Missing person report filed for Bel Rio employee Kristian Throckmorton

Missing Bel Rio owner Jim Baldi, the subject of a fraud lawsuit by business partner Gareth Weldon, was reported by other media sources to have left town with 25-year-old Kristian Throckmorton, an employee of Baldi’s Belmont club and restaurant. Now, local media reports that Throckmorton’s mother filed a missing person report with the Charlottesville Police Department. Read C-VILLE’s coverage of Baldi’s disappearance here.

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