and his wife would meet them later. Kramer nonetheless appears to have spent forty-five minutes at the airport, for unexplained reasons. During his travel to and from the airport, Kramer made a flurry of cell phone calls, including calls to his wife, Ron Bushy and finally to the police. In the latter call, Kramer said, "I'm going to kill myself. And I want everyone to know O. J. Simpson is innocent. They did it." This is supposedly in reference to video evidence in which Taylor was hired just before his disappearance to analyze the authenticity of a video tape that the FBI and the DEA had on the O.J. Simpson murder trial. Kramer was never heard from again. His disappearance led to a massive search, many news reports, and talk show segments including an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, America's Most Wanted, The Unexplained ("Strange Disappearances," first aired June 7, 2000) and Unsolved Mysteries Season 8 Episode 3. An article in Skeptic Vol. 4, No. 2, 1996, by Fredric L. Rice reported numerous conspiracy theories about his death. More recently, the mysterious disappearance of Kramer was highlighted in an episode titled "CONSPIRACY: Philip Taylor Kramer" on an audio podcast named "Supernatural with Ashley Flowers", released on August 24, 2021. Discovery On May 29, 1999, Kramer's Ford Aerostar minivan and skeletal remains were found by photographers looking for old car wrecks to shoot at the bottom of Decker Canyon near Malibu, California. However, his father never believed he killed himself and is quoted as saying "Taylor had told me a long time before there were people bothering him. They wanted what he was doing and some of them threatened him. He once told me that if I ever say I'm gonna kill myself, don't you believe it one bit. I'll be needing help" See also List of solved missing person cases References 1952 births 1990s missing person cases 1995 deaths 20th-century American bass guitarists 20th-century American businesspeople American aerospace engineers American businesspeople in mass media American mass media company founders American rock bass guitarists Engineers from Ohio Formerly missing people Guitarists from Ohio Iron Butterfly members Missing person cases in California Musicians from Youngstown, Ohio Road incident deaths in California