Two Unsolved Murders - Richard Guarro and Daniel Core

Shaun In 1996, desert miles away from the Las Vegas Strip, a passerby came across the remains of a murder victim, but with no I.D. or leads to work from. He remained a John Doe for nearly thirty years.

John In twenty twenty three, in the desert outside of Pahrump, Nevada, an ATV rider discovered the remains of a man who was also the victim of a homicide. He, too, would remain a John Doe for almost two years until DNA testing was able to give him his name back. But questions still remain. Who killed these two men, and will their murderers ever face justice?

Shaun Hi, and welcome to Sins and Survivors, a Las Vegas true crime podcast where we focus on cases that deal with domestic violence as well as missing persons and unsolved cases. I'm your host, Sean.

John And I'm your co-host, John.

Shaun This week, we wanted to cover two cases where DNA testing identified two John Doe's that had been found in the desert outside of Las Vegas. Oddly, though, both of the men we are talking about today, police believe were victims of a homicide. Their stories have some elements in common, but we don't want to imply that there's anything linked in how they died. However, there hasn't been any news of suspects or arrests.

John We've spoken about DNA and genetic genealogy on the podcast multiple times, and we both see it as a key way that families can get answers. But this week, DNA has only solved part of the puzzle. Before we get to that, we want to start out with a missing person case from Metro's missing person cold case database. Carl Johnson's forty ninth birthday was last February, but he hasn't been seen in more than thirteen years. Kale was born February first, nineteen seventy seven. He's been described as a black man, six foot one, weighing about two hundred and forty pounds. He was last seen on February fifteen, twenty thirteen, when he was thirty six years old. He was a dental student and according to his roommate on February fifteenth, kale had just gotten his grades from his final exams. He'd received straight A's, and he told his roommate that he was going out to celebrate. He was seen at a 7-Eleven store at Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway around two a m he withdrew some money from the ATM and made a few small purchases at the store. On February twenty eighth, his silver two thousand and four Dodge Ram pickup truck with the North Carolina license plates was found at the Wetlands Park Nature Preserve. His family says he enjoyed the outdoors, so that might not have been an unusual place for him to visit. His picture of Namus shows him with a walking stick. However, his cell phone and wallet were inside the truck, but kale has never been located. It's unknown if the money he had withdrawn from the ATM was still in his wallet, or where he and his truck were during the two weeks in between when he was last seen and when his truck was found. It's reported that he never enrolled for the following semester's classes at the dental school. He has a tattoo of a Chinese symbol on his lower abdomen and an astrological sign tattoo on his left leg. He may also use the name Mikael Collins. He was last seen wearing a dark colored shirt and pants and red and white sneakers, and he also reportedly smoked cigarettes. Metro was interested in talking to anyone who might have seen him late the night of February fourteenth or early the morning of February sixteenth, twenty thirteen. We know it's been more than thirteen years, but if anyone listening remembers talking to Carl or seeing him, please reach out to Metro at seven oh two eight two eight two nine oh seven. We also want to thank the Black and Missing Foundation for first bringing this case to our attention. If you want to learn more about the work they do, you can visit w w w dot com or follow them on Instagram and Facebook. Do you want to start us out with the first John Doe? We have to talk about this week.

Shaun The first story we have this week is Richard Waingaro. Richard Wayne was born on September eight, nineteen fifty seven in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. His father's name was Richard and his mother's name was Ethel. His father passed away in nineteen ninety five, and Ethel died in two thousand and five. Both of his parents were born in Philadelphia. They married in nineteen fifty two, and soon after they moved to Fort Lauderdale. And that's where Richard was born. He was their youngest family member. He has two older sisters, Gloria and Patti, and an older brother named William or Bill. His parents were small business owners of Guaro and Sons jewelry store in Fort Lauderdale for thirty two years. His older brother, William. I found an interesting anecdote about him in the newspaper archives when he was seventeen years old. He was already serving in the Navy, and he won a brand new nineteen sixty two convertible worth about four thousand dollars in a raffle that was held on the submarine base in Connecticut, where he was stationed. That would be worth about forty four thousand dollars today, but he was too young to register it in his own name, so the paperwork had been sent to his dad, but the news reported that after driving it for about a week, he got into an accident and he damaged it when he hit a pole. The reporting was that there was only about four hundred and twenty six miles on the odometer. William wasn't hurt and no other car was involved in the accident, and there wasn't any details about the amount of damage that was done to the car or what ultimately happened to it. But I did read that he ended up having to pay a fine of about thirty three dollars for the accident. In addition to his siblings, Richard also has many nieces and nephews and even more grand nieces and grandnephews. In nineteen seventy two, when he was about fifteen years old, Richard was in a convenience store with a friend of his when the store was robbed at gunpoint. The clerk, who was a woman named Shirley, was able to whisper to the two boys who were regulars at the convenience store, to run to the shop next door to get them some help. So the man they alerted confronted the robber and ultimately captured him when he tried to run away, and the newspaper, the Fort Lauderdale News reported that Richard and his friend also helped chase down the thief. Based on what I was able to find, since Richard Wayne had the same name as his father, Richard, the family and the press often referred to him as just Wayne. There was a special announcement made in the Fort Lauderdale News when Guarro and Sons Jewelry store welcomed their youngest family member, Wayne Guarro, to the staff of the store in nineteen seventy eight, when Richard was twenty one years old. The announcement mentioned that he was a recent graduate from the Holland School for Jewellers in Selma, Alabama. Wayne Guarro also played third base in the nineteen seventy six big league World Series, which is the Little League World Series. But for older kids ages fifteen to eighteen, he was a part of the Broward County All Stars, which was also known as the Pembroke Pines All Stars, and the Broward County team was runner up to the team from Taiwan that year. Richard Wayne would have been about eighteen years old, and the news reported that in their seven to one victory against the team from Puerto Rico, Wayne hit a two run home run in the third inning. On November eleven, nineteen ninety six, when Richard was thirty nine, he traveled to Las Vegas for a week's vacation. We don't know what hotel he stayed in, but it's reported from his family that he was staying on the strip. He was supposed to come home on November eighteenth, but he never returned to Fort Lauderdale. His family was immediately concerned because it wasn't like him to just disappear. We dug through the Las Vegas Review Journal and Las Vegas Sun archives and even looked in the Florida newspapers online, but we didn't find any details about the extent of the search. We're not sure if anyone in his family traveled here to Las Vegas to look for him, but he was listed in Namus as a missing person. Richard's description was that of a very average guy white male, brown hair, brown eyes, six foot one, one hundred and eighty pounds. They said he was wearing jeans and a t shirt when he was last seen. There was no mention of surgery, scars, tattoos, piercings, any distinguishing features. So Richard could fit the description of many John Doe's online communities, like Websleuths, had several threads and comments about Richard, where folks were trying to solve his disappearance by comparing him to John Doe's that had been found in the Las Vegas area. We combed through those posts and many were more than ten years old, just trying to see what other details we could learn about the search for Richard and any leads or clues that were investigated and any rewards offered for his disappearance. On July seven, two thousand and one, a passerby found human remains in a remote area about twenty two miles northeast of Las Vegas. This was near where the I-15 and the I-93 converge near the Valley of Fire. The Desert National Wildlife Reserve passed the Las Vegas Speedway on the way to Moapa Valley. They labeled the remains the Tortoise Reserve Doe, but going through the archives, we couldn't find anything specific about a tortoise reserve in that area around that time, but there was the wildlife reserve at the time. His remains were found. The coroner determined that he had been the victim of a homicide due to blunt force trauma, but they could not identify him. They described him as a white male who was likely thirty five to forty five at the time he had died, with nothing else to go on back in two thousand and one, he remained unidentified. And that case, as well as Richard's missing person case, both went cold. In October of twenty twenty one, twenty years after the remains had been found and twenty five years since Richard had vanished. Las Vegas Metro cold case detectives sent the remains to where else? Othram labs for analysis. Othram used DNA sequencing and genetic genealogy to analyze the remains, and they were able to narrow down likely relatives for the remains to two people. Metro then approached the victim's sister to obtain a DNA sample for close comparison. On February twenty fifth, twenty twenty two, author was able to positively ID the remains as being Richard Wayne Guerra. Both Othram and L.V. Metro thanked audio Chuck, who had funded the DNA testing and the genetic genealogy analysis. Audio Chuck, many listeners might recognize, is the media company started by Ashley Flowers, one of the hosts of Crime Junkies. The statement read Othram and the Lvmpd would like to express their deepest appreciation to Audiotrack for funding the full costs associated with laboratory testing and genealogical research. Their generosity helped bring answers to his family and now will help lead to answers surrounding his murder. Also in their statement, Metro wrote Lvmpd homicide cold case detectives are constantly reviewing cases, looking at advancements in technology and reviewing tips in order to identify those responsible for taking another person's life. Currently, this case is not listed on the Las Vegas Metro's Cold case database. Four years ago, when Richard was identified, Metro said they didn't have any suspects and there haven't been any updates. So despite being identified, the person who killed Richard is still at large. And this November will be thirty years since Richard was killed. Anyone with information about Richard Waingaro is encouraged to call Metro at seven oh two eight two eight three five two one, but to remain anonymous, you can call Crimestoppers at seven oh two three eight five five five five five. We're going to pause here briefly, but we'll be back with our second story of the week.

John The second case we have for you this week is that of Daniel Patrick Kahr. Daniel was born on November second, nineteen sixty. His parents are named David and Margaret, and he has a large family, four brothers and three sisters Amy, the youngest, Caroline, Jennifer, Michael, Kenny, Andrew and Billy. Danny was the oldest of the siblings and Kenny was just eleven months younger than he is. Danny's got two kids and both of them are under eighteen, so we aren't going to mention their names here. He also has nieces and nephews that he was very close to. He's a journeyman plumber, really very handy with all things construction. He seemed like quite a character. He wrote a gold Harley Davidson motorcycle, which everyone knew about, and we have photos of it and we will definitely share those. He was reported missing along with his brother Kenny and his brother's dog, Magnum, on August twelfth, twenty twenty two by family members. He had come to Pahrump to help his brother Kenny with his truck, which had broken down. We found several of the Facebook pages for his siblings and interviews with one of his sisters, and they seemed like they were all very close. His sister drove from Mississippi to Pahrump to help with the search for her two brothers. She was interviewed by the local news in an effort to get the story of the disappearances out shortly after Kenny and Magnum were located, but Daniel was not. He was last seen riding his Harley Davidson near Homestead Road and Gamebird Road in Pahrump, which we've talked about before. It's about sixty miles west of Las Vegas. The Nye County Sheriff's Office investigated thoroughly, but the trail went cold quickly. In June of twenty twenty three, skeletal remains were found by an ATV rider in the desert southwest of Pahrump, but no identification was initially possible. In December of twenty twenty three, Ncso reached out to Arthurm Labs, of course, and Namus funded the research. Othram developed a genealogical profile and ended up reaching out to his sister. From there, they were able to conclusively identify Daniel's remains. This is the thirteenth unidentified person. Case solved by Othram here in the state of Nevada. Ncso continues to investigate his disappearance and death as a possible homicide. If you have any information about what might have happened to Daniel Patrick Hoare, you can call the Nye County Sheriff's Office at seven seven five seven five one seven thousand or to remain anonymous, you can contact Crime Stoppers at seven oh two three eight five five five five five or visit their website crimestoppers of NV dot com. Also, as a reminder, you can upload your DNA results from sites like twenty three Andme or Ancestry.com to dna dot com. So, it can be used in helping to identify John or Jane Doe's and potential suspects as well. You can also donate at dna dot com toward the funding of the research needed for the DNA analysis and building a forensic genealogy profile. As of today, there are thirteen cases that are in need of funding, so you can donate monthly or donate toward a specific case. We also want to say we're so thankful to chuck the Las Vegas Justice League and everyone who contributes towards solving these crimes. They really all do seem solvable at this point with this new technology. Thank you for listening. Please leave us a review on your podcast platform. It really helps us get the word out about all these important cases we cover every week. And if you want to listen ad free and get access to our Swing Shift Overtime episodes where we talk more about the cases after we're done, visit since podcast. Thank you again. And we remind you that what happens here happens everywhere. Thanks for listening. Visit since podcast. Subscribe for exclusive bonus content and to listen ad free. Remember to like and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and threads @SinsandSurvivors If you're enjoying the podcast, please leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice. You can contact us at Questions@SinsandSurvivors.com

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