Episode Details

Bernard Wright Rusness and Peggy Joyce McKay were a 49 year old and 41 respectively from Wolf Lake, MN. They had been together several years and had a son. On the night of April 3, 1976, locals noticed the Rusness-McKay house on fire. Firefighters found the son dead inside. Yet, Bernard and Peggy's remains were not there. They were never seen again.

Charley Project:

https://charleyproject.org/case/peggy-joyce-parmenter

https://charleyproject.org/case/bernard-wright-rusness-jr

NAMUS:

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/12305?nav

https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/12304?nav

Map Analysis:

https://youtu.be/8LfCunxeoUc

Unfound Page:

http://theunfoundpodcast.com/2022/09/20/peggy-mckay-and-bernard-rusness-when-the-smoke-clears/

If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Bernard Rusness and Peggy McKay, please contact the Becker County Sheriff's Office at (218) 847-2661.

Where You Can Find Unfound:

On These Following Podcast Platforms: Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean, and many others. Especially outside the United States.

Please check out the new podcast, Unfound Live. Find it on your podcast application.

Social Media sites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the newest one, TikTok.

Listener support sites: Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast.

Paypal.me/unfoundpodcast

The website: theunfoundpodcast.com

The email address: unfoundpodcast@gmail.com.

And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you.

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.