A couple from Indiana who disappeared while on vacation in Nevada were found on Tuesday after authorities discovered their RV empty.
Travis Peters, the nephew of 69-year-old Beverly Barker and her 72-year-old husband, Ronnie, shared in a Facebook post that his aunt and uncle had been found. Peters said his aunt was “doing OK” and had been airlifted to the hospital and that his uncle had died.
“I have no details on where they were found or how he passed away,” Peters said. Hours earlier, he had shared that the RV had been discovered “stuck in the mud” west of Silver Peak with the car they were towing missing.
The Barkers were last seen on surveillance video traveling in their RV down Highway 95 on March 27, said one of the couple’s daughters, Jennifer Whaley, according to WTHR. It’s almost as if they disappeared “into thin air,” she said.
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“It was caught on a home surveillance camera going down 95,” Whaley said, adding that the road is flat and surrounded by desert. The RV had been traveling near a town called Luning, according to Whaley.
The Esmeralda County Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook on Sunday, saying the couple was missing and asking the public for information on their whereabouts.
“Their phone last pinged in our county on the morning of March 28 in the Coaldale area,” the post said, noting they were driving a “2015 Sunseeker RV, white with black decals – INDIANA PLATE C128H” and towing a “2020 Kia Soul, white – INDIANA PLATE FL211A.”
The post also said the Barkers both have medical problems.
“So where did they go? Where did they go? They’re out in the middle of the desert,” Whaley said. “You can see for miles and a 32-foot RV, towing a car, literally vanishes into thin air. Where did they go?”
The Barkers had been traveling on a cross-country trip since last month and were supposed to have been home in Indianapolis this week, according to their daughter. They supposed to meet up with friends in Tuscon but failed to show up.
“It’s really difficult to imagine what could have happened,” Lynn Bledsoe, the couple’s other daughter, said. Both Barkers have diabetes, and Ronnie is a cancer survivor, according to Bledsoe.
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Whaley and Bledsoe had hoped their parents would be home for Beverly’s 70th birthday on April 9. “It would be amazing, just amazing, to have them home by her birthday,” Whaley said.
A Silver Alert was not issued, but law enforcement officials did post a “be on the lookout” bulletin, according to the WTHR report this week.
The Washington Examiner reached out to the Esmerelda County Sheriff’s Office, Lynn Bledsoe, and Jennifer Whaley for further comment.
