NV NV - Randi Layton Evers, 3, Las Vegas, 16 Feb 1992

[Sleuthster]

I would be interested to know if one of the parents has a connection to Grand Prairie Tx.

 

[AngelaH]

"Detective Holley plans to retire from Metro in a few months but hopes to return as a part-timer to work on the key files in the cold case room.

"I cannot abandon them. I will not abandon them. I will stay until they are done, and they will all be done," he said."
http://www.lasvegasnow.com/news/las-vegas-detective-focuses-on-missing-person-cases-gone-cold

I don't think he will leave this case unsolved. Also Las Vegas announced this week they brought back 2 retired detectives to work strictly on cold cases. Sounds like Cold Justice style. Great news for our community.

 

[AngelaH]

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[JusticeWillBeServed]

I hope the family has received more information about Randi than what has recently been made public. Although it's clear that the father and step-mother don't have the best relationship with investigators handling the case. Here's a quote from the detective:

In the Evers case, which launched a major investigation, police were suspicious of the parents because they didn't help.

“Neither of the parents ever spoke to investigators, which means what to you?” Holley said. “Holy smoke, are they the doer? You know, did they arrange the kidnapping of their child?”

I'm not sure this is true. I know they stopped cooperating but I'm sure at the beginning, they were talking with investigators. When you have suspicions cast towards you; it's sort of understandable if you don't want to work with LE. At the same time, I recognize why their behavior is seen as suspicious. It's conflicting and the way Holley says this doesn't clear it up.

Another quote from the same article:

Holley: “We are working to collect DNA on other persons to compare it to Randi's DNA to see if it is him.”

I-Team: “This close?”

Holley: “Very close. Very close. It's super, super exciting.”

I-Team: “You're saying Randi Evers could be alive?”

Holley: “Yes, Randi Evers could be alive and it would be a watershed case.”

I-Team: “Not only could be alive, but you think you know where he is?”

Holley: “Yep. I think he could be in the western United States. He could be alive. Yep.”

Can someone please explain what he means by a "watershed case"? I believe the rules below are what is needed for a case to qualify as such. Still a little confused by what it means though.

First, the new rule must be "necessary to prevent an impermissible large risk of an inaccurate conviction."

Second, it must "alter our understanding of the bedrock procedural elements essential to the fairness of a proceeding."

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Bumping for Randi, missing for 24 years now.

I don't think there's been an update from the story done last May.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Any news?

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Any news?

I check occasionally for any news but have not seen any updates. It's been about 18 months since the detective said that Randi was most likely alive and I really thought his case would be resolved by now.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Yes, kind of strange...Still hoping for an alive and well, grown up man Randi somewhere out there.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Vanishing of 3-year-old still baffles Las Vegas police 25 years later

http://www.reviewjournal.com/crime/vanishing-3-year-old-still-baffles-las-vegas-police-25-years-later

A quarter century has elapsed since 3-year-old Randi Evers disappeared from his Las Vegas home, and the passage of time has done little to help police solve the case.

The subsequent investigation immediately focused on the uncooperative Evers couple, who first refused a polygraph test. Tina Evers told the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1992 that the couple later failed the test by incorrectly answering questions about the boy’s whereabouts.

She also said police asked the couple whether they owed anyone money.

“They think that he was sold for drugs or to settle a drug debt,” Tina Evers told the Review-Journal at the time.

Mike Evers died in 2014, according to an obituary in the Hi-Desert Star, a newspaper in San Bernardino County.

Alexis Maynard, Randi’s biological mother, had legal custody of her son when he disappeared. In a recent phone interview with the Review-Journal, she was critical of the Metropolitan Police Department’s initial investigation.

“Their investigation was trying to indict Mike and Tina,” she said.

Maynard said she and Tina Evers started occasionally communicating on Facebook about 10 years ago.

Maynard said about 20 years passed before investigators followed up with her on her missing son. She said they asked her to do a DNA test about a year and a half ago, because they thought they had found Randi alive, but the DNA did not match.

Maynard said the experience of her son disappearing changed her personality forever. She said the process was so traumatic that she couldn’t raise her eldest daughter, so family had to take her in. She later raised two daughters in Texas.

“I kind of fell apart after my son disappeared,” she said.

I'm guessing the possible DNA match is the same one the detective was talking about in May of 2015. It turns out that a match was not made.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

To me this boy never stood a chance in life. I'd be very surprised if he was found alive someday actually.

He'll be missing for 25 years these days. So sad...

 

[AngelaH]

Bumping for Randi

 

[CastlesBurning]

Where are these children? 58 from Nevada still missing.

Randi Evers, 3, who disappeared from his Las Vegas home. Randi was last seen at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 16, 1992, sleeping in the living room of his home.

 

[mlhenn]

Randi Layton Evers – The Charley Project

Last updated February 15, 2022; details of disappearance updated.

Details of Disappearance
Randi was last seen between 11:30 p.m. on February 15 and 12:30 a.m. on February 16, 1992. He was wrapped in a blanket and asleep on the living room floor of his family's residence at in the 300 block of east Rochelle Avenue in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Randi's family held a birthday party for his father, Mike Evers, during the evening at the home. They hosted approximately 15 guests. Randi apparently disappeared during the party and has never been seen again. It was deemed unlikely that he wandered outside on his own, as it was cold that night and Randi was afraid of the dark.

Randi's family speculates that he was kidnapped, but authorities initially suspected some of Randi's family members of being involved in his case.

Randi's father and his stepmother, Tina Evers, did not participate in the search for him. Mike had to be literally dragged out of bed when police told him Randi was missing. Neither Mike nor Tina showed very much interest in the case. Photos of them as they appeared around the time of Randi's disappearance are posted with this case summary.

Tina's alibi of her whereabouts at the time her stepson disappeared reportedly showed numerous small inconsistencies. She claimed she and several of their friends left the party at 11:30 p.m. to go to the Gold Coast, a local casino. They left Randi alone in the company of an adult guest at the party who had passed out on the living room couch.

Mike may have been with Tina and the rest of the group, or he may have been asleep in the back bedroom during this time period. When the group returned at approximately 3:30 a.m., Randi was missing. An extensive search of the surrounding area failed to turn up any clues to his whereabouts.

Mike and Tina had a son and then left the area for southern California four years after Randi was last seen. They divorced sometime after that. There have been no reported problems with their daughter, born prior to Randi's disappearance, or their son, born after. Police say Mike and Tina were not very cooperative in the investigation into their child's disappearance but they did not try to avoid authorities.

There has been much speculation about what caused Randi to disappear, including theories that he was sold; killed accidentally or intentionally by his father and/or stepmother after Mike's birthday party broke up; or was abducted by a stranger, a family friend, or his biological mother. None of these theories have been substantiated, however.

Nearly everyone involved in his case, except the investigators, has left the Las Vegas area in the years following his disappearance. Randi's biological mother, who lived in southern California at the time of his disappearance and had legal custody of Randi, is still alive. Mike died in 2014. In 2022, when a journalist with the Las Vegas Review Journal contacted Tina to talk to her about the case, she refused to comment except to say, "You guys have ruined my family. The police have ruined my family." She stated she wanted to be left alone.

A Nevada grand jury was given evidence by investigators some time after Randi disappeared, but indictments were not handed down. Randi's case remains open and unsolved.

In a media interview in the spring of 2015, a detective investigating the case said he had gotten a hit on Randi's DNA in a database and he believes Randi is alive and living in the western United States. Due to the confusion as to what happened to him, Randi's disappearance is being investigated as a non-family abduction.

 

[spartanx]

I hope he's alive and that whoever raised him loves him more than his parents... They sound like horrible people... According to the information provided on the Charley project page, the parents obviously didn't care much about the child, otherwise they would have been more scared/worried about him. I think the parents know who took him and what they did with him, but they will never tell anyone...
Given the information provided on the page it makes me wonder, who was the person who reported him missing? It doesn't mention who called and from the way the parents are described, you wouldn't think it was them... the detective who found coincidences on the child's DNA may coincide with another unsolved crime... Like a sexual assault or something like that... I hope it's not like that...
either way
rest in peace

 

[John/Jane Doe]

Randi Layton Evers – The Charley Project

 

[Sweetluv]

According to the Charley Project, it states there was a "hit" on Randi's DNA in 2015..
So what ever became of that!!??

 

[Sweetluv]

Feb 15/16, 1992...what happened to Randi?