Oregon State Police, with the assistance of Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office, Wisconsin and Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office, Idaho are asking the public’s help for any information on a missing man that was last scene 35 years ago on November 7, 1980 from Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Randall Dean Leach now 55-years-old, was last seen the morning of November 7, 1980 walking away from a Dairy Farm in Idaho Falls, ID.

Leach is described as a white male, between 5’8” to 5’9” tall, about 140 to 160 pounds, with brown hair and blue eyes.

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The Oregon State Police was notified on February 2, 1981 by family members that Randall Leach was missing. Police say he left Wisconsin around November 1, 1980 hitch-hiking towards a final destination of his sister’s residence in Bend, Oregon. Randall Leach was last seen alive on November 7, 1980 in Idaho Falls where he had stopped to work at a dairy farm for a couple of days.

The missing person case has been on-going for 35 years and police have been actively assisting other agencies to try to find Randall Leach. During this time frame the Oregon State Police has never received any information or confirmation that Mr. Leach reached his final destination of Bend, Oregon or if he had ever entered the state of Oregon.

The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office became involved in this investigation due to a friendship between Randy’s father, Richard Leach, and the Deputy Inspector of the Detective Division at the time Randy went missing. That relationship between their agency and Randy’s family has continued and investigators have worked with the family to obtain Randy’s dental records which have been uploaded to the National Dental Image Repository.

By doing this, it makes images available to law enforcement and medical examiners nationwide. Investigators have also obtained DNA samples from family members which were provided to the University of North Texas (UNT) Center for Human Identification. UNT personnel have established a DNA profile suitable for comparison for Randy Leach and that profile has been added to the Combined DNA Index System, which allows nationwide comparison. Investigators also created an entry with the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System for Randy Leach.

Anyone who may have information is asked to notify Detective Corey Norlander of the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office at 920-459-3859.

A 52-year-old sex offender wanted in San Diego was arrested in Seattle after his landlord began suspecting that he was trying to prey on teenage girls.

David Richard Weller’s landlord in Seattle told police he became suspicious after hearing from friends that his tenant, who was living in a trailer on the property, had allegedly been trying to lure teen girls into his truck, according to a Seattle Police Department statement. The landlord later searched an online sex offender registry and found out that Weller had been wanted in San Diego for two years.

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Weller was wanted by the San Diego Regional Fugitive Task Force for failing to register as a sex offender and violating parole stemming from a conviction for possessing child pornography, according to San Diego County Crime Stoppers. His rap sheet also included possession of a loaded firearm in public, felony hit and run and obstructing police.

Weller, then a transient, was initially pulled over because he had a traffic warrant and was arrested on suspicion of possessing child pornography after picking up illicit DVDs at a post office in Ontario in August 2011, The Los Angeles Times reported. Two loaded guns and instructions on how to seduce and sexually assault a child were found in his SUV, according to the Times.

Seattle police took Weller into custody Tuesday afternoon. A cell phone later found in his truck was flashing a screen message of “kids only,” police said. He’s since been booked into the King County Jail and has waived extradition, according to police and online jail records.

Seattle police said they were now working with local authorities to further investigate.

A man who police say was shot outside a Lexington nightclub early Friday morning has died. According to the coroner’s office, 30-year-old William Thornton died just before 11 a.m. Sunday.

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Police say Thornton was shot in the head and a second man was shot in the chest after an argument at Camelot East. There’s no word on the condition or name of the second man.

Thornton’s death is being investigated as a homicide but no arrests have been made.

A Clark County man has been charged in the theft of copper wire that was stripped from thirty five street lights early Thursday morning.

According to the Winchester Sun, Brian Bentley, 33, was arrested after deputies executed a search warrant at Bentley’s home.

Clark County Sheriff’s deputies were called early Thursday morning to investigate a damaged light pole. Upon arrival, a total of 35 poles were found damaged and copper wire had been removed.

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After receiving information from Winchester Police about a suspect in other copper thefts, deputies went to Bentley’s residence and found a pile of burned copper wire and wire cutters in a pickup truck parked on the property. Behind the house was a fresh burn pile with more copper wire, usually done to remove the insulation.

Bentley was arrested and charged with theft by unlawful taking and first degree criminal mischief.

He was lodged in the Clark County Detention Center.

Police are still trying to put together the pieces after a deadly shooting in Louisville.

Louisville Police say an officer spotted a man down on the pavement on 26th Street around 3:15 Friday afternoon.

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The officer tried to help the man and called for an ambulance. The victim died at the hospital.

Officers say they have very little information to go on.

Kentucky State Police are looking into a recent robbery at the Simpsonville Police Department.

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According to a news release from KSP, an someone broke into Simpsonville PD early Friday morning, broke into evidence lockers and took approximately $30,000 in cash, plus handguns and narcotics.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

A McCracken County Grand Jury has indicted a man for the murder of another man whose body was found in a park last weekend.

Andy McAmis has been charged with the murder of Harold Bone.

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Investigators say Bone and McAmis were fighting at a Paducah Park on Halloween, which led to Bone’s death.

McAmis was arrested near Chicago on Monday and will be arraigned next Friday.

Police are asking for help tracking down a missing 12-year-old girl from the city’s west side.

Columbus police said Shawnta Cox was last seen around 2 p.m. in the area of South Hague Avenue and West Broad Street. They consider her a high-risk missing juvenile.

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Cox is described as a black female, 4 feet 10 inches and weighs 95 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes and was last seen wearing black jogging pant, a black shirt, and black, orange and red Air Jordan tennis shoes.

Anyone with information about the missing girl is asked to call the Columbus Division of Police at 614-645-4624.

The death of an infant known as “Baby Grace” who was found in a South Carolina creek was ruled a homicide on Friday, officials say.

Robert Edge of the Horry County Coroner’s Office told 48 Hours’ Crimesider the finding came after an autopsy in Charleston. He didn’t immediately release the cause of death, but said there were indications “the child died at the hands of another.”

On Tuesday, the girl’s mother, Sarah Lane Toney, went to a home about 500 yards across the creek and swamp from her house near Myrtle Beach and told a woman she had put her baby, Grace, into the creek, police said.

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On Thursday, a portion of the neighbor’s 911 call was released, reports CBS affiliate WLTX. In it, the neighbor says Toney came to her back porch and was acting oddly.

“She’s saying call the police because she just came to the river and had a baby with her,” the caller told a dispatcher. “And now she doesn’t have a baby. I’m not sure if she wants something. I have no idea, but you need to send someone over here please.”

Toney was taken into custody and charged with unlawful conduct toward a child. The child’s body was recovered Thursday after a search. A judge denied bond for Toney Thursday before the body was found.

Toney asked officers at her bond hearing whether her baby had been found, then told the judge she should be released from jail because she didn’t plan to leave the area and needed to take care of her older daughter, who was turned over to her father after she reported her baby disappeared in the water.

“I went into the water with her, and I was unable to hold on to her,” Toney said at her bond hearing. “I didn’t intentionally put her in any danger. I was going with her, and I wasn’t able to hold on to her when the water sucked me in.”

Horry County police Chief Saundra Rhodes said her officers will consult with prosecutors, but she expects Toney to face charges in her daughter’s death.

Edge said the child’s cause of death is expected to be released within the next day.