197 - The Vanishing of Barbara Barkley

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Nineteen year old Barbara Jean "Bobbie" Barkley arrived for a normal day of work at the pipe furniture store in Pinellas Park, Florida on Friday, May 29th, 1981. Less than three hours later she had mysteriously vanished.

There were no signs of a struggle, no indications of where Bobbie may have gone. Left behind were her purse and her cigarettes; the only things missing were Bobbie and her 1973 Plymouth Fury. While, at first, her family thought there might be a reasonable explanation, investigators were immediately concerned.

Less than a year earlier, two other women had vanished under similar circumstances from within the same area. Police found one body, but the other remained missing. Soon it became a race against time to determine if Bobbie had been targeted by someone she knew or if she'd fallen victim to a yet unknown serial killer.

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0:39.0	On a hot spring morning, 19-year-old Barbara Barkley arrived for work at the furniture store owned by her fiancé's family in Pinellas-Bark, Florida.
0:48.0	The day began as normal, with Barbara unlocking the doors and dragging a few pieces of display furniture outside.
0:54.0	But what happened after that has remained a mystery for more than 40 years.
0:59.0	That afternoon, Barbara's brother dropped by the store, he found the doors unlocked, but his sister was gone.
1:06.0	There were no signs of a struggle, no indications of a crime, but something simply didn't feel right.
1:12.0	When Barbara's brother found her purse and cigarettes left behind, but her car gone, he knew something bad had to have happened.
1:20.0	Barbara wouldn't have left the store that way, nor would she have left her purse and smokes behind.
1:26.0	A massive search failed to turn up any answers, but soon investigators would be contacted by a man
1:32.0	who claimed to have seen an unidentified individual driving Barbara's car the day she vanished.
1:39.0	At Barbara been another victim in an unsolved string of women being targeted from their places of work,
1:45.0	or could someone closer to home have specifically targeted the 19-year-old.
1:51.0	This is Trace Evidence, Episode 197, the vanishing of Barbara Barkley.
1:58.0	Welcome to Trace Evidence. I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
2:08.0	Today we examine the mysterious disappearance of 19-year-old Barbara Barkley from Pinellas Park, Florida in May of 1981,
2:17.0	before getting into the case, just a few quick notes about the show.
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