206 - The Vanishing of Richard Bendele

Trace Evidence

Steven Pacheco

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On a cold, November afternoon in 1996, twenty-nine year old Richard Bendele left his mother's home to do a little hunting where his recently deceased father used to take him. Hours later, Richard called his mother in a panic. He couldn't get his truck started and due to the darkness, he couldn't give specific directions to where he was. Planning to mark the road, to make finding him easier, Richard said he would call back, but he never did.

The next morning, investigators discovered his truck abandoned miles north of where they'd thought he had been. The scene itself was bizarre; a window was smashed out, the battery was broken and tilted upside down and Richard had left everything behind: his phone, his gun and his coat.

As massive searches were launched over the course of the next week, the discovery of several items belonging to Richard began making investigators wonder if, perhaps, Richard wasn't lost at all but actually the victim of a sinister trap.

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0:39.2	29-year-old Burley Idaho native Richard Bendell was beginning to put his life back together.
0:45.0	Following a few run-ins with the law and a messy and difficult divorce,
0:48.6	Richard was working full-time, living with a girlfriend,
0:51.6	and doing his best to take care of his family following the passing of his father.
0:56.2	Described as an experienced outdoorsman and accomplished bird hunter,
1:00.2	Richard had always found peace and solace out in the wilderness.
1:04.0	On a cool Sunday in mid-November of 1996,
1:07.6	he decided to head back out into the wild.
1:10.4	Following a shotgun, he headed north towards the Great Rift of Idaho.
1:14.4	There he would enter difficult and treacherous terrain,
1:17.3	sprawling lava flows, dry desert sands, and overgrowth of sagebrush.
1:22.7	Just after sunset, Richard made an emergency call to his mother.
1:26.9	He'd run into some trouble with his truck and couldn't get it started.
1:30.2	He needed someone to come and get him.
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