Richard Wayne Jr.

In the spring of 1983, a young man's journey home turned into a tragedy that would remain a painful mystery for months. Richard Arthur Wayne Jr., a 17-year-old White male, was traveling from California to his home in Montpelier, Indiana, when he vanished on March 20, 1983. The days turned into weeks, and the weeks into months, with no word of his whereabouts, leaving his family to grapple with uncertainty and fear.

The grim answer to their questions came on December 7, 1983, when a hunter ...