Aaron Fike vanished on July 7, 2007.
Seven days earlier, he had earned the first top-five finish of his remarkable rookie season, in NASCAR's Craftsman Truck Series, delicately steering his 3,400-pound race car around the Memphis Motorsports Park at more than 120 mph…
All in all, a good night at the track—especially for someone who'd shot up heroin that day. ~ ESPN
It's an all too familiar story storyboard.
1. Bright kid- 2. Brash young professional- 3. Drug use- 4. Mug shot.
Aaron Fike had been racing since boyhood. With a top finish in a NASCAR series race his name was being bounced around as a young gun potentially worthy of the big time. But just as he had advanced rapidly through the ranks to reach the NASCAR scene, Fike’s graduation from a prescription pill addiction to shooting up intravenously accelerated his inevitable fall from grace. In July 2007, Fike and his fiancée were arrested in the parking lot of an amusement park shooting up black tar heroin.
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