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Richard Ray Barnett










Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021



Missing Person Case September 2021


Richard, approximately 1982; Age at the time of disappearance: -progression to Age at the time of disappearance: 40 (approximately 2019)




Date reported missing : 08/31/1982

Missing location (approx) :
Grangeville, Idaho
Missing classification : Non-Family Abduction
Gender : Male
Ethnicity :
White


DOB : 11/26/1979 (41)
Age at the time of disappearance: 2 years old
Height / Weight : 3'0, 32 pounds
Description, clothing, jewerly and more : Red and blue coveralls, a pajama top and cowboy boots.
Medical conditions : Richard had hip bEthnicity : s on both legs to correct a bowlegged condition; the bEthnicity : s were removed six months prior to his disappearance.
Distinguishing characteristics, birthmarks, tattoos : Caucasian male. Brown hair, hazel eyes. Richard has a hairline scar over his left eye and a mark below that eye. His nickname is Ricky. Some Age at the time of disappearance: ncies list Richard's eye color as brown.





Information on the case from local sources, may or may not be correct : Richard was visiting his paternal grandparents' home on August 31, 1982. They lived on Hillcrest Farms, an egg and dairy farm in the Grangeville, Idaho area. The farm was seven miles north of Grangeville and encompassed several hundred acres. Richard had been staying there for a couple of weeks with his father; his mother was in southern Idaho.
Richard was last seen sitting in a hay wagon in front of one of the chicken barns while dozens of workers were unloading a delivery of chickens. He has never been heard from again. His family started searching for him only fifteen minutes later, but no one found any clues as to his whereabouts, and called the police at 10:30 a.m.
Bloodhounds tracked his scent to a fence line on the northwest part of the farm, then lost the trail. An extensive four-day search of the farm, involving 250 volunteers, turned up no sign of the child.
Richard's grandparents, Waldo and Martha McChoard, were suspects in his disappearance for almost two decades afterward. Martha reportedly acted oddly and although she took a polygraph exam, the results were inconclusive. She and her husband disliked Richard's mother and had wanted someone else to raise him, and it was theorized the child's grandparents secretly placed him in an underground adoption ring.
Martha took another polygraph in May 2001, passed, and was cleared of an involvement in her grandson's case. Waldo also agreed to take a polygraph, but he died before the exam could take place. Another theory is that one of the temporary workers at the farm was involved in Richard's disappearance, but police could find no evidence to implicate any of them.
Richard's parents live in Oregon and his mother has been active in the search for him. His disappearance remains unsolved.


Other information and links : ncy

Idaho County Sheriff's Department
208-983-1100



September 2021 updates and sources

The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Child Protection Education of America
Operation Lookout
KXLY News
The Lewiston Tribune