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NV RONNIE & BEVERLY BARKER: Missing from Stagecoach, NV - 27 March 2022 - Age 72 & 69 *Ronnie Deceased / Beverly Alive* (2 Viewers)

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Searchers look for Indianapolis couple missing in Nevada desert

Ronnie and Beverly Barker were last seen in their RV buying gas in Stagecoach, Nevada on March 27, 2022.
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The search is on for an Indianapolis couple that has been missing in the Nevada desert somewhere between Reno and Las Vegas for a week.

Family members say Ronnie and Beverly Barker were on an RV trip from from Albany, Oregon to Tucson, Arizona when they disappeared. The couple was last seen at a gas station in Stagecoach, Nevada around 6:40 p.m. on Sunday, March 27, 2022.

MEDIA - RONNIE & BEVERLY BARKER: Missing from Stagecoach, NV since 27 March 2022 - Age 72 & 69
 
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Kimster said:
This case makes me cry! My eyes are all wet!
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There are a lot of cases lately that have really grabbed notice and I pray if those behind them and the public stay on it might make some changes... This one in Nevada's law and hopefully other states will follow if they have similar criteria. In the case of Michael Vaughn change in alerts are being pushed for. Look at Evelyn Boswell and Evelyn's law. The Petito family. The Irion brother is quite upset with the delay with law enforcement considering his sister missing, etc. There are more but those are just off the top of my head. Oh the Cassie Carli one and her court battle where her monster used the system against her, abuse and disappearance/murder. A number of cases where CPS dropped the ball in knowing where children were at, etc. In Irion we have a perp who was out of prison and should he have been? Another common issue/complaint...

It isn't new but there have really been outcries and online sources are really picking it up too and relaying the message loud and clear. DV is really getting attention. And we see the alerts whether Amber, Silver, etc. constantly coming up and criticism of whether they can be issued or not and the rules...

Tragic and horrible all of them and this one, wow. Hopefully change will come as a result of this. The only good thing if it is a good thing is he was with his wife when he passed but how hard for her, I can't imagine.
 
Regina said:
I'm still curious to know that if they'd planned to stay in Fallon, why they didn't...
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Or if their GPS had a "shortcut" that was anything but a shortcut. Some have settings that you can avoid certain roads like dirt roads, toll roads, etc. I wonder how theirs was set up or if it even had those options or was it an onboard gps or phone or external one.
 
Regina said:
I'm still curious to know that if they'd planned to stay in Fallon, why they didn't...
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I've got some questions yet too.

So they got stuck at night, I'm wondering how far they went and when. How far did they have to go back when taking the SUV the next morning. It sounds as if they didn't make it far in the SUV if searchers who found the RV at some point heard her honking.

Maybe they decided to push through and make some time or get ahead of schedule towards AZ so didn't stay in Fallon?

Sad that it seems it was a combination of things gone wrong. No cell service. Had the car they could use when the RV got stuck but then that got stuck. Apparently didn't let anyone know they weren't staying in Fallon as maybe they intended to let them know when they got to their next destination wherever it was they did plan on staying had they made it. Maybe staying in the RV would have been better but why would you if you had a capable car to return for help for the RV. And then LE not able to issue an alert etc. as they weren't Nevada residents...

It might be a stupid question but I seriously don't know, and wondering what all should tell others to travel with, would some type of booster have helped the cell phone signals at all? Or what else could a person carry that they could make some contact another way if anything... Could authorities have tapped or tracked GPS/Onstar if they could have been authorized to do so or no?
 
Guess Who said:
Or if their GPS had a "shortcut" that was anything but a shortcut. Some have settings that you can avoid certain roads like dirt roads, toll roads, etc. I wonder how theirs was set up or if it even had those options or was it an onboard gps or phone or external one.
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One has to watch that on even things like mapquest etc. Do you want the most direct route, quickest route, shortest route, to avoid highways or use them, etc. I almost made that mistake just the other day and was about to print the wrong directions for the way I wanted to go somewhere.

I don't use GPS and probably should and I'm sure most of the time it is a great tool...
 
GrandmaBear said:
One has to watch that on even things like mapquest etc. Do you want the most direct route, quickest route, shortest route, to avoid highways or use them, etc. I almost made that mistake just the other day and was about to print the wrong directions for the way I wanted to go somewhere.

I don't use GPS and probably should and I'm sure most of the time it is a great tool...
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MOST of the time it is the most wonderful thing in the world when in an unknown area...until it isn't. :sigh:
 
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Families seek changes to Silver Alert procedures after losing loved ones

Police in Nevada delayed issuing a Silver Alert last week for a missing Indiana couple because they weren't residents of the state.
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Police in Nevada delayed issuing a Silver Alert last week for a missing Indiana couple because they weren't residents of the state.

Ron died before the couple was located. The family had trouble getting a Silver Alert because the couple did not meet the requirement of living in Nevada.

Indiana will issue a Silver Alert for anyone who meets broader criteria.

“Every state is different when it comes to issuing Silver Alerts and Amber Alerts,” said Indiana State Police Sgt. Todd Ringle. “I can tell you, though, that here in the state of Indiana, if you're not a resident, but you have lived here for quite some time, or maybe you've been visiting for a period of time, we can still issue a Silver Alert if we believe that you are in danger."
 
Imamazed said:
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Families seek changes to Silver Alert procedures after losing loved ones

Police in Nevada delayed issuing a Silver Alert last week for a missing Indiana couple because they weren't residents of the state.
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Police in Nevada delayed issuing a Silver Alert last week for a missing Indiana couple because they weren't residents of the state.

Ron died before the couple was located. The family had trouble getting a Silver Alert because the couple did not meet the requirement of living in Nevada.

Indiana will issue a Silver Alert for anyone who meets broader criteria.

“Every state is different when it comes to issuing Silver Alerts and Amber Alerts,” said Indiana State Police Sgt. Todd Ringle. “I can tell you, though, that here in the state of Indiana, if you're not a resident, but you have lived here for quite some time, or maybe you've been visiting for a period of time, we can still issue a Silver Alert if we believe that you are in danger."
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That doesn't necessarily sound any different... Traveling through and staying a night or going missing in their state doesn't count...? It sounds like it might not.
 
Guess Who said:
Or if their GPS had a "shortcut" that was anything but a shortcut. Some have settings that you can avoid certain roads like dirt roads, toll roads, etc. I wonder how theirs was set up or if it even had those options or was it an onboard gps or phone or external one.
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Fallon's only 39 miles east of Stagecoach and so it seems to me that if they'd inadvertently by-passed Fallon, they'd have soon realized it and got back on track.
 
GrandmaBear said:
So they got stuck at night, I'm wondering how far they went and when. How far did they have to go back when taking the SUV the next morning. It sounds as if they didn't make it far in the SUV if searchers who found the RV at some point heard her honking.
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Unless I'm mistaken, the RV was about 10 miles from Silver Peak, and the Kia was about two miles from the RV. (As they headed back down the mountain, they'd taken another wrong turn.)
GrandmaBear said:
Could authorities have tapped or tracked GPS/Onstar if they could have been authorized to do so or no?
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Good question, although I think they may have been in an area where such services aren't available.
 
Regina said:
Unless I'm mistaken, the RV was about 10 miles from Silver Peak, and the Kia was about two miles from the RV. (As they headed back down the mountain, they'd taken another wrong turn.)

Good question, although I think they may have been in an area where such services aren't available.
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I don't see any reason looking at a map that they would have ended up here. Not unless they decided to get off the main route and look for some tourist attraction, site, etc... Not sure if this map will work. They weren't far from Nellis either...

 
GrandmaBear said:
I don't see any reason looking at a map that they would have ended up here. Not unless they decided to get off the main route and look for some tourist attraction, site, etc... Not sure if this map will work. They weren't far from Nellis either...

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I don’t know the exact area where they were, but sometimes in the desert things start looking like other things. One time I got lost in the El Paso mountains, which aren’t very high compared to where this couple were going. That’s down by Ridgecrest. I finally just had to park and wait until morning. It was pitch black out there that night. When I woke up there was a cliff right in front of me! I couldn’t see it at all that night.

I could see cars going by on the highway far away, but I couldn’t get to them.
 
GrandmaBear said:
I don't see any reason looking at a map that they would have ended up here. Not unless they decided to get off the main route and look for some tourist attraction, site, etc... Not sure if this map will work. They weren't far from Nellis either...

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or looking for a campground to park for the night and gps found the "shortest" route to it
 
or went down the wrong road and had to go further and further to try to find a place to turn the rig around and/or got stuck trying to turn around. Some roads out in the rural areas are fine for a rig to travel on...until they suddenly aren't.
 
Surely, their intention was to find a place to park overnight. (My initial theory was that they may have had it in mind to not only visit that ghost town, but to spend the night there. Anyway...)
If their only objective was to find a place to park, then I think they must have had Goldfield in mind, reason being is that from Coaldale, the route shows to pass through Silver Peak (although it's only when I enter 'Coaldale to Goldfield' that the route goes through Silver Peak).
Apart from that, Silver Peak Rd shows to go from the town of Silver Peak to the town of Goldfield, however, if one stays on Silver Peak Rd through the town, it changes to Coyote Rd... and/but to go to Goldfield, one has to actually turn off of Silver Peak Rd onto Alkali Rd., which shortly thereafter, changes to Silver Peak Rd. :dizzy:
 
Kimster said:
I don’t know the exact area where they were, but sometimes in the desert things start looking like other things. One time I got lost in the El Paso mountains, which aren’t very high compared to where this couple were going. That’s down by Ridgecrest. I finally just had to park and wait until morning. It was pitch black out there that night. When I woke up there was a cliff right in front of me! I couldn’t see it at all that night.

I could see cars going by on the highway far away, but I couldn’t get to them.
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Guess Who said:
or looking for a campground to park for the night and gps found the "shortest" route to it
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Regina said:
Surely, their intention was to find a place to park overnight. (My initial theory was that they may have had it in mind to not only visit that ghost town, but to spend the night there. Anyway...)
If their only objective was to find a place to park, then I think they must have had Goldfield in mind, reason being is that from Coaldale, the route shows to pass through Silver Peak (although it's only when I enter 'Coaldale to Goldfield' that the route goes through Silver Peak).
Apart from that, Silver Peak Rd shows to go from the town of Silver Peak to the town of Goldfield, however, if one stays on Silver Peak Rd through the town, it changes to Coyote Rd... and/but to go to Goldfield, one has to actually turn off of Silver Peak Rd onto Alkali Rd., which shortly thereafter, changes to Silver Peak Rd. :dizzy:
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I agree with you all but that's what I mean that they almost had to be looking for a camp site or going to an attraction like the ghost town or something because why would you get off of 95? And I imagine you'd know if you got off of 95 onto one of those more minor looking roads going the wrong direction?

I thought they were going to stay at Nellis Air Force Base one night, was it that night? Why wouldn't you continue on they were so close and stay there as planned? Or was that for the next night and they were ahead on their trip (having passed Fallon) and they couldn't stay at Nellis a night early? That's what I'm trying to fathom. I just figured with a place to stay I thought already why would they be looking for a place to stay... And if they were just sightseeing, why not park and unhook the car I guess...? I'm not doubting anything, just looking for more of the reasons and specifics I guess.
 
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