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| ELL | Jul 6 2006, 09:25 PM Post #1 |
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THOMAS RANDALL HEDGECOCK LAST DATE OF CONTACT : 05/24/2004 DOB : 09/24/1952 HEIGHT : 5'07" GENDER : MALE WEIGHT : 220 lbs HAIR COLOR : BLONDE EYE COLOR : HAZEL RACE : WHITE CASE INFORMATION : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBJECT'S VEHICLE WAS LOCATED ON 5/31/04 AT THE BOTTOM OF AN EMBANKMENT NEAR THE SNAKE RIVER. THE VEHICLE WAS DAMAGED. THE DRIVER IS POSSIBLY SERIOUSLY INJURED. SUBJECT MAY NEED MEDICATIONS. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WITH THIS SUBJECT. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERSON PLEASE CONTACT : -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILER PD @ (208)738-1911 |
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| ELL | Mar 26 2007, 12:36 PM Post #2 |
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Cassidy Friedman Times-News writer TWIN FALLS - Bitterness and rage are always one phone call away for Billie Ann Hedgecock. She knows that. But even so, she picks up her phone and dials Kelly Hassani, detective at the Twin Falls Sheriff's Office, each month from her Florida home. May 24, 2004: that was the date Hedgecock's 51-year-old son, Randy, disappeared. His brown and beige 1982 Dodge pickup was found wrecked between Wendell and Filer. His body was not found. "I don't think he's alive," Hedgecock said. "He would have tried to contact me - we were that close. I'm never OK. But I get frustrated. When I make that call it's like something's been healing and then you scratch it off again." Faces of Magic Valley's 28 missing people adorn the Idaho State Police's missing person's clearinghouse Web site. They range from old to young. Some vanished years ago. Some are youthful runaways whom police will locate in a week or month from now and remove from the database. For as long as their faces continue to stare out from the Web site, some part of their Magic Valley community remains a victim of a sore that can never heal. Looking for lost son Hedgecock, 74, suffers more now than in 2004 when she first lost her son. She said there is no comparing Randy's unexplained disappearance to the certitude of losing her 72-year-old husband to a heart attack one year earlier or losing her oldest son in a car accident. "When you know what's happened, it's different," Hedgecock said. "But when you don't know what's happened, you are always up in the air about everything." Deputies in Twin Falls insist Randall could still be alive. "We are assuming the man is still alive and we are looking for him," said Lt. Don Newman. "I don't have anything to say that he is dead." But according to Stu Robinson, an-ex Idaho State Police investigator turned private detective, internally the department calls it a homicide. "Kelly Hassani said it's definitely a homicide," Robinson said. Because Randall's disappearance is an open investigation, investigators decline to share the limited information they have with Robinson or discuss most aspects of the case with the Times-News. Meanwhile, Hedgecock is in limbo. "Lying in bed at night and you're by yourself, you can be all right," Hedgecock said. "Then you're all wrong. It's been so long. I can't see daylight yet. I think it's getting to me now. I want to know. Whatever I have to face, I just want to know." In her limbo, Hedgecock flips from sweet to furious at the drop of a dime. She said Hassani is always courteous to her over the phone. But then she flips into a rage: "I'm not a detective. They could have questioned more, could have cordoned off the house. Nothing seems to have been done right out there." False alarms, undying faith The trap Hedgecock is in today, Roseanna Mireles Ruben of Gooding thought she had escaped - until a surprise call six months ago. Feb. 23, 1996. That's Ruben's date. The middle of that day marks the beginning of what Ruben calls her "roller coaster ride," looking for her son with an FBI agent and local law enforcement. Ruben was working at Glanbia when her 2 1/2 ��"year-old son, Ruben David Felix, vanished in Lincoln County along with Roseanna's then-husband. But after two years of keeping her hopes up, Ruben wanted off the ride. She saw no end to the endless battering of false hopes. "I told them not to call me unless you have a definite that that's my son," Ruben said. "Because I can't handle all of this. You have hope and then it gets flushed away like the wind. For two years, we were on a roller coaster." The FBI told her he may have been kidnapped and sold on the black market, she said. She suspects her then-husband's family. With blue eyes and blond hair, she was told, her son would be worth a fortune. Then the original agent retired, unbeknownst to Roseanna, and six months ago she answered a call from a man identifying himself as that man, claiming he traced the boy to Guadalajara, Mexico, where he had been sold to a rich family. "He told me to meet them at the FBI office in Twin," she said. "But I got there and they didn't know what I was talking about. The FBI agent in Twin told me 'your case was a cold case for six years.'" She said the FBI and Lincoln County have reopened the case. Lincoln County deputies said the case was never closed. Either way, the past has been unlocked and the roller coaster is once again moving. That roller coaster can move on for decades. Ask Dick Miller, whose father, Fred, disappeared in 1968 outside a Hagerman bar. This year, his father would be turning 105 years old. Dick and his siblings still hold their breath any time a new lead pops up in their father's case. And any time they hear about a person getting killed or going missing in the Magic Valley, they think immediately of the victim's family. "In my case, being part of a missing person, I have never had closure," Miller said. "When my mother died, I could totally accept that but I didn't have any closure with my father. I can totally relate to the people on both ends of tragedies, the families of missing persons, (and) the frustration of not being able to do anything about it." Cassidy Friedman covers crime and courts for the Times-News. He can be reached at (208)735-3241 or be e-mail at cfriedman@magicvalley.com.
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 3 2007, 08:16 PM Post #3 |
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http://www.nampn.org/cases/hedgecock_thomas.html Thomas Randall Hedgecock Above Images: Hedgecock, circa 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vital Statistics at Time of Disappearance Missing Since: May 24, 2004 from Filer, Idaho Classification: Missing Date Of Birth: September 24, 1952 Age: 51 Height: 5'7" Weight: 220 lbs. Hair Color: Blond/Sandy Eye Color: Hazel Race: White Gender: Male Medical Conditions: Unspecified medical condition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Details of Disappearance Thomas' car was found on May 31, 2004 at the bottom of an embankment near the Snake River. It was heavily damaged, and it is believed that Thomas may have been seriously injured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Investigating Agency If you have any information concerning this case, please contact: Filer Police Department (208) 738-1911 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Information Idaho Missing Persons Clearinghouse |
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| PorchlightUSA | Sep 3 2007, 08:20 PM Post #4 |
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| PorchlightUSA | May 30 2010, 07:51 AM Post #5 |
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Missing Person: Thomas Randall Hedgecock Sex: M Race: White Height: 5' 7" Weight: 220 Hair: Blonde Eyes: Hazel Date of Birth: 9/24/1952 Missing Date: 5/24/2004 Comments: SUBJECT'S VEHICLE WAS LOCATED ON 5/31/04 AT THE BOTTOM OF AN EMBANKMENT NEAR THE SNAKE RIVER. THE VEHICLE WAS DAMAGED. THE DRIVER IS POSSIBLY SERIOUSLY INJURED. SUBJECT MAY NEED MEDICATIONS. CAUTION SHOULD BE USED WITH THIS SUBJECT. IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THIS PERSON PLEASE CONTACT : FILER PD @ (208)735-1911 http://www.twinfallscoso.com/missing.php?id=3&start=0 |
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