Yvonne Reglar ////// 946

Summary

True Crime Garage — Episode 946: The Disappearance of Yvonne Reglar

Date: August 4, 2026

Hosts: Nic and the Captain
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This episode is a deep dive into the chilling unsolved disappearance of 17-year-old Yvonne Reglar from a Sunoco gas station in Fairview Park, Ohio, in 1977. Nic and the Captain reconstruct her last known hours, analyze police theories, examine leads (including possible serial offender involvement), and critique law enforcement’s investigative approaches—blending fact-rich narrative with the show’s signature blend of empathy and critical banter.

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Episode Overview

• Case Profile: Yvonne Reglar, 17, disappeared on August 8, 1977, while working a one-time shift alone at a Sunoco station in Fairview Park. Well-liked and responsible, Yvonne was last seen performing routine duties just before vanishing, leaving no signs of struggle and all her belongings behind. Nearly five decades later, her case remains unsolved.

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Detailed Timeline & Key Points

Setting the Scene: Yvonne's Background and Last Shift

• Yvonne’s Life:

  • Reliable, athletic (“tomboy”), played in her high school band, well-liked, involved in her large blended family.
  • Summer before her senior year; worked at her usual Sunoco station in North Olmsted—full of local customers and busier than the Fairview Park location.
  • [03:05] Nic describes her as “a tomboy, played in the band, just a decent good kid.”

• The Day of the Disappearance (August 8, 1977):

  • Scheduled at her usual station, but management shifts her to the Fairview Park Sunoco (first and only time).
  • Yvonne gets a ride from her manager, has no car herself.
  • Fairview Park location: one-pump full-service, quiet, more rural, surrounded partly by a park and golf course ([11:42] Nic details the contrasting area).

Yvonne’s Last Known Movements

• Morning (8:00am):

  • Arrived at Fairview Park Sunoco (18990 Lorain Road).
  • Calling friends and family to pass time as business was slow.
  • [10:30am] — Phone call to friend Terry McKenna about an upcoming memorial; mentions a new dress for the event.
  • [Noon] — North Olmsted manager Rick Eaman checks in, brings her lunch ([13:39] Nic emphasizes manager’s diligence).

• Early Afternoon:

  • [12:30pm] — On the phone with Terry again; hears the gas station service bell twice. Yvonne reports, “the same car is back” ([13:39] Captain notes the significance of this, suggesting someone may have been “checking her out”).
  • [1:25pm] — Transaction with a credit card (unusual for the time); seen by a witness working across the street ([14:59] Nic: “Yvonne records a credit card sale which in 1977 would be fairly rare”).

• Disappearance Window:

  • [1:30–2:05pm] — Multiple customers and a scheduled coffee machine repairman find the station unattended ([16:04] Nic: “all three…eventually just leave the gas station”).
  • [2:45pm] — Next shift worker Gary Peacock arrives, cannot find Yvonne; her personal items (purse, book, lunch, thermos) are untouched. Cash register is undisturbed, $300 present. No signs of a struggle; police are called ([17:46] “The manager immediately called the police”).

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Investigation and Theories

Initial Police Response

• Doubts about foul play, initial focus on runaway theory due to lack of struggle and sightings claims.
• Lead investigator Lt. John Hall:
  • [18:51] “If she was kidnapped, why didn’t they rob the station?”
  • [32:04] "If she was abducted and raped, she would have reported that to us by now…We never received a ransom, so she wasn’t kidnapped."
• Yvonne’s family adamantly rejects the runaway possibility—she had no car, no history of running off, and left personal belongings and pre-planned for upcoming events.

Reported Sightings & Leads

• Hitchhiking Reports:

  • Two truck drivers claimed to have seen/picked up someone matching Yvonne’s description in the Sandusky area, days after her disappearance ([27:56] Captain discusses credibility).
  • An airline clerk reported a young woman matching Yvonne’s description bought a ticket to Miami, paying with small bills and no luggage ([30:35]).

• Police Shortcomings:

  • Investigative gaps noted in the balancing of the till—was the $300 the correct sum? ([31:13] Captain: “They don’t talk about the register balancing at the end of the day.”)
  • Overreliance on the runaway theory, hindering early progress.
  • [33:05] Captain: “When we talk about bad investigations, I think you coined the phrase lazy or stupid. And I think, and this one, I feel that they’re both happening at the same time.”

Crime Scene Logic

• Hosts emphasize that the full-service setup made Yvonne vulnerable:

  • [33:17] Captain: “The abduction point wouldn’t be inside the gas station. The abduction point to me would be at the pump.”
  • [35:12] Captain: “There’d be no sign of a struggle outside if the abductor drives up... and he pulls a gun and says, ‘Get in the car.’”

• Motive likely not robbery (register untouched): attacker was motivated by opportunity for control or sexual violence, not theft ([36:21] Nic).

Modern Perspective and Progress

• Today, Fairview Park Police officially believe Yvonne was abducted, likely from the gas pump.
  • Chief Paul Shepherd (paraphrased)[41:07]: “She wasn’t supposed to be there… She had plans that night. We found no indication that she ran away…. She was taken from the pump.”
  • No evidence, DNA, or witnesses—she “would have just been grabbed and put in a car” ([41:50] Shepherd via Nic).

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Suspects, Serial Offender Angles, and Persons of Interest

Serial Offender Lines of Inquiry

• Police looked into connections to prolific serial killers active in Ohio and the broader region (e.g., Samuel Little, Rodney Alcala [“Dating Game Killer”]) ([44:47]).
  • Both had differing MOs and victim profiles; ultimately, no strong connection.

2016 Person of Interest

• Police announced a male person of interest with a history of similar crimes, currently incarcerated, and not a relative ([44:21]).

• Richard Allen Wright:

  • The hosts detail findings from 1977 articles: Wright, originally from Lorain Road near Yvonne’s home, abducted and raped multiple young women, kept a notebook with the names and license plates of dozens of Cleveland-area women ([47:15]–[52:24]).
  • Escaped from an Ohio prison (1976), abducted a teacher (Linda Sharp) whom he held for 12 days in his Florida trailer, caught after using a fake ID from North Olmsted (Yvonne’s hometown).
  • Wright’s Cleveland-to-Florida connections, history of sexually motivated abduction, local roots, and method fit Yvonne’s case profile ([53:12]).
  • Hosts discuss the troubling dynamic: “He grew up practically right down the road from this gas station…” ([56:20])

• Potential for linkage to other missing women along Ohio–Florida routes; Yvonne’s DNA compared and excluded in some Jane Doe cases (e.g., Sandusky).

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Critical Reflections & Investigative Takeaways

• Investigative Frustrations:

  • Delayed focus on abduction once runaway theory took root.
  • Missed early opportunity to question and collect evidence on vehicles, potential witnesses, and shift from assumption to open investigation.
  • [37:57] Captain: “If you go to get your oil changed at Valvoline, they have procedures and checklists. This is what should be happening with law enforcement as well.”

• Area and Timing as Risk Factors:

  • Yvonne working alone at a less-familiar, more isolated gas station for the first time—assailant may have targeted specifically because she was new and alone ([40:07]–[41:07]).

• Victimology and Planning:

  • Yvonne had plans for that night and week; told friends about her new dress and was making social plans—no sign of intent to vanish ([38:09]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• [03:05] Nic: “She was a tomboy, played in the band, just a decent good kid.”
• [32:04] Lt. John Hall: “If she was abducted and raped, we would know because she would have reported that to us by now.”
• [33:17] Captain: “The abduction point to me would be at the pump.”
• [35:12] Captain: “There’d be no sign of a struggle outside if the abductor drives up, has her come out, and pulls a gun…”
• [36:21] Nic: “Trying to control someone in the vehicle and go and retrieve the money from the register…is highly risky and a very big unnecessary risk.”
• [41:07] Chief Paul Shepherd (via Nic): “She did not know when she left her house that day that she was going to be at another location working that day…She was taken from the pump. There was no DNA, there was no evidence because she would have just been grabbed and put in a car.”
• [33:05] Captain: “When we talk about bad investigations…I feel that they’re both happening at the same time.”
• [44:47] Captain: “At some point, they start looking into different serial killers, which I thought was interesting…Samuel Little, Rodney Alcala…but their MOs are quite different than what I think we are faced with here.”
• [58:58] Nic: “We do know that Yvonne Reglar’s DNA has been checked and she’s been excluded as a couple of Jane Does…”

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Key Timestamps

• 03:05 — Case introduction and Yvonne’s background
• 09:50 — Morning timeline and shift change to Fairview Park
• 13:29 — Differences in station environments & 1st key sighting
• 15:13 — Timeline of phone calls and last confirmed activity
• 16:36 — Discovery of her absence and inspection of crime scene
• 18:51 — Law enforcement’s initial runaway theory
• 27:40 — Truck driver and airline clerk “sightings”
• 31:13 — Register cash discrepancies and police follow-up
• 33:05 — Criticism of early investigation procedures
• 35:12 — Hosts discuss abduction scenarios at gas pump
• 41:07 — Chief Shepherd’s modern perspective & abduction theory
• 44:21 — Police identify person of interest (2016)
• 47:15–58:23 — Deep dive into Richard Allen Wright and serial offender links
• 58:58 — Updates on DNA testing, Jane Doe exclusions
• 59:40 — Recent appeals from police for public information

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Summary & Takeaway

This episode paints a detailed portrait of Yvonne Reglar’s life, the tragic circumstances of her disappearance, and the failures and evolution of the investigation over a half-century. The hosts challenge old assumptions, probe the factors that made Yvonne vulnerable, spotlight the enduring pain for her family, and critically examine how law enforcement responses have changed—even as justice for Yvonne remains elusive.

If you have any information about Yvonne Reglar’s disappearance (August 8, 1977), contact Fairview Park Police at [phone] or email chief of policeairviewparkohio.gov.

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Further Reading Recommendation

• The Buried Truth: The Brutal Murder and Collateral Cover-up of Sandy Miller by Scott Miller
  • A story of loss, corruption, and prolonged quest for truth in another Ohio cold case. Find more at truecrimegarage.com

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All right everybody gather round, grab a chair, grab a beer. Let's talk some true crime. On an early afternoon on August 8, 1977, a cloudy summer day in Fairview Park Ohio. 17 year old Yvonne Regler was working alone at a Sunoco station pumping gas. This was an old school, full service one gas pump station. Yvonne was seen at the Sunoco in the early afternoon, but by the end of her shift at 3pm she was gone. No one has seen Yvonne since. Police say she was abducted and they have received many leads over the years, but they are still requesting help and information from the public. At the time of her disappearance, Yvonne was 5 foot 10 inches tall and weighed 135 pounds. She had brown hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing denim cutoff shorts and a yellow T shirt. She was well liked by all, reliable, hard working and going to school. Just a good kid from North Olmsted, Ohio who as of this week has been missing now for 49 years. This is true crime Garage. Yvonne Regler was 17 when she vanished from the Sunoco gas station in Fairview Park. She was born on July 11, 1960. So today she would be 66 years old. And so for us, Captain, the two of us here in the garage this evening, we are wedged between her birthday and what will be in just a couple of days. 49 years since the day that police say she was taken from the gas station. Yvonne was a student at Olmsted High School. She was about to start her senior year and Yvonne was no problems for anyone. She got good grades, got along with her parents and siblings, was a great worker and to put it plain and simple, Captain, my favorite description of Yvonne is quote, she was a tomboy, played in the band, just a decent good kid. There were six kids in this big family. She was a middle child. So we have three kids still living at home with her mother Mary Jane and her stepfather Gerald. Sadly, Yvonne's father passed away when she was young. I believe she was 12 years old at the time of his passing. Where we start our timeline, it is the summer before her senior year at North Olmsted High. So this will be a time that's going to be filled with when you're a kid, you hope, mostly friends. But we know that she's working. So her time is going to be filled with some work, friends and the simple joys of teenage life. Yvonne lived on Woodmere Drive in North Olmsted and to earn some money, she took a job at a local Sunoco gas station on Lorraine Road. The morning of August 8, 1977, Yvonne's parents were going on a fishing trip at Lake Erie. But for Yvonne, this day would begin like any other work day. Yvonne arrived at The North Olmsted Sunoco ready to start her shift at 7am however, the day took an unexpected turn. Management needed to shuffle some of the staff around because we have an employee at another Sunoco just up the road in Fairview Park. This person was an experienced mechanic. Okay, so folks our age, you still see them somewhat today, but they're quite rare. But remember back in the day, some of these gas stations, in fact a lot of them in certain parts of the country were also a form of a service station as well where you could stop in for gas, but you could also go in for a tire or tire repair or an oil change, things of that nature. They required a person who had experience as a mechanic at the North Olmsted location on that day. Okay, so Yvonne was asked if she would be willing to swap places and cover the shift at the Fairview park station. She agreed, but she is without a vehicle of her own. She does not own a car. So a co worker takes her to this other location. At 8am she arrived at the Sunoco located at 18990 Lorain Road. This is just across the city line in Fairview Park. Okay, this is not very far from her home. But there's a lot of things that are important here with this shift in this movement to this story. We said she does not own a vehicle. Well, she's had this job for quite some time. I believe it was roughly about a year by the time that she had gone missing. The Sunoco station that she worked at, her regular Sunoco station was at Lorraine and Clegg Road in North Olmsted. This is where she usually worked, this gas station that she disappears from the other Sunoco. This would be the only day that she ever works there. So the one that she regularly works at is a 15 minute walk conservatively from her home. The one that she will be filling in for is Sunoco at Lorraine and Story Road in Fairview Park. This one's about a 15 minute drive from her home. So it's not really far from where she lives. But the key is this is the first and only day that she will work at this gas station. And this is her by herself. The work environments are described very differently. So the her regular gas station captain is, has much more in the way of business and customers. Yeah, and at that time they had self serve gas pumps. The one that she's going to fill in at is a single pump station, but it's a full service pump. The clerk has to go out and pump the gas for the customer. So she is flying solo at the Sunoco, Captain. To pass the time between customers, she is chatting on the phone. And this will help shrink that window of concern on our timeline here. At 10:30am she called a girlfriend. This is Terry McKenna. They talked about their plans to attend a memorial service for another friend's father. I believe that was going to take place on a Tuesday. This is a Monday. Yvonne mentioned that she had even bought a new dress for this occasion. About 30 minutes or so later, she had a similar conversation with a family member. Now, around noon, the manager from her regular North Olmsted store, Sunoco store, his name is Rick Eamon, dropped by checking on her and brought her lunch. Now, the reports I have, Captain, state that this is the same man, the manager at her regular store, that drove her from the store to the new store earlier in the day at 12:30pm by this point, Ricky man is gone. And now she's on the phone with Terry, her friend Terry again. And the two friends were chatting some more. Terry says during this conversation that she had heard that distinct ding of the service bell in the background, this signaling a car had driven onto the lot. Yvonne said to her that the car had just driven through the lot and left, so she didn't need to get off the phone. They continued their conversation.

[Captain]

Yeah, and I think this location is a little more rural, so you'd have a lot of, you have a lot more situations where people pull in to turn around.

[Nick]

The difference here in the two locations, from what I can see, is the, the park is across the street as well as a golf course, which may or may not have been there then, but we know that the Rocky river and the park were absolutely there. And so that really makes it so there's less people living in this general area. And it's, it's kind of like you said. So one side of Lorraine, on Lorraine's a very big road, a long road that stretches across a big portion, a fair portion of Northeast Ohio, especially in Cuyahoga County. And on this stretch right here, what you have is the north side of Lorraine will butt up to neighborhoods and such. The south side of this portion of Lorraine Road is all park. So it really cuts in half the amount of people that live in this general area. And like we said, her, her other, her regular Sunoco that she worked at, Clegan Lorraine is surrounded by neighborhoods and houses and people so much busier. It's still there to this day. In fact, both of these buildings are still there. One is a Sunoco. And I believe today the Other the location where she went missing from is a mechanic shop. It's all service and no gas, I would believe.

[Captain]

Well, it's been almost 50 years, like you said. And so, yeah, the building's still there, but the area has built up quite a bit. So you can look up visuals of it today, but it's not going to give you a clear picture of what it's like. So I imagine her going to work. Like you said, she's at a busier location. Hey, do you want to go to the less busy location? She's had this job for a while, but. But less customers. But you have to go out and pump a couple people's gas. It'll make the time go by faster.

[Nick]

It's also kind of cool that she can be on the phone with her friends. And so she again, she's on the call with her friend Terry again. She hears the ding, okay. And Yvonne says, on the call with her friend, oh, that car, the one that just drove through and left? She said, oh, that car came back. She says something like Terry says that Yvonne's words were, the same car is back. Okay? So obviously Yvonne is going to need to go attend to this customer. And they agreed that they would continue their conversation later when her shift ended at 3:00pm okay, so 1:25pm is an important marker on our timeline here. And this is because we have a couple of things, confirmations that all is well at this time. So one, Yvonne is both seen by another person. This is someone that is working across the street. And also at 1:25pm Yvonne records a credit card sale which in 1977 would be fairly rare. Most of this is going to be cash transactions.

[Captain]

One so different than today because I believe she had to initial the receipt.

[Nick]

Yes. Sometime after that, everything changed. Because what we have today is police saying whatever occurred, we believe took place after that sighting at 125, after that credit card sale at 125, sometime between 1:30pm and 2:05pm and the reason why we're able to pinpoint this little window in time, roughly 35 minutes, is at some point close to 2pm we have people who start to arrive at the Sunoco gas station. What we have here, Captain, we get two different customers independent of one another who pulled in needing to get gas. They find the gas station completely unattended. Also around this time, we have a coffee machine repair person who arrives. Some of the reports state that this is a scheduled service.

[Captain]

Right.

[Nick]

So this could be a 2pm scheduled service. This repair person also finds the gas station empty. Now, as the reports go, all three of these individuals just. They eventually just leave the gas station that nobody gets gas. I don't think the machine was repaired. They leave eventually, much later or a short time later, after everyone realizes that there was a situation, they will report having been there during that time frame.

[Captain]

Right.

[Nick]

So now we Fast forward to 2:45pm this is when Gary Peacock, he's the employee that is scheduled to relieve Yvonne. He arrives at the Sunoco to start his shift. And of course, he's confused. He. He's in there looking around. He can't find her anywhere. He sees her purse and obvious items suggesting that she was there a short time, probably before he arrived. And he calls the manager at the North Olmsted Sunoco store. That manager then quickly drove over to Fairview Park Station to investigate. What he found was deeply unsettling. Inside the station, everything of Yvonne's was still there. This is her purse, her paperback book, her thermos, and her partially eaten lunch. The cash register was untouched. The safe was intact. The door was unlocked. There was no indication of a struggle at the scene. There was no sign of yvonne. There was $300 cash in the register.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So the manager immediately called the police.

[Captain]

I don't know if you've had jobs like this before, but they're great jobs. The, the ones that you show up and you can bring your book to and bring your lunch, and in between customers, you can just kind of have your own little solo party. And so I don't know if this co worker knew her personally because they worked at different locations, but if you're the manager and your employees showing up ready for a shift, I mean, good employee, right? Showing up 15 minutes before he has to clock in, she's nowhere to be found. This is to me very concerning because he drove her there, the manager drove her there. So he knows that this is too far for her just to go, hey, I'm just going to head back home and I'm just going to hoof it by foot.

[Nick]

Yeah. The. The Fairview park police were baffled. With no sign of a struggle, no robbery, and no obvious indication of foul play, they began to wonder if she had run away, if they had a runaway on their hands.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Lieutenant John hall, the lead investigator at the time on the case, posed several questions to the press saying, quote, if she was kidnapped, why didn't they rob the station? He added, quote, we're going to find her alive and well when she decides to come home. End quote. Yvonne's family and friends knew this theory didn't add up. They argued that men who kidnap young women are often not motivated by money, and all too often they do not leave their victims alive to tell the story, the family pointed out. Yvonne didn't have a car, so she couldn't have driven away. She had left her purse, her money and all of her personal belongings behind. Foreign. If you're not invested, you're not earning. Your money that you worked for is not working for you. Give your money a chance to grow with the financial wellness app Acorns. Sign up in minutes and start automatically investing your spare money, whether it's a little or a lot. And the Acorns Potential screen will show you the power of compounding and how your money could grow over time. Plus, you can quickly adjust how much you're investing to make sure you're building toward your goals. Sign up now and Acorns will boost your new account with a $5 bonus. Investment join the over 14 million all time customers who have already saved and invested over $27 billion with Acorns. Head to acorns.com garage or download the Acorns app to get started. Paid non client endorsement compensation provides incentive to positively promote Acorns tier 2 compensation provided potential subject to various factors such as customers, accounts, age and investment settings. Does not include Acorns fees. Results do not predict or represent the performance of any Acorns portfolio. Investment results will vary. Investing involves risk. Acorns Advisors LLC and SEC registered investment advisor view important [e-mail] garage most of us picked a bank at 16 and never looked back. Sound familiar? That's where Chime comes in. They're not like traditional old banks who charge fees and gatekeep perks and rewards. Chime offers the most rewarding fee free banking all with no overdraft fees, no monthly fees, no minimum balance fees. You get 5% cash back on Chime card in a category of your choice like gas or groceries, all while building credit through regular everyday spending with no credit check. And you can also grow your money faster with a savings rate that's nine times the national average. Join the millions who are already banking fee free with America's number one choice for banking. Head to chime.comgarage that is chime.comgarage Sign up now. It only takes a few minutes. Chime is a fintech not a bank. Banking services and Chime card provided by Chime's bank partners. Qualifying direct deposits Required terms and limits apply. Go to Chime.com disclosures for details for

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[Nick]

Cheers to you, Captain.

[Captain]

This case to me seems like such a urban legend, right?

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[Captain]

Young 17 year old girl goes to her shift at her job and hey, can you fill in for this other location? Yeah, I can do so. You just, you're going to have to drive me there. And I don't think it's clear, but I'm guessing that somebody was going to come pick her up and drive her back to the original location so she could just walk home.

[Nick]

Yeah, you're absolutely right. Somebody was going to pick her up. I don't know who that person was.

[Captain]

I'm assuming the manager probably.

[Nick]

Yeah, the Rick Eamon guy who drove her there to begin with. And he's a manager involved at both locations. And look, my employee, he's already, he's doing everything he's supposed to as a good manager. Remember it's reported he brought her lunch that day. He drove in and checked on her. She did say she did express to other people she liked working alone. So I don't know if when they needed a volunteer she raised her hand. But yeah, I would guess that it was Rick that was going to drive her home. And this employee shows up, she's gone. He calls the manager, manager shows up, finds everything that concerned the employee who arrived for his 3pm shift, calls the police. And we said, look, it's 1977. We've done enough of these cases. We've seen this time and time again. Teenager, late 70s, vanishes, you see it in the paper all the time. They go, well, they just, this irresponsible jerk of a kid just took off and went to have some fun for a while and he or she will return when they want to. Now, yeah, we can, we, we've, look, there's blame to be tossed around. But rather than putting people through the wringer any more than they need to be, the investigation was further complicated because we did have people who would later claim that they saw someone that they thought matched Yvonne's description. Okay, so we get two separate truck drivers that came forward, both claiming that they had seen Yvonne or somebody matching her description hitchhiking in the Sandusky area. But this would be days after her disappearance was reported. One said that they had picked her up in Lorraine and drove her to Norwalk. The other claimed to have given her a lift from Port Clinton to Toledo. It seems like at the time that police found their stories convincing and this would only lend more weight to the runaway theory at the time.

[Captain]

Let's try to put our feet in the shoes of the investigators. This is not somebody driving down the road and thinking they saw somebody. These are two individuals that are claiming to have interaction. When you pick somebody up in your vehicle, you're very close to this individual. I would argue though, especially at this time, late 70s, 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s were more sign of the times to have trends. And she had a trendy haircut maybe a little bit shorter than the normal trend. It was a pretty trendy haircut and so I could see them being confused. But you would think at some point that you're driving this individual, you're going to make small talk, what's your name, where you're going? But before these sightings happen, you're showing up at the gas station. If I'm walking into that gas station, I go, she left her purse, she left her book. Not worried about the lunch. The lunch was provided by work. Somebody could toss that. But if she's going to run away, why isn't she taking her book? Why isn't she taking her belongings? It makes no sense. But then you go, well, is it possible because she's working at this other location. Did she know about this coffee repair, scheduled maintenance and maybe she just thought, hey, it's slow. Friend is going to drive by and pick me up and I'm just going to disappear for a little bit. As long as I get back before my shift's over. Maybe nobody's the wiser. Problem with that though, she doesn't lock up. And the pumps, they're not self service, they're full service. You can go, well, she's 17 years old, so maybe it's just a moment, momentary lapse of irresponsibility. But I don't think we have any work history that suggests that she's an irresponsible person. And it's late 70s. 17 today feels like such a child. And in the late 70s, a 17 year old going into their senior year. They're one year away from the real world and there's a lot of people in the 70s that were if they're not going to college, they're immediately entering a career type workforce. And some of these individuals are getting married within a couple years of graduating high school. So it's just a different time.

[Nick]

Another strange story. Claiming to have seen the girl was an airline clerk, remember? So Yvonne goes missing on a Monday, an airline clerk, she comes forward on a Tuesday or Wednesday saying that she believes to have seen a girl fitting Yvonne's description who bought a ticket for a 10am flight to Miami. And she says this young woman paid with $1 bills and 50 cent pieces. So she was memorable not just because she was young, but the way that she paid for the ticket and that she was traveling alone with no luggage.

[Captain]

Another thing that bothers me about this investigation and, and they might have done it, they just didn't report it publicly is there's talks that there's cash in the register, but they don't talk about the register balancing at the end of the day.

[Nick]

The register balancing.

[Captain]

Yeah. Meaning there's $300 left in the cash register. Was there supposed to be 300 or was it supposed to be 400? Was there any money taken?

[Nick]

I see what you're saying. Yeah. I think if that were the case, we would have that report. Remember what I want to be bad holdback information, though it wouldn't be bad hold back information, but what I'm seeing early on is a lieutenant who's going out of his way to defend the, the stance of we have a runaway.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Remember, he said, well, if, if she was kidnapped, why didn't they just rob the, the station?

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And, and, and I actually dumbed down his. I downplayed his statements to the press. To further validate. Mike. My belief here, I'll include what else he said. He also said, well, if she was abducted and raped, she. We would know because she would have reported that to us by now. And then months later they had said too, like the runaway claim is. Is believed to be confirmed because now we've had sightings of her which they haven't. They've had sightings of. From people who believe that they saw her.

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[Nick]

What credibility these people have that came forward, we don't know. But anyway.

[Captain]

And we know that people sometimes report things because they just want to help.

[Nick]

The other statement was, well, we, we never received a ransom, so she wasn't kidnapped.

[Captain]

Yeah. When we talk about bad investigations, I think you coined the phrase lazy or stupid. And I think, and this one, I feel that they're both happening at the same time.

[Nick]

I see, I see no investigation.

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[Captain]

My, my argument here too would be she is vulnerable because of the full service gas pump.

[Nick]

I was going to ask you, what does this crime scene tell you? What is this scene telling you?

[Captain]

When the investigator says if she was abducted, why didn't they just take the money? Well, because the abduction point wouldn't be inside the gas station. The abduction point to me would be at the pump.

[Nick]

It's the Pump.

[Captain]

And, and that makes me really wonder about this repeating visit by the same car. Did this individual drive by and see her working by herself? And then he went, oh, okay, I fancy her. Well, this is a full service pump. So I go back and she has to come out and pump it. Now I have a. Some kind of communication with her. Maybe I can create some kind of ruse. But we know that there's transactions after that. Okay, well, if he came back one time, did that vehicle come back another time? And did anybody see that vehicle? Do we have any eyewitness descriptions of that? And maybe we don't have a description of the abductor, but maybe we have a description of the vehicle.

[Nick]

Yeah. And oftentimes I think that people look at a situation and they over complicate what needed to take place to get to what you know. Okay, what we know is she's missing. There's money in the register and there is a full service gas pump only at this location. There's no signs of a struggle inside. There's no indication that anything took any kind of altercation or anything took place inside. It's the employee arrives to a neat and clean small store. All of her stuff is still there, her purse, including her driver's license.

[Captain]

And guess what, there'd be no sign of a struggle outside. If the abductor drives up, has her come out, she has to go out. That's part of her job. And he pulls a gun and says, get in the car.

[Nick]

Yeah, it's. She's already next to your vehicle. You can force her in the vehicle or you could trick her in the vehicle. That's where that's going to take place. I don't think she was tricked in. I think she was forced in. And I get what they're saying. They're not wrong. If a register containing hundreds of dollars is untouched, you know, with no one there to defend it, why not take the money? But you're over complicating what is not a complicated scenario. What we do, what, what do we know that the, the criminal would want? He wants two things. And why do we know this? Because of what took place. She's gone.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

So someone wanted to abduct her. And the other thing that they wanted to do is not get caught. Right. Trying to control someone in the vehicle or move them around on the property and go and retrieve the money from the register and which you don't know how much it contains is a. Is highly risky and it's a very big unnecessary risk. And it will either Prevent you from abducting the girl and. Or get you caught.

[Captain]

Yeah. Because the longer you're there and the longer there's interaction between you and our victim, the more chances there's going to be eyewitnesses. And so why take the chance I'm at the pump, get in my car, not, hey, let's go back in the gas station. I. And let me hope that there's some money in the register. This crime is the motivation would be, like you said, control, sexual, violent. The, the motivation isn't to get 300 bucks out of, out of a cash register. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. It just takes a captain.

[Nick]

So we have these sightings, but, and we know the opinion of police at the time, but okay, today we know that this was bogus and we know that police, Fairview park police have said for many, many years now openly that she was abducted, that they believe she was abducted.

[Captain]

Well, just to go on a little rant and I don't know if you've seen this lately, but I know it's happening in other states, but it's been talked a lot about in Ohio is setting up different protocols and I, I know that there are some protocols for how these cases are investigated, but especially back then, a lot of this stuff was just willy nilly and it makes zero sense to me. If you go to get your oil changed at Valvoline, they have procedures and checklist. This is what should be happening with law enforcement as well.

[Nick]

Yeah. I mean, today they operate much differently than they did in, well, in most parts of the country. They operate very differently today than they did in 1977.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

Police here have partnered over the years, have partnered in this specific case, have partnered with the U.S. marshals Service, the FBI and BCI. Yvonne Regular is listed everywhere that one would expect on the Ohio AG's office and website for missing persons, the Charlie Project, NamUs, Nick Meck, the National center for Missing Exploited Children, you name it. And the other part of this too here, in regard to even the thought that she took off is what do we know? We know that she had plans for that evening. We know that she had plans for the following day. She expressed that she purchased a dress specifically for the friend's father's funeral that she was going to be attending the next day. That's an indicator that she was looking forward to that. And her friend that she was on the phone with says, we were working on creating plans for that night, making additional plans for that night. So usually when you See, somebody that is making all these arrangements and working things out for the near future, that's a big indicator that they, they don't, they're not just going to go roller skating off into nowhere. So the police said that she spent most of her earnings from work and didn't save much money. And today, of course, authorities do not believe that Yvonne left on of her own accord as she was not having any personal problems at the time of her disappearance and had no history of runaway behavior.

[Captain]

Now, recently, the theory just doesn't make a lot of sense. And I swatched true crime doc last night and I hate it when you hear that the detectives come up with a theory and then they try to make everything fit to that theory. It drives me insane.

[Nick]

I, I think the problem is they have no evidence suggesting anything at the, at the scene. Right then you rely on experience. And now you have a guy who's going, oh, I've showed up to a thousand of these calls. And it's always some teenage boy who's not where he's supposed to be. And he turns up late that night, early the next morning, he's out goofing off with his friends. And I think they become a victim to themselves, a victim to their experience in their environment. Fairview Park Police Chief Paul shepherd is on the record saying and backing up the claims that they've had for years now, that we don't think that she left of her own accord, stating that, look, she was the only attendant on duty, quote, the fact that she wasn't supposed to be there, he says, is important. She, she did not know when she left her house that day, she did not know that she was going to be at another location working that day. And he also says too, she had plans for that night. We found no indication that she ran away, end quote. And they think that she was abducted while she was pumping gas. Just like you and I had said when reviewing this, what should be labeled as a crime scene. Shepard said Yvonne initialed a receipt around 1:25 that afternoon. But between 1:30 and 2:05pm he said two customers and a coffee machine repair person found the gas station empty. Yvonne's personal items were still there. Quote. Would you leave your purse and all your belongings behind? Shepard said no, you would take something. He said it was only after the shift replacement arrived at work to the empty station around 3pm that Yvonne was reported missing. He says by that time it was about an hour, maybe an hour and a half after. He says that he believes that she was either tricked or physically taken. Quote, she was taken from the pump. He said there was no DNA, there was no evidence because she would have just been grabbed and put in a car.

[Captain]

One of the problem too is they can't do fingerprints or DNA analysis on the pump because one, the customer is not supposed to touch it. But there's probably a bunch of customers that touch the pump, so that becomes more difficult. But the fact that she talked to her friend is great. We get some clues or possibly some leads. There is this repeat customer, is that somebody that we should be interested in? And yes, I know that she's at a different location, but she's not that far away from the original location. And we. There isn't there some rumors that there might have been some guy, that customer that would come in and maybe he fancied her, maybe she fancied him and, and they would have some kind of engagement.

[Nick]

Yes, there was talk of that. And that's an odd portion of this story because there are people that say no, that wasn't true. There are others that say that's absolutely true. And then the people that believe it to be true, they're unclear as to what that may point toward or what that's an indicator of. Did she leave willingly with this individual or was this somebody that was setting something up and at a later time took her?

[Captain]

Yeah, it seems like there's a couple of friends that were close and. But look, it could have been not much of anything in her world, but she told a couple of her friends, the parents and a lot of her family members say, well, she never, if this was happening, she never talked about it with us. My argument there would be, there's a lot of kids in that house so it's kind of hard to keep track of every little detail that's happening in your kids lives.

[Nick]

There's three kids in the house. But the, the bigger part of that I think is she's 17. Yeah, I don't see a long line of 17 year olds that are just wanting to tell mom and dad everything.

[Captain]

Yeah, every detail.

[Nick]

In 2016, police announced that they had identified a person of interest in Yvonne Regular's disappearance. They described this individual, did not name him, but described him as a man who has committed similar offenses in the past and is currently in custody. Related charges. He is not a member of Yavon's family. They specified and they reminded the public at that time that Yvonne's case remains unsolved.

[Captain]

Yeah, I think this is really fascinating because during their investigation, once they get over that giant hump and, and probably the reason why the case isn't solved today is this initial theory. Lack of motivation to look into anything, lack of motivation to do any type of investigation. But at some point they start looking into different serial killers, which I thought was interesting turn or. Or something. I guess when there's not much information coming in, why not look into this? And a couple of people they looked into, which I think is. This is fascinating, is Samuel Little. And I think one of the reasons why they looked into him, location and time and all that stuff. But also these drawings and, and do any of these drawings possibly match our victim here? They. I also know that they looked into Rodney Acala. Is that how you say his name? Or the Dating Game Killer? The problem with Rodney, though, is location. He has crimes that we know that he committed in California, some in New York. So possibly is this a situation where he's just traveling. And I think one of the reasons why they looked into him is he had all those photos of women that he. He took pictures of. He didn't attack all those women, but they thought maybe there's a. There's a chance that. That we would find Yvonne in these photos.

[Nick]

Yeah, I appreciate them looking at both of those individuals. And to their credit, there were a lot of serial killers roaming at that time in this country and a lot of bad dudes that were hunting in Ohio specifically around that time period. So unfortunately, there's no shortage of people that you might want to look at with both of those individuals. Though I would argue that their. Their M.O. while Yvonne certainly fits Akala's victimology that we would see, she doesn't fit Sam Littles. And both of their. Their mos are quite different than what I think we are faced with here. Remember, Sam Little never really made any effort to conceal the body.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

And unfortunately, one thing that we know is we're days away from 49 years of her not being found. Not being located.

[Captain]

Yeah, she's. She's disappeared and her body has never been found.

[Nick]

So while they never named this person of interest in 2016, just announcing that they have one, I can't guarantee that I have this the right person, but I do know of somebody that they looked at early on in the investigation. When I say early on, I believe this would have been November. Right. So she goes missing in August. Usually. I believe that you find what you're looking for in the early parts of an investigation ultimately. So. This is from the Cleveland Press. This is an article from late November 1977. The headline is Suspect eyed Sorry, suspect had eyes on 50 women. So I'll give a bit of a summary here. I got two articles that I want to summarize for everyone. And this article reads in part, two detailed notebooks kept by Richard Allen Wright, accused kidnapper of Linda Sharp, listed the names and license plates of about 50 Cleveland area women Wright had in mind for being potential victims. Police said, quote, I am glad he kept such nice notes, said Detective Sergeant William Wilkins, who said he and his men would seek to contact all of the women in the notebooks for statements and determine if any of them are missing. The article says school teacher Linda Sharp has given a detailed statement about her imprisonment by Richard Wright in his house trailer in Florida where she was kept for 12 days. So that's where they found these notebooks that they're discussing in Wright's trailer in Florida. Now, remember, these are names of women in the Cleveland area and license plates from the Cleveland area of Ohio. And the detective in this article says some of the entries into these notebooks featured women's names alphabetized. Others simply listed license plates of women Wright had noticed and followed at one time. And in some cases, he made notes describing the women. For example, one entry gave a license plate number followed by gray olds, blonde, very nice teacher. One note stated blonde, very nice. Another stated thin blonde. Another right notebook entry was Monte Carlo, half vinyl top, brown bottom, donut lady. Police were attempting to seek a link between this suspect and a missing girl from Fairview Park.

[Captain]

Yeah.

[Nick]

In a separate article, it reads in part, prison escape. E. Richard Allen Wright, age 29, was to appear in court in Clearwater Florid as a first step toward returning him to Ohio to face charges of kidnapping school teacher Linda Sharp. On November 14, 1977, Richard Wright attempted to conceal his identity as a reformatory escapee and was living and acting under the name of George M. Lewis. Okay, so when, when he's arrested, he tells police that he's George M. Lewis. Now, this works very briefly because he presents to them a ID with the name of George M. Lewis. And where does this fake I.D. george M. Lewis. What's unclear is I don't know if it's a stolen ID or if it was a fake id.

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[Nick]

But the key here is a couple of things. Is George M. Lewis. Whoever he is, it's a bogus ID from North Olmsted, Ohio, where Yvonne regular lived. And now she's working just 15 minutes up the road. Richard Wright was identified through fingerprints by the FBI. Again, he was claiming to be George M. Lewis. Wright was Serving a term at Ohio Reformatory for abducting and raping an 18 year old North Olmsted woman in 1972. The abduction had taken place in Walton Hills and the victim was kept prisoner in a East Cleveland apartment for three days before she was freed. He made his escape on March 3, 1976 after stabbing a guard with a screwdriver. Charges against him in Linda Sharp's case included aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, felonious assault, resisting arrest and kidnapping. Ms. Sharp was said to have been kept handcuffed and gagged in his trailer near Tarpoon Springs in Pasco County, Florida. Linda Sharp believed that she was going to be killed soon. Investigators searched his trailer and reportedly found a 9 millimeter pistol, burglary and locksmith tools and a key making machine. And there's more. Captain Richard Wright grew up on Lorraine Road in North Olmsted. Police believe there is a tie possible link to Yvonne Regular's missing persons case case.

[Captain]

Okay, so question. In this kidnapping, he kidnaps his teacher from the Cleveland area and then he

[Nick]

takes her to Florida from her apartment, I believe. Yeah.

[Captain]

So how did, does he do this? By car, truck or.

[Nick]

Well, he, yeah, he had a car. He had a, he had a Maverick. I, this is like the thing that aggravates me to know. And we, I talked about this when we were discussing the Beshears case where we now know that we have this man who was driving around the country raping and killing women. And at the end of every story, you have police, FBI and, and different law enforcement agencies saying we're, we're still looking for all of the crimes that this guy may have committed. He's dead. We can't, we can't convict them, we can't punish him. But we are now really concerned what he's done because we've tied him to murders. Rapes in Texas, Missouri, Tennessee, some assaults in Arkansas, a homicide in South Carolina. And there we don't know everything he did. We still want to learn more about his timeline and what he may have done. And then they give you a picture like his driver's license photo, but no description as to what he weighed, how tall he was. Give us a. And look, it's really easy to, you know, everybody uses the term Google these days. Google this, Google that. Let's go. Police machine. Type into your little police machine and find out what, what vehicles were registered to this monster and let us know the public who you are asking for help. Yeah, same here with this dude who was arrested down in Florida for kidnapping this woman in the Cleveland area abducting.

[Captain]

He.

[Nick]

He broke into their apartment in the middle of the night, knocks her unconscious, uses a large duffel bag to drag her to his vehicle, which is all it says in the article is he was driving a Maverick that was registered to that fake name. Maybe, hey, you're like, hey, he might be tied to other crimes. Let's give a description of that vehicle in the article, please. Like, and some of that is on the. The reporter. Yeah. Ask that question. Or if you know that information, put it in your article. I'm sorry, but me, Mr. Public here, would like to know what kind of vehicle the monster that was attempting to kill people was driving at the time.

[Captain]

Well, far as far as law enforcement goes, good for them. 2016, a lot of time has passed. That would be what, 40 years almost.

[Nick]

Yeah. And. And again, to be clear, they may not be talking about the guy that I suspect that they're talking about, because they did not name him, but this was somebody that they looked at late in 77. And he does fit the very vague description of the person of interest that they give to us in 2016.

[Captain]

Right. Maybe it's the same guy, maybe it's not. Seems likely to me. But also in 2016, you can go, well, we're not going to release the guy's name, but we. We do have a suspect we. We haven't been able to clear. Okay, well, what vehicle was he driving at the time? Because you say that you give a. Even just a stock photo of this car, it might draw somebody's memory that was driving by and assault a man talking to a woman at the gas station that night or that day. But because. Because of your lack of investigation, because of stupidity and laziness, this person saw something that might matter, but then heard, oh, well, it's probably nothing because I heard. I heard that Yvonne ran away.

[Nick]

Yeah. So this is a little troubling because it's difficult to pin this guy down. We know that he had access to this trailer in Florida, where he is eventually caught with a woman. He took prisoner essentially for 12 days. He takes her from the Cleveland area. Okay, well, then that would mean that in mid November, he was in Ohio. So was he in Ohio in northeast Ohio in August of that same year. That's not. And he's from that area. And this is one of those guys. The more I'm digging on this dude, there's more boxes that I'm checking, but it's all left with a good deal of uncertainty. So he grew up practically Right down the road from this gas station where Yvonne disappeared from. His father worked as a mechanic and taught him how to work on vehicles. And he was known in this neighborhood, near this Sunoco station to be the kind of guy that would, would fix your car for payment under the table in your backyard or in your garage. And again, he has a history of abduction and rape. And the, the one victim he was convicted of prior to Yvonne's disappearance was 18 years old. So very much fix fits the same victimology. And he was out at that time. He escaped prison in 1976. And of course we know that he is a violent sexual offender. Now, is he a murderer? We don't know. But I would believe that maybe part of the problem here in Yvonne's case is if he managed to get her down to Florida, I don't know when he had access to that trailer, but if he managed to get her down to Florida, he may have disposed of the body down there somewhere. He would have had plenty of time to do it.

[Captain]

Yeah. One, the other problem, and it's pretty obvious, very north part of Ohio to Florida, there's a lot of spaces in between. And depending on how he was trying to transport her, look, at some point she sees a window of opportunity or she is not cooperating the way he wants her to, so he kills her on the way or whatever. So now you have to open up the database of any Jane does that are from Cleveland to Florida. Do any of those Jane does match our victim?

[Nick]

We do know that Yvonne Regular's DNA has been checked and she's been excluded as a couple of Jane Does. One in particular was a Jane Doe in Sandusky, and that is a woman that the Porch Light Project was able to identify. Now, last year, on what would have been the 48 year marker since Yvonne was last seen, Fairview Park Police Chief Paul shepherd made a plea to the media and the public for any information adding, quote, this is a young lady that showed up to work, did nothing wrong. She's missing. Shepard said we owe it to her, her family and the rest of the community to find out what happened to her. He vowed that his department will not stop searching until they find her. If you have any information about Yvonne regular's disappearance on Aug. 8, 1977, please call Fairview Park Police at 440-356-4418 or email chief of policeairviewparkohio.gov and we will have that information for you in today's show Notes.

[Captain]

I want to thank everybody for joining us here in the garage each and every week. Grab your favorite chair, grab your favorite beer. Colonel, do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful listeners?

[Nick]

Yes, we do, Captain. This week we are recommending the Buried Truth, the brutal murder and collateral cover up of Sandy Miller. On September 18, 1978, Scott Miller was summoned to his home to find his wife Sandy, brutally murdered. The murder weapon was sitting in the kitchen sink, completely ignored and undocumented. The crime scene was open to the public and the coroner had already begun making decisions that weren't his to make. Scott was 23 years old at the time, and from that moment, the authority figures initiated a cover up. The Buried Truth is the story of 47 years of silence, corruption and one man's refusal to be buried alongside his daughter's mother. That's the Buried Truth by Scott Miller. You can find that title and many other great recommendations on our recommended page. Go to our website, truecrimegarage.com and until next week, be good, be kind, and don't live.

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