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Randy Lee Sellers vanished from Visalia, Kentucky, in the late summer of 1980, two weeks before his 18th birthday. On the evening of August 16 he attended the Kenton County Fair, became intoxicated after drinking alcohol and using marijuana, and got into a physical fight. Two Kenton County officers who were providing fair security took the 17-year-old into custody for public intoxication and disorderly conduct and, because he was a minor, decided to drive him home. That ride was the last time Sellers was seen.

The officers say they dropped Randy near a railway overpass about a mile from his house after he refused to give an address; later their accounts showed inconsistencies about the time, location and how intoxicated he was. Initial searches, including of the nearby Licking River, found nothing. In the early 1990s convicted killer Donald Leroy Evans confessed to killing Randy and gave a map to a grave near Kincaid Lake State Park, but searches turned up no evidence. One officer reportedly admitted his partner struck Randy and later retracted that statement. The Sellers family sued Kenton County, alleging reckless endangerment; that case was settled.

Despite searches and multiple leads, the disappearance remains unsolved. Did anyone in Visalia or at the Kenton County Fair that night see Randy after he left with the officers?