Episode 7 - Richard Lepsy
Thin Air Podcast
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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2016
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I mean here's a great guy loved his kids loved his family it's absolutely horrible because yeah he's robbed of his legacy that does bother me |
| 0:09.2 | but I think all's we can do is put his case out there. The day that Robert Richard Lepsy went missing was like a lot of other days in his life. |
| 0:38.0 | He woke up, kissed his wife Jackie, and said goodbye to his four children, then left for his job as store manager at |
| 0:44.4 | Glen's Market. Though he was only 33 years old, Robert, who went by his middle name, Richard, |
| 0:50.2 | and often by Dick, was a responsible and trusted member of his community of |
| 0:54.0 | Graling, a sleepy small town in northern Michigan. He was an all-American dad, |
| 0:58.8 | all-American husband, neighbor, co-worker. He was really a nice guy, spoken of highly by everybody who knew him. |
| 1:09.0 | And it was just, you know, it was, it really piqued my curiosity that he just vanished. |
| 1:18.0 | That was Ross Richardson, author of the book Still Missing, which chronicles the details of lepsy's |
| 1:23.3 | disappearance. Ross spent years investigating the lepsy case and knows every detail of |
| 1:28.5 | this story like the back of his hand he's fascinated with it. He was born in Chicago and grew up in Chicago and his family had a home in |
| 1:38.0 | grayling Michigan which is a small town in the center of Northern Michigan and they would vacation there in the summers. |
| 1:45.6 | Well, they decided to move to Grayling for his senior year of high school at Grayling High School. |
| 1:56.3 | And he met a young lady by the name of Jackie and they ended up going to promenading their senior year and they ended up marrying a year after graduating. |
| 2:04.1 | Both were 19 years old and they initially lived in Chicago but they wanted to |
| 2:12.1 | move back to Northern Michigan. They thought it was more family friendly. So after a few years and a couple children they moved back to Northern Michigan and ended up with four children, three boys and a girl. |
| 2:26.0 | So they were high school sweethearts? |
| 2:27.4 | Yes, they were. |
| 2:28.5 | Did they have a good relationship? |
| 2:30.0 | Did you find anything out about what their marriage was like? |
| 2:33.0 | Very good. Very good. He was an involved father and a good husband. |
| 2:40.0 | They were often seen around town. They would go out on Saturday nights for drinks with friends, |
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