Caleb Diehl Part 2: The Burden He Bore

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

After 18-year-old Caleb Ray Diehl disappeared from Nocona, Texas, one person, and one person only, began an attempt to steer the missing person investigation in a particular way. Only, this individual – close family friend Ricky Dale Howard – was a terrible director whose statements and actions were far-fetched and downright bizarre. Though he tried to make Caleb’s family and law enforcement investigators believe Caleb Diehl had left of his own free will and didn’t necessarily want to be found, not a soul was buying it. Upon further investigation into this man, police uncovered a dark and depraved secret that had been the subject of whispers throughout Montague county and the surrounding areas for years. Part 2 of 2.

If you have any information about Caleb Ray Diehl’s disappearance, call Montague County Crime Stoppers at (940) 894-2871, the Nocona Police Department at (940) 825-3281, or the Montague County District Attorney’s office at (940) 894-6211.

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The series Never Seen Again, The Wichita Falls Times-Record, Justice.gov, nbcnews.com, newschannel6now.com, and arrest / search warrant affidavits were used as sources for this episode.

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0:58.0	When Caleb Deal first went missing from the small town of Nacona, Texas, no one knew.
1:04.9	The 18-year-old had left his mother's house to head back to his home in Bedford, a suburb
1:10.3	city about 90 miles to the southeast of Nacona.
1:14.6	Caleb was ready for high school to be over, so he was known to skip a day here and there.
1:20.7	But when he didn't show up for classes the next day, his older sister Courtney, with whom
1:25.8	he lived, was a little worried.
1:28.8	His mother Tammy was too.
1:31.3	Although neither woman was letting their minds drift to the darkest of possible scenarios.
1:37.4	Not yet.
1:38.4	Still, it felt like something wasn't right. After finding out absolutely no one Caleb knew, neither relatives nor friends, had seen him since about 5 p.m. on March 30th, 2015, panic began to set in.
1:56.0	54-year-old Ricky Dale Howard, perhaps the closest friend to the Deal family, and for whom
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