A private investigator is reported missing, and a Russian spy assists the FBI to uncover the truth.Season 31, Episode 26Originally aired: February 5, 2023Watch full episodes of Snapped for FREE on the Oxygen app: https://oxygentv.app.link/WatchSnappedPodSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Chapter 1: Who was Rick Post and what was his background?
She accessed highly sensitive, confidential information and gave it to the KGB.
The hidden microphones were up near his shoulders. So when she leaned in to whisper that to him, it couldn't have been more loud and clear. This is Ranger 4.
It's August 21st, 1998 in San Diego, California. 16-year-old Ian Post is at the home he shares with his father, Rick, when the phone rings.
A secretary in my father's office called and said, hey, have you seen your father?
Ian tells her he hasn't seen his dad in 24 hours.
And so, obviously, I tried calling my father. I'm not getting any answer. So that started to worry me.
Ian is well aware that his father's work as a private investigator sometimes requires him to leave town at the last minute. But he also knows that Rick never leaves without telling him.
He would be making preparations that I was going to be with a possible family member or a friend, someone that we trusted, but that was never set up. Rick didn't tell his 16-year-old boy that he was going anyplace, took no clothes, took no medications with him. That's not a normal business trip. It's suspicious.
It's as if he just walked out the door and poof, vanished into thin air. Ian grows more concerned when he finds his father's vehicle out front.
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Chapter 2: What was Rick Post's relationship with Kimberly Bailey?
Chapter 3: What were the circumstances surrounding Rick Post's disappearance?
The hidden microphones were up near his shoulders. So when she leaned in to whisper that to him, it couldn't have been more loud and clear. This is Ranger 4.
It's August 21st, 1998 in San Diego, California. 16-year-old Ian Post is at the home he shares with his father, Rick, when the phone rings.
A secretary in my father's office called and said, hey, have you seen your father?
Ian tells her he hasn't seen his dad in 24 hours.
And so, obviously, I tried calling my father. I'm not getting any answer. So that started to worry me.
Ian is well aware that his father's work as a private investigator sometimes requires him to leave town at the last minute. But he also knows that Rick never leaves without telling him.
He would be making preparations that I was going to be with a possible family member or a friend, someone that we trusted, but that was never set up. Rick didn't tell his 16-year-old boy that he was going anyplace, took no clothes, took no medications with him. That's not a normal business trip. It's suspicious.
It's as if he just walked out the door and poof, vanished into thin air. Ian grows more concerned when he finds his father's vehicle out front.
Rick's car was parked in front of his house. and the keys to the car were left in the mailbox.
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Chapter 4: What did the investigation reveal about Kimberly Bailey's business and behavior?
Chapter 5: How did investigators follow leads and what obstacles did they encounter?
Chapter 6: What role did John Kruger play in the case?
Kimberly Bailey bought a ranch in Fallbrook, California with the stated intent to use it as a place to grow natural medicines that she was gathering from all over the world. It was beautiful, you know, 33 acres of avocado trees everywhere, a nice big ranch house. She was very pretty, highly intelligent. Kimberly also had a second business selling cutting-edge medical devices.
She had a business known as AstroPulse. And the idea was that by using electrical currents, you could cure pretty much anything.
Astro Pulse was a black box that had some controls and dials on them. The user would hold in, the box would send electric currents through their body.
By 1997, Kimberly was in her early 40s and had amassed a sizable fortune. She was this zen, holistic practitioner who made a lot of money. Business was outstandingly successful. The word of mouth would spread. And she had many, many, many people ordering her black box. She built up hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Chapter 7: What was the significance of the FBI's involvement and the mysterious phone call?
But Kimberly worried that those closest to her were trying to undo what she had built. Kim was rather paranoid. She always believed that somebody was watching her or after her. She thought that some of her employees were stealing from her.
So Kimberly Bailey hired Rick Post to conduct investigations.
Rick enlisted his new right-hand man, John Kruger, to help him on the case. Rick worked closely with Kimberly. The suave PI and beautiful businesswoman made an instant connection.
She was his biggest client, providing the bulk of the company's monthly income. At some point, that relationship evolved into one of a romantic nature.
But after a short and passionate fling, Rick decided it was best to steer clear of anything serious.
I do remember my father telling me at our home that he wanted to keep this relationship professional, that he did not want to have a romantic relationship with her.
Despite the brush off, Kimberly and Rick maintain their professional relationship. With the holistic guru as one of his most prominent clients, Rick seems to be in his professional prime. Until the PI suddenly vanishes on August 20th, 1998, throwing his family into a panic.
All of his belongings he would take with him were there at the house. So that alone itself was something that triggered, you know, kind of an emergency response. Over the course of that week, my brother and I had been looking for him. We had been contacting the airlines. I don't think I slept at all really that first week.
Then his son Ian gets a troubling phone call from John Kruger.
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Chapter 8: How did the investigation lead to international intrigue and espionage?
His voice sounded worried, forced, coerced. It did not sound like a natural thing. They all knew something was very wrong.
With concerns mounting, Rick's family files a missing persons report in August 1998. Missing person investigations can be very intense. The longer someone stays disappeared, the greater the chances that they will never be found. Coming up, police locate the last known person to be seen with the missing PI.
She and Rick Post had gone down to Mexico for a work trip. She dropped him off at the airport, and then she drove back. This seems really weird.
And just as local authorities hit a dead end, the FBI receives a bizarre call.
She said she had a client who had information about a kidnap and murder. She was asking for blanket immunity for her client. By late August 1998, over a week has passed since private investigator Rick Post disappeared.
After hearing a suspicious voicemail Rick left at the office, Ian and his brother report the 52-year-old as missing to the San Diego PD. The police must do their due diligence before they decide that an all-out search has to take place.
Their position was the nature of your father's work requires him to go on stakeouts where people aren't supposed to know where he's at. So this seems very fitting for his line of work.
San Diego police visit Rick's private investigation firm in Telesource, where they speak with employees, including John Kruger.
It would be typical in a missing persons investigation to try and interview as many family members, friends, coworkers as can be found to try and find out what does this person typically do? Is this very unusual? Where might they have gone?
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