MISSING PERSON
CASE #: 1988-1
Randy Wayne Leach
Status:
Open
Date of Last Contact:
Date of Last Contact:
Jurisdiction:
Leavenworth County Sheriff's Office
Missing From:
Linwood, Kansas
Reward:
up to $25,000
via Kansas Governor
Not from STC, Conditions and restrictions apply
Summary:
On April 16, 1988, Harold and Alberta Leach of Linwood, Kansas reported the disappearance of their son, Randy Wayne Leach, to the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department. Subsequent investigation determined that Leach was last seen in the early morning hours of April 16, 1988 at a high school pre-graduation party given by a classmate in rural Leavenworth County, Kansas. Leach had driven to the party in his mother's gray 1985 Dodge 600 4-door sedan. During the course of the investigation, no one was located who saw Leach or his vehicle leave the party. To date, neither Leach or his vehicle have been located.
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Circumstances of Disappearance:
Randy was a senior at Linwood High School in 1988. He left his home at 6:30 p.m. to attend a friend's pre-graduation party in a rural area five miles east of her residence on April 15, 1988. Before arriving at the party, he stopped at Stout's Convenience Store and purchased some candy, soda pop, and gasoline. Then he talked to some friends, then went to De Soto to check on the car he was restoring. As a result of these errands, Randy did not arrive at the party until between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. He was driving his mother's gray four-door 1985 Dodge sedan with the Kansas plate number LVJ8721, and carried about $50 or $60 in cash. There were between 70 and 150 guests at the party and there was considerable drug and alcohol use by the mostly teenaged guests. Witnesses reported Randy was acting drunk, but it's unclear whether he actually consumed any alcohol and he told a friend he didn't know what was wrong. He may have left the party between 1:30 and 2:00 a.m., but some witnesses reported seeing him there as late as 2:15, and no one actually saw him leave. Randy never returned home and has not been heard from again.
Additional Details:
The house where the party was held was destroyed by a fire shortly after Randy's disappearance. Rumors circulated that Randy was abducted and killed by a Satanic cult that was supposedly active in the Linwood area. Later in 1988, a man told police that he had been kidnapped by the cult and held in a cave for two weeks, and had seen a corpse there that might have been Randy's. Police searched the cave and found no indications that a crime had been committed there; they decided that the man had hallucinated the experience while under the influence of drugs. Three men were arrested in the early 1993 on suspicion of Randy's kidnapping and murder, but they were released without charge several days later and investigators admitted they'd been mistaken about the men's involvement in Randy's case.
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