Eerie new video clue in case of Tennessee boy, 15, who vanished without trace

Newly released surveillance footage has provided a captious hint successful the hunt for Sebastian Rogers.

The 15-year aged lad from Tennessee has been missing since February past year. 

Video obtained by backstage researcher Steve Fischer, moving with Sebastian's parent and stepfather, shows a fig look astatine 12.17am connected the nighttime of his disappearance. 

The footage is from a thoroughfare located a azygous artifact from Sebastian's Sumner County home, prompting investigators to judge it whitethorn clasp captious information.

The surveillance footage besides captured a canine walker passing by soon earlier the unidentified figure. 

'It's decidedly a person,' said Fischer. 'It looks similar a bladed idiosyncratic wearing acheronian covering walks down southbound connected Kellyn Lane down a vehicle. And it appears similar helium oregon she is trying to enactment retired of eyesight of the idiosyncratic walking their dog. 

'They spell down this car for a small portion past they crook astir and travel backmost the aforesaid mode they came from.'

The artifact is adjacent to a operation tract wherever hunt dogs had antecedently indicated a imaginable lead. 

Private researcher Fischer, who enhanced the video for clarity, confirmed that it has been passed connected to instrumentality enforcement. 

He acknowledged, however, that identifying the fig is unlikely. 

'It took 3 times watching each the video, earlier we recovered that,' said Fischer.

The Sumner County Sheriff's Office (SCSO), which is moving with the TBI and FBI, maintains determination person been nary confirmed sightings oregon important leads successful Sebastian Rogers' disappearance.

Sheriff Eric Craddock said: 'Law enforcement has had possession of the archetypal video since 72 hours aft Sebastian was reported missing. 

'After thoroughly investigating this lead, we determined that it has nary relevance to the case.' 

This contrasts with backstage researcher Fischer's content that the footage holds imaginable clues. 

Notably, SCSO did not code whether the fig successful the video was identified. 

The hunt for Rogers has gained nationalist attention, with Duane 'Dog the Bounty Hunter' adjacent hopping connected the case.

The Denver-born TV personality, 71, told the Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN successful September that helium and his associates volition behaviour a probe autarkic of police, re-examine details already gathered and pursuit down caller leads.

'This is 1 of the astir horrendous cases of missing children that we've ever, ever worked on,' Chapman told the presumption of the vanishing of Rogers, a 15-year-old autochthonal of Hendersonville.

Last March, Rogers's begetter confirmed that the recently emerged mysterious representation is so his son and holds a hint astir his disappearance.

The mysterious picture, which was taken by a pistillate astatine the remainder halt adjacent a visitors' halfway successful the Blue Ridge Mountains successful North Carolina, shows a antheral who precise powerfully resembles Sebastian.

The pistillate aboriginal turned the representation into the Tennessee Bureau of Investigations and her person posted the representation online.

Days aft the photograph began circulating societal media, Seth Rogers, the teen's biologic father, told NewsNation that 'he believes it is his lad and helium is crossed authorities lines'.