Unsolved Suspicious Death: Dave Bocks

Last Seen Alive

Studio 222

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.2 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

When an Ohio man goes missing during his shift at a secretive nuclear weapons factory, his remains turn up in an unlikely location, shocking his family, co-workers and community. The untimely death of a devoted father is steeped in mystery—and radioactivity—in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

If you have any information about the death of Dave Bocks, please contact the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office at 513-825-1500.

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https://lastseenalivepodcast.com/2023/05/08/unsolved-suspicious-death-dave-bocks/

And if you found this episode particularly intriguing, we recommend that you listen to our episode on the unsolved disappearance of Dale Kerstetter, if you haven’t already. The two cases aren’t related, but they share a lot of similarities.

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0:00.0	When an Ohio man goes missing during his shift at a secret of nuclear weapons factory,
0:05.4	his remains turn up in an unlikely location, shocking his family, coworkers, and community.
0:11.2	The untimely death of a devoted father is steeped in mystery and radioactivity in this episode of Last Seen Alive.
0:34.6	Music of Last Seen Alive. Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day and true crime
0:41.7	storyteller by night. And as always, I'm your co. Scott. David Bucks, who went by Dave, was last seen
0:48.2	alive on June 18, 1984. He was 39 years old and lived in Loveland, Ohio, a small town just a half hours drive from
0:56.6	Cincinnati. He was a father of three, a daughter and two sons, and was, according to his children,
1:02.7	a loving and hardworking parent. He'd divorced from his kid's mother, but they maintained a friendly
1:07.8	co-parenting relationship. When not spending time with his family, Dave worked in the nearby town of Fairfield,
1:14.6	where he was a pipe fitter at a large manufacturing complex known as the Fresnald Feed Materials
1:19.1	Production Center, sometimes referred to as NLO, after the company that owned it, National Lead of
1:24.6	Ohio. It was the type of well-playing blue-collar job that sustained
1:28.5	many families in the area, and Dave had a strong, positive reputation at work. He was quiet,
1:34.0	but also industrious, reliable, and likable, the type of person anyone would like to have as a
1:38.8	co-worker. Because his place of work was a half-hour's drive from his home, and he had other
1:43.7	co-workers in the area,
1:45.4	Dave carpooled with a co-worker named Harry, and the day of his disappearance was no exception.
1:50.5	Harry and Dave were both working the night shift at the time, so they met in the parking lot of a White Castle fast food restaurant near their homes at 11 p.m. that night.
1:59.4	Harry, who had no way of knowing it would be their last ride together at the time,
2:03.4	would later tell unsolved mysteries that during that final ride, everything had seemed completely normal.
2:08.7	He and Dave had spoken about their plans for that summer and beyond, and Dave had been particularly
2:13.1	excited about a vacation to Florida. He was in the process of planning for himself and his kids.
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