RANDY LEACH.. (Part 2) Missing Person UNDERWATER SEARCH

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- No, you have a steering wheel. You have a car right there. You have part of a car there. I wanna welcome you back for episode number two with Alberta and Harold. We're here in Linwood, Kansas working on a 32-year-old missing persons case. And not just any missing person, this is your son, this is Randy Leach who went missing 32 years ago after a graduation party. And we spent yesterday and let's just bring you into a recap as to what we did with that search yesterday. And if you've not seen yesterday's episode, that's really where you would really wanna start. We have a link in the description below, but for those of you that need a quick recap, we came in, we did an entire search of Stranger Creek in several locations. We did a search in the Kansas River. And with that one, we also tried to get over to 142nd, which we've not yet made it over there, but I think that with today, I think we want to talk to you and the viewers and let them know. Let's go back to the beginning today and bring everybody up to speed from your side as to that morning that you realized that Randy was missing. Will that be okay with you? - Sure. Okay, this is one episode you're not gonna wanna miss. (soft music) - We woke up on the morning of April 16, 1988 and Randy was not home. He had been out to the graduation party the night before. And we ended up out on the driveway in our bare feet looking and wondering where is he 'cause this was unusual for him, he never stayed out. We were very upset. We called my brother. He was a policeman in Lawrence and he came down and went over to where the party was and talked to them. And then he came back, didn't get much satisfaction. And we went over to talk to the people which I had never met. They were just new in the area. I went into the house and talked to the mother and asked her. She said, "What can I do for you?" And I said, I want my son, Randy Leach. And she said, "Well, he's not here. "Mrs. Leach, can I get you a beer?" No, ma'am, I wanna know where my son is. So then they started telling us, well, they thought he took this one home or they thought somebody had taken him home. So we took off and went to a couple of the kids' houses. They knew Randy was messed up but they didn't know where he was. So we came back home and we had family coming in from all over, friends. And they went out and walked the area over where the party was. We could not report this until Sunday night, which was the 17th and was our first initial report on the case. And from then on, it was just pandemonium. We were in and out. Harold and a bunch of the people would go hunting, looking, driving. One story after the other started coming in. Some of the kids would come over and tell us a different story or call us on the phone. And every time we got a story, we would call Leavenworth and tell them these stories. I'd write it down and call them. We didn't have much luck. We knew right off the bat that they just didn't really seem to be getting with it. So within two weeks, we had contacted some private detectives and they came out and started checking around. KBI, they said they weren't working on the case. Well, we found out later KBI was investigating our investigators because he was in over the line and didn't have a license they didn't think. So that went on for a month and we still didn't think they were doing any work for us. - With our search yesterday, we're sensing if this is not an accident, there's a lot of corruption within this city and within the county and that we might be dealing with a coverup. Let's dig in deeper into a couple of things that we heard yesterday. Randy parked your car in somebody else's driveway, not at the party but across the street at somebody's driveway. Is this Flannagan's property? - Right. Okay, and so Flannagan to bring everybody up to speed is from what we've heard has been known to be in the drug scene. And that one of the rumors is that Randy ended up going in there that night and having a confrontation, flipping over a table that had drugs on it and upset somebody. And that now leads to other rumors of Randy may have ended up in the trunk of a car and that he may have ended up across the border in Missouri in the shredder. And there's so many stories that we've heard that you've heard over the years. But I'd like to talk more about Flannagan right now 'cause I know that you've had some conversations with him but Flannagan right now is actually in jail because he murdered his girlfriend a couple years ago. Or a year ago, two years ago? - Two. The newspaper interviewed him and they published part of this that said I did it out of a fit of rage, the last time this happened was 30 years ago. - [Alberta] But I didn't kill anybody. - [Jared] But I didn't kill anybody. - [Alberta] Yeah. - [Harold] Oh wow. - [Jared] Which was 30 years to the day of Randy missing with this confrontation that may have, the rumors of confrontation taking place. - Yes, we went to the jail. They got him on the computer and he was on the phone and we could see him in the jail. But he said he didn't have anything to do with it. "If I ever find out anything, I'll sure let you know." He said it was two years before they ever talked to him and he lived next door. - And I'm hollering you need to talk to Flannagan. Nobody ever talked to him. - If they did something to Randy, they would have to be nervous and do something quick. But if it was like a drug dealer or something, if Randy had passed away, they could've left him in the car along the road. And it's no, he overdosed. So our feeling was that it was more inside if it was an accident and they got nervous. - 'Cause this is at 2:30, between 2:30 and 4:30 in the morning is when this happened. The car was missing the next morning. So we're really dealing with a two to three hour window while it's dark as to what happened to Randy and your car. - Right. - With that, we never wanna think bad of anybody. We wanna treat this as an accident to begin with knowing that Randy didn't normally do drugs, it sounds like you had a very open relationship with him like, hey, we understand that you're in high school and you're gonna do some of these things and that you communicated those. Either he chose that night to go further down the rabbit hole or something was spiked and it took him down a path that he wasn't even expecting. And with that I think a few things that interest me, one is we cleared every route coming back to the house as far as the creeks go. What we've not cleared, we've not cleared the pond in the backyard at the party. That interests me. Has that ever been cleared? - Not that I know of. - And I guess, was there a fence up there in that time as well? - Probably. - So I mean if there was a fence and the fence was knocked down, he would've never made it through there. So that's one thing that we'd like to talk to the property owner about today. We need to start at the party and start working out from there. I know that the property owners pretty much said please don't come back, we're gonna head over there and see what we can do to talk our way onto the property and see what we can do to clear that from a sonar and from a diver perspective all of those ponds in the area for you. So there's five or six up there, so it's gonna keep us busy for on into the early afternoon. And we'll keep you updated for sure. - Okay. - We're gonna get out there and we're gonna cover a lot of territory for you today. - Okay. (laughing) - Thank you. - See you later. - Bye-bye. (soft music) - [Jared] I'll park up here and walk on. - [Dan] Oh, no, I'll go up here. - All three vehicles are here, but nobody's answering the door. They do have a camera at the front door. So if it has a microphone, I did hold up my phone with the phone number on there, but just in case their security system is not working, I'm leaving a note for them as well to give me a call. (soft music) All right, on that note, right across the road is Flannagan's old property. Flannagan no longer lives here, so we're at this property now. Since we're here, let's clear whatever we can. I have a really hard time thinking that this property up here would've been a part of it, whether you would have had to go through this house property or through this property in order to dump a car into this pond back here. In fact, Dan, let's bring up the map of this with both of these homes there back in '91. Both of them, so both of them were not there. - [Dan] Yeah, there's no houses. That's the only house that's there. - [Jared] Okay, so go back to today's image. And so we have this road that anybody could've driven in there. Yeah, 'cause they know their house was not there at the time, it was a dirt road. - [Dan] So this person preferably. - [Jared] Yeah, let's go to that one. It was Bill, right? - Right. Appreciate you letting us come onto your property. Have you met Larry before? - I've been here before with the cadaver dogs. - Okay, all right, yeah. - [Jared] Yeah, so he says that at the time cadaver dogs did not hit on it. - But they tell me we have a cemetery right up here and they said they'd get it to drift off of that cemetery for those dogs. I'd never dreamed that. I feel so bad for them being their only child and having that happen and not knowing, all of this not knowing. I mean, that's terrible to begin with. And I talked to Dan Flannagan who lived in the trailer there out front. And Dan said Randy parked his car in his driveway that night. And he said when the time came for them to investigate, Dan was a dumpster diver. He had all kinds of junk in his yard and old cars and stuff. He said they never did ever come in and inspect his yard and look for any problem, look for anything in his yard of all the places. - What do you feel about his statement that was in the paper? - Which was that? - Dan Flannagan, so after he killed his girlfriend and he made the statement in the paper this happened during a fit of rage and the last time this happened was 30 years ago, which would've been the time that Randy... - I couldn't tell you because like I say he was in to drugs off and on most of his life, apparently from what I only knew him from the time we moved out here, which like I say is 20-some years ago we put this place in. And I got to know him and Dan come down and he was a good neighbor to talk to, he had all kinds of ideas about stuff. He could do things and he was smart and he helped a couple other people out. I really never ever thought Dan possibly did it. I just never entered my head. - Well, if he did or didn't do it, it seems like they would start the last place his vehicle was seen. - Makes sense. That's basic. You start the last place it was seen that's right there. - Anyway, that's why we're here today. We're just processing a little bit of information from the pond. - What I would love for somebody to find out what happened at least so they have the know what happened to him and it's possible maybe locate him. - [Jared] I thought Larry would've already had this loaded for us in the water. - [Dan] Come on, Larry. - [Jared] I guess we're gonna have to find somebody that can do a better job than Larry. - [Larry] Water looks pretty clear. (laughing) - [Jared] Thanks, Larry, for bringing it down for us. (light music) (sonar humming) - Yeah, I think it's super weird like I was saying up there that they didn't search Flannagan's property to begin with just because I'm not saying that Flannagan did it but that was just the last place that his vehicle was seen. I think that's wild that they didn't even look there. Makes me wonder if they didn't look because maybe they already knew. - [Jared] You're leaning towards coverup. - Oh yeah, it's the vibe I'm getting. I mean, I could be 100% wrong, but this is the vibe that I'm getting. - [Jared] We're usually 100% of the time wrong. - I mean, realistically, I think we're getting about 20% but at least we're out here searching and we're marking off ponds and we're marking off locations. Even if we don't find Randy or anyone else for that matter, we are definitely allowing the search to be tightened, we're tightening that gap where he could be. - [Jared] And also bringing other people into this. This really is an open source search as we're bringing awareness to it. - Yeah, we're bringing awareness to this case that's open and other people can jump in and help the search. (soft music) - [Jared] I made the last pass up the middle here. Sam, that one clears this entire pond. So more answers, more questions. Just gonna go say thanks to Bill. Oh, he's right here. - [Bill] Find anything? - No, nothing, your pond is clear. - Well, I had a feeling it was but then the not knowing. Like I say, kids swim in that thing and fished. Where are you going? You got someplace else to go now? - [Jared] Yeah, we got the pond down on 32 or Golden or whatever that is down there, straight south of here. To the east just a little bit, you have a bigger pond there. - [Bill] Behind the pig farm? - [Jared] I'm not sure what the pig farm is. - Well, that big long building there. Yeah, that used to be a pig farm. - So just to clarify, who's house got burned down, Dan's? - The house that the Leach's were having the party, Leach went to the party in. - That house got burned down, okay. - Yeah, where they had the party. I think if I'm remembering right and I may be wrong I thought that the book I read or article I read said that that house burnt down in less than a week after Randy disappeared. - [Betty] It was a few months. - It wasn't very long. Was it a few months? - A few months and the fire marshal said it was arson. He said that gasoline had been poured down the hallways to the furnace room and it burned and then the next day caught fire again, burned to the ground. It was just a few months after. The Irwins had already moved out. They'd already left and moved back to Kansas City. - We've got so much daylight. Bill, I really appreciate your help today. - I hope you guys find something. I just really really hope it. - Glad we stuck around to hear that little piece about the house burning down. - Yeah, I'm not leaning towards an accident at this point. - [Sam] Yeah, 'cause it seems like way like some other stuff. - And if we're not dealing with water, how are you gonna get a car from Linwood over to Missouri if that story is true with a shredder involved? Or is the car strictly just hidden in the woods somewhere and we just need to invite you the viewers, start doing Google searches, pull up Google Earth, Google Pro and what can you find? Can you find this car? All right, now the pond is fairly good sized, but if we go back to 1991, the oldest satellite imagery, it definitely looks-- - [Sam] It wasn't that big. - [Jared] Very small. (light music) So the pond itself didn't come up any further than this. So this back in the '90s was not here. This was just all dirt, this was not here. And so we're just searching this portion of it. (sonar humming) - But a car does have to go somewhere. I mean, a car, they had to do something with the car. So if we do find the car... - [Jared] Well, if you're dealing with big affluent type people, somebody in that group probably has access to a shredder. - Oh totally. Or a crusher, can make a car disappear. Excavation equipment. - Yeah, it's not a problem. (soft music) - Did you hear it? - [Jared] Yeah, I'm check it off your list. - Yep, check, on to the next. (soft music) - Jared, I had a thought. Lizabeth had a thought there's a couple of ponds out over on State Avenue over east of Tonganoxie. And about a year or so ago, Harold and Alberta had somebody come and talk to them about this young fellow was saying his grandfather was maybe involved with something years ago that's involved he said in the mob, but he might have been involved with something to happened to Randy and that he had some property off of State Avenue. There's two ponds there and he said "check that back pond." And that's what he told Harold and Alberta. So Lizabeth had a thought that if Alberta and Lizabeth and I drive over and ask if we could get permission for you to come and check that pond. - [Jared] Okay, sounds good. - And that way we're not wasting time going down there if they're not gonna give us permission. - [Jared] So yeah, we have three more hours of daylight today. So we'll go with him and we'll meet up with you guys in a bit. - [Betty] Okay. Thank you. (soft music) - [Dan] Definitely a familiar spot. - We have been here before. We came down the other side on yesterday, which is in the other episode. So again, if you have not yet watched that episode, please go do so right now. If you're liking Adventures with Purpose and everything that we stand for, clean up the environment, helping families find lost loved ones, do me a favor. A lot of people say hey, Jared, how can we help? Hit that like button, hit the subscribe, leave a comment down below and share these videos. If you can do anything more, we do have a membership available as well. PayPal links are down in the description as well. Any donations help because we are out here on our own dime seeing what we can do to help these families and to clean up the environment. So thank you, we cannot be doing this without you. So back to the show. I don't know if we're gonna make our way through there, Dan? Can we make it? - [Dan] Easy. - [Jared] I didn't think we would. Turn it. That just looks so shallow. We've got about a mile to go. Who here in the boat believes this is a bad idea by a show of hands? - [Dan] Sharpening the crop? - Yeah, it's not looking good. (light music) That could be us, Dan. - [Dan] Yeah, it could be. (light music) So what exactly is it we're looking for? - See where the road comes in, it's 198th? There's a story that says Flannagan this is where he ended up killing his girlfriend and her body was found. I don't know, I don't have all the facts and all the details but somewhere along the way death occurred at this location who also is the neighbor that was part of the party, Flannagan, and because of that, Harold would like it if we checked this location. But here's what we're up against now, Dan. We're up against, this is the end of the road here that we're currently at. And back in '88, had somebody driven straight down this road and the water was fairly low back in '88 as well. With that being the story and the case, if a car was driven off the end, the car would just be right here. If the car was driven off and there was water here at the time, the car is gonna float for two to 10 minutes and it's just going to end up really no further down than that big brush pile down there, let's say 300 yards. Based upon the flow of this, the water would not be rushing in here. So there's gonna be a nice slow current through here, not like it would be out in the middle. And so based upon that on how a car is gonna float, it's gonna go this direction and even maybe circle back in a little bit. There's nothing to scan here now that we've gotten up here. Everything is just within a few inches deep. So that one, I'm gonna say checks this location off as well, Dan. (light music) - [Dan] Now, we cleared that one off and we have one more location. - One location that has two ponds on it is my understanding. I think we're gonna be out of daylight today. Just for kicks, I know that we sonared down past the bridge yesterday, but I'd like to just finish sonaring this because some people believe that the car is going to go from Stranger Creek Bridge all the way out to the river. In my professional opinion, it's not going to happen. But you know what? If I'm proven wrong, I'm proven wrong. Anyway, we're just gonna go ahead and do a quick scan and sonar all the way between the Kansas River and up Stranger Creek back to the railroad bridge. You know, I'm gonna say, let's just clear this all the way up to that other bridge that we were thinking about yesterday. - [Dan] Okay. - Does that work for you? - [Dan] Yeah, I'm on, dude. (sonar rumbling) - [Jared] Yo, what's that? No, you have a steering wheel. You have a car right there. - Let's go look at it. - [Jared] You have part of a car there. Let's come back to that. Let's clear the rest of the river right over here. - That steering wheel looks very weird. - We have an old car on the bank up here tangled up in some trees. The reason why this location is so special, Dan, is because in the first episode that we did on this, we had some pictures, in fact, you can throw them up on screen here, of a psychic that was talking about go down to Stranger Creek at this specific location and at that location, something is there. I'm being drawn to that location. And when Harold took a couple days to make it down there, he waited for Alberta to go back to work, and when he came down to the location, written in the mud, it was drier than it is now, it said, Randy Leach was here. When Harold told me that story, the hair on the back of my neck just stood up. - [Dan] The river was way lower then, too. - Yeah, and it wasn't a psychic area. - [Dan] It was Florida. - Florida, we're in the middle of Kansas right now. So when he came down here and saw that, very weird. The bridge was redone since 1988. See, we were thinking he's coming from this direction over here and if he would've come from that direction, it's just way too much distance for anything to have traveled in our opinion to have traveled through that little gully in order to get all the way back through. All right, well, that clears everything up for the bridge. So let's head back down, Dan, and go check out that car. See if it's a Dodge by chance. - [Dan] Got it. (light music) - [Jared] Yeah, that's a white pickup or something. '50s, '60s? And this is all dumped with whatever concrete and debris that was up there, too. So it's not like it floated down here. Yeah, definitely not mom's car. I don't know what it is. - [Dan] All right, well, we found a vehicle. - [Jared] Let's clear those ponds before it gets dark. (light music) - Jared, I'm not sure that the ponds that the guy was telling them about, I always thought was this one but we get back here today with Alberta and we see this pond. So when they were told, the guy said it's the pond in the back to search. So we get down here and now we see this one. - [Jared] Okay, so you have three ponds in the back. So is it this one or is it that one? Well, I say we're just running down daylight, so let's just start. (soft music) - We're showing 1-9 to the top of the boat edge but then it's shooting like this. Could you hear? - Oh yeah. - [Jared] All right, we have something over here. And what it is but it's only, I mean, it's not a car. - [Sam] It's small. - [Jared] That is just the way the trees are laying. And that's just me making a turn. (light music) This one is going to be clear. See it, only one little mound. (light music) Oh, this pond isn't really that big. We can do this whole thing in two circles. - Yeah, done them real quick. (light music) - [Jared] I don't feel like this was an accident. I think that there's five or six people that are involved minimum that know what happened. - Yeah, somebody knows. (sonar humming) - [Jared] All right, this one's clear. Clear and clear. Let's do the last one and we're on the property, let's clear it. Hey, we're catching 77 feet wide still, no more vegetation in here, so it's real easy to clear. How's it going, guys? (cows mooing) You got a nice home here. (cows mooing) We love you. (cows mooing) Oh, I think we just broke it. Betty, your thoughts at this moment in time? - I'm so thankful for you guys and everything you guys have done and that you guys have rolled out so many things that Harold and Alberta thought about and wondered about. So it solves a lot. - Well, let's go talk to Alberta and Harold and go over some of these other theories and then turn it over to the online community. I mean, we're gonna open this up to several million. They're gonna be able to step in and help you out as well with some additional information we can give you in just a minute. (soft music) Well, Larry and Betty, Elizabeth, Harold and Alberta, we wanna thank you for bringing us into your home, for feeding us breakfast and lunches and dinners. Today's journey took us to over to where the party was at. The gentleman we actually ended up getting in touch with Harry who owns the property now and he says that the water that there was no pond on the property at the time. So as a result, we ended up not doing a search on his property. We did make our way to the north just a little bit that when we met the gentlemen by the name of Bill. Harold, you've spoken with him before and you've delivered your mail to him. The home was built about 20 years ago. And the reason why we went there is because the road that went to the west it was an old dirt road at the time that went down to a 2 1/2 acre pond. And so we put the boat in there and we cleared that entire pond. So nothing was at that location. From there, we made our way down to 198th. At this point, we tried to make our way down there. - Oh, we went down to Mark Timburg's next. - Mark's next, okay. And with his, we pulled up the aerial from '91 as far as the maps go back and his pond was about half the size then as it is now. So we focused on the search on his property as well. We've also cleared his pond. From there, we made our way over to 198th, but the gate was closed. A no trespassing, a couple of dogs there. And so we ended up going back over to Stranger Creek where the bridge used to be and where Golden was. And we put the boat in and we made our way all the way down Stranger Creek into the Kansas River and then made our way up about a mile and a half, two miles to 198th. So Harold, we have cleared 198th for you as well. - Well, good. - With that one, the water was low similar to how it would've been back in '88. And if a vehicle would have gone off the edge there, it would've pretty much just nose-dived right into the sand there. Or to get out from the sand to the river at that point, it would've been another 100 feet or so. So with that, a lighter current because of the way that it does come around that corner, even if the car did end up there, it would not make it's way down any more than about 100 yards, even if it was to float for two to 10 minutes. I mean, we did look for about 3, 400 yards down from where 198th did end. After that, we made our way back up into Stranger Creek. We actually ran all of Stranger Creek all the way up to the bridge and beyond the bridge that you were sharing those photos with us yesterday. - That got pretty low, didn't it? - The K-32 bridge. - Yeah, you had a couple of sections in there that were over 15 feet deep. And with this section of river, we actually ended up, we found a vehicle. The vehicle was not in the water. It was actually up on the hillside, so it actually had been pushed over with some other debris, some concrete that it was mixed up in. And it was just an older pickup from I'm gonna say the mid to late '60s is how old the pickup was. So even with the water being low, I think the shallowest we got into was about three feet, but the deepest down there right now is still 15, 16 feet. So we can confidently say that there is no vehicle in Stranger Creek from that section down to the Kansas River. We then followed up on another lead that I don't know how deep down this rabbit hole we wanna go, but it's a gentleman that may have been involved with the drug portion of it and the mob back in the day. And based on a family member had spoken of his grandfather, we made our way onto their property as well. And we ended up clearing all three ponds on that property as well. So the back pond I guess was our number one target on that one, and we ended up clearing all of that. So that one ended up we ended up clearing one, two, three, four, five, six locations for you today. - And we didn't roll out the seventh because we didn't know who the party was. - Yeah, 'cause the party ended up I guess again the story goes that there was not water on the property at the time. As you know, there's a lot of stories around this. And one is we thought the Flannagan's property was across the street. We did not realize that he had a driveway between the front house-- - They shared the driveway. - Yeah, and the house where the party was at. We also had not heard until we were out there today that the house where the party was at actually burned down a month or two later and that there was no investigation done on Flannagan, there was no investigation done on the house burning down, the family had moved and Sam has a list of notes that he made today and he has some confidential informant on that one as well as some stuff that he would like to weigh in on as well. And we'll just go down some of your thoughts and feelings on that one. Right now, my thought and feeling before I turn this over to the two of them is I don't feel like this is an accident at all. We have cleared all bodies of water where an accident could've taken place. And at this point, I don't feel like it's an accident. I could be 100% wrong, but that's where I'm at on it. This is where the corruption and everything else starts coming in to all of this is I understand that Unsolved Mysteries themselves came in and they were going to do a story on this, but they got zero cooperation from your law enforcement. - And they left. - We have others that have come in and have been driven out by your law enforcement. We have new detectives as we understand who have come in to the office and that old outgoing detective have given them zero information like you don't need to worry about this case. And now, the way that the world is today is that you now have people around the world that are gonna be stepping in on this to help the two of you out, to try to get you those answers. I mean, somewhere out there, somebody knows what happened to Randy. And my feeling is I believe that there's at least five to six people right now that they know exactly what happened to Randy that night. Again, I could be wrong but my feeling is this was not an accident. So we'll do what we can to figure it out for you, okay. - What about you were mentioning earlier how they said that they didn't have the cadaver dogs but then you saw that cadaver dogs were being used on a different case? - Yeah, we were told that Leavenworth County couldn't get, they didn't have cadaver dogs to help Harold and Alberta search the lake. And then they got a call from their friend, they'd come up to this area in Leavenworth County and there was something going on. - But the guy was from Colorado. He was in Colorado and he lived next door to where they found a skull. And the dog had carried the skull up and the woman had it for a day or so and then she didn't know what to do with it, so she asked this guy's wife, "What should I do?" And she said, "Call the sheriff!" So she did and then this guy was out in Colorado and he called, well, we had another friend out there and she called us and said, "Alberta, you guys need "to go up there and check that out." So we rushed up there just north of, west of Tonganoxie and pulled in the driveway and there was cop cars, KBI all over the place. And as we drove up, I just jumped out of the car and the detective that works on our case came right over and he said, "What are you doing here?" And I said, we wanna know what's going on. And he said, "Well, it doesn't have anything to do with you. "It was a woman's skull. "And it had of been, we'd of let you know." So Harold started to get out of the car and he walked around to Harold and he wanted to shake Harold's hand. And Harold said, "I wanna talk to the guy "that's got the dogs." There was two cars, truckloads of dogs. So Harold walked over to the guy that had the dogs and he asked him about doing a search and the guy said, "Well, we can't do anything "without Leavenworth County okaying it." So we knew that was out. So we left, but then about two weeks later, the detective and a KBI agent was here. And I asked them, I said, did they ever find out whose skull that was? "Well, yeah, but we can't say anything." But it was in the papers I guess but we didn't know. But somehow the woman was at the bar and somehow she went out in the back and we don't know what happened, but the dog found the skull. - Yeah, but they told you that they didn't have access to the dogs and then all the sudden, here they have dogs at their disposal after telling you that we don't have dogs, but now all the sudden they got dogs. - But they came from right over in Missouri. - So we're already building a lot of doubt within the police force here. Are they involved with a coverup? And part of the stories today was we're dealing with a drug house, we're dealing with what we've heard was a shipment of drugs that were coming in that night, that the caves have been used for drug trafficking, that Flannagan also was one of the major players in the drugs, that there's a gal that Randy was interested in, Teresa. And with that one that she was in the drug portion of it and that Randy was actually trying to, hey, there's a better life that you don't need to be involved in this. - Oh, there's so much, the stories and the response that we didn't get. We had just replaced the car that was missing. And it was we had ran over to Eudora, my brother lived over there, three, four miles. And we had spent the evening with them and we came home at 10 o'clock and come in and Harold went in and turned on the TV to listen to the news and I asked him if he wanted a piece of chocolate cake. He said, "Sure." So I started back to the kitchen. Well, the phone was right there in the dining room and it was ringing and I answered it. And the neighbor over here said, "Alberta, you got smoke coming down clear down on the road. "What's going on?" And I ran through here and looked out and the front tires on our car was just burning, just rolling fire up. - Both wheels. - [Jared] Your parked car? - Yeah. - One we had just replaced, yeah. - [Jared] So somebody came and tried to light your car on fire? - They had to. I'd say they poured gasoline on the tires. And Harold ran out and got the fire hose and was running it on the house because we didn't have the cement on there. - It was right here. - It was right here. And he's running water on the house so it wouldn't burn the house. And they finally got here and it smoked it up really bad. He called the fire marshal. Leavenworth doesn't seem to be too concerned about it. They took eight weeks to come out and check it. And the fire marshal was looking through it and Harold asked him, "What happened?" He said, "Well, I think the gas line broke." It was in March, the car only had 16,000 miles on it. - Something like that, yeah. - And it was cool. We just couldn't see... And with the tires burning like that, we could not see the gas line just erupting. - Oh yeah, no, I've never heard of such a thing ever in my entire life. - So after that, well, Harold was talking to the guy 'cause a house over there had already burned, the party house. So Harold asked him, he said, "Did you investigate that?" And he said, "Yeah." Harold said, "Well, what happened over there?" He said there was gasoline poured down the hallway into the furnace room. I delivered the mail over there and I saw the fire that day and I called Harold and told him there was a fire and the fire department was there and they were putting it out. That night, it started again and burned totally down. So somebody didn't want that house there for some reason. - [Jared] So you got it back-to-back nights on arson on that house, plus arson on your car. - Uglier than that, there was just so many different things that went on through the years that it's hard to even think about what all did go on. - Well, we'll get this message out to everybody. And like I said, this is gonna be several million. There's gonna be new videos that will come out from it and more investigations. And people are gonna start. We're gonna invite the viewers here to jump onto Google Earth. Maybe the car's been sitting off a ravine or something that's somewhere between here and the party or expand the search, go another 10, 15 miles out and see if we can find something. But that's the benefit of social media these days is that we've now told your story, your story is now out there for you. So we've done what we can for you on this one and if there's any more waterways, we're more than happy to come back out and help you. - [Alberta] Thank you. - You're welcome. Do we have a dedicated Facebook page or anything set up for Randy? - Betty keeps it up, yes. - So Betty. - Oh yeah, she keeps it. Oh yeah, she does. - So we'll put the link in the description down below for that way you can get flooded, I hope you can keep up. - She does. - So reach out with any tips with any of your own theories with anything that you actually know. Somebody knows something out there. That's all we need, just let us know because time is not on our side. - Well, we've sure tried to and we've gotten... - Yeah, we just need to know. Well, thank you very much for your food and your hospitality and letting us come in and do what we can to tell your story and get it out there for you. And I hope that with all of this that in a short time you're gonna have the answers that you guys have been looking for. - We sure hope so and pray. - Hope so, appreciate it. Thank you. - You're welcome, thank you very much. - Thank you, Dan, Sam. - Yes, ma'am. - We do appreciate it you'll never know how much. - You're welcome. (light music)
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Channel: Adventures with Purpose
Views: 957,818
Rating: 4.947834 out of 5
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: 49min 37sec (2977 seconds)
Published: Sat Dec 19 2020
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