Nathan Millard: Georgia father-of-5 vanishes during 24-hour business trip to Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA: Nathan Millard, 42, of Covington, Georgia, was supposed to be home after a 24-hour business trip to Louisiana on Wednesday, February 22, but it has been a week and the father of five is nowhere to be seen or heard from. Millard had been to a basketball game at a pub with a work client named Josh but didn't make it to the property site the next morning.
It is believed that Millard never made it back to the hotel room in Baton Rouge. Surveillance footage has since shown someone using Millard's debit card. Millard is a father to four teenage sons and a 7-year-old daughter.
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He never got back to the hotel
As per the Texas EquuSearch, Millard was last seen on video leaving the Courtyard Marriott hotel with his work client. He is believed to have gone to Happy’s Irish Pub which he left by foot at 11:30 pm to return to the hotel. His phone and wallet were found discarded blocks away.
Nathan's wife, who he's been married to for 9 years, told 11alive the trip was only supposed to have about a 24-hour turnaround. He had taken the short trip to stake out a prospective job site for his Conyers-based company Advanced Construction. "My mind has been going nonstop, but I can't let my mind torture me, and I'm just turning it over to God and prayer, prayer, prayer, staying positive," she told the outlet adding, He's a loved man, a great man and we need him, we want him home."
His wife said he briefly FaceTimed her from the LSU game on the night he went missing to show her his seats, "It was not anything I ever thought would be my last call." The working client and Millard then went to Happy's Irish Pub on 3rd Street in Downtown Baton Rouge, according to Amber and Millard then left the pub on his own to the toward the hotel.
His credit card continued to be used until Saturday
However, as they were due to meet at 8 am the next morning on the site, Millard didn't show up. The client went to the police by 9 am requesting a welfare check on Millard's room. The hotel staff reported it did not appear to them he had spent the night there. Since the time of his disappearance, according to Amber, his credit card continued to be used until Saturday before she was able to freeze it.
ID, debit card missing from the wallet found 4 blocks from the hotel
Kristen Harvey, search coordinator for Texas EquuSearch, a nonprofit volunteer search and rescue organization helping with Millard's case, told the outlet that Nathn took Lyft to the downtown bar from the game. "The Lyft app shows that he was dropped off about 9.30 at Happy's [Irish] Pub, and then the client told us that he left at about 11:30 and after that, no one's seen him since -- it's literally about a two-minute walk," Harvey said. "His phone was found about four blocks, maybe, from the hotel, his wallet was then found, his ID was missing, the debit card was missing."