Randy Leach: Party at the End of the Road // 597

Going West: True Crime

Dark West Productions

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In April of 1988, a 17-year-old left after a graduation party in rural Kansas, and was believed to have driven away in his mom’s car. But neither he nor his car were ever seen again, leading to numerous disturbing theories regarding what happened to him: From never leaving the street he was last seen on, to being sacrificed by a local cult – which is why his disappearance remains one of Kansas’s most baffling mysteries. This is the disappearance of Randy Leach.

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0:00.0	What is going on true crime fans? I'm your host Heath and I'm your host Daphne.
0:18.6	And you're listening to Going West.
0:20.9	Hello everybody. Big shout out to Addison, Nicole, Maddie, and Megan, who all recommended today's
0:28.6	case. This is another one of those really suspicious young men disappearances, like men
0:34.1	disappearing from their cars, which we've covered so many of for some reason.
0:38.2	Yeah, there are an abundance of those cases for some reason.
0:41.7	But this one has a lot of very wild and kind of out there and very strange theories.
0:47.8	But some of them feel like, yeah, I could actually see that happening.
0:52.4	Like this case takes so many turns that as we're going through it in the beginning, it might seem kind of cut and dry.
0:58.4	But as we really get through the weeds, I think you guys are going to be really, really suspicious of what likely happened here.
1:08.2	Well, that's me trying not to spoil it as always.
1:11.2	Yeah,
1:11.4	that's like the most
1:12.4	broad or most vague
1:13.8	way we could put it honestly.
1:15.6	But we must.
1:17.1	Yes,
1:17.4	so without further ado,
1:18.9	this is episode
1:20.4	597 of going west.
1:24.1	So let's get into it.
1:26.9	Music So let's get into it. In April of 1988
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