successful businessman, husband and father that s been missing now for four days. friends and family of douglas schantz, they re holding out hope he ll be found safe and alive. last seen on a surveillance camera, leaving a bourbon street bar at 2:00 in the morning early friday. his family says it s unusual for schantz not to return phone calls or texts or even to do it within a period of ten minutes. his son michael has been handing out missing flyers and pleading for the public s help in finding his father. here he is. my family is distraught, i m distraught, shock. we just really want him found alive and back with our family. bill: schantz coworkers knew something was wrong when he did not show up for a meeting on friday morning and also for a flight with his daughter out of new orleans back to houston, texas. martha: strange story. this is a very important
today. that preliminary hearing is now going to take place on august 4th. in addition to that, yesterday the escondido police department announced they are also looking at this same man, john gardner, in relation to the disappearance and murder of another young san diego teen, 14-year-old amber dubois. we don t have details as to why police think he maybe involved in her murder. we thought maybe there d be information about that in court today, it did not. we re likely to hear more as it unfolds, but once again, 30-year-old john gardner, the suspect in the rape and murder of 17-year-old chelsea king, will take place august 4th. jane? jane: anita, thank you. jon: a high-profile search team is helping new orleans police look for a houston executive who vanished in the french quarter. douglas schantz was last seen in the early hours of friday morning. he was leaving a bourbon street
wrong bill. jane: senator, we re going to have to leave it there. senator john barrasso, republican of wyoming. thank you for your time. jon: it s a mystery still burning 24 hours after we first brought it to you, where is douglas schantz? police in new orleans are pouring over surveillance video. he was last seen leaving a bourbon street nightclub a block from his hotel. we ll tell you where police are searching now. there are
missing energy executive from houston last seen early friday morning in new orleans. multiple reports indicate investigators found the remains of a man, a white man wearing a suit in the mississippi river. fox news cannot confirm whether the body is the remains of douglas schantz but the river is where police say they ve been focuses their investigation. the man was last seen in a bar on bourbon street at 2:00 in the morning friday. he was in town making a donation to his daughter s school but security cameras show him leaving the bar, headed to the river alone. what happened next is unclear. let s get local coverage. fox 26 from houston, christine galvin is with us. tell us about today s find, what you know. reporter: well, this is still a developing story. we can tell you there s a man from houston named tim miller, the founder of texas equisearch
and bring some closure to this and bring doug back to his family. jon: well, i was going to say, i mean, his tamly is, obviously, fill going on the premise that maybe he is alive somewhere. it sounds like you ve pretty much given up on that. i mean, we re in recovery mode right now on my end. and, you know what? i ve been wrong before, and i certainly hope i m wrong again. that s one of the greatest days for me, to be wrong. but, you know, until that comes, we re going to continue out here with the sonar equipment and do everything we can and, again, i mean, we re from houston, he s from houston, he s one of our guys, and we re, we re here for the long haul. jon: well, i know you re all volunteering your time and expertise. tim miller, there is the picture of douglas schantz. there in new orleans to give a check to tulane university on behalf of his company, $25,000.