Richard Arthur Wayne Jr. was 17 when he vanished on March 20, 1983, while traveling from California to his home in Montpelier, Indiana. Months passed without word, and on December 7, 1983 a hunter found partially buried remains in a field near U.S. Route 40 in Hendricks County. Those remains were later identified as Richard’s, and investigators determined he had been killed in a homicide.

Authorities later linked Richard’s murder to a man called the Interstate Killer, Larry Eyler, who was arrested in October 1983. Richard Arthur Wayne Jr. was buried in Miller Cemetery in Poneto, Wells County, Indiana.

Does anyone who knew Richard or was in the area of U.S. Route 40 in spring 1983 have information that could help fill gaps in his final movements?