NEW EPISODE!!!! Episode 481: Duane Ryan Thomas: Left Behind

Unfound

Ed Dentzel

True Crime

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Duane Ryan Thomas was a 30 year old from Newcomb, NM. He was Native American and worked for his family. In the early morning of March 4, 2011, Duane and his girlfriend were on their way home from a dance. They pulled over to the side of the road in Red Mesa, AZ when Duane got sick. Duane walked off into the desert. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/missing.thomas https://www.facebook.com/FindDuaneThomas Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/duane-ryan-thomas NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/10154?nav If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Duane Thomas, please contact the Navajo Nation Police Department - Chinle District at (928) 674-2000. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Your support would be appreciated at patreon.com forward slash unfound podcast.
0:09.4	Dwayne Ryan Thomas was a 30-year-old from Newcomb, New Mexico. He was Native American and worked for his family.
0:19.4	In the early morning of March 4, 2011,
0:22.9	Dwayne and his girlfriend were on their way home from a dance.
0:27.6	They pulled over to the side of the road in Red Mesa, Arizona,
0:32.0	when Dwayne got sick.
0:34.6	Dwayne walked off into the desert.
0:37.3	He was never seen again. Dwayne walked off into the desert.
0:41.5	He was never seen again.
0:48.1	I'm Ed Denzel, and this is unfound. I'm going to keep saying it, are the number one cause of disappearances.
1:06.1	The stats show it.
1:08.2	However, this doesn't necessarily mean foul play is always the main method in those cases.
1:15.1	In fact, relationships can have all sorts of dynamics that lead to non-fowl play mysteries.
1:23.9	For example, from Unfound Zone Catalog, Mary Jane Van Gilder, she didn't like her marriage, so she ran off and started a new one.
1:34.4	Christopher Hyde, his difficult connection with his father caused him to be homeless, and he died.
1:42.9	Patrick Beavers, although his case is still unresolved,
1:47.0	there was surely no foul play.
1:49.3	And he really did walk off
1:51.4	because he didn't like being in his family anymore.
1:55.7	Like I said, relationships can instigate all kinds of disappearances. Well, with Dwayne Thomas,
2:05.2	he and his girlfriend were on the side of the road. Did his girlfriend really leave, and Dwayne got
2:12.7	left behind? And now a summary of the case. Dwayne Thomas was raised in a very large
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