understanding, it would indicate that Sebastian got into a car. (Reporter on NG 43:44)
  • He stated that Sebastian’s and his mom went to dinner Sunday evening, and the police have verified that with photos.
  • it doesn’t add up for him to break routine and to leave the house with no shoes no socks on no coat some something just doesn’t make sense
  • According to another person in the NG interview: they did search perimeter of the house and I know one day when I was out there when they were searching they had a dive team out there they were searching the grounds. There is a lot of construction in the area.
  • Reporter Why Authorities searched landfill: “truck drivers that come to the house and when they picked up the the garbage can it just felt more more heavier than normal um so they just said that to the uh authorities so just to follow up on that tip they went out to the landfill to search because that’s where the trash is taken…”
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Seth Rogers

March 28, 2024

  • He is not searching today – he is a Roman Catholic
  • The trash pickup starts at 5 am
  • The video of flashlights has the wrong timestamp

Host: so did how’s the searching going do what y’all gonna be searching again tomorrow 10:30 is that what you said?

Seth: right now that’s kind of up in the air. I don’t know what they’re planning on tomorrow

I’m Roman Catholic and it’s good Friday oh okay it’s time to go commune with the Lord maybe he will give me what I need maybe he will reach down and bless me.

Host: Do you think it’s a possibility somebody could be holding your son against his will?

Seth: I look at it like I’ve been on the internet I’ve been on the TV, I have even been on the radio which probably most people don’t even realize but if my son were able to hear me or see me on TV or on the Internet he would know to give me a call okay.

Host: have you ever known him to watch the news no okay never known him to watch the news?

Seth: No

Host: so if he is not watching the news he probably wouldn’t even know he was on the news then correct?

Seth: I mean I haven’t had cable in probably nine or 10 years

Host: now I know tonight in the news interview you said you know he’s probably somewhere playing video games, do you know if he played these video games online with other people?

Seth: Naah

Host: no he didn’t or or now you don’t know?

Seth: I don’t know because that well it’s like at my house a lot of the games that he was playing were on my account and a lot of them were solo games like Spider-Man uh Batman Arkham Knights okay

Host: I play a lot of game in my you know certain games a lot of you know games where you’re in lobbies with other people I play a lot of online gaming

Seth: I do that, I will I do mobile on my phone, he would be sitting there playing video games he played on his Switch, he didn’t play online with people he played single player games.

Host: if I heard you say today that the TBI don’t think you’re a suspect they don’t think Chris is a suspect they don’t think Katie’s a suspect so there has to be some if you guys if they’re not like the internet is saying if Katie and Chris don’t got nothing to do with this then there’s another answer to what’s going on you know or there would be another answer another answer now do you think your would your son know to area do would he be easily lost does he get confused?

Seth: if you don’t if you stay all the time in your house and you’re only going from your house to the bus stop and then you know how to get to where you’re going to school and the rest of the time you’re in a vehicle would you really know how to get anywhere by foot

Host: guess if your bubble’s small you’re right you really wouldn’t know the area so if you got outside that bubble you could get lost

Seth: you get stuck in the woods and you’re used to Black Top you can get lost

Host: you know when I hear you say today that they don’t think they’re a suspect some of their the behavior is strange like the whole going out of town thing I think that was a little strange of them you know CU I would I’d be like you I’d be out here searching every day

Seth: Makes them seen no right

Host: if he’s out there lost you know he at this point he has to have some type of assistance right because he what where would he get food at or where would he you know he would need water he would need food he would need some type of assistance

Seth: he would and then again you ever been homeless?

Host: no I’ve never been homeless yeah I mean you think he’s you think he may be going eating out of dumpsters begging for

Seth:I don’t I don’t think he would be that way um I’ve been homeless before, homeless people take care of homeless people and homeless people have a have that that little piece in their heart that where they take care of the kids they always take care of the kids

Host: so you think he could possibly be in a homeless encampment

Seth: like now look now I’ve been out there in them Woods in Tennessee and I’ve done ran into a couple different homeless encampments out there that looked like people were living in and staying in in them woods so I know there’s people definitely living in the woods and I mean I’ve been out there I’ve looked for them I take a picture of my son you know one my parents came here the first week that’s the first thing they did they hit the homeless encampments there in uh Hendersonville with pictures of my so.

Host: anything come of that the homel you know I’m sure them homeless people ain’t gonna tell you much anyway

Seth: well if a child saying that he’s running in fear or something homeless people protect him

Seth: what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at what do you what do what do you make of the footprints at the retention Pond do you think there is something to him or you think that’s just a busy area or what do you think?

Seth: honestly I don’t know you don’t know I only knew about those literally just because I listened to that call oh to the the the the dispatch

Host: I heard you say he could swim

Seth: yep

Host: You lived there does the trash run this early in the morning and the lights could be from a trash truck?

Seth: The trash truck runs at 5 in the morning, there is 3:11 am because the guys DVR recorder is stuck on 3:11. I watched the whole thing for 10 min of it, and the time didnt move. It was at 3:11 when it started it was at 3:11 when it finished. The timer on the DVR was broken.

Host: have you been in communication with Chris and Katie?

Seth: they called me today

Host: did are y’all kind of patching up the relationship I know they were a little mad at you about the Gufundme stuff and I’ve heard that you know everything, so are y’all working that out they got to understand that you’re out there searching for the boy and that you’re going to need help they got to understand that you know to be mad at you or anything they need Chris should be out there beside you helping you is what I believe they shouldn’t be mad at you you

Seth: eye roll and nothing

Host: I hope your family can work this out and that Sebastian safely and maybe it is just a upset with the stepdad and he’s took off you know and he’s okay it would make more sense than them them hurting him for no reason things

Seth: things just don’t make sense with this

Host: don’t know the reason that the CPS was called on at the house I just didn’t know that heard you say that you found out later that they didn’t tell you anything that there was any reason

Seth: that podcast there man

Host: that that the CPS have came to the house over I guess him going to school saying that his stepdad hit him with a belt

Seth: I guess because I mean I didn’t know about it until he said it in the podcast

Host: let me ask you this and this is important question for a dad ha have y’all ever discussed the discipline of your child with have you ever discussed it with Chris?

Seth: that there is supposed to be no Corporal discipline

Host: Chris and them talk about him and the mom talking about him like you know he uses the bathroom on himself he’s he’s function he a they make him sound like he’s not as functional as you make him sound you make him sound like he’s normal kid everything’s okay and they make it sound like a little bit different story there is

Seth: not to play word salad, there are three parts to every story, there is my part, their part in the truth

Host: I hope you’re telling the truth so I hope the truth is with you

Seth: first of all I don’t have a fucking shit to to hide, but at the same point in time I don’t talk a lot of shit, I don’t like the I’m not the monkey at the zoo I’m not throwing shit. I will not defend people that dig their own fucking grave.

you know when you guys are s talking about their behavior makes them look suspect it’s probably because **they want you to…** that’s their behavior. I ain’t their parents

I raised my son, that’s why this doesn’t make sense to me

was there supposed to be child support? no.

were we going back to court? no

our our decree says that we can change it the way we want to and we both agree to

Host: y’all had an agreement with y’all child that y’all would take care of whatever between that needed to be taken care of so there was never no child support me and my baby’s mother we made the same agreement you made we made the exact same agreement if my daughter needs something I will take care of it right

Seth: you know how many times Katie called me up hey he needs a new pair of glasses okay well tell me how much it is I’ll transfer the money

Host: there is no reason for her to hurt her child a lot of people I do believe think Katie may have hurt your child and I to do that there would have to be a some reasoning for it and I just haven’t seen any of that

Seth: so I don’t understand why. I was getting what I wanted since the divorce anyways I was okay with you know joint legal joint physical but I was getting what I wanted

Host: now he was getting to come get ready to come stay with you for the summer

Seth: I’ve already have him enrolled in school here.

Host: from your address?

Seth: yeah, live the summer with me but he was going to start going to school up here at the end of summer

Host: oh okay so you was going he was going to start living with you full time now that’s what I heard that’s what was rumored to me in the beginning that uh that he was coming there and then that he was going to be living with you

Seth: Yes, I was going to get him

Seth: had that been planned like how long when y’all discussed that with Kate like how long you go okay I’m gonna take him this Summer then he’s gonna live with me and go to school had y’all planned that have y’all y’all discussed that

Seth: since last year

Host: so this ain’t something that just popped up or so this has been planned that he was going to come stay with you

Seth: shakes his head yes

Host: more sense so there’s no reason in there for her to be like oh he’s going to take the kid

Seth: I’ve heard a lot and read a lot and you know some of them I find them hilarious like the gentleman that called in you know the snake the snake ate the boy

Host: I know it’s hard as a parent to definitely hear the crazy stuff of the internet right just theories and speculation I do it you know I say things I like I think this happened I think this happened. curious but some of the stories for me like some of the theories are so far out there even for me that I’m like okay okay that’s a little much that’s a little much

Seth: um I’ll just say that I’m missing aluminum foil and tfoil at my house because somebody’s wearing it as a hat there.

Host: I’ve seen parents of missing kids wearing aluminum tfold hats matter of fact parents are missing kids in Tennessee wearing illuminal tfold hats on live streams okay I send you a picture if you don’t believe me

Seth: believe yes I’ve seen I’ve seen a lot, nine (9) years in California and then I moved back here to the United States and I’ll tell you right now that I’ve seen them both

Host: now I’ve heard you say you’re innocent to proven guilty you work in correction right and I’ve heard you say you you’re not thereare to judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t do that you don’t get on the news and you don’t talk bad about people you try to stay neutral you know judge people right and I’ve noticed a lot of this is you don’t it ain’t no reason really to ruffle a bunch of feathers like talking shit about people that you’re going to have to deal with for the rest of your life anyway you know that’s the mother of your baby um her old man’s a little, uh I think he’s like he overt talks her a lot you know I think he seems controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry

Seth: shakes his head in agreement and smiles and later says I heard that

Host: controlling I’ve heard that I don’t know the guy but he he looks a little angry he seems controlling and when they ask questions he answers the questions like he don’t give her a chance to speak and that’s what I think of making people go so this dude ain’t and he’s been married five times okay I mean how many times..

Seth: I’ve been married once I learn learned, I learned

Host: I think maybe if if it didn’t work out in five times it might not be in your you might not be the best dude.

Seth: I would say if I was looking out from the outside I would tell the person if you’ve been married so many times and it’s not working it can’t be the person you’re with it’s the person in the mirror

Host: yeah definitely sometimes it’s it’s it’s hardest to see your flaws you know like me I’m sure there I got plenty of flaws but it’s hard for me to see my own flaws but other people can see them you know um I know fla yeah I know some.

Seth: I know my flaws I don’t know all of them but I know the majority of them

Host:: so when they tried to call you today did you speak with him

Seth: I did

Host: now let me ask you this when you went and met with the TBI today was Katie and Chris with you can you answer that

Seth: Katie was there (couldn’t hear what he said…Christopher)

Host:: okay okay um all right well I ain’t gonna make you get you into something you know that you ain’t supposed to speak on

Seth: um if I answer something that if I answer something that I’m not supposed to answer I’ll know I’ll be in trouble later

Host: let me ask you this they show you a video

Seth: yeah okay

Host: did that video contain your son yes okay was that video from somewhere outside that house yes that means your son’s out there

Seth: they showed me a video that I had been asking for from the very beginning. I wanted to see a video of my son after I spoke to him Thursday and before he disappeared on Monday.

Host: this video of your son is from after time he went missing

Seth: no it was before it

Host: was it the video from the restaurant

Seth: Yeap

Host: I knew it was that video for rest you know I went to that restaurant the other night Seth I had chicken and I also spoke to the people there had chicken

Seth: huh you went to a steakhouse and had chicken?

Host:: yeah I had chicken and a loaded baked potato and broccoli be I always go to the steakhouse and get chicken I don’t know why I do it at uh Outback too

Seth: yeah well unfortunately you can’t go to Chick-fil-A fil-A and get a hamburger

Host: so the video from the rest so there’s nothing from the the point that he you haven’t seen anything from the point he’s went missing

Seth: No

Host:: so, just prior to it so they showed you a little PRI did everything seem happy in the in the video everything seemed good

Seth: everything seems good

Seth: okay all right um well well that’s that’s good but let me think I I want to dig in dig into a hole here

Seth: it’s because you’re not asking the right question (smiles)

Host: okay what do the police believe happened what are they telling you did they have hit you with anything

Seth: Nope (shakes his head)

Host: do they they just keeping you can’t answer that one huh

Seth: they didn’t tell you nothing they’re not going to tell me anything on the investigation

Host: well why I show you the video

Seth: because I’d asked

Host: so you asked

Seth: I asked I said I need to see proof of life before he went missing

Host: because you wanted to know he was alive before he went missing

Seth: I wanted to make sure he was okay beforeand and they showed it to me because I asked asked for

Host:: and he was okay and everything was good with him normal and you said he he wouldn’t..

Seth: you are not asking, you still not asking the right questions

Host: okay well what’s tell me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth me what the right question is there what what do you got what do you know Seth that we don’t know can you tell us what you know

Seth: I had two more meetings today afterwards. I had two more meetings afterwards

Host: after you seen the video

Seth: I had two more meetings afterwards I had meetings planned all day today

Host: with TBI law enforcement

Seth: nope (shakes his head nope)

Host: okay you met with somebody else

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head yes and smiles) you know why I am happy

Host: huh is it the FBI

Seth: no (shakes his head no, smiling)

Host: okay yeah why

Seth: more information that I didn’t have before

Host: oh all right let’s get it let’s get it Seth

Seth: just more information

Host: okay um see

Seth: I already told them I’m running my own investigation on my own as I didnt want to intrude upon their

Host: does he think that they will wrap up soon and his baby will be found she ask that question from the chat

Seth: always that’s that’s beyond a doubt that’s an every day when I wake up okay all right that being hope and know that the answer is out there and I’m going to find it

Host: now are are the police being like reassuring that they’re going to figure this out to you to figure this out to you

Seth: yep

Host: have you have you spoke with the FBI

Seth: yeap

Host: okay um now one of my things is this them houses out there in that neighborhood are really really nice houses most of them have security systems cameras why is he not on any of those cameras

Seth: don’t know don’t know I don’t know, but again if I lived in a house that cost 688,000 I damn well have a fucking security system on it

Host: I mean most of them houses out there or up there in that range they start at 500,000 they living a lot better than me um I noticed there was a lot cameras out

Seth: law enforcement they making a lot more than I am okay

Host: I said the same thing

Seth: the way they’re going I might turn around and have to go start flipping burgers for $22 an hour

Host: um so how is everything with your work did they understand what’s going on

Seth: I asked for a leave of absence when I ask for absence they know that I’m looking for my son

Host: okay so they’re not giving you a hard time at work so when you decide to go back to work everything’s going to be good with you

Seth: I’m hoping I haven’t heard from him

Host: um let me think anything else okay so you you met with a you had a couple more meetings today other than with to TBI you you gain you gain more information, um and we learned that the trash truck that was just trash truck it wasn’t flashlights

Seth: correct,

Host: um the shoe thing now I’ve heard you say this

Seth: it doesn’t make

Host: yeah he stepped in the ant pile the fire ants I’m from Georgia I I know about them fire ants they’ll light your ass up boy I mean like cigarette Burns I had they got me good I fell as a kid I fell into one riding a bike as a cigarette burn because

Seth: I’ve never like been burnt by a cigarette but I’ve been burnt by a match head before what that’s what fire ants remind me of

Host: yeah it reminds me of a cigarette burn it’ll blister up it it hurts matter of fact my yard we got some fire ants in my yard that’ll get your ass I got the biggest ants you ever seen they did the biggest ants I’ve ever seen in my life to be at my house they are huge ass ants

Seth: are velveteen ants these look like monster ass (shows the size with his fingers)

Host: so you don’t think he had never ran off before if he was if he was to say hey I’m upset with my stepdad I want to get out of here why wouldn’t he take any shoes and why would everybody ask her that Chris speaks overher

Seth: I don’t know

Host: so certain like how does she know he took the flashlight

Seth: I don’t know again

Host: or they just missing a flashlight huh I mean are they missing the flashlight I mean I guess they’re missing a flashlight that’s what makes them think he took the flashlight because if she was in bed when he left how dides she know he had the flashlight

Seth: I would say that she’s saying that because they can’t find it

Host: yeah I would think so too and I’m sure being the mother she knows what shoes he has and all them shoes are accounted for

Seth: yep shoes go off at the front door at her house just like they go off at the front door at mine

Host: okay um it just seems a little odd that he would leave like that with no shoes on and have never done that before

Seth: yeap kind of weird

Host: does okay since does he ever have any episodes what do you mean by episod maybe where he don’t know what’s going on gets confused

Seth: he hasn’t had any of those type of seizures in years

okay um okay so when he was young he would he he would have these type of medical but as he got older he he grew out he outgrew them

Seth: Yeap (shakes his head in agreement)

Host: heard you say something that he was has one side you didn’t want him playing football or baseball or anywhere he could get hit because he had like a some water on his brain or something a pocket on one side of his brain

Seth: yes he had a pocket of fluid on the right B lateral part of his brain

Seth: yes I believe my son is alive

Host: um so he so he he couldn’t really take a Blow To The Head or nothing if if it if he fa

Seth: hey hey hey I have phone call coming

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Seth Rogers – Pascal

March 29, 2024

Seth Rogers Gives Updates on the Search for Sebastian Rogers

Host: Pascal Show
Guest: Seth Rogers, biological father of Sebastian Rogers

Host: Welcome, everyone. We’re here for an exclusive interview with Seth Rogers, the biological father of missing teen Sebastian Rogers. Before we begin, please support the search by sharing this story, engaging in the conversation, and if you can, contributing to the GoFundMe pinned at the top of the chat.

Sebastian has been missing since February 26. It’s been over a month, and we still don’t know where he is. Multiple interviews and discussions have taken place, but many questions remain unanswered.

Let’s bring in Seth Rogers.

Host: Seth, how are you doing?
Seth: I’m alive, boots on the ground, still searching.

Host: We all appreciate your dedication. Can you give us an update?
Seth: It’s been like a John Grisham novel—just weird. There have been strange things happening.

Host: Can you elaborate?
Seth: Volunteers distributing flyers have been followed by unknown vehicles. I’ve advised them to take down license plate numbers and report them to TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation).

Host: Have you personally been followed?
Seth: I can’t be intimidated. I have a mission—to find my son.

Host: Have you reported these incidents to law enforcement?
Seth: Yes. I passed along license plate numbers to TBI a couple of weeks ago.

Surveillance Footage & TBI Updates

Host: You recently met with TBI alongside Katie Proudfoot (Sebastian’s mother). Can you share what they showed you?
Seth: They showed me the full video, including daytime and nighttime footage from the neighborhood.

Host: Was the video different from what the public saw?
Seth: Yes. What was publicly shared was cropped, focusing only on two moving lights at night. The full footage showed a trash truck moving through the neighborhood.

Host: So, the speculation that those lights were someone moving with flashlights—was that incorrect?
Seth: Yes. The lights were part of the truck, not people.

Host: What else did they show you?
Seth: I requested proof of life for Sebastian on the Sunday before he disappeared. They showed me footage of him leaving Texas Roadhouse with his mother, getting into her vehicle.

Host: Was Chris Proudfoot (stepfather) there?
Seth: No. Chris was in Memphis at that time.

Host: Did Sebastian appear happy, upset, or distressed in the video?
Seth: He didn’t look like his usual self. He wasn’t unhappy, but he wasn’t as joyful as he normally is when he’s with me.

Host: Was he wearing the same clothes he was reportedly last seen in?
Seth: No.

Host: Have TBI shared any new leads or information with you?
Seth: No. It’s an active investigation, so they won’t disclose details.

Custody Arrangements & Family Dynamics

Host: Before his disappearance, was Sebastian happy living at the Proudfoots’ home?
Seth: There were times when he didn’t want to go back after visiting me. He’d say, “I hate going there,” but he wouldn’t tell me why.

Host: Did he ever express concerns or issues with Chris Proudfoot?
Seth: No, he didn’t talk about it.

Host: Did you know about CPS investigations involving Chris?
Seth: No. I found out through a podcast—not from law enforcement, not from Katie.

Host: Chris previously admitted on another podcast that he disciplined Sebastian with a belt, but later denied it on Nancy Grace. What are your thoughts?
Seth: It doesn’t matter what I believe—he admitted it. His story changed, and that’s concerning.

Scent Trails, Search Efforts & Cajun Navy’s Departure

Host: Previously, you said search dogs picked up a scent near a construction site, but in a recent interview, you said there was no scent. Can you clarify?
Seth: TBI now says the initial information was false—they claim there was no scent.

Host: What about the Cajun Navy pulling out of the search?
Seth: They received death threats and were nearly run over by a truck. Their families were also threatened, so they had to leave. I can’t blame them.

Host: Have threats against volunteers affected turnout?
Seth: Yes. Some are hesitant, but others remain dedicated.

New Search Command Center & Volunteer Efforts

Host: Where should volunteers go to help?
Seth: We have a new search headquarters at:

📍 The Rudder Restaurant
126 River Road, Hendersonville, TN 37075

Host: When can people join searches?
Seth:

  • Saturday: 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM
  • Sunday: No searches (Easter)
  • Monday & onward: 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Host: What’s the best way to help?
Seth: Spread flyers and share his story. The more people who see Sebastian, the harder it will be for someone to hide him.

Financial Support & Reward Fund

Host: There’s a GoFundMe to help you stay on the ground. Why was there tension over it?
Seth: Chris and Katie agreed not to make a GoFundMe for finding Sebastian, but my sister created one for my personal expenses while I’m searching. Chris threatened legal action over it.

Host: There’s also a reward fund—how can people contribute?
Seth:
Make checks payable to:
📍 James Brian Lewis (Attorney)
1300 Division Street, Suite 307, Nashville, TN 37203

  • All donations are held in escrow.
  • If information leads to Sebastian’s return, the reward is paid out.

Final Thoughts & Plea for Help

Host: If someone sees Sebastian, what should they do?
Seth: Call his name. If he turns around and fits his description, call 911 immediately.

Host: Do you have a message for the public?
Seth: Keep your heads up and eyes open. Someone out there knows something—please come forward.

Host: What keeps you going?
Seth: I have one mission—find my son. I won’t stop.

Host: Seth, thank you for sharing. I’m praying for you and for an Easter miracle.

📢 Support the search by:
✅ Volunteering at The Rudder
✅ Sharing Sebastian’s flyers
✅ Contributing to the GoFundMe (linked in chat)
✅ Adding to the reward fund

🙏 Let’s bring Sebastian home.

Summary of Key Details:

  • 📍 Search HQ: The Rudder, 126 River Rd, Hendersonville, TN
  • 🕘 Search times: 9:30 AM – 6 PM (No search on Easter Sunday)
  • 💰 GoFundMe: Linked in chat to support Seth’s search efforts
  • 💵 Reward fund: Donations via check to James Brian Lewis, Attorney
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Seth Rogers – T-Rev

March 31, 2024

Host: Seth, how’s your day going?
Seth: Busy. It’s Holy Saturday, so I’ve been at church, making calls, and coordinating searches for Sebastian.

Host: We’ve been praying for you. I saw your interview with Pascal last night, and it really moved me. Some of the things you said about God resonated deeply.

Seth: I appreciate that. Keeping Sebastian’s name out there is my priority.

Host: Have there been any new possible sightings?
Seth: Not yesterday or today. My private investigators are working on it.

Host: Have you been in contact with Katie or Chris regarding the search?
Seth: No. The last time I spoke with them was Thursday when I returned to Clarksville. Chris wanted me to drive back to Nashville for a TV interview with him and Katie. I told him I’d think about it but never followed up.

Host: Was your decision influenced by the interview on the Smiley Channel?
Seth: Yes. That’s my flesh and blood they were talking about. Finding out about things on a podcast, like how Chris disciplined my son, was unacceptable.

Host: I understand. Nobody should find out information like that through a podcast.

Host: Did law enforcement show you surveillance footage from the restaurant?
Seth: Yes. I requested proof of life since I last spoke with Sebastian on Thursday. They showed me a clip of him leaving the restaurant and getting into a vehicle.

Host: Did he look happy or distressed?
Seth: He didn’t look like his usual self. When he’s with me, he runs to my truck after dinner. In that video, he seemed different.

Host: Did you find it odd that there was no alarm system at the house?
Seth: Yes. I have one at my house. Sebastian wakes up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, but he doesn’t turn on the light. Any noise wakes me up.

Host: Did Katie have any issues with you gaining custody?
Seth: It wasn’t a fight. We were switching custodial custody, meaning he’d live with me full-time, and she’d have him on weekends. I enrolled him in school up here.

Host: Was there any resistance from Katie about the switch?
Seth: Not from my side. Chris suggested it, and I agreed immediately. I’ve always wanted my son to live with me.

Host: Did you notice anything odd about Chris during your search together?
Seth: I wasn’t focused on him. I was using my flashlight to check sheds and spaces between houses.

Host: Did Chris have his glasses on? Do you know if he’s near- or farsighted?
Seth: He has vision like me—he’s nearsighted and needs glasses to see far.

Host: Have law enforcement confirmed if there’s CCTV of Chris in Memphis?
Seth: It’s an active investigation, so I don’t have those details.

Host: Was there any confirmed scent of Sebastian found by search dogs?
Seth: Initially, I was told they picked up a scent, but later, I was told it was a false lead.

Host: Some people speculate that Sebastian might be in protective custody. Wouldn’t you have been notified?
Seth: Yes, I would have been contacted.

Host: Does Sebastian have any allergies?
Seth: He’s allergic to grass but has no food allergies.

Host: What were his eating habits?
Seth: He didn’t like meat as a kid. His favorite foods are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and cheese pizza.

Host: How has this impacted you emotionally and psychologically?
Seth: My life is on hold. I barely sleep. When I do, I have nightmares. Sometimes, I wake up thinking I see Sebastian standing by my bed, asking for breakfast, but then I realize it’s just a dream.

Host: Can you walk us through the moment you found out he was missing?
Seth: I finished work at 7 AM and went to my truck. I checked my phone, saw a missed call, and received a text saying “911.” When I called back, Chris told me Sebastian was missing.

Host: What steps have you taken to find Sebastian?
Seth: We’ve been searching daily. People have traveled from Ohio to help. I appreciate those who hand out flyers and spread awareness.

Host: How has the community response been?
Seth: It’s been a mix. Some people genuinely help, while others spread negativity.

Host: Has law enforcement shared any promising leads with you?
Seth: No. They’ve asked me to continue distributing flyers, but they won’t share investigative details with me.

Host: Has CPS discussed any concerns about Chris’s past disciplinary actions?
Seth: CPS met with us after Sebastian went missing but never mentioned it. From what I understand, those records are sealed.

Host: Has Chris been officially ruled out as a suspect?
Seth: It’s still an active investigation.

Host: The reward fund is set up for Sebastian. How can people contribute?
Seth: Donations must be sent to an escrow account managed by an attorney:
Reward for Sebastian Rogers
James Brian Lewis
1300 Division Street, Suite 307
Nashville, TN 37203

Host: Have people tried to discourage donations?
Seth: Yes, some people have been actively telling others not to contribute. I don’t understand why.

Host: What message do you want to share with the public?
Seth: Keep your eyes open. Look for Sebastian wherever you go—on your way to work, getting coffee, filling up your gas tank.

Host: How can people best support you?
Seth: Hand out flyers. Spread his name and picture. The more people who see him, the harder it will be for someone to hide him.

Host: Seth, I want to thank you for sharing your story. I admire your strength. We will continue to spread awareness.

Seth: Thank you. My life won’t be complete until I find my son.

Host: Everyone, let’s light up the chat with green hearts for Sebastian. Please continue to share his story.

Custody

Seth: he was supposed to come and stay with me this summer and I enrolled him up here where i live. What we were doing, I am not getting full custody we are just switching custodians.

So where I was getting him every weekend, now she would be getting him every other weekend. (The statement changed now he says he was getting him every weekend)

Host: Was it smoothly done?

Seth: I was hoping for it, when Chris brought it up to me I was like ok let me enroll him at school. I want it my son to live with me I always wanted my son to live with me.

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Host: What did you see on the video from TBI?

Seth: she and Sebastian walked out of the roadhouse and got into a vehicle. That’s what they showed me.

Host: Did he look Happy?

Seth: He is always happy when he is with me. He didnt look like joy of himself like he is with me. He is not there and i know why now. He wasn’t my normal kid.

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Seth Rogers – Justin on Tiktok

April 3, 2024

Host: How would you describe him as a person as your son

Seth: oh boy loves video games um, I think it’s more like a a close tossup between animals and video games.

When it comes to animals he loves cats like the boy just loves cats he loves cats I mean like if he sees a straight cat he he’s he’s have to walk up, and say why is it running for me? Well son it’s a cat

My son got bit in the face by by a dog and he had to have seven stitches in his face and he still isn’t scared of dogs I mean he’s not scared of anything except I guess of his stepfather

Host: what are some of the things that you guys like to do together?

Seth: one of the favorite things that he likes to do with me is road trips me, personally I’m not a fan of road trips is he to drive okay if he were to drive some you know that’d be great but I can’t even get him to sit behind the wheel in the vehicle stationer but he likes to go on road trips with me he likes it when I take him to go.

  • he was born in Georgia
  • we moved to Kansas
  • while his mother was a great mistakes
  • she got stationed in San Diego and so we drove to San Diego
  • and then she would leave on a deployment or a half a deployment a third of a deployment and we would leave the house we’d pack everything that we were going to need into the car and we would drive. we’d go see family he has been Coast to Coast probably six times.

I mean boy loves road trips to me they’re educational cuz never a road trip is never the same you always can take a different route and see different things and he loved it he liked when Christmas came around or summer break if I could get it off road trip we go down in Texas

Routine

Seth: Routine for Sebastian where he could get him to take a shower, eat, take a shower again, and then lay down in bed, falling asleep in about an hour at the most.


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Seth Rogers – Pascal

April 4, 2024

Host: Are there updates to the search?

Seth: No, nothing that I’ve been told.

Host: Have you had a conversation with LE

Seth: Nope

Host: How are you feeling

Seth: Same as yesterday, once the goal in mind is to find Seb

Host: You threw a lot of Accusations and Serious Bombshells

Seth: I really was so tired and exhausted that I don’t even remember the podcast

Host: Wow, really? I mean, I get it, sleep deprived, and you were on many broadcasts, correct?

Seth: Yes, Everyone wanted a piece of me. I felt like the pie was empty.

Host: But still, no matter what, nonetheless, there was a conversation you did have. You did drop some very big pieces of information. Whether you said those things beforehand or after, it still doesn’t matter. This was live. This was after. This shocked a lot of people. So let’s talk about it.

Seth: Does this have anything to do with Sebastian?

Host: Yes

Seth: Mr. Proudfoot, Chris, people were asking why he didn’t want my son around his daughter, and he kept telling me that if people are going to keep asking that question, he is going to answer. So, he turned around and stated that if he told the people, then people would stop looking for Sebastian.

Host: Really? Can I ask you something before you continue? I am curious: when this conversation was had, was this something on a podcast, or was it something between you guys behind closed doors?

Seth: yes

Host: so him sitting there and… I am sorry, what? What were you going to say?

Seth: it was over the phone

Host: so him saying if people will start asking why I don’t want Seb around Faith they won’t go looking for Sebastian.

Seth: if they find out that people won’t go look for my son. I told him you don’t want to go down that route

Host: Did he say this between you and him?

Seth: Well Katie Was on the phone too

Host: So Katie Was on the phone as well?

Seth: Of course

Host: What was this conversation like was this a regular conversation

Seth: and I’m sitting here trying to put pieces back together my my whole issue about that is if you cared that much for my son as you do that your daughter that you don’t want my son around because there’s a possibility why weren’t you thinking about that when he’s under your roof no doubt that’s

Host: I’m also very curious about it, and we’ll get to that in just a minute. What was the origin of this fight, argument, or discussion on this phone that would spawn him saying that in the first place?

Seth: What started this? What he said during podcasts, and Why he didn’t want my son around his daughter

Host: So this happened because, ok, people were asking questions, people were asking questions like the smart, intelligent people that they are go-ahead

Seth: You know people were asking Chris why don’t you want Sebastian around your daughter? I see people in chat that asked were asking me all the time why doesn’t Chris want Sebastian around her daughter there’s your answer.

Host: It’s interesting, so you’re telling me that he looks at Sebastian like some sort of predator. Wow, but why because of what happened to him in California under his supervision or under his and Katie Proudfoot supervision?

Seth: That and the fact that he hasn’t got the correct help in California. He was seeing a doctor by the name of Doctor Frannie at Balboa, and she didn’t appreciate the fact that I stood up and used a stern voice with her and told her she wasn’t doing anything for my son. She let him play with toys and choose what movie or, you know, he gets to watch when he gets out of the thing that that’s that’s not helping him that’s not the proper therapy I’m already researching this she wasn’t, so what I’m looking for she wasn’t qualified for that type of therapy because that’s a different type of therapy for traumatic sexual abuse and you that’s a different type of class.

Host: all right, you’re sure of that are you sure of that you know that she didn’t have the credentials to handle that type of therapy

Seth: yes

Seth: Can I interrupt you? This is the information that I’m giving is facts it’s not me trying to throw punches or whatnot, but this is the third time something major has happened to my child underneath their watch, and they need to own it they need to own the fact that they have ****** ** yet again and I don’t I’m sitting here being Sebastian’s voice ’cause right now he doesn’t have one until we find him find out what happened.

I’ve told everybody you’re innocent until proven guilty, right? That’s just the way the system works. There’s nothing I can do about that. That’s the way the system works, and that’s the way it should work. You’re innocent until proven guilty. Host: Alright, OK, I know that we’re doing a little bit backward, OK, but I do have a lot of questions that we gotta go all the way back a little bit, OK, so I understand that this happened in California. We got to dive into a little bit more, so we understand a little bit more of this information because you did drop this on Justin’s shout-out to Justin on TikTok, and it was shocking. OK, but you did say that in California? While they were while Sebastian was under Katie Proudfoot supervision

Host: Now I understand that you are I believe that you are telling the truth I don’t think you have why would you sit here and go out of your way, not spitting facts right, so it wouldn’t make any sense for you to just go out of your way to just talk wild suddenly out of nowhere and aimlessly in some sort of way and I don’t think what you’re saying right now what you’ve given to us is aimless or doesn’t have any clout doesn’t isn’t backed up with proof which of course I am very curious about some of these things as well but what I need to understand though is that this happened under her supervision in California is that right or wrong

Seth: that’s right

Host: Was Chris involved in that at all because I think that’s one thing that a lot of people are very curious about as well Chris was living with her, then ok, so who is this kid who is this 13-year-old kid if he was 13-15 whatever age he was who did this unthinkable thing to Sebastian who is the kid

Seth: I don’t know his last name sheriff’s wouldn’t give me his last name

Host: But why not?

Seth: California CPS child children under the age of 13 are actually protected. There’s nothing; they wouldn’t give me any information and weren’t allowed to let me do anything. The only thing they let me do was to ask him if I could contact the school psychologist and if he could sit there and tell the school psychologist that person’s name so that the other children that were around him would not become victims as well. I went as far as to find out, you know, the parents; from my understanding, the parents told Katie and Chris that their kid picked it up after watching YouTube. Personally, I’ve never seen like that stuff on YouTube.

Host: Neither of I, so what is he watching on the tubes that would give him a disturbing education like that that’s what I’d like to know as well, huh so you lose this with his age

Seth: I would have to say that somebody was abusing the child. It had probably been going on for a while for him to think that it was normal, so he did it to my son. That’s why I’m asking about my son having the correct therapy to get him back on track. I mean he’s autistic, he’s not mentally as old as he is physically, i mean he’s smart but, you know, delayed in learning he’s physically 15 and mentally, he’s probably 10 or 11, and he’s going through adolescence his body is producing hormones that he has no idea what’s about, and I don’t think I don’t think things are lining up in his brain like they’re supposed to because obviously he’s got a six a chromosomal deletion syndrome and he got autism

Host: understandable and i i get it that he’s what he went through is a lot to process no matter if he had autism or not being kid a 7 or 8 years old that’s a lot to process as a kid i can’t i can’t even imagine any child going through any of that but question though did you know of this said kid this we’re going to use thirteen years old i know Katie Proudfoot said he wasn’t 13 years old and i get that semantics or technicalities but i’m just going to call him the 13 year old kid from this point on ok so did you know anything about this 13 year old kid before you heard about this tragedy and this trauma that was inflicted upon Sebastian

Seth: i did not you had no idea about this child

Host: ok so then how did you find out because in the interview with Justin on tiktok, you said it made it you made it sound like you expressed some concerns about Sebastian hanging out with this 13 year old kid while he was about 7 or 8 years old and you were uncomfortable with it and then of course this tragedy and this trauma was inflicted so i want to get some clarity on that did you not know about or did you have an strange inkling about this 13 year old or did you find out after the fact from Katie Proudfoot that this trauma was inflicted upon Sebastian

Seth: who at that time was Katie Payne i found out from her she says she contacted cps on the other family therefore i found out from her and ps spoke to me and that’s when i started dealing with cps and the sheriff’s department

Host: ok ok ok ok me and Katie used to communicate a lot more than we do now we’re going to talk about that in a second but real quick as soon as you found out about this tragedy that happened to Sebastian at 7 or 8 years old in California what did you do

Seth: i immediately contacted the sheriff’s department. i wanted to find out what was gonna happen to the child, i wanted to you know what they were going to do to protect my son, protect this child that more than likely has been a victim already and what they were going to do to prevent it and i don’t think sheriff’s department did anything another time that the law has failed our children

Host: because i know that you said it on the interview as well that you couldn’t do anything because of the state because the state that you’re in because of the state of California that you couldn’t press charges on this 13 year old kid can you explain to me why you couldn’t press charges on this kid he just committed a crime allegedly so why couldn’t you press charges on this 13 year old kid?

Seth: because of his age 13 they won’t press charges against the 13 year old for that what was told to me by the sheriff’s department. you know my son got upset ’cause i didn’t tell him i knew thought that his mom hadn’t told me that, he got upset one day and i was like son i do know and if you ever want to talk to anybody you can, but at the same point in time i was trying to take care of things on my end you know.**

Host: i get it i think it’s crazy to me that you couldn’t do anything it doesn’t make any i don’t get it i mean i don’t live in California and California and i don’t know the you know the the law out there but i i am still very shocked what were you saying

Seth: i said but you wear la gear all the time

Host: i do i really do i really really do maybe I’m you know I’m trying to manifest something you feel me but will right but still i am quite curious as to why that seems so odd to me that you couldn’t do anything in the state of California when a crime was committed against your son during that time it still does blow my mind but when you found out going back to it when you found out from Katie Proudfoot at that time can you tell me where was your mindset how did that feel

Seth: really don’t want to state that in public ok fair enough just had his innocence taken from him i it took me it took me a minute to digest and it took me a minute to figure out the proper way to go about it instead of you know someone just hurt my my baby

Host: of course i get that and i know that you were i mean when you talked about it the other day we all saw that emotion we all know and i think we also second that emotion as well if we were in those shoes as well we would be just as shocked

Seth: there is no apology for my behavior i got upset I was mad I’m exhausted and it takes a while for me to get to that point i first of all i don’t like people trying to hold something over my head yeah something like you know happened under their watch and he needs help and you know we’re finally getting him to help him it late and now i gotta find him right

Host: you are absolutely right so then tell me then because i feel like you suddenly out of nowhere and understandably, i feel like you hit a wall you got emotionally exhausted. i mean of course if I’m putting words in your mouth or emotions in your head that weren’t really there please stop me when i while i continue but i feel like at some point you hit a wall you were at wit’s end you had enough you were tired of being diplomatic tired of being the nice guy and you said you know what f it I’m going to rip the band-aid off everyone’s going to hear this truth because you know what i don’t where he is and these other two are not supporting or helping me in the search for Sebastian am i anywhere near close to why maybe you started to put this information out for everyone to hear

Seth: my son is a victim and if victims don’t get the proper help so you do preventive maintenance and you get him the help needs and there’s multiple different ways but if you’re not certified in the proper way to get him help you’re just gonna make it worse

Host: yeah no i get that i fully get that so then ok you had a conversation a not so pleasant conversation with Chris Proudfoot and Katie Proudfoot on the phone Chris Proudfoot said something along the lines of people are asking about why i don’t like having Sebastian anywhere near faith and if you keep on pushing me I’m about to air everything out i’m about to air all this dirty laundry whether you like it or not and guess what no one’s gonna want to support or try to find Sebastian am i correct?

Seth: I’m sorry what was that

Host: well that was a long thing that just said that was a lot of work no i got you i got you but you were reading something my bad i wanted there’s a lot of people here that want to know the truth and understand what’s going on so i’m going to repeat it one last time

Seth: OK so you had made this is the last time out bro

Host: hold on hold on but what I’m trying to understand here so that every one understands as well is that you had a not so pleasant conversation on the phone with Chris and Katie Proudfoot and during this argument or this conversation Chris said something along the lines of everyone keeps on asking me why i don’t like having Sebastian anywhere near faith and if and i i will air that stuff out if you keep pushing me and guess what’s going to happen nobody’s going to want to look for Sebastian because of his past am i correct wow

Seth: you cut out there bad

Host: OK

Seth: but you just the way you were saying sorry ’cause i lost everything on there, it it keeps freezing on my end yes me and Chris and Katie had a conversation and Chris asked me people are asking me this question if they don’t stop asking me this question there I’m going to have no choice but to tell them but now he can sit there and tell him the same point in time i know that Chris i know that his daughter faith face times with my son all the time and considers my son her older brother he considers faith his little sister and if he’s anything like his dad we’re supposed to protect the young ones we’re supposed to protect our sister we’re supposed to protect people and that’s one of the things I’ve been trying to instill with him to combat what has happened to him no

Host: I’m still trying to understand a little bit more about this too OK this tragedy happens to Sebastian against his will it’s not like he decided to have this crime committed against him it happened under Katie Proudfoot’s supervision and yet Chris is still trying to hold that over your head as if sebastian some sort of monster that doesn’t make any sense to me at all this is an innocent kid where this happened to him so i i don’t get that part

Seth: Chris doesn’t see him as innocent it would be the only thing i could say all right honestly i kno you know. my son has done some questionable things but at the same point in time he’s not understanding what’s going on and nobody talked to her about it so you know i don’t even know if it’s the same things in school that they taught us because we had sex education class you know this we had sex education we had human biology. i don’t know what they teach the kids in school anymore

Host: Seth so Seth go ahead sorry

Seth: no go ahead

Host: so Seth i got to ask you when you say questionable things that Sebastian has done some questionable things I’m not asking you to go into gritty details or anything of that sort but I’m wondering what are these questionable details that would make Chris not comfortable having Sebastian near faith can you expand a little bit on that and then

Seth: i don’t know if that violate YouTube or not but when when he pulls out his winner in the in the men’s bathroom and you’re like look this is mine what’s yours look like i mean that’s innocent kid **** right right i was a kid at one point in time so was i last i checked i mean no i might have been this age my whole life but but we have sex education classes we already knew you know things weren’t i don’t even know like when i went to school we saw pictures of vaginas and penises i mean it was like look this is sex education classes these are condoms these are studios this is what you get if you have unprotected set right as part of health education and and i mean i don’t even know if they teach that stuff in school anymore i mean they used to teach u.s. financial stuff in school so that we knew how to balance checkbooks take care i don’t know if they teach this stuff in the schools anymore i know my son hasn’t I’ve been helping him with history last time i was helping him with homework

Host: yeah mean at the end of the day it sounds like normal normal behavior from a regular kid that’s going through changes and growing and going through puberty and all those things that’s what it sounds like to me wouldn’t you say yeah so i am kind of curious go ahead go ahead

Seth: he has an issue with personal space as Chris has pointed out but like he has that issue with everybody right i mean it’s like son you need to stay back just a little bit so you can be you know ’cause the closer you get I’m gonna ask you to brush the teeth yeah

Host: i totally understand that sounds like an innocent kid to me if you ask me sounds like an innocent kid so it doesn’t make any sense that he would be like oh no like this like Sebastian has some sort of leprosy or something like that i i i think that’s a little bit a little bit extreme but we do need to talk about this and i appreciate you being here to clarify a lot of this etcetera one of the other things though too you know after everything that happened she called cps on the child on the child’s family and all that during that time why wasn’t there and i know a lot of people have asked this question why wasn’t there why wasn’t he taken away from that home that home at that time why couldn’t, why couldn’t you take him why couldn’t you take him

Seth: we were still in the middle of the divorce ok settled yet this didn’t happen after the divorce this was happening during the divorce so this happened during the divorce so when i was instead of being the worried father they turn around and pretty much said you’re the hateful ex-husband

Host: right so let’s talk about that for a second now i know that there’s been a lot of paperwork documents that were that were leaked out here in these internet streets describing you as just but just painting you and not a great light for lack of a better term and it all has to do with how you were handling your relationship with Sebastian ok for lack of a better term can we talk about that a little bit because i know that there’s been a lot of people talking about that some people side eyeing etcetera you know Sebastian was in a bad place no matter where he turned so on and so forth and i just wanted to air some of that information and and just kind of lay some of that to bed what’s up with that paperwork is any of it actually true what

Seth: if any of that was true California would not have given me joint legal and joint physical custody while i was homeless, the best thing they did was give keep me in the child’s life because i was able to find a place he was able to come over he was able to come to my house and i was i was renting a room you’ve never lived in California but when i was there for a one bedroom studio you’re looking at $2120 a month i don’t make that even out here as a deputy sheriff

Host: OK interesting so those allegations that were in the paperwork you never raised your hand to him or anything of that sort or any of the other

Seth: He hit me, ok she hit me with the domestic violence with Sebastian, Sebastian told me I hit him in the head. Now, this whole day, and this took place in one whole day from the morning until it was time for me to go to bed in time for Sebastian to go to bed, Sebastian had two things he needed to do: clean up his room and make his bed then I was gonna take him swimming it was that for that, you do this we’ll go swimming my son likes to go swimming so lets you know make the bed clean up your toys get them all off the off the floor. We can go swimming.

Four or five hours have gone by, and I kept checking on him. He wasn’t doing it. I was reminding him, and then I went back downstairs at that point in time I was playing. I was big in computer games, so I played computer games and turned around, waited 30-45 minutes, and went back upstairs to check on him again. It’s just me and him in the house, and he was upstairs the last time he was upstairs. I walk up there, and there’s not a single toy in any of his bins; they are all over the floor now Lego’s, There are building blocks, Hot Wheels action figures, and everything all over the floor; my son has also stripped his entire bed a blanket, sheet comforter even the fitted sheet for underneath there and his pillowcase is off of his pillow, and he’s ******* naked play it on the Wii I saw this. I was like OK, walk to my room, put on my swimming trunks, grab my beach towel. You’re not gonna clean up your room, you’re not gonna make your bed, you’re not gonna get to go swimming, and I was going to prove the point.

I went and got ready to go swimming and he saw me walk by his room in my swimming trucks and my feet down and he was like i want to go swimming and i stopped and i turned i looked at him i looked at the floor i looked at his bed i was like none of your toys are picked up none of your bed is as strict completely in your ******* they can play in video games he came across the floor stomping his feet and he stomped on a hot wheel and he locked his balance and i put my hand in the door frame and his head hit my hand instead of the door front hmm my son has a pocket of fluid on the on the right bilateral part of his brain I don’t want him to get hit I’d rather him hit my hand then the door frame and he did so then outside Katie was already home at this point in time and i went to jump in the pool and do some laps ’cause that’s what i was using for exercise and Katie was out at the smoke section with all of her girlfriends and Sebastian put on some clothes ran outside and told her that i hit him she turned around and filed because we were in the middle of the divorce still living in the same residence she turned around and child abuse domestic violence and had in a move out order issued and they served it like 3 days late.

Host: wow, and that’s when you got kicked out of the residence, correct?

– Seth: That is correct. I was living in my car and trying to figure out how to make ends meet. – in two months of not seeing my son

Host: But you still got Custody Still living, Go Ahead

Seth: I was homeless at that time, so they gave her custodial custody. She was still on active duty in the military and getting BAH, which also helps keep residence over your head. When she stated she was moving to TN, I wanted my son out of California due to California laws. I didnt have a problem with it.

Accusations of you being banned from the base:

Seth: Because I stood up and told the doctor she wasn’t helping my son get over what happened. If I decided to raise my voice, people would take it as violence; I am making a point. Did I put my hands on anybody? No. Did I threaten anybody? No. Did I stand up and raise my voice? He is my son, and he needs help. So he can actually go into society not thinking this fucking shit is fucking normal. 52:23 Do I blame her for this shit? Yeah, it happened under her watch. I already blame myself for some shit that happening. I cant go back and change it.

Seth: The abuse is a fact.

Host: I am curious if it is backed up by CPS; you called about a 13-year-old, etc. Do we actually have solid evidence of such, aside from you telling LE, Local about this?

Seth: Local LE knew about it previously

Host: What really is a dynamics between you and Proudfoot’s? Lets be honest here

Seth: I am Seth Rogers, they are Proudfoot’s. He is my son I named him. I haven’t wanted going to court. I wanted him to come live with me and I was getting what I wanted. Me and Him wanted. I wanted him to come live with me. Now he is missing

Host: Did Katie had a problem for Sebastian to come and live with you? Yes or No?

Seth: You have to ask her.

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Seth Rogers – Pascal

April 5, 2024

Interview with Seth Rogers – Updates on the Search for Sebastian Rogers

Search Updates & Law Enforcement Communication

Host: Are there any updates on the search?
Seth: No, nothing that I’ve been told.

Host: Have you had any conversations with law enforcement?
Seth: No.

Host: How are you feeling?
Seth: The same as yesterday—my goal remains to find Sebastian.

Discussion on Previous Statements

Host: You made serious accusations and revealed major details in previous interviews.
Seth: I was so tired and exhausted that I don’t even remember the podcast.

Host: Wow, really? I get it—sleep deprivation, multiple interviews.
Seth: Yes, everyone wanted a piece of me. I felt like an empty pie.

Host: Regardless, you shared significant information that shocked people. Let’s talk about that.

Seth: Does this relate to Sebastian?
Host: Yes.

Chris Proudfoot’s Comments

Seth: Chris Proudfoot (Sebastian’s stepfather) was getting questioned about why he didn’t want my son around his daughter. He told me that if people kept asking, he would reveal something that would make people stop looking for Sebastian.

Host: Really? When and how did this conversation happen?
Seth: It was over the phone.

Host: Was this a private conversation between just you and Chris?
Seth: No, Katie (Sebastian’s mother) was also on the call.

Host: What led to this discussion?
Seth: It started because people were asking Chris why he didn’t want Sebastian around his daughter.

Host: So you’re saying he implied that revealing this information would discourage people from searching for Sebastian?
Seth: Yes. I told him not to go down that route.

Sebastian’s Past & Therapy Concerns

Host: Are you saying Chris saw Sebastian as a predator? If so, why?
Seth: That, and the fact that he hadn’t received the correct help in California.

Host: What happened in California?
Seth: While under Katie’s supervision, Sebastian was assaulted by another child. He saw a doctor named Dr. Frannie at Balboa, but she wasn’t providing the right therapy. She just let him play with toys and watch movies, which wasn’t helping him process his trauma.

Host: Are you sure the doctor wasn’t qualified for trauma therapy?
Seth: Yes.

Host: So, to clarify, Sebastian was assaulted while under Katie’s supervision?
Seth: Yes.

The 13-Year-Old Involved in the Assault

Host: Was Chris living with Katie at that time?
Seth: Yes.

Host: Do you know who the 13-year-old was?
Seth: No. California law protects minors under 13, so authorities wouldn’t give me the child’s last name.

Host: Why not?
Seth: They said I couldn’t press charges because the child was under 13. The only thing they allowed me to do was contact the school psychologist so the child’s name could be documented to protect other kids.

Host: How did you find out about the incident?
Seth: Katie told me. She reported it to CPS, and then I started dealing with CPS and the sheriff’s department.

Sebastian’s Behavioral Challenges

Host: Did you know anything about the 13-year-old before this happened?
Seth: No.

Host: Some people have suggested Sebastian has behavioral issues. Can you clarify?
Seth: He’s autistic and has delays in learning. Mentally, he’s around 10 or 11 despite being 15. He’s going through adolescence and experiencing changes he doesn’t fully understand.

Host: What kind of “questionable” behavior are people referring to?
Seth: He has issues with personal space. Chris pointed that out, but it applies to everyone. I always remind him to give people space.

Host: Was he accused of inappropriate behavior?
Seth: When he was younger, he once pulled down his pants in the bathroom and compared himself to another kid. It wasn’t malicious—just childish behavior.

Custody & Family Dynamics

Host: After the incident in California, why wasn’t Sebastian removed from Katie’s custody?
Seth: We were still going through the divorce. Instead of being seen as a concerned father, I was treated like the “hateful ex-husband.”

Host: Court documents paint you in a negative light regarding your relationship with Sebastian. Are those allegations true?
Seth: If they were, California wouldn’t have granted me joint legal and physical custody—even while I was homeless. They kept me in his life, and I found a place so he could visit me.

Domestic Violence Accusations

Host: Were you accused of domestic violence?
Seth: Yes. Katie filed a report saying I hit Sebastian.

Host: What happened?
Seth: One day, I asked him to clean his room and make his bed before going swimming. After several hours, he hadn’t done it. When I checked again, he had stripped his entire bed and was playing video games naked.

I put on my swim trunks to show him I was going without him. He got upset, stomped around, and stepped on a Hot Wheels car, losing his balance. I put my hand in the doorframe to stop him from hitting it, and his head hit my hand instead. Later, he told Katie I hit him, and she filed a report.

Military Base Ban & Final Thoughts

Host: Were you banned from the military base?
Seth: Yes, because I raised my voice at a doctor who wasn’t helping my son. I didn’t threaten or hurt anyone, but I was passionate about getting him the right help.

Host: Do you believe abuse happened under Katie’s watch?
Seth: Yes, and that’s a fact.

Host: Do you have proof?
Seth: Local law enforcement knew about it before.

Host: What’s your relationship with the Proudfoots?
Seth: I’m Seth Rogers. They are the Proudfoots. I named my son, and I wanted him to live with me. Now he’s missing.

Host: Did Katie have a problem with Sebastian living with you?
Seth: You’d have to ask her.

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Seth Rogers – Private Investigator

April 16, 2024

Sebastian Rogers Search Widens as Authorities Insist No Foul Play Suspected

Surviving the Survivor Podcast – Hosted by Joel Waldman

Introduction

Welcome to Surviving the Survivor, the true crime podcast that brings you the best guests in the field. Today, we’re discussing the case of Sebastian Rogers, who has been missing for 46 days. His father, Seth Rogers, is desperate to find him. His mother, Katie Proudfoot, and stepfather, Chris Proudfoot, have faced intense scrutiny.

Joining us are:

  • Doug McGregor, forensic behavioral analyst specializing in geographic profiling and linkage analysis.
  • Heather Cohen, host of Justice Warriors Podcast, former Tennessee State coordinator for the Q Center for Missing Persons.
  • Courtney Laski, board-certified behavior analyst, expert in autism.

OJ Simpson Mention

Before diving into Sebastian’s case, Joel briefly touches on O.J. Simpson’s passing, his legacy, and Fred Goldman’s response.

The Investigation

Status Update – 46 Days Missing

Doug McGregor explains that after 46 days, the odds of finding a runaway child with autism decrease significantly. Authorities, including the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Sevier County Sheriff’s Office, continue their efforts. He emphasizes the importance of running parallel investigations: one focused on a possible runaway case and another on foul play or abduction scenarios.

Heather Cohen notes that she has not personally searched for Sebastian because she prefers to be officially invited by law enforcement or the family before getting involved.

Comparisons to Other Cases

Heather compares Sebastian’s disappearance to Devin Bond, a 16-year-old who vanished under similar circumstances and was later found to have died by suicide in the woods. She raises concerns about Sebastian potentially facing bullying at school or abuse at home.

Tracking Digital Evidence & Travel Routes

Doug McGregor explains how law enforcement uses geofencing warrants and digital tracking to investigate movements of persons of interest. He highlights that:

  • TBI confirmed early on that they were tracking digital evidence, including phone records.
  • The last confirmed sighting of Sebastian (outside of family) was him entering a vehicle after leaving Texas Roadhouse.
  • If his stepfather, Chris Proudfoot, was in Memphis, a 3-hour, 37-minute drive away, he could have potentially traveled overnight undetected if he left his phone behind.
  • Authorities may also be analyzing travel patterns of Chris’s parents, who reportedly drove to Alaska two days after Sebastian disappeared.

Possibility of Online Luring

Heather points out that autistic children often form strong connections online, which could make them vulnerable to grooming or luring. If Sebastian had access to online platforms, he may have been in communication with someone outside his home. However, conflicting reports exist on whether he had internet access.

Family Dynamics & Possible Abuse

Potential Home Abuse

There are allegations that Sebastian was bullied at home:

  • Reports claim his stepfather mocked him for wearing pull-ups at night.
  • Seth Rogers has suggested Sebastian was physically disciplined with a belt.
  • If he was being abused or felt unsafe, it could have driven him to leave.

Courtney Laski explains that autistic children already face social difficulties and heightened sensory sensitivities, making bullying or abuse especially damaging. If Sebastian was facing verbal or physical abuse, he could have been desperate to escape.

Why Aren’t His Parents Searching?

A major public concern is why Katie and Chris Proudfoot are not actively searching for Sebastian. Their statement emphasized the importance of community searches, but they themselves have moved away.

Heather finds this concerning, noting that most parents would search 24/7 if their child was missing. She wonders if they believe someone abducted him, which might explain their lack of active searching.

Current Law Enforcement Efforts

TBI & Law Enforcement Strategies

  • Geofencing: Law enforcement is using location-based warrants to track digital activity in and around Sebastian’s home.
  • Behavioral Analysis: Experts are analyzing interactions between family members and potential suspects.
  • Search Coordination: Authorities are asking Sevier County residents to thoroughly check their properties twice a day, including under decks, in garages, and behind structures.

Doug McGregor notes that search efforts must be coordinated—random public searches can contaminate evidence or be ineffective if not properly organized.

FBI & Secret Service Involvement

  • The FBI may be assisting with digital forensics, behavioral analysis, and tracking interstate movements.
  • The Secret Service’s role is unclear, but they may be helping analyze electronic data.

Potential Outcomes

Possibilities

Doug McGregor outlines three main theories:

  1. Sebastian ran away and is either hiding or with someone.
  2. An online predator lured him away.
  3. Foul play was involved.

He emphasizes that most teenage runaways return on their own, but the highly publicized nature of the case could make it difficult for Sebastian to come back. If he is hiding, he might fear ridicule upon returning.

Suicide Concerns

Courtney Laski confirms that autistic individuals have higher rates of suicide, especially if they feel isolated or bullied. If Sebastian was experiencing extreme distress, self-harm cannot be ruled out.

Could He Be Stuck Somewhere?

  • There are cases of missing individuals being found in chimneys, crawl spaces, or abandoned buildings.
  • A local resident recently found a boy trapped in a chimney in another town, emphasizing the importance of checking every possible hiding place.

Doug urges residents to report anything unusual, such as disturbed soil, animal activity, or foul odors.

Final Thoughts & Call to Action

Doug McGregor:

  • The public can help by keeping Sebastian’s name in the news, distributing flyers, and searching locally.
  • If you live in the Nashville area, check the homeless population—some runaways end up in transient communities.
  • If you notice anything suspicious, contact law enforcement immediately and do not disturb potential evidence.

Heather Cohen:

  • Private investigators often uncover leads overlooked by law enforcement.
  • Online communication records could be crucial.
  • The case remains wide open, and she encourages the public to stay engaged.

Sebastian Rogers is still missing. Anyone with information should contact 1-800-TBI-FIND. Heather Cohen, PI hired by Seth Rogers speaking on a podcast shares and confirmed the following info.

  • Per Sumner County Sheriff- there is ring camera footage of Sebastian taking out the trash hours before he was reported missing.
  • Also confirmed by ring footage- Sebastian’s bedroom light coming on and going off that night.
  • According to this looks like Sebastian returned home, went to his room at bedtime just like Katie reported.
  • Also confirmed— both by dispatch Radio and by Heather Cohan
  • Dispatch audio- “Max (k-9) tracked back up “
  • Heather- says she asked Sumner County Sheriff about a scent trail- she states “I do believe there was a scent trail leading to the construction site”
  • According to CP There was a live scent track from the families front door to the nearby construction site where the scent trail ended.
  • Possibility that Sebastian got into a vehicle and left the immediate area.


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Seth Rogers – T-Rev

April 25, 2024

T-Rev: Sebastian Rogers Seen On Camera By LE! Seth Rogers Interview – Live Call Ins

Host: Yep. Gotcha. At least somebody does. Okay, what is going on?

Seth: Just tired. Exhausted.

Host: Now, I know you had a meeting with the TBI today, right?

Seth: Seems like everybody knew it before I did.

Host: The internet works fast.

Seth: Word gets around these internet streets quick. I miss dial-up days. There you go, AOL.

Host: I watched a little bit of you and Josh last night. Josh is a good dude.

Seth: I saw you in chat, man.

Host: Yeah, I left your chat because you were in your hotel room getting off the internet.

Host: Let me ask you this—was there anything positive that came out today?

Seth: I found positivity in it. That’s all that matters.

Host: That’s good then. So, how’s the searching going? Are y’all gonna be searching again tomorrow at 10:30? Is that what you said?

Seth: Right now, that’s kind of up in the air. I don’t know what they’re planning on me tomorrow. I’m Roman Catholic, and it’s Good Friday.

Host: Oh, okay.

Seth: It’s time to go commune with the Lord. Maybe He will give me what I need. Maybe He will reach down and bless me.

Host: Definitely. So, from what you heard today, do you think there’s a possibility somebody could be holding your son against his will?

Seth: I’ve been on the internet, I’ve been on TV, I’ve even been on the radio, which most people don’t even realize. But if my son were able to hear me or see me on TV or the internet, he would know to give me a call.

Host: So, you think he doesn’t have access to that right now?

Seth: I don’t think he does.

Host: Have you ever known him to watch the news?

Seth: No.

Host: So, if he was on the news, he probably wouldn’t even know he was on the news then, correct?

Seth: I mean, I haven’t had cable in probably nine or ten years.

Host: Seth, let me ask you this. I know tonight in the news interview, you said he’s probably somewhere playing video games. Do you know if he played these video games online with other people?

Seth: No, he didn’t.

Host: Or you don’t know?

Seth: I don’t know. A lot of the games he played were on my account, and most of them were solo games, like Spider-Man or Batman: Arkham Knight.

Host: Okay.

Seth: Yeah, because I play a lot of games too. Some of them are online, but he mostly played single-player games.

Host: Okay. So, I’m just wondering how somebody might have had access to your son. I heard you say today that the TBI doesn’t think you’re a suspect, they don’t think Chris is a suspect, and they don’t think Katie is a suspect. So, if it’s not like the internet is saying, then there has to be another answer to what’s going on.

Seth: Or there would be another answer.

Host: Now, would your son know the area? Would he be easily lost? Does he get confused?

Seth: If you stay inside most of the time and only go from your house to the bus stop, and you know how to get to school, but the rest of the time you’re in a vehicle, would you really know how to get anywhere by foot?

Host: Yeah, I guess if your bubble is small, you really wouldn’t know the area. So, if you got outside that bubble, you could get lost. You could get stuck in the woods if you’re used to blacktop.

Seth: Exactly.

Host: I think a lot of people are confused because, when you said today that they don’t think they’re a suspect, some of their behavior is strange. Like the whole going out of town thing. I think that was a little strange. If it were me, I’d be out searching every day.

Seth: Yeah.

Host: I have one child—a daughter, she’s 24 years old. And even now, I’d be out searching.

Seth: Of course.

Host: Some of their behavior just makes them seem a little suspect. I’m not saying they did anything, but it makes them seem that way.

Seth: That’s their behavior.

Host: So, do you think your son is still out there?

Seth: I believe he is.

Host: If he is out there, he has to have some type of assistance.

Seth: Yes.

Host: He would need food, water, some kind of shelter.

Seth: Have you ever been homeless?

Host: No, I haven’t.

Seth: I have. Homeless people take care of homeless people. And they always take care of the kids.

Host: So, you think he could possibly be with a homeless group?

Seth: Maybe.

Host: Now, look, I’ve been out there in the woods in Tennessee, and I’ve run into a couple of homeless encampments. I know there are people living out there.

Seth: My parents came here the first week, and the first thing they did was hit the homeless encampments with pictures of my son.

Host: Did anything come of that?

Seth: Nothing solid, but they did it.

Host: Well, Seth, I hope more people start putting search parties together and getting out there to find your son. If he’s out there lost, he’s going to need help.

Seth: Yes.

Host: We need to bring him home.

Seth: That’s the goal.

Host: All right, Seth. I appreciate you coming on and sharing with us.

Seth: No problem. Thank you.

Host: Stay safe.

Seth: You too.

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Seth Rogers – Chloe Private Investigator

April 27, 2024

Host: Welcome to Websleuths YouTube Live. Normally, we do “Woo Woo Saturday Night” with ghost stories, but tonight we are pausing that for a very special guest. Our guest is Chloe, a private investigator working on the case of missing Sebastian Rogers. Heather, who you’ve probably seen on the news, is taking the night off, but Chloe is here to answer our questions. Thank you for joining us.

Chloe: Thank you for having me. There are so many questions about Sebastian, and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Host: Let’s start with some basic details. Sebastian Rogers went missing toward the end of February, right?

Chloe: Yes. He went missing between midnight and 6 AM on February 26th. He’s 15 years old and has autism.

Host: There are many cameras in the neighborhood, yet none seem to have captured Sebastian leaving.

Chloe: Correct. We had a meeting with Sumner County officials recently, and even they are baffled. He was seen arriving home, but after that, there is no recorded sighting of him leaving.

Host: He was last seen in public at Texas Roadhouse on Sunday, correct?

Chloe: Yes. The last confirmed sighting by someone other than family was at Texas Roadhouse. The day before, he was seen at Costco, which we confirmed via a receipt.

Host: Let’s talk about the timeline that night. When was the last time someone saw Sebastian?

Chloe: That would be at Texas Roadhouse. After that, he was home. He was seen on camera taking out the trash around 6:30 or 7 PM. After that, he is not seen again.

Host: Have the police shared their thoughts on this?

Chloe: They haven’t shared much. They’ve stated that the family has been cooperative but have not provided details about their investigation.

Host: What about Chris Proudfoot’s alibi? He’s the stepfather.

Chloe: Chris was reportedly at his job site in Memphis at 5:15 AM on February 26th. The last confirmed sighting of him was at 8 PM the night before.

Host: Has law enforcement cleared anyone?

Chloe: No, they have explicitly stated that no one is cleared. However, they also have not named any suspects.

Host: Let’s talk about the police investigation. Do we know if they searched the house thoroughly?

Chloe: Yes, the house has been searched over a dozen times. The sheriff confirmed that they used heat-seeking devices to check if he was in the walls. However, I do not know if they used luminol or cadaver dogs inside the house.

Host: What about theories on how he could have left without being caught on camera?

Chloe: There are ways he could have left without triggering cameras. If he walked through certain areas in the backyard or between houses, he may have avoided detection. However, it is still odd that no cameras picked him up.

Host: There was a petition for the FBI to take over. What’s the reasoning behind that?

Chloe: The FBI is involved, but Seth, Sebastian’s biological father, wants them to take full control. He is frustrated with the lack of progress.

Host: What’s the status of lie detector tests?

Chloe: Chris reportedly took one with the TBI, but I cannot confirm the results. Seth took one arranged by Nancy Grace, but I do not have results for that either.

Host: There were rumors about potential sightings or evidence. What is verified?

Chloe: There were claims about a surveillance video showing a handoff of Sebastian, but we have not been able to verify that. Some people reported seeing suspicious activity that morning, but nothing confirmed.

Host: Has law enforcement provided any updates to the family or private investigators?

Chloe: They have been very tight-lipped. Even the missing persons report has not been released to us.

Host: What are your main theories?

Chloe: I see two possibilities: 1) He left on his own due to an altercation or emotional distress, or 2) Something happened inside the home that has not been disclosed. If he left on his own, I believe he is still in the area.

Host: What can people do to help?

Chloe: Share his picture, keep spreading awareness, and report any credible tips to law enforcement.

Chris Proudfoot Joins the Discussion

Host: Chris, I don’t know how long you’ve been listening, but you sound angry. Talk to me. The last thing we want to do is cause problems between you and Seth.

Chris Proudfoot: I understand that, but let me help you with something. A lot of the information being discussed by Chloe and the questions coming through are sickening and disgusting. Let me address a few things. First, you haven’t called me, and Heather is the only one who has reached out to me or my wife. Sharing information that is not fully verified is a problem.

Host: Chris, help us understand. Chloe is here to help, and the last thing she wants is to put out misinformation.

Chris: First and foremost, what happens between my wife and me is nobody’s business. We’re looking for my son. It does not matter whether he is my stepson—he is my son, and I love him as my own.

Host: Chris, I understand the frustration. But when you ask the public for help, people will look into everything to try and figure out what happened to Sebastian.

Chris: Let me be clear—my parents did not go to Alaska two days after Sebastian went missing. My stepfather went for work, and my mother accompanied him. They were gone for two weeks, not a month. People spreading these rumors have no idea what my family, my wife, Seth, his mom, and I are going through.

Host: We understand, and that’s why it’s important to clear up misinformation.

Chris: Thinking outside the box is fine, but wild speculation only leads to false tips that waste investigative resources. People assume things, and it is infuriating. I am a pissed-off stepfather who just wants my son found.

Host: Chris, would you be open to clarifying key points? For example, did you take a polygraph test?

Chris: Yes, I took a polygraph with TBI and another agency. I passed with flying colors.

Host: People have asked whether you tore down posters of Sebastian. Did you?

Chris: Absolutely not. If anyone has proof of me doing that, show the video. Otherwise, stop spreading lies.

Host: What do you think happened to Sebastian?

Chris: I believe he walked out of the house and vanished into thin air. The doors were locked, except the front door, which had a keypad lock. That is the most likely way he left. He was not wearing shoes when he disappeared.

Host: Thank you for joining us, Chris. I hope we can all refocus on finding Sebastian.

Chris: That’s all I want. Keep spreading the word, put up flyers, and if anyone sees something, report it to law enforcement immediately.

Host: Thank you, Chris. And thank you to everyone working on this case. Let’s find Sebastian.

Chloe: Thank you. I just want to bring him home.

Host: And to everyone listening, if you have any information, please contact TBI immediately. No tip is too small. Thank you for your time.

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Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers -The Pascal Show

May, 3 2024

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE

Seth Rogers & New Spokesperson Speak on Sebastian Rogers Case
Hosted by Pascal

Host (Pascal):
Good evening, good morning, and good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to The Pascal Show. Hopefully, you’re all doing well.

We have some updates regarding the disappearance of Sebastian Rogers. These may not be huge pieces of the puzzle, but there is movement in the case. It’s been well over two months since this young man was last seen, and we’re all still trying to figure out what happened.

Before we get into everything, please do me a favor—hit that like button down below. It helps get the word out about Sebastian. Many people still don’t know about this case, so the more engagement we get, the more people learn about him.

Alright, let’s jump into this conversation.

As you all know, Sebastian Rogers, a 15-year-old boy, is still missing. His family is still searching for him. Some recent developments have surfaced, including a sighting and a photo. There’s also talk of potential video footage.

Before we get into that, we have a new member joining the search effort. This person will be assisting with media communication and updates. Please welcome Tony Matys and Sebastian’s father, Seth Rogers.

Host: Tony, welcome! People might recognize you from your work on the Caleb Harris case. Can you tell us what led you to join Seth in the search for Sebastian?

Tony:
Thanks for having me, Pascal. When Seth reached out and asked for my help, I couldn’t say no. He’s been carrying a heavy load for 66 days—searching for his son, vetting people, dealing with media—it’s exhausting. I wanted to step in and help.

Host: Seth, why did you decide to bring on a spokesperson now?

Seth:
With everything going on—coordinating searches, dealing with interviews, following leads—it was becoming too much. Tony offered to help, and I saw it as a blessing.

Host: Tony, you mentioned wanting to unite everyone involved in Sebastian’s case. Have you spoken with Chris and Katie Proudfoot?

Tony:
Yes. I had a two-hour conversation with them last week. My goal is to bring everyone together and eliminate the drama surrounding this case. I told both Seth and the Proudfoots that if I represented them, interviews would focus solely on finding Sebastian—no distractions, no throwing darts at each other. We need to keep this about Sebastian.

Host: Has there been any response from Chris and Katie about working together under your guidance?

Tony:
The offer is on the table, but no final decision has been made yet.

Host: Let’s talk about the sighting. A photo recently surfaced of a young man resembling Sebastian at the Grandfather Mountain Visitor Center in Linville, North Carolina. Seth, do you believe this is your son?

Seth:
Yes, I do.

Host: You drove to North Carolina immediately after seeing the photo. What happened when you got there?

Seth:
When I arrived, I asked to see security footage, but law enforcement had instructed them not to show it to me. However, I used the trip as an opportunity to distribute flyers and raise awareness about Sebastian. Surprisingly, many people there didn’t even know he was missing.

Host: Tony, why would law enforcement withhold the footage from Seth?

Tony:
If the footage shows Sebastian getting into a car and Seth were to see a license plate number, his first instinct would be to retrieve his son by any means necessary. Law enforcement is trying to ensure the case is handled properly.

Host: Have authorities confirmed there is actual video footage?

Seth:
Yes. There are security cameras at the visitor center, and the staff confirmed to me that law enforcement instructed them not to release the footage.

Host: Is there anything that can be done to expedite this?

Seth:
No. We just have to wait.

Host: There were also reports of a pair of pants found in a park. Can you clarify?

Seth:
While I was in North Carolina, someone reached out saying they found pants similar to the ones Katie described Sebastian wearing. I contacted the detective, and law enforcement collected the pants, but they later informed me they were not Sebastian’s.

Host: How did they determine that?

Seth:
They told me the size didn’t match but didn’t provide further details.

Host: How can the public help in the search for Sebastian?

Seth:
If you see something, say something. If you think you see Sebastian, take a photo and say his name. Let him know his dad is looking for him.

Host: Tony, what are the next steps in getting media coverage?

Tony:
We’re being strategic about media appearances now. We’re set to be on NewsNation on Monday and Nancy Grace on Tuesday. We’re prioritizing national platforms and reliable YouTubers to maximize coverage.

Host: A viewer asked why there has been so little media coverage on Sebastian’s case.

Tony:
Drama has been a factor. News outlets don’t want to cover a case with infighting. That’s why we’re restructuring our approach and refocusing on Sebastian.

Host: Seth, do you have a final message for those following the case?

Seth:
I won’t stop searching for my son. If he sees this, I want him to know that I love him and I will never give up.

Host: Thank you both for being here. We’re all rooting for Sebastian’s safe return.

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Seth Rogers Interview Transcripts

Seth Rogers -The Pascal Show

May, 13 2024

Interview with Seth Rogers on the Disappearance of Sebastian Rogers
Hosted by Pascal

Host (Pascal): Let’s get into this, guys. I’m honored to have back Tony Matys, who is working closely with Seth Rogers. Seth, the biological father of Sebastian Rogers, is also here with us. Fellas, good evening. How are you feeling?

Tony: Good, buddy. Thank you for having us. How are you doing?

Seth: Another day, another day with no answers.

Host: Let’s start with some background. Tony, since the last time you were on the show, how have things been?

Tony: We’ve been all right. You know, there are still a lot of people here for the wrong reasons, and there’s still a lot of drama. We’re working on that, but I think we’re moving forward, as Seth says.

Host: And Seth, how have things been for you?

Seth: Recently, some new information has been laid at my feet. Some things have definitely opened my eyes to what I didn’t know before. I had to let a couple of people go—some people close to the internal operations didn’t know how to keep things private.

Host: I understand you previously had a private investigator. Then Tony came in to help with media and communication. Now, another private investigator has stepped down. Seth, did Tony have anything to do with this?

Seth: 100% guilty.

Host: Was the departure amicable?

Seth: I thought it was, but only time will tell. I told my team—too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Too many cooks in the kitchen. This is about my son. I wanted to work with people who were aligned with my goals. When I brought Tony in, my goal was to see if we could get Chris and Katie to work with me. That was my olive branch. But a phone call was leaked, which told me exactly where certain people stood. My son doesn’t have time for people to stop being childish.

Host: There was a lot of backlash when Tony joined the show. Some assumed Tony had something to do with a private investigator stepping down. What’s your response to that?

Seth: Tony had nothing to do with it. He wasn’t even in the meeting where I laid everything out for my team. And honestly, some people weren’t sharing all the information with me, and I don’t appreciate that.

Host: Can you expand on that? What information was withheld?

Seth: If you’re not going to give me a lead or follow up on it, and I have to take time away from searching for my son to do it myself—that’s a problem. Everyone has a part to play, and they need to play their part.

Host: Let’s move on to another major topic. A leaked phone call involving Chris Proudfoot has been making rounds. What’s your take on that?

Seth: In that conversation, Chris literally said he wasn’t going to work with Tony. The whole point of me putting Chris and Katie in contact with Tony was to get us all on the same page. People have been trying to pit me against Chris and Katie, and I wanted to avoid that. But this call showed me that Chris isn’t on the same path I’m on. My goal is to find my son—I’m not here for the drama.

Host: And Tony, you recently said “the gloves are off.” Why now?

Tony: We had that phone call for about nine days before it was leaked. Then he called into a show, pretending to be Billy Bob Thornton, mocking an autistic child. That’s just one example. He also told us he’d stay off social media if I helped keep Seth under control. Then he turned around and did the exact opposite.

Host: I want to touch on another big topic—Nancy Grace aired a segment that was later removed. Why was it deleted?

Tony: I had multiple agreements with Nancy Grace’s producer, Holden, that nothing would be said to make the Proudfoots look bad. I had it in writing, texts, emails, and phone calls. But in the middle of the interview, Nancy aired something she wasn’t supposed to. I immediately texted Seth to leave the interview, and he did. Later, Nancy apologized and assured us the clip wouldn’t be seen again—but here we are.

Host: Seth, in that clip, you mentioned a theory that Sebastian’s mother, Katie, may have accidentally overdosed him on sleep medication. Is that your official stance?

Seth: That was just one of the theories I discussed after my polygraph. The investigator asked me what I thought happened, and I listed my top three theories. But they only aired one. I was hoping for guidance, but I didn’t get any.

Host: Now, shifting back to the investigation. You recently mentioned you had access to DCS (Department of Children’s Services) records for the household. What did you learn?

Seth: I can’t disclose details, but my eyes have been opened to what was happening in that house. Sumner County had these records all along, but TBI (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation) didn’t, so I advised them to request the unredacted reports.

Host: Will you be taking legal action against DCS?

Tony: Everything is on the table. Just like everyone is still a suspect, every option is being considered.

Host: And about surveillance footage—have you seen all the footage related to Sebastian’s disappearance?

Seth: No, I haven’t.

Host: What are you missing?

Seth: I want to see everything. Right now, I’ve only seen proof-of-life footage of him leaving a Texas Roadhouse. There’s other footage from people’s cars and around the house that I haven’t seen.

Host: Do you know if there’s dashcam footage from any of the vehicles involved?

Seth: I’ve heard there is, but I haven’t seen it. If the police don’t release it, I don’t see it.

Host: With all the developments and challenges, what do you want people to focus on?

Seth: Finding my son. That’s the only goal. There are too many distractions, too much drama. If people really care, they need to focus on bringing Sebastian home.

Host: Understood. Before we wrap up, can you tell us about the upcoming vigil?

Tony: There are two events on the 19th. One is a motorcycle ride at 4 PM, and the other is a vigil at Long Hollow Church at 6 PM.

Host: Thank you both for your time. Seth, I can’t imagine what you’re going through, but I hope this platform helps. If anyone has any useful information, let’s keep the focus on bringing Sebastian home.

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