WY WY - Renee Yeargain, 24, Torrington, 10 Aug 2004

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PHOTOS: Wyoming launches new missing persons database, listing 71 cases dating back to 1974

 

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A few months later, Oaks randomly ran into Yeargain on the street in downtown Torrington. Both had been running errands, but they stopped to talk. Yeargain said things were going really well and she was getting married in August and was also following her dream of becoming a tattoo artist. Oaks, meanwhile, had taken a job as a reporter at the Torrington Telegram.

Yeargain told her former co-worker she was excited to see where her life would take her, Oaks said. Words that ultimately haunted Oaks when not long after she saw her friend’s face on the front page of the newspaper on Aug. 10, 2004.

According to news reports, the then-24-year-old woman had disappeared without a trace, leaving her boyfriend of three years and four children, 12 days prior to her planned wedding to Minter.

When questioned, Minter told police that Yeargain left the borrowed car she was driving at a rest stop in Meriden, midway between Torrington and Cheyenne.

In the car were her purse, keys, cell phone, wallet, checkbook and other items. Minter further told investigators that Yeargain had walked out of the home they shared with a grocery sack full of clothing and refused to say where she was going.

At the time, her mother, Diane Van Horn, said that her daughter would never have voluntarily left for this long without contacting her children.

Yes, Yeargain had struggled with her mental health and drugs in the past, Van Horn told the Scottsbluff (Nebraska) Star-Herald in a 2009 interview, but she’d since cleaned up her life and was looking forward to marrying and had just gotten her tattoo license and planned to open up a shop in their home.

“She had all these plans,” her mother said in the interview. “I believe something has happened here, and I have questions that I want answered.”

Van Horn’s request for answers remains unmet. To date, Yeargain has not returned home nor has her body been found.

In between those facts lie a lot of questions and few unsubstantiated facts which Oaks has been meticulously tracking for nearly two decades in her 12-pages of detailed notes as Yeargin’s case passed through the hands of at least five different investigators at the Torrington Police Department.

Oaks personally knew Minter from high school and remembers him as a loner who frequently wore a dark trench coat and hung out with another student that her peers called “creepy.”

Minter was artistic, Oaks said, recalling a troubling profile image of himself on his Facebook page that a detective alerted her to following Yeargain’s disappearance.

The illustration is of a brooding man in a black hoodie and dark-rimmed glasses surrounded by cryptic words and phrases in red ink including “sacrifice,” “involved,” “burden,” and most hauntingly, “I know the grave.”

The profile has since been taken down, but Oaks took a screenshot.

Woman Won't Give Up Seeking Justice in Torrington’s Only Unsolved Missing Person Case | Cowboy State Daily

 

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www.facebook.com/whereisrenee/

https://www.buzzfile.com/business/Josh-Minter-Toys.And.Collectibles-LLC-307-788-1754

Eastern Wyoming College graduate completes portfolio review at the University of Wyoming

Former EWC graduate Josh Minter, of Torrington, WY has completed his portfolio review at the University of Wyoming.

ewc.wy.edu

 

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Bump for Renee

Multiple tattoos:
Partial nun on her upper arm
Two dominatrix on the other arm
An incomplete tattoo of roses on her chest
A tribal ring around her wrist
Lettering on her upper fingers
A small gesture on her abdomen
Incomplete tattoos of blueberries and vines on both calves
A tattoo with an outline of a woman's face with horns

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

 

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July 13, 2023

Renee Yeargain: Vanished into thin air

Friends and family say law enforcement did not follow up on all possible leads.

www.newsnationnow.com

Inside Mystery - What Happened To Renee Yeargain?

www.insidemystery.com

 

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2 Unidentified Person Exclusions

 

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Aug 25, 2024

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Aug 16, 2024

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