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

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

 

[Guess Who]

I was stuck recently and it is a reminder of how hard it can be to get a car out even. One could look at it and know if we had just one extra person and hopefully a strong one, we could have pushed it out in probably seconds. We were able to barely budge it but a centimeter and that took all we had. A little lightweight car, barely stuck.

I look at that motorhome stuck and no way in heck was anyone getting that out of there much less two older people not in the best health. Two of the same couldn't do it with my car.

Whatever got a rig that length and size onto narrow tight mountain roads is the question here and why. Only once in my life did we end up on a terrible mountain road with no turning around in a compact rental car. We all thought we were dead for miles on end. Hairpin sheer drops one lane switchbacks no turning around and if someone had come the other direction they'd be gone as well as myself, the driver and my children. It was HORRIBLE and the most FRIGHTENING THING ever.

We didn't know, we picked the scene route off of a PAPER state map or Atlas. Needless to say when we reached our destination (thank GOD), we came back the highway route. This can't be exactly the same as they are in bare spots that aren't drops but I can see how it cane happen, except they had been driving this long rig awhile and I would think had already realized even on normal roads and in towns, it isn't easy to park, turn, don't go down one ways or narrow alleys, etc.

I guess I come back to the same thing again and that mainly is if they were heading to a certain destination and changed plans or if it was the GPS. Articles and videos seem to think it was the GPS but it hasn't been confirmed in any manner that I've seen.

If it was, maybe GPS needs to come up with a way directions are locked on the safest route and can be changed but not bumped or easily changed--maybe some lock or code so you know you are changing them without a doubt to a scenic route or shortcut etc...

If I remember correctly, the story about the wayward GPS came directly from her.

Most GPS can be changed for different routes such as no toll roads, no dirt roads, etc. A lot of people just don't go into the settings to know.

 

[Kimster]

It says that they took a wrong turn when trying to go back.

Exactly. So sad! Especially since they were so close to the RV when they got stuck with the Kia.

 

[Kimster]

If I remember correctly, the story about the wayward GPS came directly from her.

Most GPS can be changed for different routes such as no toll roads, no dirt roads, etc. A lot of people just don't go into the settings to know.

I never knew that!

 

[Guess Who]

I never knew that!

A lot of the newer ones, you can even show routes for trailer height limitations on a route, which truckers are encouraged to use. We have a bridge here that devours trucks often. It even has it's own twitter page about "eating" them

 

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Nevada's Silver Alert changed following death of missing Indiana man after GPS led couple astray

A missing couple's story sparked change in Nevada's Silver Alert system.

abc7chicago.com

Nevada's Silver Alert changed following death of missing Indiana man after GPS led couple astray​

A missing couple's story sparked change in Nevada's Silver Alert system.


"They literally had fallen off the face of the Earth, but we knew they were somewhere. So to face any kind of resistance was just a slap in the face at the time and afterwards," the couple's nephew Travis Peters said.

Peters gathered a large following on social media while the couple was lost. Many put pressure on the state to finally issue the alert and successfully got an exception to the rule.

Until now there were six qualifications for a Silver Alert to be issued in the state which included being a resident of Nevada. Bev and Ronnie were not, KVVU reported.

The same day the Silver Alert was issued Ronnie passed away. That was just 26 hours before they were found.

"The hurdle of them not being residents of Nevada just seemed very archaic to have a rule like that in a state that relies on tourism," Peters said.


Now the in-state qualification for the alert has been lifted, which brings some comfort to Peters and his family.

"His death might not have been in vain," Peters said. "Down the road, it might be tomorrow - might be 20 years from now. There's going to be a case that was similar to ours and that issue is not going to come up."

 

[Guess Who]

Nevada's Silver Alert changed following death of missing Indiana man after GPS led couple astray

A missing couple's story sparked change in Nevada's Silver Alert system.

abc7chicago.com

Nevada's Silver Alert changed following death of missing Indiana man after GPS led couple astray​

A missing couple's story sparked change in Nevada's Silver Alert system.


"They literally had fallen off the face of the Earth, but we knew they were somewhere. So to face any kind of resistance was just a slap in the face at the time and afterwards," the couple's nephew Travis Peters said.

Peters gathered a large following on social media while the couple was lost. Many put pressure on the state to finally issue the alert and successfully got an exception to the rule.

Until now there were six qualifications for a Silver Alert to be issued in the state which included being a resident of Nevada. Bev and Ronnie were not, KVVU reported.

The same day the Silver Alert was issued Ronnie passed away. That was just 26 hours before they were found.

"The hurdle of them not being residents of Nevada just seemed very archaic to have a rule like that in a state that relies on tourism," Peters said.


Now the in-state qualification for the alert has been lifted, which brings some comfort to Peters and his family.

"His death might not have been in vain," Peters said. "Down the road, it might be tomorrow - might be 20 years from now. There's going to be a case that was similar to ours and that issue is not going to come up."

Late is better than never, at least.

 

[GrandmaBear]

This "case" still bothers me but mostly just because I still have a few questions that I'm sure don't matter in the big picture.

This was the strangest criteria and was a surprise. I mean I get not searching for each and every person who may be missing for an hour but if something seems serious, people generally check in, or had been, and clearly something may be wrong, then the fact they aren't a state resident is ridiculous. A state that houses Vegas that has flights in and out every minute. I can see maybe that probably people disappear in Vegas for a few hours or more (guess what, my husband did, does that surprise anyone after the not even close to all I have shared about him) and they can't go after every Tom, Dick or Harry but this was an older couple in a motorhome who had family and had been checking in and it was not in Vegas.

Look what it took to get an Amber Alert years ago. The death of a little girl. And that alert seems to have changed and has criteria beyond what it was in the beginning. And here it took Ronnie's death to get a change in a Silver Alert in Nevada. Such high prices to get change and even then it takes people raising a fuss about it after losing someone.

Never ever take a road in an area or state unknown to you. If an average area that is one thing, if mountains or desert it is another. Only one time did it take for me to learn no, never again. Know exactly what you are getting into first. A mountain road that was marked as scenic that was terrifying as all heck with no turning around or going back.