Vance Lakey was 31 when he was found dead in March 2021 in a remote, overgrown area off West Valley Highway in Algona, Washington. His body was discovered alongside his 59-year-old father, Michael Goeman. The King County Medical Examiner determined both deaths were homicides; Vance died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head, and his father of a single fatal gunshot wound to the head.

Vance was last seen on March 15, 2021, driving his father’s Dodge Durango after leaving a grocery store in Kent. Prosecutors allege that 40-year-old Richard Walter Bradley lured Vance and Goeman to the secluded site with a story about buried gold and that the same ruse was used in other killings he is accused of. Bradley’s wife was identified as the driver of the Durango during a traffic stop, and prosecutors say Bradley attempted to have the vehicle destroyed, offering money to have the Durango set on fire with the front seats burned.

Bradley was arrested in May 2021 and has been charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder, plus second-degree arson and illegal possession of firearms; he is being held without bail awaiting trial. Did anyone in the Kent or Algona area know Vance or his father, or have information about the Durango after March 15, 2021?