'Maybe I'll get wound up again and do it again!'
Richard Charles Wenrick, 80, returned home on his own Wednesday after disappearing on Friday. By Elissa Harrington KVAL NewsSPRINGFIELD, Ore - A Springfield man missing since Friday is home safe. Friday, 80-year old Dick Wenrick left his Springfield home without telling anybody. He left behind his cell phone, his medications, and his loved ones. "That's just my nature," he says. "I do things out of the clear blue sky. I just, bam! Just do it." Wednesday, Wenrick returned home. "I couldn't believe it," says his wife, Margaret. "I said, where have you been?!" Wenrick says he drove from Springfield to San Diego, then to Boise, Spokane, and finally back to Springfield. But family members say receipts in his car show he likely went to Nevada and Northern California. They say he might be confused because he sufferes from dementia. Wenrick's wife says her husband has always been a free spirit. "He gets bored just sitting here," she says. But this six day disappearance had her thinking she might never see him again. "I was worried that without his inhalers, he wouldn't be able to breathe." Despite the health concern, Wenrick says his real reason for coming home had to do with his pocketbook. "I got broke," he says. "But I don't know. Maybe I'll get wound up again and do it again!" Wenrick says although he enjoyed his time on the road, he is happy to be home. |
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