105 - The Disappearance of Keith Reinhard

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Keith Reinhard was looking to start a new adventure in life. As he approached middle age he wanted to achieve some of the dreams he’d missed out and one of those dreams involved writing a novel. On the advice of a friend he took a leave of absence from work and went down to Silver Plume, Colorado, a small isolated town sure to promise the peace and quiet he sought.

Silver Plume, though, didn’t provide as much inspiration as he’d imagined until he learned the story of Tom Young, the man who had rented out the same building Keith did. Young vanished one afternoon, and Keith thought this would be a great story to write. However, Keith was soon overwhelmed by the mystery and would eventually become a part of it.

One afternoon, Keith set off for the dense forests and mountains surrounding Silver Plume. He never returned and what was left behind was an enduring mystery that continues to haunt his family and the people of Silver Plume to this day.

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0:00.0	A sports writer and aspiring novelist, Keith Reinhardt was looking for a break from
0:13.6	the high-speed pace of working for a Chicago-Aryan newspaper.
0:18.2	An old friend told him about a little Colorado town, Silver Plume, and Keith thought it
0:23.4	would be the perfect location to take a sabbatical and work on a novel he'd always dreamed of
0:28.6	writing.
0:30.2	Keith took a leave of absence from work and with some convincing, got his wife's blessing
0:34.8	to spend three months in the small town tucked between the peaks of the rocky mountains.
0:40.6	While Keith believed he would find himself, what he ended up finding was a mystery that
0:45.3	perhaps led to his own disappearance.
0:48.7	Keith was inspired by the story of a man named Tom Young, who had rented out the same
0:53.9	building as him and who had disappeared a year earlier.
0:58.2	When Tom Young's remains were found, Keith made the choice to walk into the mountains
1:02.7	where Young had disappeared.
1:05.2	He never returned, and in the wake he left an enduring mystery that haunts his family
1:10.7	and the people of Silver Plume.
1:13.2	This is Trace Evidence, Episode 105, the disappearance of Keith Reinhardt.
1:26.7	Welcome to Trace Evidence, I'm your host, Stephen Pacheco.
1:30.9	Today we'll examine a case of two disappearances, one which would eventually be solved and the
1:37.1	other which remains a mystery to this very day, before getting into the case just a few
1:42.8	notes about the show.
1:44.8	Trace Evidence is a weekly true crime podcast focused on unsolved murders, disappearances,
1:50.3	and other crimes.
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