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The Vanished Podcast

Randy Leach

The Vanished Podcast

Wondery

True Crime, Society & Culture, Cold Case, Investigative, Find The Missing, Vanished, Missing Persons, Documentary, News, Disappeared, Exhibit C

4.515K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

17-year-old Randy Leach left his home in Linwood, Kansas on April 15, 1988. He planned to run some errands and then ended up at an early graduation party for a classmate. Witnesses remember Randy being at the party, but aren’t exactly sure when he left. Sometime after midnight, a friend planned to drive Randy home. The friend left to drive another friend home first but told Randy he would be back. When his friend returned, both Randy and the grey 1985 Dodge 600 sedan he was driving were gone. Randy and the Dodge 600 were never seen again. Over the past 31 years, there have been many rumors about what happened to Randy but his family has been left with more questions than answers.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Randy Leach, please call the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Office at 1-800-572-7463 or 1-800-THE-LOST.


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0:00.0

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0:22.0

I went to the house and Harold went out and they had a bonfire out.

0:26.0

They were supposed to have a lot of people there, but they had totally cleaned up the mess.

0:31.0

And they had a big bonfire and they were burning a bunch of stuff.

0:35.0

And I went in the house and I told the lady, which I hadn't ever met her before, they had just moved out there the past year.

0:42.0

So we didn't really know them, but she's the one that had given the party for her daughter.

0:47.0

She said, what can I do for you? And I said, I want my son.

0:52.0

He was here and he didn't come home. And she said, Mrs. Leach, come in, I'll get you a beer.

0:59.0

I said, ma'am, I don't want a beer, I want my son. And she said, well, he was here, but he left.

1:06.0

And I don't know, she told us one of the other took him home.

1:10.0

Harold went out to the bonfire and talked around. He talked to the daughter that the party was for.

1:17.0

And she said that she didn't know. She knew Randy was there, but he said she just seemed awfully upset.

1:23.0

The week came back and talked to some kids along the road. We went in, we're one of the boys that been at the party.

1:31.0

They told us that they thought Randy had taken some other kids home.

1:35.0

So we went to that house and it was just back and forth. And then we had, we come back home and we had people coming in here from all over friends and family.

1:44.0

And a bunch of them went back over to where the party was. And they walked the area.

1:50.0

It was just kind of like a nightmare.

1:57.0

17-year-old Randy Leach left his home in Linwood, Kansas on April 15, 1988.

2:04.0

He planned to run some errands and then he was going to attend an early graduation party for a classmate.

2:11.0

Witnesses remember him being at the party, but aren't exactly sure when he left.

2:17.0

Witness statements vary, but some point after midnight, Randy and the car he was driving were no longer at the party.

2:24.0

Randy never made it home that night and both he and the car have never been seen again.

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