For over 36 years, the people of Linwood, Kansas, have been asking the same question… what happened to Randy Leach?If you know anything about the disappearance of Randy Leach on April 15, 1988, in Linwood, KS, or may have seen his car, a 1985 Dodge 600 sedan with Kansas plate LVJ8721, please contact the Kansas Bureau of Investigation at 1-800-572-7463.For more information about Randy and the efforts to find him, please visit InSearchofRandyLeach.com. To learn more about the other Randy Leach, listen to The Deck’s Randall Leach (4 of Hearts, Idaho) You can learn more about The Good segment and even submit a story of your own by visiting The Good page on our website! Source materials for this episode cannot be listed here due to character limitations. For a full list of sources, please visit: crimejunkiepodcast.com/missing-randy-leach/Did you know you can listen to this episode ad-free? Join the Fan Club! Visit crimejunkie.app/library/ to view the current membership options and policies.Don’t miss out on all things Crime Junkie!Instagram: @crimejunkiepodcast | @audiochuckTwitter: @CrimeJunkiePod | @audiochuckTikTok: @crimejunkiepodcastFacebook: /CrimeJunkiePodcast | /audiochuckllcCrime Junkie is hosted by Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat. Instagram: @ashleyflowers | @britprawatTwitter: @Ash_Flowers | @britprawatTikTok: @ashleyflowerscrimejunkieFacebook: /AshleyFlowers.AF Text Ashley at 317-733-7485 to talk all things true crime, get behind the scenes updates, and more!
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Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host, Ashley Flowers. And I'm Britt. And the story I have for you today is one that I've wanted to tell for a minute now because I found it in a super interesting way. So back in 2022, I covered the case of Randy Leach on the deck.
Mm-hmm.
This is not that Randy Leach. It's a different Randy Leach. So when our reporting team was out first diving into that case, we realized that there were two Randy Leaches that were missing people. And it is finally time that I tell you the other Randy Leach's story because the circumstances are truly bizarre.
He goes to a graduation party, starts acting strange, but he doesn't know what's wrong with him. And it's so strange that people don't want him to drive. I mean, that's how bad it is. One minute he's there, and the next, both him and his car are missing, have been missing for 36 years. And in those years, rumors have swirled.
Rumors about a party gone wrong, rumors about a satanic cult, and a police department that, as far as the family is concerned... didn't do everything they could have. This is the story of Randy Leach. It's just after 6 a.m. on April 16th, 1988, when Alberta Leach wakes up in her Linwood, Kansas home, ready to get her Saturday started.
The first thing she does after climbing out of bed is to check on her 17-year-old son, Randy, because she knows that he'd been out at a party the night before and she wants to ensure that her only child got home safely. Several sources report that his curfew was 1230 in the morning. Dad says he's usually home by one, like latest he's ever out was like 2 a.m.
And according to the Lawrence Journal World, on most occasions, his mom would actually hear him come in at night and that would wake her up. Sometimes they'd even have a little late night conversation and then Randy would go to bed. But she didn't wake up the night before because she never heard him come in. And she's realizing now that's because her son is nowhere to be found.
He's not in his room, he's not crashed on the couch with the TV on, and I'm sure her already building anxiety spikes when she looks outside and sees that her car, the car that Randy was driving the night before, isn't there either. She goes and wakes her husband, Harold, and they immediately start calling around to friends, but no one has seen Randy since the party the night before.
According to another Lawrence Journal World article, they make a call to Alberta's brother, who is a police officer in the nearby town of Lawrence. And he heads out to the farm about 10 miles from the Leach home where this like outdoor pre-graduation bonfire bash was held the night before. That's what Randy was going to. Now, Randy's parents went out there, too.
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