Bill Rundle & Traci Kenley

[grbush82]

I found this while I was surfing the UM site.





Rebroadcast Date: November 20, 2002 (Originally broadcast on July 5, 2001)

NOTE: THIS STORY WAS RECENTLY SOLVED. AN UPDATE WILL APPEAR ON A FUTURE BROADCAST.

SYNOPSIS: On August 17, 2000, Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley set out to drive 45 miles out to Traci's parents' farm in rural Edgar, Nebraska. The pair had vague plans to meet Traci's boyfriend later that evening. Bill and Traci had met six months earlier and by all accounts their relationship was platonic. They got together at around 4:30 p.m. to retrieve a second set of keys she needed, and Bill wanted to look at a car Traci's father was thinking about selling. Around 10:30 p.m., Bill and Traci said good-bye to Traci's parents, climbed back into Bill's brand new, black, Jeep Wrangler Sahara and headed for the highway.
Around 10:45 p.m., the two stopped at The Country Store in neighboring Clay Center to use the restroom and buy a couple of sodas. The clerk behind the counter and a few high school kids would be the last people known to have seen them. Back on the road, at 11:00p.m., Traci called her boyfriend, Doug Wolfe, who worked the 2:00 p.m. to midnight shift in Hastings. According to Doug, Traci asked him what his after-work plans were, and Doug told her he was thinking about getting a beer at the Halftime Lounge. Traci, Doug reports, said that she and Bill would meet him there around 12:30 a.m., if she wasn't too tired. They said goodbye. Doug would be the last person known to have heard her voice.

The following day, neither Bill Rundle nor Traci Kenley showed up for work. Residents of the tightly knit community who knew Bill and Traci are stumped. The Clay and Adams County Sheriff's Departments organized a search of the intersection where Traci had spoken to Doug and the surrounding area. Authorities worried that Bill may have crashed his car into the towering cornfields. A thirty square mile area was painstakingly searched to no avail.

Police considered whether Bill and Traci left voluntarily. They left, with only the cash in their pockets and the clothes on their backs. There has been no ATM, phone, or credit card activity on either Traci's or Bill's accounts since their disappearance. One week after their disappearance, Bill Rundle's hat mysteriously surfaced at the intersection where Traci made the call to Doug--an area that had already been thoroughly searched. Police believe the hat was planted.

Authorities are looking for Bill Rundle's Jeep Wrangler Sahara. The sports utility vehicle is a year 2000 model, black, with the Nebraska license plate number 14-B 954. A $5000 reward has been offered for any information leading to the discovery of Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley. Bill Rundle is twenty-six years old, one hundred and fifty pounds and five feet eight inches tall. Traci Kenley is twenty-nine years old, five feet eight inches tall and has blond hair.

If you have any information on the disappearance of Bill Rundle and Traci Kenley, please contact The Adams County Sheriff's Department in Adams County, Nebraska or call the Unsolved Mysteries hotline at 1-800-876-5353.

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I've been both the orginal broadcast and the rerun. Since it's been stated that the case has been solved,it doesn't give any information as to what happened to both of them. I hope they will update it soon.

[TJ]

http://www.nmco.org/gallery/resolved/kenley-traci.html

Traci and Bill Rundle were last seen in Clay Center at approximately 10:45pm. They indicated that they were traveling back to Hastings but never arrived. On Wednesday, July 31, 2002, Bill's Jeep was found in a feedlot drainage pond one mile west of Glenvil. Traci and Bill's bodies were located inside the Jeep, both were not wearing seatbelts. Damage to the Jeep's front fender was consistent with a low-speed impact involving water and investigators are ruling their death as an accident.

[Zero]

I know this thread is old but I just saw the story with the update. A lady was giving the story of how they found them. They showed pictures. It gave me this sick feeling. So sad. At least they weren't murdered.

[UMfan77]

I clicked on the link and I couldn't find anyting pertaining to Traci or Bill. Do I have to click on something else after clicking on the link?

[Zero]

http://www.rinokids.com/Closed/Kenley/