poncholefty
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Little late herr, but it was Evanston, WY, not IL. I'm from Wyoming - easy mistake.
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I grew up in Ft. Bridger. This case is very interesting to me, I think I’m going to cover this case in my podcast. I’d love more information about all this because it kind of seems like there’s a lot of misinformation out about it all
Ok, so I'm starting to dig into this case. There are several things that are problematic to me.
So the truck stop David stopped at is now called TA. It's literally in the middle of the desert with only sagebrush for miles. It's about 25 miles east of Evanston and about 5ish? miles from the first Bridger Valley (Fort Bridger, Lyman, and Mountain View) exit. It's the one of two truck stop on the side of I-80 between Evanston and the Green River/Rock Springs area. There's a lot of truckers that go through there every day, as well as a lot of Flaming Gorge traffic in the summer. So if he stopped at that truck stop when his bike was acting up, there could have been any number of people there that he talked to. I do wonder where he called his aunt from. Was it this truck stop?
He then was able to ride his newly fixed (sorta) bike for over an hour, if he in fact was the one that brought it to Baxter Rd. Or, did he get ambushed somewhere after where he called his aunt from and whoever hurt him just put his bike there?
I'm kind of leaning towards the first options because there is sooooooo much open, empty desert in this area. Like, it's perfect territory for someone to bury a body and have it never be found because it's just hundreds of miles of dirt and sage brush. So if someone hurt him, why would they leave his bike in a fairly easy-to-find spot? Unless the person wasn't from around there and didn't think that was an easy spot...But then again, since he didn't know the area himself, why would he pull off on that specific county road? Either way, I think he met someone along the way that meant him harm.
Then, since his bike was found on Baxter Rd. near the Rock Springs airport, this means that this case is now in two counties of Wyoming. TA (or Bingo Truck Stop as it was then) is in Uinta County and Rock Springs is in Sweetwater. I can see how it would be difficult to get the LE of two counties working together since the Uinta County is so small, they hardly ever deal with cases like this. It's a lot of traffic violations, domestic disturbances, and water right disputes. Combine that with the fact that this is the 80s and communication is slightly more limited than it is now, I can definitely see how a lot of things probably got overlooked. Now, I'm not disparaging the law enforcement from Uinta County. I know a lot of really awesome officers from the sheriff's department there. But I just don't think they were equipped to deal with something like this.
Anyway, this case is probably going to keep me up at night and I'm for sure going to discuss it on my podcast. If any of David's family sees this and would like to tell me about him and his personality, I'd really love to make sure the details of his life and story beyond his disappearance are mentioned. A person should be remembered by their life, not by their disappearance <3
I live in Rock Springs, Wyoming and am interested in doing some follow up on this case within the next couple months.
If there are any family members still following this thread, please get ahold of me... I have a few questions. Yesterday, I was out at the location where his bike was found. I would like to know more about his personality, state of mind, and physical capabilities.
I have read through this series of comments and posts. It seems that there have been a lot of assumptions made based on very little information. I will attempt to post a photo of what the area, where the bike was found, looks like nearly 34 years later.