{"id":156,"date":"2007-10-19T13:48:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T17:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stacyhorn.com\/restless2\/?p=156"},"modified":"2012-07-10T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T23:03:19","slug":"ricky-dyer-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Dyer, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.echonyc.com\/~horn\/restless\/images\/Ricky.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Ricky.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"250\" height=\"171\" align=\"left\" \/> I recently got email from the family of Ricky Dyer, Jr., who died in 1993 in Nevada.  His case was ruled a suicide, but his family believes he was murdered.  An outline of the case is <a href=\"http:\/\/unsolvedcrimes.com\/ricky-dyer.html\"> here<\/a>.  They&#8217;re also gathering signatures for the Nevada Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petitiononline.com\/rldj1972\/petition.html\"> here.<\/a> Obviously I&#8217;m not in a position to judge, but independent investigators who have looked at the case seem to believe there is enough there to warrant a more thorough investigation.  (I also suggested hiring an independent pathologist to review the entire case file from the medical examiner&#8217;s office.)<\/p>\n<p>As if murder, death of any sort really, isn&#8217;t bad enough, these gray-area cases, like missing persons cases, and homicide vs suicide disputes, they&#8217;re just so unendingly awful.  I did a piece for NPR a year or two ago about a family in West Virginia who lost five children in a fire and who, to this day, believe that their children did not die in the fire, but were kidnapped.  (Not a comment on the Dyer family, by the way.)  It&#8217;s worse than a cold case, come to think of it.<\/p>\n<p>My condolences to the Dyer family.  I hope you get the investigation and answers you seek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently got email from the family of Ricky Dyer, Jr., who died in 1993 in Nevada. His case was ruled a suicide, but his family believes he was murdered. An outline of the case is here. They&#8217;re also gathering signatures for the Nevada Attorney General here. Obviously I&#8217;m not in a position to judge, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piV6s-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therestlesssleep.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}