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Unresolved

Rachanda Pickle

Unresolved

Unresolved Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

"At this point, we're hoping that she did run away and that she's safe and sound somewhere. What we're afraid of is that someone came up to the house, found her alone here and took her."

On 10 July 1990, 13-year-old Rachanda Pickle was last seen inside her mother and stepfather's home in Santiam Junction, Oregon. This was an incredibly small community located roughly halfway between Sweet Home and Sisters, at the junction of Highways 20 & 22.

While tipsters would claim to see the missing teen all along the west coast, investigators have been unable to locate Rachanda after more than three decades. However, the case has been linked to a handful of other disappearances and murders in the area, and guilt has been laid at the feet of her stepfather, John Arthur Ackroyd...



Episode hosted, researched, written, and produced by Micheal Whelan

Original music created by Micheal Whelan through Amper Music

Theme music created and composed by Ailsa Traves

Producers: Roberta Janson, Ben Krokum, Gabriella Bromley, Steven Wilson, Quil Carter, Travis Scsepko, Laura Hannan, Bryan Hall, Damion Moore, Scott Meesey, Amy Hampton, Scott Patzold, Marie Vanglund, Astrid Kneier, Aimee McGregor, Jo Wong, Sara Moscaritolo, Sydney Scotton, Thomas Ahearn, Marion Welsh, Patrick Laakso, Rebecca O'Sullivan, Meadow Landry, Tatum Bautista, Sally Ranford, Kevin McCracken, Ruth Durbin, Michele Watson, Jared Midwood, Teunia Elzinga, Ryan Green, Jacinda C., Stephanie Joyner, Cherish Brady, and Lauren

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On the morning of December 24, 1978, Kay Jean Turner left a cap and she had been renting

1:14.8

near Camp Sherman, a tourist hotspot in Central Oregon, about 40 miles away from the

1:20.0

northwest of Bend.

1:22.1

Turner, a 35-year-old, that typically lived in Eugene, worked for the Lane County Office

1:27.2

of Community Health and Social Services, but had previously worked for the area's planned

1:32.2

parenthood association and also happened to be a rather well-known runner.

1:37.3

That winter, Kay enter husband Noel, had decided to head up to a cabin in the Camp Sherman

1:42.4

area.

1:43.4

They ended up staying at Lake Creek Lodge with a small group of friends for Christmas,

1:48.0

named Kay Turner, hoping to take advantage of the quiet surroundings on the morning of

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