The Rawlins Rodeo Murders /// Part 2 /// 275 | Forensic Files

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left their homes in South Dakota the next day the two were in the area of Casper Wyoming this is 12 year old
Sharon bald eagle from Eagle Butte and her 15 year old friend from Hot Springs in Casper they are hitchhiking looking
for a ride when they are picked up by Royal Russell long and taken to his home in Evansville Wyoming
there he feeds them a meal and after he offers them one hundred dollars for sex both of the girls refuse well that
doesn't seem to work for Royal because he then pulls out a gun and ties both of the girls up
after a while the 15 year old girl manages to break free she flees the house and runs to the neighbor's home
when the police arrived at the home long and bald eagle were both gone twelve-year-old Sharon bald eagle was
reported to have with her a red bag and she was wearing a black yellowish tiger-striped top and black shoes
well not only are the police looking for the little girl they're looking for Royal Russell long as well
long is reported to be in an early 80s beige pickup truck with a cowboy camper long while he's on the Run he starts to
call friends and relatives in the area of his home he is asking for them to wire money transfers to him police Trace
these calls to Albuquerque New Mexico later in early October Royal Russell long is arrested at a parking lot pay
phone in Albuquerque New Mexico but the girl Sharon was not with him in fact long had a much different story
than the 15 year old girl that called the police on him of course he did long said he picked up the girls he believed
they were both 18. he offered them money for sex and they accepted afterward the two girls revealed to him
their real ages and they were attempting to blackmail him for more money when the older girl fled he panicked and
he left with Sharon Royal long maintained he drove Sharon bald eagle to Cheyenne and found her a ride to Texas
this is a trucker he said he knew who agreed to drive the girl to Dallas Fort Worth area and let her go
police searched all over and they never found Sharon bald eagle and they never found this trucker if in fact he even
existed at all right Royal long denied knowing bald eagles whereabouts Royal long later pled guilty to
kidnapping and assaulting both of the girls for this he was given life sentences there was no trial
now what took place after this we have Casper Police they start noticing similarities between their case
that they've recently solved and the unsolved Kenzie pallet missing persons investigation
and they contacted OKC detectives so now we have Oklahoma City and they are interested in talking to Royal long
he says he had nothing to do with this disappearance now keep in mind this is three years earlier and many many miles
away from his home however we still have those eyewitnesses the two OKC boys they positively
identify Royal Russell long as having been the man the older man that took the two girls away in a vehicle right now
remember they were unable to do this with a prior suspect I think this adds to the validity of this identification
that they are now positively making investigators they start searching because what they need to do is we have
these eyewitnesses but we also need to place Royal Russell long in OKC or at least the area of there the day of the
disappearances what they find is they find that long had rented a vehicle they rent he rented this using his name his
identification driver's license right the vehicle that he rented was a 1981 beige Pontiac Grand Prix the same
vehicle described by the two boys shortly after the abduction which makes them pointing him out as the suspect
even more likely yes and it seems like they've got their information correct that they are providing to police
immediately after the abduction and then several years after the fact yeah what police surmise in their investigation is
that we have this individual Royal Russell long Who We Know by his own admission is capable of abducting two
young girls and sexually assaulting them we now can place him in Oklahoma City we have the
witnesses who identify him we have his having rented the vehicle for that day they believe that at some
point while he was in the area he either came across or stole Donald Corey's ID badge which he used to show to the
children when he was pretending to hire them to offload this truck the police searched Royal Russell Long's home and
what they find there is interesting it's blonde hair that seems to be consistent
with that of Charlotte June Kinsey's police this would take some time Captain but they somehow managed to track down
the rental car that was used three years prior right with this rental car they find blonde hair again consistent with
that of Charlotte Kinsey's this is under a mat in the vehicle the trunk they found someone had painted the trunk the
inside of it well when they lit the thing up with luminol looking for blood it glowed
what it showed was an outline and the outline almost looked like there was two bodies placed in the trunk that would
have left their own blood from each of these bodies there is a little bit of an issue with
this the stains or the luminal findings in the trunk however they couldn't prove
that this came from human bodies in fact you have the investigators that say that
it could have been animal blood it could have been two animals lying side by side
in the trunk right but they believe it to have been the girls and then in February of 1985 Royal
Russell long he's by now suspected in this disappearance obviously of the Oklahoma
City teenagers he tells a Wyoming newspaper that he was in the area that he was at the fairgrounds on the day
that the two were abducted however he states he was there to conduct some business okay so we have eyewitnesses
that say he's the guy we have the rental car and now we have him himself Russell's
saying hey I was there yeah I was just there to do business correct because I'm a businessman well and he wouldn't
elaborate as to what that business was and of course investigators couldn't find any reason for him to be there
business-wise and he does his business is murder yeah even though he admits to being there he he
emphatically denies any knowledge of the girls their whereabouts or even having seen them on the day that he puts
himself at the fairgrounds police now believe that they are probably working with a serial killer here yeah okay they
believe this guy abducted four different girls and is responsible for the murder
of three of them because three of them have never been seen again and one we know was last seen with long and then we
have these eyewitnesses putting the other two girls with long as well yeah this trial is going to take place in
1985 and there's going to be a lot of issues with this trial okay so first we have this man long who is already in
prison he's admitted to kidnapping two girls he's serving life sentences they're going to have to extradite him
back to Wyoming and I think the way that this worked out is that they put a bit of a time frame
on how long they were willing to keep him there as he awaited the trial and I think the Judge put a 180 day limit on
reviewing the evidence to determine if this guy was guilty or if in fact that the trial should proceed at all
so they extradite him back to Wyoming and as he's there we have investigators that are still collecting evidence and
prosecutors that are now trying to build a case against this man and they have an
uphill battle against them because at this time what Wyoming is going to see is a murder trial with no bodies and I
believe that this is the second only the second time that they have faced such a
trial the other thing that they're going to face Captain is what would be considered a lack of evidence in this
case because we have a judge presiding and he's going to determine what is evidence that can be
introduced at trial and what is going to be thrown out well at the Crux of this whole thing at the start of this
investigation is the Casper Police they contacted Oklahoma City Police and said hey look we just solved this case
we have the guy and this is a whole similar scenario to what we believe happened in Oklahoma City right and of
course OKC Police they went along with it because it is it's it's it's a very similar story however and I think
rightfully so in this situation the judge says that's not evidence you can't just because this guy admitted to doing
this thing elsewhere in another state that seems similar to all of us that's not evidence that he in fact did this
other crime no it just kind of points you in that direction yeah and I guess even though they could put him there
with eyewitnesses and the rental vehicle and all of that right right so let's go
over this again so we got the rental car you got the eyewitnesses we got his statements saying that he was there yeah
well we have hairs that were found there were hairs that were found they're not identical unified to being that of one
of the missing girls but they're identified as being consistent with one of the girls at his home and in the
rental vehicle itself we have the blood we have we know that there was blood at some point in that rental vehicle and it
looks to have come from two different sources right again the the experts would say we can't prove that that
wasn't animal blood we can't prove that it was human blood um but there was blood in that vehicle
at some point somebody took the time to paint over it so a couple things here that you really have to wonder about
because you have this judge who's who's trying to decide what is circumstantial evidence and what is just what is
Hardcore evidence and you could really make an argument I think for both sides when you look at it from the prosecution
side and from the investigator side it it seems like you have this mountain of evidence against this guy but this
mountain is going to start to crumble okay because you have you have the experts that are saying we we don't know
if there's animal blood or human blood right how much can you do with that at trial right and then we don't have the
bodies we don't have the bodies and back then they wouldn't have the capability to determine if in fact it was
the hair that belonged to one of the missing girls also remember we have the daughter
Long's daughter who was willing to testify against him in court well that gets thrown out by the judge and this is
because you know the judge is going to say look these are separate crimes that she is accusing her father of
if in fact you want to charge him with those crimes you can but then again you have to have evidence this is now her
word against his word so the daughter's testimony is not allowed at court and much of what looks
to be good evidence is thrown out all you're really left with is knowing that he rented a vehicle and he was in the
area at the time of The Disappearance of these two 13 year old girls so what ends up happening Captain very
this is very frustrating but the judge throws out a lot of the evidence and long story short dismisses the trial for
lack of evidence so now we have long who is saying well I was you know they extradited me to
another state I was held there I would receive death threats while I was there and now he's going to sue the state he
says he's going to sue the state of Oklahoma for 10 million dollars it's a lot of money should he be awarded
that as he sits in prison and serves life sentences yeah that's a lot of uh well I guess I get cable some places get
cable and you get snacks oh yeah the commentary you could you can buy a lot of uh Paul malls with 10 million dollars
Bond you could also buy like other people in prison snacks too that way like your buddies yeah you got some
people protecting you so there is a what I could find on this regarding this lawsuit was a one-page document and it
seems to be a very brief overview of how this whole thing transpired it said it was entitled oh hell no
right right that's what I said right at the top of the page oh hell no um I think that and I'm not positive
because I didn't print off that one page document I think it might have been the
same judge for the lawsuit as for what have would have been the criminal charges he was facing for the double
homicide he was awarded uh Victor in that lawsuit 10 million dollars they gave him one
dollar because I think that I think the way this things works is that if you are
able to prove you know so much so that I I think this is a way of making this lawsuit go away right because you could
then keep filing and filing and filing and what he was suing for was a lot of different things not only the wrongful
potential wrongful conviction or indictment he's charging for you know he says he received death threats while he
was there for the 180 days he also had to have counsel he had a higher counsel for all of that time so when this is all
said and done he gets one dollar he goes back to the beautiful state of Wyoming to rot away in a prison cell for the
rest of his life there's so much troubling stuff here captain and I I think that I lean toward
the side of the judge's findings that maybe there just wasn't enough evidence to carry this trial all the way through
the problem is and we've seen this in cases that we've discussed and maybe even cases that we've recently talked
about where yeah you have to wonder does the double life sentence weigh a factor
into the judge's decision and I know that that it's not supposed to technically probably does when he's
making that determination but is it one of those situations where it's like we know this guy's locked up he can't do
any more harm hopefully I know the judge shouldn't be thinking this hopefully there's some prison Justice going on and
rather than rather than take this case and get a conviction that might be later overturned maybe let's toss this one out
yeah um I agree but I mean I think it's difficult I mean but like you said at the end of the day no matter what
happens you already have two wins as far as the two life sentences so I I think it plays a factor no matter what they
say it does it play a factor and today so when they're searching his home you know that they're going there looking
for specific items that would really sure up their case against him right you know they didn't find the ID badge that
they presume he stole or found they would have hoped to have found anything clothing wise or anything that
the girls would have had on them that day in his home they didn't find that and the other thing too is we don't have
DNA back then that we could use to on the hairs or any of the items potentially found or evidence found in
that car right so with DNA if they would have found something of the girls at his
home you could have got a conviction also the bodies there's no bodies and I think that's also the the tough thing
for the judge to get over in that situation well I understand that but also if you process the evidence
correctly then we have that stuff to process later and then we could at least get some closure for the family or
friends or or whoever I I hate using that word closure because I don't think there is closure right but
I there you get some answers and so I I think you get answers at least in the one case because we have the
eyewitnesses and we also have him saying I was there we also have the rental car
we have a lot of stuff even the the judge threw that out I'm not going to be able to forget about
that and even though they didn't get a conviction I know both sets of parents were truly hoping at the end of the day
to bring their daughters home to lay them to rest at home right and that didn't get to happen in fact I know the
one girl her father traveled all over the country and this was when the remains would be found he would go to
these different states he spent a lot of time and a lot of money a good portion of his life trying to track down his
daughter be it if she were alive or deceased right now I should point out here that the whole defense that long
had and I think this was uh this was a good defense presented by his defense team and the attorney was that the state
had such a problem with having no bodies in this murder trial so what the defense suggested was look
shortly after these girls went missing we have tips that were coming in saying oh I saw these girls here saw these
girls there there were tips that came in even I think a year or so later that they tracked down to Florida now these
tips never went anywhere it never produced the girls obviously and most likely we've seen this in a lot of cases
where you have people they want to see something they want to help therefore they call in you know you see something
you say something they call in and likely these weren't credible eyewitness accounts but they're
just good people trying to help and assist in some way but it's just like the Jamie Kloss case where there was
eyewitnesses that possibly saw her in Florida and they're just like and now we know that that's not the case there was
no chance that she was in Florida so I I don't know but I think they get some answers though whether or not the
Court gives them answers I think the evidence gives you answers and and maybe that can be enough for them I mean it is
sad that he's the father was flying everywhere and traveling everywhere to try to bring back the
remains but it's also a tricky thing here because he's not convicted of a double homicide
or a murder so then it becomes did they get away was it another botched thing or
or did he murder them but so but I'm I'm assuming uh he did I think all signs point toward
unfortunately that they were killed at some point they've never resurfaced they these two girls that we're discussing
now were 13 years old they weren't unlike the 19 year olds they have less the ability of a startup elsewhere and
the other thing too that we have to point out is it's very clear from those two boys that they were with at the fair
that day they gave enough correct information that the police were later able to verify to me that really shows
that Russell long Royal Russell long was with those girls and he was very likely the
last person they were ever seen with so there for me I I think that's enough of all the arrows pointing to this guy
being involved in their abduction and if they've never resurfaced you have to believe they've probably
been killed right and also there's a bunch of blood in a trunk [Music] all right Ahoy
cheers mate that's very cold chilly cheers to you Captain a cold front has hit the Midwest everybody bring your
animals inside don't leave your pets out too long it is free I lost a finger we were just
outside the garage I'm now down to nine fingers I got the nine good ones eight good ones that's right he has a funky
finger so Captain I'm gonna Pat myself on the back here I think I did a fairly good job of laying out the facts of
these missing persons cases we have eight abductions we have two bodies that are found
we have five girls that are never seen again no remains to this day have been found and we have one Brave girl who
gets away and at the center of this seems to be this potential serial killer who he
could be potentially responsible for all of these cases he also could be responsible for cases we are unaware of
right but he he's dead yes died in prison he died of an apparent heart attack in prison this was in 1993. so
whatever Secrets he was keeping he kept he still has them we will not know uh what he may have confessed to later in
life or what they would be able to get him to um you know confess to any of these or
offer up evidence as to what could have happened to any of these girls well I'm gonna I'm gonna say something and uh we
go back and forth on the death penalty right and no matter what you say about it either way you're going to get hate
mail but the one nice thing about having the death penalty is that if that is on the table
that sometimes can get people to confess to other crimes therefore having answers to other crimes
right and so that is a part of it that I do like about it but the part where that
you know innocent people die on death row because our justice system got it wrong I don't like at all right there's
there's problems both ways yeah yeah so uh but yeah this this one's difficult because
he had no he was he had two life sentences yes and so there's no negotiating he had no reason to come
forward and say hey you know what I did these other crimes and I'm responsible especially
when there aren't bodies found right it's like why would he admit to any of these things but
now obviously we have the two that he's convicted of uh now we didn't find her body he's not convicted of murder but
let's just go ahead and say he's a piece of [ __ ] and guilty of that agreed and then as far as the other two in
Oklahoma that he was tried for and they you know basically tossed out all the evidence
which again that doesn't make a lot of sense to me but I'm going to go ahead and say
there's enough evidence in my eyes and the and the the jury is out as far as the garage
jury you're a piece of [ __ ] not once but twice in that case so you to me he's responsible for those
murders we have enough evidence I think to convict him well before we move on from
those two the two girls 13 year olds in Oklahoma I think that really all we have
to State here is that if you if you believe the two boys the two eyewitnesses who I think gave very good
information to investigators and it was later proven to be true and backed up even though it didn't work in the court
of law right I think that as long as you believe those two boys and we already know what he's capable of long because
he confessed to two abductions and sexual assaults already I think that that's an easy no-brainer
that out of these eight abductions he's responsible for four of them and and within those four there's three dead
people there I mean there's three dead victims here right they've never surfaced from that day yeah yeah so that
leaves the four that took place within a seven week time period in Rollins Wyoming now we know that he was roughly
in the area at that time three of the abductions have one thing in common they all took place at a rodeo yeah and we
have Royal Russell long who was known to frequent rodeos he was also known to have worked at Fairgrounds I mean he had
a truck with a camper on it hmm Cowboy camper Cowboy camper because they should call him creeper campers
because I mean that the I mean you want to talk you want to talk about stepping up the game
the van ban the creeper camper because there's maybe nothing creepier those are more creepier
than the creep fans well one thing I should point out here in is that you own one of them is that where there's not a
lot of information especially on these earlier victims there's also not a ton of information on Royal Russell long
himself now what I was able to find what images I was able to find of him it seems to be like this guy was switching
vehicles an awful lot throughout his adult life right because that's always a big red flag right once you murder
somebody and blood gets everywhere you have to sell the vehicle or if you if you believe that there may have been
a witness to seeing your vehicle you're right you you got to change the color of it you got to change the plates
you got to get rid of the vehicle switch to a different one all kinds of things that he would have been doing should he
have been responsible for all eight of these now as far as the two the the Rawlings rodeo and the other Rodeo
I'm gonna say he's my number one suspect in those I agree Prime Suspect the 19 year olds
oh they were at the rodeo yeah no no but what I mean by the 19 is maybe old as far as his victim profile goes
older but uh it's still in that range I think so he's my numbers one suspect in those uh and then the other Rodeo case
the I'm forgetting her name this uh Baker Baker or Banker I'm sorry um the the young girl the 14 year old
girl the one that was walked by herself that's not out of rodeo yes he's in the area
but there's a lot of creeps out there yeah you're referring to Deborah uh Meyer's case yeah sorry Deborah Myers
case 14 years old that's the only one that I wouldn't have him be my number one suspect in I I feel
that he's guilty you know of murdering the first girl murdering the two uh that we have
eyewitnesses for and then every all the other cases number one suspect if if you're looking for an answer
that's probably your answer but as far as the Deborah case it's just there's no there's no information on her there's no
information on him we have no clue if he's in the area you know and it's not at a rodeo or
Fairgrounds and I think that was his in yeah and and I wouldn't be surprised if there's other cases
and surrounding areas that have other state fairs that there's missing people that he might be connected to well and
he he was a truck driver for some point in his life as well which adds a whole nother set of problems right you know
how far was he traveling how often was he traveling and if he was simply an object opportunistic serial killer right
I don't think that it needs he needs much pushing to find an opportunity to snatch somebody well no he he
yeah yeah he's creating the opportunity because he's going to these events I mean
I'm look that's a clever idea still somebody else's name badge I mean and he might not have stole it so that the boys
saw that but he might have stole it to get access into like the fair and so and especially back then
you're talking about a time where there's just less security there's just you know people kind of turning the
well there's less surveillance being recorded and you know there's less means of doing so and I do want to throw
something out here though uh as I go through this but I think to me it's very obvious I agree with you 100 the last
four abductions he's got to be responsible for all four of those even though not convicted in court for two of
them but he's convicted in the court of the garage that's right use you sir we sentence you
you're a piece of [ __ ] wrapped in a piece of [ __ ] well and then we have the issue of the four missing girls from
just a seven week time period in 1974 in Rollins uh Wyoming where I think that you could probably make him your prime
suspect in at least three out of those four I'm with you with the Deborah case I think that the problem I have there is
yes he's in the area for all four of those and that makes it difficult to rule them out and I wouldn't rule them
out for all four of them however with Deborah's case I'm just so frustrated at the lack of of information regarding
that I think that there's any number of possibilities that could have happened right and I think that we're we're
really left guessing on that one so I kind of tossed that one out and and save it for a later day and hope and pray
that somebody provides some more information in that case but at least that's a lead you know that's pretty
amazing there's nothing on that case but hey guess what we offered you up a lead
here's a guy to look at well and while we're tossing some things out I should also point out that some people think
that the infamous Ted Bundy might have been involved in some of these cases this would have been the 1974 cases as
we all know Bundy was a rapist kidnapper and serial killer who assaulted and murdered many young women and girls
during the 1970s and these some of the states that he was active include Utah and Colorado among other states and he
confessed as we know shortly before his execution to possibly 30 homicides between 1974 and 1978 the true total
remains unknown could even be higher as far as we know but the interesting thing here is what
is between Colorado and Utah when we have Interstate 80 and we have Rollins Wyoming now Bundy has never officially
been tied to any of the missing Rollins girls but also something to take into consideration well as we're talking
about that dick bag of [ __ ] um because the the Bundy tapes were released as far as Netflix and I think
it was put together well I think they they missed some stuff I mean it was pretty long from
they could have done a little bit better job there but now you got this new movie
where Zac Efron which I have no problem with him he's just doing his job being an actor here's what I'm worried about
and this is on a little soapbox so give me about 45 seconds based on the trailers though
there it's almost like they're glamorizing it and that's what I'm afraid of I think people are going to
walk out of that movie and and really think oh man this guy was like some kind of rock star
he wasn't he was a dick bag of of [ __ ] is what he was and so when you're watching this movie and they're painting
him with these rose petal glasses remember that he had sex with dead bodies yeah so
you know I that I don't know I I every time I see the trailer for that movie and I was excited that it was coming out
because I'm a true crime fan but to not let's not glamorize it and I hope that's not what happens I hope people
watch it and say hey that's not what they did but that's the direction the trailer makes it seem they they make it
seem like it's a a mix between a serial killer movie and 50 Shades of Gray well it's going to be 50 Shades of [ __ ]
that's what I'm telling you well and then you have to wonder why have we not found any of these remains all these
years later and I found some a statement regarding the prosecutor that attempted
to prosecute long for the double homicide in the two missing girls case in Oklahoma City
and this was after the trial and he says look and I love when these guys go on record and state what they believe even
though he wasn't victorious in the court of law he says what we're dealing with here is a serial killer we're dealing
with a guy in his opinion is someone that has not only capable of murder but has done it multiple times and he even
stayed that we that we're pretty convinced of he even states that he's convinced that there are other victims
out there that are not even tied to Royal Russell long and regarding where the bodies could be regarding these
victims I have a quote from the prosecutor that says that he truly believes that he thinks that he could
show you that the bodies are likely within 45 miles of where they sit right now and I don't know where he was
sitting when he said that right but he states that he believes that they would have been in Rat holes and this comes
from a statement of a fellow inmate that served time with royal Russell long now
long was a trained meat cutter and I guess he told according to this inmate told this inmate that if you cut the
bodies up small enough and shove them down a rat hole no one will ever find them
and the prosecutor goes on to say that he believes that within 45 miles of wherever they were that you could
probably find all of those bodies we know that we know that long worked for some time delivering equipment to drill
rigs in the area right and he believes that if there were if there were time in in the proper resources to do so upon
further investigation you know they would find these bodies eventually in these rat holes the
problem with that is as he points out in this article is there's tens of thousands of them in that area where
long worked and you know over the years we have changing um you know we have changing Landscapes overgrown
grass things of that nature that makes it only harder and harder and as the time passes unfortunately I don't think
we're going to find these remains and the other sad thing too is it seems to be a good lack of
information regarding these missing girls that you might not be able to tie remains should you find some next week
next year 10 years from now to these actual victims we have cases where we don't have information regarding what
items they had on them you know what were they wearing did they have jewelry uh we have a lack of dental records and
in fact one of the cases where they found the body they outwardly say we we connected this girl was missing for nine
years can you imagine the state of the body by the time they found it right only to be told that we we match this to
her through a partial Dental record I would love to know the specifics of what that partial Dental record was to match
it to that girl and and I I don't say that to to to sound Doom and Gloom here but
did they actually match it was could it have been somebody else right and could in fact her body be disposed of in a
similar manner to the her friend that was with her that has never been found to this day well that's one of the
things with law enforcement and crimes in general as we get into the future is technology more surveillance more DNA
you know touch DNA a lot more testing that we can do and then also just as far as medical records what they're
collecting from people before you know before God forbid something happens to somebody but there's a lot more records
now so at least I think going into the future we're going to look back on the 70s especially the the late 60s and the
70s and think wow man that was very primitive I mean if we didn't get a fingerprint we're not solving cases so I
think as far as you know that's a good thing as far as advancement in technology well and I do
want to give a Kudos a a my take my hat off to the parents of the missing that stayed involved and kept their cases
alive we saw a very big contrast between some of these victims here where some of
the victims have no information at all about them or about their disappearance and then others where there is more of a
wealth of information right and I don't mean to mean that in a negative way towards the cases where we don't have
any information towards those parents maybe they didn't know how to do certain things how to keep the case in the
Public's eye plus we're also talking about small town America or didn't have the means or did it have a job that let
them take it well not only not only that what about the what about the resources
within those towns where they're from you know what I mean what I mean by that is what if those news articles are out
there and they did exist at one time but they never got sent down the wire throughout other cities throughout other
states in America and so I don't mean to blame the parents there but I do want to
give a kudos to the ones that did stay involved and and that we do have information regarding them well I mean
just think about that though too I mean and of the crime happened today and somebody went missing and maybe you
don't find that person but they find some evidence they can test that there's hope that there could be some
um answer that you're going to get back in that day it was like okay she went missing and we have no eyewitnesses
what do you just talk about you just keep going while she's missing somebody has to help us find Wendy when do you
give up because again there's so much lack of Technology at that point you know it's like I feel for him and also
just lack of media especially early 70s you know not everybody was having a TV in their house right you know where
where you start getting into the 90s and and everybody has a TV and everybody has
a computer and everybody's connected through this social interwebs I mean um I'm not I'm not saying that you or
are talking trash about the parents but I'm just saying think about the time period And it's like and what if your
newspaper is lazy and they're not writing anything up or they just don't care we don't want you know there's
towns that somebody goes missing in and then they everybody rallies around them and there's other towns where they're
like we don't want to print this we don't want people in our town to be fearful of their kid going missing so
and if that doesn't happen in 1974 well stories done well until there's a break and if you have a girl that's from out
of town and nobody's really certain what happened I mean is is was hers just a story not
on the front page somewhere and then it's been lost through all these decades well yeah and what I'm saying is if that
town is going hey she's not from around here we don't want to print this up and then her Town's going well we don't want
to print this up because she went missing in another town I mean it's not like now where you you take like a case
like the Delphi murders and it's like it's going to be constantly on people's brains and constantly people are going
to be searching for leads because it's constantly in your face you're constantly reminded of it well and
really the only information out there on most of these cases is available on the
missing person sites that we all know and we we referenced several of those along the way and telling the story of
this of all these missing girls they're I mean there's so little information that you know and I love you and I have
said this several times we love web sleuths big shout out to the web sleuth Community we love Reddit big shout out
to that Community too but if you get on there you know oftentimes when you research cases or look for leads on
those two sites there's a lot out there there's a lot to be presented to you a lot to digest and you can run with it
regarding these cases very few posts because there's just no there's no meat on the bone right you know there's no
nothing to these disappearances there's not a big story to it there's not a big investigation to be had by armchair
detectives or web sluice to this day because there's just not much there now while we're handing out thank yous
and kudos to people I do want to give a uh kudos to Janet Franson who we mentioned earlier who she has worked and
she's still to this day looking for uh potential family members of Carlene Brown who was adopted and the way that
that works is that once you're adopted and you've been in your your new situation for years your adoptive
parents and the parents that put you up for adoption they can equally agree to toss out those records they can be
thrown out right and because of that and because that was agreed upon at that time
they can't find her birth parents and therefore that's why they don't have DNA samples to try to put together a DNA
profile and the reason why I give Janet Franson Kudos is because not only did she work that case in many many other
cases throughout her years of service but in searching for information on these cases I would go to these
different sites and I would see several times where she posted a comment on one of the very brief stories that said hey
I was looking for or I am looking for family members of Carlene Brown if anybody knows any information here's my
email address and so thank you to her for going above and beyond and I hope that if you know the cases that she's
still working I wish her good luck in all of those I do want to quote her regarding uh her statements that she has
said publicly about Royal Russell long she says there are similarities between those cases and the Rollins case and she
says these similarities in her opinion are strong she added quote not only did he drive trucks but he killed girls all
over the country there's no doubt in my mind there are more victims of his than we will probably ever know she also says
quote the only good thing is that I know the son of a gun is in hell and he won't
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Back in 1974 the town of Rawlins, Wyoming experienced a terrifying summer as four females disappeared in just seven weeks. The ages ranged from ten to nineteen. The two older victims were last seen at the rodeo on the fourth of July. One girl seemed to have vanished into thin air as she was last seen walking in the busy part of town in broad daylight. 10 year old Jayleen Banker went missing from a different rodeo. The investigations provided no answers and no leads. The town of Rawlins was rocked and left to wonder what was happening to their girls. This week we take a deep dive into what is known today as the Rawlins Rodeo Murders. Beer of the Week - Citradonkulous by Wiley Roots Brewing Garage Grade - 4 and a quarter bottle caps out of 5

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Brief Summary

Royal Russell Long's abduction of young girls leads to unsolved cases and questions about his potential as a serial killer.

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The Disappearance of Sharon Bald Eagle. Two young girls go missing after hitchhiking in Wyoming, leading to a tense investigation.
Royal Russell Long's Arrest. Long is arrested in New Mexico, but the missing girl is not found with him.
Trial Without Bodies. Long faces trial for kidnapping and assault, but lacks physical evidence of the crime.
Dismissal of the Trial. The judge dismisses the trial due to lack of evidence, leaving families without closure.
The Tragic Fate of Missing Girls. Discussion centers on the belief that the missing girls were likely killed.
The Dark Legacy of Royal Russell Long. A deep dive into the crimes of a suspected serial killer.

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