COLD CASE: Randy Leach Missing 32-Years from Linwood, Kansas

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- We are coming into the homes and the lives of a brand new family in hopes of finding their son, Randy Leach. We have Alberta here who is starting off our day with some breakfast sandwiches. We also have Randy's father Harold over here. Harold, thank you for bringing us into your home. - Thank you. - We're gonna spend the next two days with you and see what we can do to bring your Randy home. - I appreciate it. - Sit back and enjoy, what is that we're gonna be sharing with you, and let's see if we can't bring this family some hope and some resolution in the next two days. With that, we're gonna dig into cinnamon rolls right now and bring you into the entire story. (daunting music) I'm gonna tell you that you just missed an incredible breakfast. If you're anywhere in the Linwood area, stop by Alberta's Bed and Breakfast, she will take good care of you. (Alberta laughs) - Thanks a lot. - You're welcome. (Alberta laughs) So, if you can now just, kind of, start at the, you know, the beginning of all this and bring us up to where we're at today. - I woke up on the morning of April 16th on a Saturday morning at 06:30 and realized Randy wasn't here. - 1988. - '88. I got up and went in and looked out the window because I knew he wasn't in his bedroom and the car wasn't even here. So I ran in and got Harold, (signs) I'm sorry, And we went out on the driveway and we didn't know what to do, we were barefooted. What are we gonna do he's no here? That was something he had never done before. So we called my brother, he was a policeman in Lawrence, he came down and we went over to where the party was and they had cleaned the whole thing up. And I went to the house, and Harold went out to where the bonfire was, they were cleaning up around it, and I asked the woman, I had never met her before, they were just new people in the area. And she said, "What can I do for you?" And I said, "I wanna know where Randy Leach is?" And she said, "Well, he was here, but he left. "Mrs, Leach, can I get you a beer?" "No, ma'am, I wanna know where my son is." And she said, "Well, somebody took him home "or he took somebody else home, we don't know." So we left there and went around, looking at different places. And then we come back and we had family come in from all over, and they went driving, looking around the area. We could not report this until Sunday night. And after that, it was just (signs) night and day, we were coming and going, Harold and our family was going everywhere, looking. And (cries) we didn't know what to do. I'm sorry (sniffs). - Be all right. It's all right. - So our family stayed with us, and all over, they were looking. The police, we realized right off the bat, they were not doing what we wanted them to do. It's like they were out in La-La land. To this day, we know no more today than we did back in '88. Nothing was ever really checked out. And we're so appreciative of you guys. Maybe we can get this story checked out and know yay or nay, you know, one way or the other. - You know, and that's been one of our concerns, you know, as we continue to work with families is, we want to be able to bring that resolution and that closure for families. And sometimes, you know, we're not able to solve it. - Sure. - But what we keep learning or what we continue to learn as we, you know, work with more families like yours, is that, like you said, at least now you're gonna know, yes or no. - Right. - You know that, "Hey, we're now able to check this spot off," because you've not had, I mean, you've been fighting for 32 years trying to get to certain spots that are water related, checked off your list. - Right. - And some of the stories we, you know, we've met with Alberta and Harold last night, we were talking about, you know, a potential car that may have been spotted near a golf course, some places over on Kansas River, and then we also have another one, that one that was part of the movie that-- - Stranger Creek. - Stranger Creek, we have Stranger Creek that back in 80-- - 8, '87, they did the movie. (police sirens blaring) (vehicles crashing) - Help. (intense music) (car thumps into the river) - But the river was low after, in '89? - '88, '87, it was low. - Okay. - In '88 it was low. - Okay, in 88 it was lower at some points, but we have some points beyond the train bridge down to the Kansas River to check out as well. - Right, sure. - So it sounds like we have three big locations that we need to check out today for sure. - Right, sure. - But there's a lot of other twists and turns to this story as well. - Oh, definitely. - You know, there's some rumors that, you know, maybe he didn't leave the party on his own, that he may have ended up in the trunk of his own car and taken across state lines. And some of that, I mean, Harold, I know that you've led a good, you know, ground lead on this one as to a cave with some potential, devil worshiping involved. And there there's rumors that he was either involved in devil worshiping, or he was a sacrifice to devil worshiping. - Yeah, it was a sacrifice. - And somehow you acquired some pictures of this. Do you have those pictures you can share with us? - Yeah. - And so this is inside of the cave and going in, so you have the pigeon with a cross shoved up its rectum. - I don't know what this pentagram, you know, and I don't know what that called for. - What does it mean (indistinct)? - [Cameraman] It's usually a witchcraft thing (indistinct). - [Harold] Here's a another one. - And so with this, as, you know, parents, without having answers, you know, you're chasing and following every lead that you can. In your heart right now, do you believe he's in the water? Do you believe that he ended up in a vehicle? Do you believe that he was part of, you know, the satanic ritual that it got tangled up in? Do you believe that he was part of the satanic thing or that they just decided that he would be sacrificed. Where's a mom and everything, for 32 years you've had a lot of time. - I feel he's in the water, in the car. - Because the car's never been found. - No, I just, I don't know, I just, I had a dream about it one night, I just think that's what it is. - Okay. Well, we've identified, you know, the three areas, by the golf course, in the river, and Stranger Creek as well as the Kansas River. So I think that that's where we need to start our search today. I know that we have some thunderstorms coming tomorrow, but that's not gonna stop us. We have two full days for you and we'll get as wet as we need to, to bring you as many answers as we can for you. - We'll get you dried out at night (laughs). - Do you have something else you'd like to share with us before we start our day? - There was a psychic, I don't know how you guys feel about psychics, but-- - We follow all leads. - We've gone every route. And we had this psychic that Harold had talked to through the Edwardsville police department. She was in Florida and she gave him some directions as to where to go. She directed him off of the bridge on Linwood road, down east of Linwood-- - Stranger Creek bridge or-- - Right. - Okay. - And he went down one morning and he walked, tried to think how she told him, she had him on a clock and she was in Florida, so it was kind of hard to figure out. But he just took off and walked down on Stranger Creek and he got down there, and the water had been up and then you know how it dries out the ground. He saw this sign, it said, "Randy Leach was here." - [Jared] Like, he just went down there and I was just there. - Yeah, and that was there, on three 29 of '91, which-- - [Jared] That was also written there, or you wrote that? - [Alberta] No that was in the mud, where it had dried. - So you spoke with a psychic on a Sunday, and then you waited for her to go to work on Monday, and you went down on Tuesday? - Yeah. - Yeah. - And this was there. - Three 29 of '91, which Randy disappeared in '88. So Randy, Randy Leach, these pictures had to be done because it was so big. "Randy Leach was here" and this was three 29 of '91. The undersheriff came down and Harold said, it looked like a woman's shoe. And he said, "Well, how can you tell that? And Harold says, "Because it looked like a low cut, "thin woman's shoe." But that was all it was ever done. - And so I guess we need to step back, even more into this story is that I feel like we're getting the same thing that a lot of families that we've been working with is, they feel like the law enforcement and the agencies are either passing the buck to one another, so they don't have to handle it. Or sometimes families feel like there's corruption within the organizations as well. - Very definitely. - And one of the things that we'd like to not do is, we don't like to throw any law enforcement under the bus or any agencies. - Right. - You know, we do realize that, they have 30 new cases a day. - Sure. - That come into their organization, how do they choose? And they can only follow up on so many leads, Whereas families, they have nothing else except the, where? What's going on? And they lack the support in the, you know, the search team. So that's why, you know, we are here today. You know, we feel like, we've really been called to serve and to be here for you today, and we're gonna search these three bodies of water today and let's get you answers on these. Then we'll continue with more this afternoon and on in tomorrow. - Appreciate it. - Absolutely. Well, let's grab a map. You're more than just Elizabeth, you're more than just a daughter to Betty. You have some skills. So if you can kind of like bring us up to speed as to, you know, who you are and your background and some of the work that you've already done on this. - Yeah, well, I'm a geospatial analysts and geophysicist, and so in addition to being a family friend, a lot of my work here has been doing mapping for them. And then when the river became an area of interest, we took a magnetometer 882 out, I think that geomeatics tool. And then we did the river survey and we identified a magnetic anomaly. So logically maybe what could have happened, you know, could it have been that he left the party, high on drugs or drunk, and he was just trying to get home? And perhaps he may have missed the turn going home and tried to take the next turn, and he goes straight into the river. And he drove off in his car into the river. And in that location where we did the magnetometer surveying is where we did find a magnetic anomaly. And I think that is the region where you guys are gonna do your search today. - [Alberta] And the dogs. - And the dogs, we had the cadaver dogs come out, and three dogs on three different days, picked up on a scent of human remains in that area. - So in all three dogs were unassociated with one another. So they came out at different times and they all hit on the same spot from what I understand. - And different days. - We've got to get a great big map here for us, so if you can kind of give us the rundown. - Yeah, and I'll let my dad give you the rundown on this area 'cause he is more familiar. - [Tom] So this is where the party was at. So we believe he came up this road to this intersection, turned west, and then went down south-- - It's 170th - it's right here. Here's Golden Road, this would have probably been the route he would have taken to come home. And here is the Stranger Creek bridge, it's no longer there, but it was there at that time. And there's been speculation that he drove off into the creek there and then could have washed down the creek and into the river. Right here these two used to be connected, and we think what might've happened, he may have missed this turn, went down here, turned west and drove straight into the river. This is where the cadaver dogs pick something up, if this road would go straight between this waterway and here. - [Elizabeth] And that's the location where we found the anomaly too. - Okay. Well, that would make sense. He definitely was not in any shape to be driving. - Right. - So this one 100% can make sense, you know, that he could have ended up there. Let's say we have some good leads to go on over there with the magnetometer as well as the cadaver dog. So let's jump over there, treat that as a location number one and see if we can find some answers there. - Okay. - Alrighty. (forlorn music) - But you can see, here here's the road. - [Jared] Okay, so the road came straight through here. - [Tom] Right here. (light thoughtful music) - So we just need to put in here. - Right over here. I'll get the ladder out, which will make it easier to get down the bank. - [Jared] Okay. (forlorn music) - [Jared] Okay, determine where like the road, kind of, would have gone, and then we'll go up like another, you know, 100 feet or so from there. - You can see the pipe right there. - Okay, and so right now, it's does it drop down there, Tom? We're not gonna hit our motor on it. - [Tom] It' just goes down to the bottom. Oh, you're not gonna hit. I just came across. (boat motor revving) - Ms. Magnetometer, where did you get the reading for the magnetometer? - Well, straight down that way, not too far away from the bank of the river. - [Jared] Okay, so before the pile of brush. - Right after the pile of brush is where human scent was detected. And just a little bit past that was the anomaly. I think if you survey in that general vicinity. I think it was about maybe 30 feet from the bank the river. - Offshore. - Is is where the anomaly was. - [Jared] Okay, we'll search that really good then. (dramatic music) (boat motor revving) - [Jared] We got down reading, the other one's reading, it's catching 40, we're only six feet deep, so let's run, probably it's 25 on the side here. (light thoughtful music) Nice speed. 3.9. So only three and a half feet deep, three and a half feet deep here. (boat motor revving) If you come in off of the road from up there, you're not gonna be coming too far out. - Yeah. - [Jared] And the same thing if he hits the water here, this is where the dogs were hit, it was just right up here. Let's walk the magnetometer. - [Sam] Sadly it's, I mean, whatever it is, whatever it was or whomever it was, it could be covered up. - [Jared] And they were thinking that maybe, you know, it'd be waged up against the pipe, but that's not wide enough to be a car or anything. (light thoughtful music) So we're getting like super shallow here, wow, Sam, like we're at one nine. - Yeah, part of me thinks that this might be a magnetometer type thing. I mean, if those dogs were hitting, I mean, three different dogs in three different areas with three different handlers coming out here, they were all hitting. I mean, I trust them, almost more than our sonar. - [Jared] Yeah, 'cause like, yeah, we're hitting right here. Like I'm gonna bottom out, if we don't get out of here. - There's nothing here, if there was a car here-- you'd see it. - Actually beyond the magnetometer, like at this point you would need the GPR to search under the sand. - Ground penetrating. - [Jared] Yeah, 'cause, I mean, look at this, we're like nothing, nothing, nothing, 40 years later we have to come back. - Yep. - [Jared] With different gear. - Yep, upgrade. - [Jared] Gear we don't yet have. That's where the financial investment is made, can you get more and more gear, so that way you can serve better and better. - Yeah, better serve. (boat motor revving) - [Jared] Well, based on the depth, the way the river runs, potential trajectory, anything above the surface that we'd be able to locate, there's nothing there. So we're gonna go check out the other locations, and then maybe in the future, if, like I said, if we don't find anything, we'll have to come back and you utilize some of your magnetometers and some other fun gear. So we're up here right now. We're in drift down the river, so it looks like the river channel kind of goes down the middle here. And then here's where the boat ramp is at. And we went down past the bridge and then the golf course is over here, and there's been a car there's been spotted on Google Earth recently with the water level down that might be in the river over here. So we can go check that out. (deep thoughtful music) So Tom's stuck over there. - There's just a sandbar that kind of curves this way, so if you go over there, you'll be upstream. - [Jared] Okay, later, Tom Bye-bye Tom. - We can share a drone drone. It's the only way to navigate. (thoughtful music) We get stuck right here too. - [Jared] Like the right a little bit, or left? - Oh, I've got to go back up. (boat motor revving) Yeah, it looks good, go to the right a little bit. - [Jared] Okay. (deep thoughtful music) So golf course starts right here, then at the bridge. I'll head over there and scan the best I can then. As far as where the sandbars are, IF the car would have come out there, it would not have come out this far from that road there with river flowing. So really where we need to be looking is where that sandbar comes in from there down. But we'll just do a quick scan here anyway, but I think it's gonna be too shallow here. (deep thoughtful music) - [Dan] Go check that cove. - [Jared] Check the cove. - Yeah, it looks like there's some sort of wide looking thing in there. - I couldn't get to it from over here. I think that would be a good time to remind you and ask you for help. You know, we are here on YouTube, we are on Facebook and this is how we're actually able to self-fund these projects to come out here and help the families, and we don't ask them for a dime. The only thing we ask of you is to like the video today. So if you're enjoying the video right now, please hit that like button. If you've not yet subscribed, please hit that subscribe button. And if you've not yet shared the video, please do that for us as well. Some of you have also asked, you know, how can we donate to the cause? We do have links in the description down below. We do have a PayPal. We have Venmo. And we also have a YouTube membership. With the YouTube membership you'll get videos early. So we do release to the general public, at an appropriate time, usually every Friday morning. But if you are a member, it's the only way that we have of giving back to you and saying, "Thank you for being a part of a part of the team "with your financial investment." So on that note, thank you very much for everybody being here, whether you're just here as a viewer or you're here financially as well. We say thank you and appreciate everything you're doing for us to allow us to be out here. On that note, Dan has something that he wants us to go take a look at. - Yeah, it looks like right at the top of the cove, looks like it could be some sort of, like, boxy thing. Over here. - [Jared] Oh, something's over there. - [Dan] That's the shore. How deep is it. - [Jared] Walk there, yeah, you can walk. (water splashing) - I think this area is clear. Definitely, I don't know what I was seeing. - Well, like you said, another 300 yards down the road here, so we'll keep scanning the riverbank and finish clearing this area. (boat motor revving) I'd say this is cleared then, we're down about a five, six hundred yards. I'd say we're gonna have to go to Stranger Creek up around the Kansas River. I think that's gonna be more shallow than this. (boat motor revving) - Nothing. - Nothing. All right, like my theory is, you know, there's something near the sand, where the sand moves and creates the underwater dunes. You know, if somebody is there just like, you know, that location way over there with cadaver dogs. - I think that Stranger Creek is the most likely from all of this, as far as possible in the water. So it turns out Jared's job is never done. I do get a bite of a sandwich however, I don't get an actual break break. Everybody has requested that we jumped back in the water here and identify at this boat ramp, and I think is a really good idea, whether there's a car here or not, or two cars, six cars. We never know, boat ramp, river, it's a good possibility. (boat motor revving) Well buddy, we can say there's no cars here. - Nothing. - No, nothing. (people chattering) - So let let's focus on Stranger Creek, knocked that one out. - Good. - And then we can then take a look at whatever pond was north of the farm. - Yeah. - He was at. (sad music) - And there used to be a bridge here, the bridge was there when Randy came up missing, was parallel of this railroad bridge. The KBI thinks that he probably missed the bridge, went into the creek and then the creek came up and washed the car away. - And then this is the location where the KBI detective did some investigating as well. - Yes. - But nobody has ever dove here from my understanding. - Nobody has dove here that I know about. And the KBI searched about 10 years later. - [Jared] Okay. Based upon it, those trees would have been there, so he would have gone off to the left if anything. - [Elizabeth] Yeah, that's looking directly, but it's from that spot. - [Jared] Wow that's quite a pretty bridge. - No, you couldn't have gotten in the water, the water was so low and it was such a drought year, and I remembered it went over this bridge every day. They went over that day, like they said, there were so many cars that went over looking for Randy, the water was so low, it was a drought. (forlorn music) - [Jared] All right, so I'm casting 27 right now, Sam. - What's that 10 feet, nine feet? Yeah, definitely, definitely deep enough, to hide a car. - [Jared] Yeah, and looking at the bridge, you know, the old bridge, we'll do between the old bridge, where they're standing up there and the train bridge. (train horn honking) (train rattling on the tracks) Oh, oh, what about down here? (train rattling on the tracks) Look, look, look, look, look. Looks like a car upside down. (train rattling on the tracks) - [Sam] Just the way that was floating over it. Yeah, nothing. - [Jared] Yeah nothing here. Yeah, now that clears (indistinct). - [Jared] Just a train. - Jared, remember what they call the end of the train? - [Jared] It used to be a caboose. - Still is. - [Jared] Okay (laughs), okay. (upbeat music) (boat scraping on the ground) On to next. (upbeat music) - That makes a 90-degree turn and there's the creek right there, and then it makes a big loop and it comes around and goes under this bridge and comes around this way. This might be a good spot to get into. (daunting music) - Right, so the shore here, so what we're looking at, see this water column here is the water, anything black, where the dark shaded is, that's the shoreline over there, so we're casting 39 feet to the left and 39 feet to the right is the actual shoreline. So based upon that we can adjust our range here just to get a better visual under there. Dan, we're gonna put it like 42 feet. There we go. Now that makes it bigger on screen for us. Nine feet deep here, 10 feet deep, 12 feet deep. - [Sam] Definitely deep enough. - We find a, next to her road one time, we found a tractor and an SUV that most of the creek was only like two or three feet deep, and it had this one hole and it was only, like, maybe 40 feet long, and it was like 12 to 14 feet deep, just hiding things, right in a '90, similar to that. You never know where things are gonna end up. That's the spot? - [Tom] Yeah, right there. (men chattering) - [Jared] Yeah, it's completely, right there, okay. Yeah, it's completely clear up here or down here right now. (boat motor whirring) If we were casting different, I'd be like, "Oh, hey, there's a car," but it's not a car. It wasn't long enough, in my opinion, but it did have like a shape of a car. It's just the way it was hitting the last time with the log laying over there. Yeah, pretty upset, though. Another location clear. And so this is the location where the water was so low to confirm, right here, this bridge? Or we still have another location at Stranger Creek? - Well, Stranger goes under 32, so we, actually drove over the bridge coming here. - Okay. - So you wanna go there? - Yeah, let's check that location. - That's really weird that somebody-- - Yeah, super strange. - Put, you know, "Randy, was here." - Super strange. - So yeah, let's clear that one as well. (daunting music) The guard rail goes so far back that it doesn't matter like how drunk or how high or anything you are, there's, in my opinion, there's no way you're getting over this bridge and into this river at that location. The bridge has always started back here though. Like, look at that distance you would have to travel, you're not getting through all that. Whether the bridge was this wide or it was this wide, where the bridge would have started with or without a guardrail, there's no way you're making all the way through there no matter how-- - I mean the first hit your car's-- - [Jared] You're stuck right there. - [Sam] You're stuck right here. You're not going anywhere. - [Jared] Plus when Harold was here, the river was way down. Somebody actually wrote in the-- - In the mud. - In the riverbed. - Yeah, I think it was on that side was where he found that. - One of those things they've mentioned, if you want to do this evening is over, is it Kill Creek or Cedar Creek? - Cedar Creek, Cedar Creek boat ramp. It's on the other side of the river, it's pretty close to where we made that turn around in De Soto. There's a boat ramp there, then you've got to go down the creek a little bit and then can pick up the Kansas River again, and probably about a mile down the river is the end of 142nd Street. At one time somebody Harold knows, seen a car in the water at the end of 142nd Street, and he thought that was recovered. But, I mean, if one car was there, possibly other cars could be there. So we can take you there, if you wanna go there now. - And also it's right close to the caves, and so Harold wanted you to look at the caves. You can see them from the 142nd. - Well, the caves will be on the other side of the river from where we're going. - [Jared] Yeah, let's head over there. - [Sam] Let's go knock that out. (melancholy music) - So we're gonna throw the other motor on, we're gonna put it in the ramp here. Try to get into the Kansas River, go down river from there. I don't know if we're gonna be able to do it. Once we get into the river, we stay right on this channel there, and then right before we get to 142nd down here, then we shoot across the river before the sandbar, and then we search this area right here. See if we can do it. (Sam laughing) - [Sam] Okay, let's go. - Yes new challenges. - Jared, right here at this ramp, three burlap bags of body parts, and this was right after, shortly after Randy was missing. Yeah, and so there was never really investigated, you know, you could never get any information on. This was shortly after Randy was gone, and that was one of the primary reasons why they'd want to, you know, look in this area too. - Did they ever identify who they belong to? - No. - But did they rule out that they did not belong to Randy? - No, that was never ruled out either. - They never did DNA on them?. - If they did, see this is a different county, we're not in Leavenworth, this is Johnson, but we've asked over and over and over about the body parts that was found here. Never answered. - Well, and Geri was here earlier and I heard, I overheard her saying that they feel like a lot of people have gotten close to solving this for Randy, and those people have gone missing here. Have you heard? - Yeah, oh yeah, there's maybe not missing, but yeah, there's been a lot of people who have tried to investigate, been ordered off and told to back off. And then there was the investigator that was found dead and different things. Yeah, there's a lot of stories that people have been a little bit afraid to help investigate and look for Randy. - Betty, you were supposed to tell me all this stuff before we came, right. Sam. My wife would get so nervous when we start hearing stories like this. So don't be worried, honey. We're only going to be here for one more day after this and then we're leaving the county. They can't find us in Chicago, where we live in Chicago. - Well, you do live in Chicago, I know. You'll be safe there. (Jared laughs) (upbeat music) - So this connects to the actual river? - [Jared] Yeah, to the Kansas River. - Cool. That's it, I mean, we're running out of-- - [Jared] Wait, hitting, bottom here too. - [Sam] Oh wait, wait, oh wait. - [Jared] I gotta stop this. - [Sam] Okay, put the motor up. - [Jared] Hold on. Yeah, we've already ran out of river. - [Sam] Yeah, we've run out of river. I'm taking these. - [Jared] We need to carry it over-- - [Sam] The river's over there. - [Jared] That's the river? - [Sam] Yeah. (upbeat music) - [Jared] I hear the drone making fun of us. You see the drone up there laughing at us. (boat scraping on the ground) (upbeat music) Oh, we've got a long ways to go with that boat. (upbeat music) All right, so that little aerial conversation, you just saw Sam and I having, 100% we only have like 45 minutes of daylight left. - It's getting dark. - If we like pushed down there and then we can't make it back up and we're stuck down there, that's gonna be a big problem. So what we're going to end up doing is scout it, whether it's tonight or first thing in the morning, and then we'll make a decision as to what to do from there. (upbeat music) So where we're at on (chuckles) this one, Betty is that let's scout that location tonight on 142nd. And see if it's gonna be deep enough. We're running out daylight, so I think by the time we make it over there, we scout it, it's gonna be dark, but we can put it on the list for tomorrow on how we're gonna get to it. (thoughtful music) (car engine revving) - So no one owns this road we're on, all the way to the river. It's public. - [Jared] So we're on a public road. So that means we can cut the lock. - Um, we can do it (laughs). - Well, we've got wheels. I mean, we've got wheels on our boat. - [Jared] We have the big motor, we're gonna have to pump the tires 'cause they were really flat. So, we'll just pump the tires up tonight, and then we can look at this as an option. Let's also see if there's like something a little further down for a boat ramp or something to put it on. - Yeah, sounds good. - [Betty] Go down in front of the caves, so they can see, just as Harold wanted you guys-- - So are the caves off limits? (daunting music) - [Sam] That'd be wild to see the under ground lake. I'd love to see an underground lake. - [Jared] Rumor of the car, of a car, not the car, but-- - A car. - [Jared] But this is also the caves where we saw the pictures of the, what Harold believes is the worshiping. I don't know where his entrance was at because they went in through like a secret, like crawled through this and get into this. Well let's head back to Harold and Alberta's house, have a discussion with them and come up with a game plan for what's next. - [Sam] Sounds good. - Okay. I feel like this is home. You just walk in. - [Sam] Walk right in. Already sitting at the table ready to eat. - Are you ready for us. - We're ready (laughs). - Hey you guys. I'd like to ask you guys-- - [Jared] Today's my birthday. - Today don't mess the kitchen up so much. - Did we leave it a mess when we left this morning? - Oh, man. - You probably spent the last four hours-- - It wasn't me, it was Alberta's. She had to work (laughs). - [Alberta] Oh, you full of it. (Harold laughing) - Well, it was kidding. - Let's give you an update as to where we've been today, and what we've covered for you. We've covered three locations at Stranger Creek. The location where, that you showed us from the psychic and where you went down, it was drawn in the water. Based upon the bridge from 30 years ago, as well as where it's at now. Virtually impossible for a car to ever get in there because of where the canyon starts, and for a car to travel that distance, it would nose dived, it would have hit that first ledge, a car would have never made it that far to the river. Plus, as you had identified, the water was shallow, there was nowhere for it to go. So it was not gonna float down. - Right. - We did make our way over to where the old bridge used to be, down there by the train bridge. We scanned both up and down the river there and we cleared that entire area. Even with storms over the past 30 years coming and going the way that the river bottom is there, it's not gonna seal the car in. I'm 100% confident that a car has not been buried under any silt or mud there. - Sure, yeah. - We did make our way up to the Kansas Rivers as well, you know, the dogs had hit before. Up near where the dogs had hit and the magnetometer it was only about a foot and a half there, so we actually kept getting stuck there when we were searching that. So I'm not ruling that out at this point in time. What I'm saying is, based upon the river there and everything we scanned, there is nothing above the sub floor on the river bed, but that doesn't mean that over the course of 30 years, you have a lot of sand in that river, viewers continue to see what we're doing and we have access to magnetometers and subfloor as well. That's kind of like the next step to where, I'm not saying Randy could not be there. So what I'm saying today though, is that based upon above the sand, Randy is not there. So we cleared that entire area. In addition to that, we ended up over, we're looking at 142nd for you, I know 142nd is a concern-- - It wasn't that far was it? - Oh my goodness, Harold. So there's a gate at the end of 142nd, so we do have wheels for the boat that we can drag it down there. Although there's a gate, there are no, no trespassing signs. As well as looking at the assessor's map, that is a public road. Somebody just decided to put up a gate there, but it's a public road, it's 142nd, so we're not ruling out, we're not telling you that we're not going there. We're just, is there something else we need to focus on first tomorrow before we go there? Or do we need to go there and just knock that out? And by doing so, I mean, we do have the distance down and back. So, you know, it's gonna take us an extra hour plus the hour, so, you know, two, two and a half hours to knock that out. But if we should be focused somewhere else, then let's go focus on those other areas as well. - You did check in Cedar Creek across on the other side. - So Cedar Creek is, yeah. so we tried putting in at Cedar Creek at the boat ramp, but because the water's so low, we could not get in and over. - Couldn't get in. - So no car was going to make it down to the Kansas River from Cedar Creek. But we did try using Cedar Creek to get us out of the Kansas River to get down to 142nd. So that was quite a little adventure, wasn't it Sam? - [Sam] Oh, yeah. - A lot of giggles on that one today. - I'm sure. - We did everything we could today. - Sure. - And we're here for you tomorrow. - Okay. - And so on that note, we'll talk more about it tonight. There's a lot of information and stories that we heard today. A lot of rumors, a lot of possibilities, you know, are we dealing with a potential lake in the cave from what we heard as well? - There's one in there. - There's been a rumor that there could be a car in there to the pond that's north of where the party was at, to other ponds north of town, that there's so many things that we have to go look at tomorrow as well. And so with that, you know, we're not done helping you guys yet. And so if you've not already done so, please do subscribe because we have the next episode will come out tomorrow if you're following day-by-day. If you know, this has been out for a couple of months, then you're already gonna have instant access to it and we'll leave a link down below. - It sounds like you got a lot done. - We did get a lot done today for your Harold. - You traveled a lot. - Yep, so we've answered questions as to where he is not right now. - At least that much is done. - So we have answers for you there. - Okay. - On that note, we'll see you tomorrow later, later. Bye bye. - Thank you. - You're welcome. (forlorn music)
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Channel: Adventures with Purpose
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Keywords: missing persons, missing persons cases, cold case, randy leach, randy leach missing, true crime, crime, missing car, vehicle underwater, truck underwater, scuba diving, mrleisek, adventures with purpose, cold case investigation, sonar, side scan sonar, missing persons case
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Length: 44min 14sec (2654 seconds)
Published: Fri Dec 18 2020
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