Jeremy Beau Sides, aka "Nug" from the

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Exploring with Nug, is an American

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and civilian crime investigator who investigates missing person cases and missing items. In 2021, he found the bodies of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel, who had been missing for 21 years.

Personal life

Sides is from Acworth,

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. He is married and a father of two children. Before diving full-time, Sides was a metal detectorist as a hobby, searching for

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relics and other lost items around his hometown.

Career

After high school, Sides worked for the

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, in aviation hydraulics. Later he worked in the automotive industry.

Diving

When Sides started a metal detectorist

in 2016, friends at work gave him the nickname ''Nug'', joking that he was looking for gold. It stuck, and he changed the name of his channel to Exploring with Nug as he started exploring more and doing less metal detecting. Sides chooses unsolved missing person cases via the ''Charley Project'' online missing persons database, focusing on cases where drivers went missing near bodies of water.

Missing person cases

In October 2021, Sides assisted the '' Adventures with Purpose'' team while they found the truck owned by Thomas Thornton, a missing

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veteran from Tyler County, Texas. A body was found inside the truck, which police said was likely Thornton's. In November 2021, Sides found a car containing the body of Miriam Ruth Hemphill, who had been missing since July 2005. In December 2021, he found the car containing the bodies of two teenagers in the case of the disappearance of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel.Peiser, Jaclyn. "Two teens went missing 21 years ago. A scuba-diving YouTuber solved the cold case." ''Washington Post'', 10 Dec. 2021, p. NA. ''Gale General OneFile'', link.gale.com/apps/doc/A686196232/ITOF?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-ITOF&xid=e66d95f2. Accessed 21 July 2022. In January 2022, he and two other divers found the vehicle of murder victim Alan Livingston, who had been missing since 1983. The FBI removed the body with local police in October 2022. In February 2022, Sides assisted Adventures with Purpose while they found the car owned by Margaret Shupe Smith, who had been missing since April 2021. In December 2022, Sides and several other divers and dive teams found the vehicle of Jason Spencer who had been missing since November 2022. In April 2023, Sides and other dive teams found the vehicle of Robert Helphrey who had been missing since 2006.

References

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' official YouTube account {{DEFAULTSORT:Sides, Jeremy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Cobb County, Georgia American YouTubers American underwater divers