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2019 25-year-old Chase engleberg and his 20-year-old wife Bailey lived in Morra Wyoming but they had traveled to visit
Bailey's Family in Garing Nebraska for the 4th of July holiday with them was their newborn son
Banks the family of three stayed with Bailey's grandparents in the 700 block of O Street and
Garing on Saturday chance played golf with Bailey's father and brother the group drank a bunch of beers and had a
great time Bailey drove to the course to join them this is because when chance called
her after the round of golf he was in a great mood by the time she arrived the mood
had changed apparently there had been some kind of argument and now chance was ready to go home to Mor Croft
Wyoming fast forward to less than 24 hours later later at 11:00 a.m. the next morning Bailey called the Garing police
department and reported Chance missing she told the officer that she had last seen her husband at 7:30 p.m.
that Saturday evening when chance walked away from their car that was parked in the
driveway of Bailey's grandparents home and he never came back this is true crime garage and this
is the missing person's case of chance [Music] Engelberg let's stay here's stay here
I'm Bailey reported her husband Chance missing on Sunday morning at 11 a.m. this is after she spoke to Chance's
parents and his friends no one had seen or heard from chance no no one had any idea where he might be and of course
chance was not answering calls or responding to text when biley spoke with the Garing PD she said the police were
not super helpful at first they thought maybe chance was drunk and had just walked off maybe he was upset with her
or her family is it possible that he just needed a little time and would return when he cooled off now we have to
explain an argument that seems to have taken place at some point during the golf trip after the golf trip sounds to
me Captain like everybody's still having a good time what a great day we're golfing it's a Saturday having some
beers after a round of golf we sit down we have a couple more beers and through conversation there's some kind of
argument that takes place between chance and a member or members of Bailey's Family this is after he's already spoke
to his wife and she says I'm picking him up because he says he was in a good mood
and we had other plans that afternoon right when she arrives the mood had changed chance is mad Bailey says she
doesn't really know exactly what's going on at that time but they get in the car
and he's saying I want to go home and he doesn't mean I want to go home to your grandparents house where we're staying
for the weekend I want to go home to our home in Wyoming by the time they arrive
at the grandparents home chance is reminding her hey I want to go home I want to go to your family's house Bailey
says that she last Saw chance around 7:30 p.m. when he is walking away from their parked car that is in the driveway
of her grandparents home so that was Saturday and we'll continue to flesh out this timeline as we go through the case
but as said Bailey reports Chance missing at 11: a.m. on Sunday morning the police seem to agree that there's a
possibility he's just upset and he needs a little bit of time and that he will show up he'll return to them at some
point but when chance does not Surface by Monday his family was freaking out and so they called the police station
begging them to search for chance the police took action and began to mobilize search Crews set up an emergency
management mobile command unit at the YMCA Trails West camp in Scott Bluff Nebraska Searchers were to be on the
lookout for the missing man described as follows Caucasian about 5'9 in tall with
a medium build he has sunlighten brown hair a mustache and goatee and on the day of his disappearance he was wearing
a short sleeved Wrangler shirt Wrangler jeans Roper boots but some Reports say he may have been wearing sneakers and a
black and white trucker ball cap that day Garing police captain Jason Rogers confirmed to the star Herald that
authorities were actively searching along the North Plat River and railroad property and the paper reported that the
Scots Bluff fire department dive team members were spotted searching along the North Plat River by mid-afternoon law
enforcement and emergency Personnel had gathered near the North Plat River Bridge they walked the entire area
between the YMCA Camp and the bridge this was no longer in Garing but in the Terry Town neighborhood of Scots Bluff
about an hour's walk north of the small town where chance had last been seen by his wife now why are they looking there
the answer is they had found digital evidence that chance might be in this location well this is because law
enforcement asked local businesses to turn in any surveillance tape that might have an individual on it that could be
chance yeah it's it's actually a little more broad than that what they're asking
and this is something that we've seen in pretty common in most of these missing persons cases where they are asking for
property owners to search their properties see if they can find anything that is out of the norm but also turn in
any surveillance camera footage that you have let us review it and let us see if
we see anything that may be important to our missing person's case and footage of
chance showed up in Northwest Garing and Southwest Scots Bluff so let's back up here for just a second captain when
chance left Bailey's grandparents home he got out of his and Bailey's car again this is at the 700 block of O Street and
started walking now no one saw him leave no one really knew what direction he was
walking or where he was going for that matter but these surveillance videos on some local establishments showed him
walking northbound found on 10th Street a major North South Road in Garing at approximately 7:40 p.m. on Saturday at
7:51 p.m. he was seen at the intersection of Martha Road in 10th Street this is 1.5 miles from o street
from where he left Captain Rogers confirmed to the Star Herald that chance was spotted on surveillance video
walking past two businesses in Garing and an apartment in Terrytown a part of Scott Bluff which ab buts Garing in the
northwest corner Rogers also confirmed that chance was walking Northbound on 10th Street in Garing and turned West
onto Martha Road into ter town the last video shows him walking in the area of the intersection of Terry Boulevard and
stable Club Road in Terrytown now this is interesting because it doesn't make sense to walk
all the way up 10 to Martha Road and then turn left to get to stable Club Road 10th intersects with
stable Club Road South of Martha road so either chance wasn't familiar with this
area or he was walking without really having any particular destination he's just kind of roaming I guess a couple
things those is Bailey's statements have been a little conflicting at one point she says that she saw chance walk away
from their truck heading north and then other times she said that she hadn't seen him leave because she was inside uh
trying to pack up some things and with their child stable Club Road continues in a northwesterly direction through a
residential area and then crosses five Rocks Road where upon it turns into Al Road and proceeds into a somewhat
desolate area this is along the North Plat River parallel to the railroad tracks
just on the Northern side of Scots Bluff National Monument now to be clear this is not an area covered by dense Woods we
are talking about the plains here just miles and miles of flat land with few trees and many lakes and ponds an
overhead view of the area looks like a patchwork quilt with all the squares of farm and pasture land punctuated by the
Scots Bluff Monument area which resembles gray rock with very little growth in other words it would be very
difficult it would be hard for someone to disappear in this area as it is wide open spaces but we would later learn
that search parties did search this area and of course had no luck finding chance
yeah they searched them with search parties but also cadav dogs and scent dogs yes by 4 days out the search for
chance was quite massive we have 16 agencies that were involved in the search efforts helicopters provided air
support to more than 50 ground Searchers a drone was used to image the area from
the air tracking dogs were brought in I'm not quite sure what if any of the results were regarding the dogs the
water to the Garing Central Canal was cut off so search crews could get a better look at its depths the Drone
operator flew has drone the length of the canal starting at five Rocks Road and following it to the river kadab dogs
as the captain said also searched the canal between stable Club Road and Woodley Park Road Terry's Lake which
chance would have had to have walked by was also among the area searched with the kadaver dogs and searches of the
North Plat River were done by the fire department using watercraft to examine the surface but from my understanding
Captain the depths of the river were not searched yeah so a couple things that make this even more difficult is he's
last seen by his wife at around 700 p.m. then we have some surveillance footage from a local business that sees him
around 9 and that's his last known whereabout but that's also about the time that his cell phone is seems to not
be working yes and we do have some cell phone data to discuss here the police confirmed that the Nebraska state patrol
was consulted to try to obtain chances phones tracking information and what they learned dictated what would be the
search area right it was originally reported that Chance's phone last pinged in the vicinity of alroad just south of
the western travel terminal truck stop and convenience store this is a busy truck stop but it's not on the
interstate I80 it's about an hour away so again a busy truck stop but not directly on the interstate now when this
information came out everyone started to think well maybe chance hitched a ride at the truck stop and got out of Dodge
but no video footage was found of him at the truck stop right and police began to
suspect that he was never there at all then people focused on the facin of Al road which was where they said his phone
last pinged this is approximately of course Al road is a desolate Road along the banks of the North Plat
River and the continuation of stable Club Road which makes sense because we already talked about the direction that
we know he was walking this is on the western side of Five Forks Road alroad follows the River West and then crosses
the river in a sort of dam this is where Al Road ends but that information would
change because eventually Garing Police Department said that in actuality the cell phone data was very
inexact they did not have a specific location for the last ping rather they only had a very general area an arc as
the police put it in which the phone ping could have originated the ark was fairly large two miles long covering an
area encompassing Scots Bluff National Monument property in Garing all the way to West 25th Street in Scott Bluff this
is according to the police and they went on to say quote because of cell phone technology this is according to police
and they went on to say quote because of cell phone technology the information did not greatly narrow down the area
chance may have last used his cell phone rather the phone had been used in an area 2 to 3 miles south to Southeast
toward Garing and toward tering toown well again the events of the day that he went missing his wife sees him walk away
about 700 p.m. he's seen again on surveillance around 9 but there was a pretty severe storm that night so I
think that's also what led them we know he was roughly in this area by this water well at that point that River
would have been pretty running pretty high and pretty rough yes and this cell phone
information evidence if you will is quite confusing because we're told that his phone pinged off of a Tower located
near Riverview Golf Course Northwest of Scots Bluff this is around 1 p.m. on Saturday but we should note here that
the police have since backed off of this time they now seem to believe that the phone was shut off or turned off itself
shortly after his last text communication which was around 9:15 p.m. the last time Chance's phone was used
had been shortly after 9900 p.m. so what was chance doing since he left his in-law's house at 7:30 p.m. well it
makes you wonder too because this is not this is not Chance's Hometown this is his wife's
Hometown he's heading north we we know that the evidence kind of points towards that he had some communication
with his friends and family and he told them he was heading north so at least he
had some kind of sense of direction but Bailey said at some point when she was talking to chance that he
said that he was heading south and maybe maybe he was just confused at that time
or maybe she misheard him of course police confirmed early on that chance had not returned to his home in morcroft
Wyoming authorities were conducting their own searches and friends and family of chances drove in from Wyoming
and South Dakota to help look for him but their efforts sadly were in vain the search has turned up no sign of chance
no sign of his personal items and no sign of his clothing or his cell phone after several days the family raised a
reward which eventually grew to $10,000 Chance's mom Dawn his brothers and Bailey and Baby Banks spoke to the media
and implored the public to relay any information Don said that chance went for a walk for a few hours to clear his
head but he would never have stayed away from his baby boy this long they say that this is not like him she said he
was a family man he worked hard he was responsible he paid the bills yeah it's not uncommon for people to get
in an argument maybe he wasn't in an argument with Bailey that night but he was definitely an argument and upset
about something so hey I'm going to clear my head that's pretty normal I would think
maybe not showing up the next morning a little abnormal but on top of that chance was recently laid off at his job
I believe there was 600 people at a Mining Company that would they laid off at their job but he got a new job that
he was supposed to start on that Monday at a propane company so this is a significant moment when he doesn't show
up to that job on Monday morning that that's that's a that's a pretty big red flag that there's something wrong mhm
well how about we dive into their lives a little bit before The Disappearance here Captain yeah chance was born on
December 3rd 1993 his parents are Everett and Dawn Englebert he has two younger brothers miles and clay and the
family is very close but there seems to have been some turmoil leading up to his
disappearance and we'll get into that but let's stick with happier times for now chance was particularly close with
his brothers according to his family these relationships that Chance's family says look there's no way this guy is
just walking off and leaving this life behind him his family Echoes what others are saying as well that he was very
responsible and would not walk out on his son on his obligations leaving Bailey and Banks high and dry now chance
was raised in Edgemont in South Dakota and calling him a Horseman is well it's an
understatement you can see Rodeo footage of him online riding bucking Broncos he
competed in rodeos while in high school he eventually earned a scholarship to a community college in Cheyenne Wyoming
for Rodeo writing he attended the school from 2012 to 2016 earning degrees in welding and diesel mechanics he rode
beback horses and Bulls for the college Rodeo team now his hobby outside of work
and riding was Demolition Derby he and his brothers love to work on cars and such and then track them in Adrenaline
fielded competitions as said he's a trained welder chance got a job at a coal mine in Gillette Wyoming in 2017
and this goes to show that he is responsible he had worked there since 2017 leading up to his disappearance in
late 2017 this is when he meets Bailey and the two had a quick courtship and an engagement before tying the knot in late
2018 they had a baby six months later this is Banks Bailey was only 20 years old when chance went missing so she's
quite young he's 25 the couple moved to morof Wyoming a few months earlier and had just bought a new house chance
continued working for the mine just before he went missing as the captain said this is a week before he goes
missing right he gets this bad news he is one of 580 workers abruptly laid off when black Jewel LLC closed two
coal mines without notice they they didn't give anybody any real notice here this is oh that's nice of them yeah well
this is because they filed for bankruptcy which was denied on July 1st so they intended to continue the
business and keep the employees however the motion was denied well chance was a young guy like he said he's 25 years old
handsome kid he he kind of reminds me of rip from Yellowstone we'll post pictures
of chance and and Bailey and their their kid on our social medias you can find all those Links at True Crime garage.com
and as the captain pointed out the family was shocked you know they're not shocked that he took off walking huff
and puff when he's angry but they were shocked when he didn't show up to start that new job at blakeman propane in
morof on Monday July 8th well my my first question when I was reading this was we we know what he was wearing we
have a pretty good description from Bailey of what he was wearing she even says it's like a grayish purple Wrangler
shirt she knew what Wrangler jeans he was wearing so when there's conflicting stories of whether he's wearing boots or
tennis shoes funny to me because she's saying well he's wearing this this this and then when you see him on that
surveillance footage you you can kind of pick pick out those items uh that he's wearing this is not golf attire but
there's pictures of him I don't think it's of that day but it's other times of him golfing and that's what he wore
golfing Wrangler shirt a Wrangler button-up shirt Wrangler jeans boots and a trucker hat well everybody golfs in
different attire if the course will allow you Jim McMahon golfs Barefoot so there you go I golf naked we need to
point out here too if if it was missed by anybody out there that by this point chance and
Bailey if you go back before the marriage they had been together for nearly two years at this point when he
disappeared and she is describing him as a supportive husband he's the bread winner he's taking care of her and now
their small family yeah Bailey currently wasn't working others paint a less Rosy
picture of the situation Chance's buddy DJ told um the vanish podcast that bayy and chance lived with him for a short
period of time he said that bayy and chance would argue quite a bit about stupid stuff is what he called it like
she thought he was talking to his mother too much or she would accuse him of doing stuff that DJ says he simply
wasn't doing and Chance's family agrees with this with this statement it sounds to me Captain like Bailey was little
difficult with chance uh from these different stories that we're hearing now of course with Chance missing
unfortunately he never showed up at his new workplace on July 8th according to everyone this was a very very bad sign
many of them had been holding out hope that chance had for whatever reason walked off and somehow made his way home
and would show up to work on Monday they said he simply was not that type of guy
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windows to the walls cheers everybody cheers captain now by the 12th of July keep in mind chance is missing for 6
days by this point the police said that they had covered a lot of ground in the search for him and struck out and we've
had several police and fire agencies including the Nebraska state patrol involved in the searches for chance
these searches were primarily in Northwest Terrytown and Southwest Scott Bluff ground searches covered everything
from the river's Banks Canyons under bridges abandoned trailers and even the Interiors of older cars at a local auto
dealer select portions of the national park were scoured including some Badland areas the state p Patrol helicopter
scanned over 100 m of ground the Nebraska state patrol airlink unit covered 280 mil in total sonar and K9
were used to search 10 lakes and ponds investigators also canvased neighborhoods in Terry town going door
too in all 2,400 Acres had been searched now per knop News 2 the Garing police chief said said quote we are going to be
transitioning from an actively searching phase to a phase focusing more on the investigation doing more with cell
phones interviews with family co-workers and other people in the lives of chance
Englebert end quote so Captain they are going to figure out if something else happened to chance and really hone in on
that at this point so as we continue to dig through Chance's life his family his
Social Circles and in the events before and after he went missing keep in mind that we are really dealing with only a
handful of possibilities here one chance walked off to start a new life never contacting anyone two chance took off
walking cuz he was pissed off and got lost or injured and passed away somewhere out there three Bailey and or
her family knows more about what happened but aren't talking maybe they are responsible or know who is and four
someone or someone's got to chance while he was out walking and did away with him
bro when he took off walking it wasn't like he had zero contact with anybody he made contact with his best friend Matt
Miller talked to him and was trying to get a ride back home mhm then Matt Miller contacts Chance's family and they
were trying to get a hold of him and and had some communication with him before the cell phone was turned off or went
dead and as far as this phase in the investigation goes Captain we know how this goes we've seen it before law
enforcement will review Chance's life his Social Circles and of course his finances police confirmed that his bank
card had not been used and later verified that there was never any unusual activity on Chance's Financial
accounts and police also began to investigate rumors and more outlandish theories one of these was that Bailey's
family was involved in Chance's disappearance as it was reported that a family friend had just poured concrete
at a property that they owned now that theory was quickly debunked Garing PD Officer Shawn West said quote in such
cases there are often rumors that circulate in the community but he said that actually police had no evidence
whatsoever that chance was the victim of Foul Play Chance's mother Dawn disagrees
saying that she felt that someone knows something about what happened to her son
well they've asked the lead investigator Brian eids about with the possibility to
chance meet with Foul Play and he said look we we're going to investigate it as such there's no evidence that says that
he did but there's no evidence that says that he didn't one of the Avenues police
went down in their investigation is one that they have tried to downplay probably to protect the and avoid
contributing to rumor and gossip but the police chief said that if chance did run
away he would not face any criminal charges quote there's no repercussions if that's what happened
and chance needed a break to decompress whatever there is no criminal charges he
has not committed a crime end quote at this point in our timeline though roughly 6 days into his disappearance
Chance's mother issues a statement about concerns that chance may have gone missing on purpose and then Baby Banks
posted the following on Facebook here's what happened according to Banks who is actually Bailey of course says hi my
name is Banks chance Englebert my dad went missing on July 6 2019 my daddy had a couple of rough
weeks he was a laid off at the mine though he had a new job starting the next Monday on Saturday July 6 he was
golfing with some family members at the Bayard Golf Course Daddy got upset about
a remark made about his job and he was one of hundreds laid off from the mine providing for Mom and I was important to
him and I think his pride was at stake Daddy called Mom Bailey to get him at the golf course when we got back to my
great-grandparents house mommy and I went in to pack our stuff because daddy wanted to go back home to Morra daddy
didn't come inside but took off walking around 7:20 daddy talked to Mom a couple of
times on the phone from phone records we know Daddy called a couple of friends we
were told he asked one to come get him he was going to torington but friend said he was unable to he had two
unanswered calls from his mom that is the extent of his phone records before his phone was shut off he was spotted on
camera at 7:48 by weathercraft Roofing in Garing Nebraska daddy maybe was on a ring camera at
801 by Terry Boulevard in Terrytown Nebraska this is debatable at 9:08 he sent a weird text to his aunt Katie and
about 9:15 his phone was shut off again note times are approximate that was the last text this is the last time Dad was
heard from where are you daddy did you just walk away from me and Mom I don't think so did somebody pick you up we
don't know did you run into some trouble I wish we knew does somebody know something I'm sure of it wherever you
are Daddy Mom and I want you home there are so many people that love you wow that's a smart baby but let's start off
with this golfing event there's some speculation that this event never even happened but I'd like to know more
details about the argument what was said it seems like it was something pretty simple that his new job wasn't going to
pay as much as his old job but it seems like a weird comment to blow up about that may be and and a lot of that sounds
to be at least what we're being told right because we don't know the exact argument how it went down and and who
was all involved now of according to Bailey we do have a a pretty lengthy statement that I can give here from
Bailey this is what she told uh the vanished and it has more details about according to her at least the mood that
chance was in during that time frame and again this is quoting from the vanished
that says we were just we were just down visiting our family and the guys all decided that they wanted to go golfing
so him my brother-in-law and my dad Dad they went down to Bear Golf Course and drank a lot and golfed a lot and I don't
know had fun he called me and we were supposed to meet some friends for dinner that night and he was in a super good
mood so I drove out there to the golf course I got the baby out of the car and I started walking over to where everyone
was sitting and he stood up being chance he being chance he stood up and said get
the [ __ ] back in the car we're leaving so I thought that was really weird so I
was kind of looking at everyone and they were looking at me and everyone is just
super confused we left and I canceled plans with my friends and he had misunderstood something that somebody
had said about the mine shutting down cuz in Nebraska the minimum wage I mean it's hard to make really good money in
Nebraska even if you're super skilled you're not going to be paid worth a [ __ ]
compared to what you are in Wyoming and so they made a comment about at least he
wasn't making minimum wage by Nebraska standards he was making good money and he would just and he just took it the
wrong way so he was upset about that and he really wanted to go home and he had been drinking just enough that there was
no talking any sort of sense into him so I just kind of went with it and I was like okay cool we'll go home so so I
drove to my grandparents in Garing Nebraska where we had been staying and I went in to pack my bag we pulled into
the driveway and he said no I said I wanted to go home and I was like yeah just hold on I'm going to go grab our
bags and we'll leave well he took off walking and I ran the baby inside and handed him to my grandma and ran back
outside and I started driving around looking for him yeah the podcast the vanish Marissa Jones she she does really
good work so if you're into missing person cases make sure you check out her podcast Bailey said that chance had a
temper and when they argued in the past he would leave and he would go to the shop to work on his demo derby cars and
have a beer obviously in this situation Captain he's quite a ways away from going and working on cars and having a
beer yeah but he he was determined to get back there she said he was the type to get pissed off but then get over it
and he was not the type to Harbor resentment Chance's friends agree with this statement but they all agree it was
also totally out of character for him not to come back now bayy was eager and I this is one thing that we've seen
continually in the course of this case and over the couple of years since he has gone missing bayy has dismissed
media reports that it was actually her that chance was mad at you know she has said time and time again the argument
was not between her and chance that this whatever happened went down at the golf
course and it sounds to me like it went down in a relatively short period of time because everything's going good and
I I think it's key to point out here that Bailey is saying I went to pick him up because he called me he was in such a
good mood that implies to me that the plan was not for her to pick him up that that
he would just return with the guys after they were done golfing but those plans changed when he calls and they decide
you know what bayley's going to go pick him up it's roughly about a 20 minute drive is from the grandparents house to
the golf course right so assuming that she receives that call while she's at the grandparents house within 20 minutes
that that mood changes from super good mood to hey get the [ __ ] back in the car
we're leaving this is what's difficult too is we don't know what was said or maybe what he thought was implied by a
comment and it seems to me hey look get back in the car we're leaving I'm done with this [ __ ] this guy has a lot on his
plate anyways I mean he just lost a career job now he's needs to find another job because he needs to support
his family or he wishes to support his family he might have left out some details when he talked to Bailey because
maybe there's something that was said that would also offend her and he didn't want to bring her into the argument it's
not out of line to think that maybe Bailey was like Hey look calm down they probably didn't mean that maybe you
misunderstood them everybody knows how it is when you're a little mad and we could assume at this point he's a little
drunk or a little intoxicated and when somebody tells you hey what why don't you just chill out or
why don't you calm down for whatever reason that always for me anyways is gasoline on the fire oh you want me to
chill out now I'm going to get even more mad so maybe his walking away from the situation was I already got an argument
with her family I don't want to get in an argument with her right and I I'm not going to lie man I have a difficult time
believing that there was no argument between chance and Bailey inside the car she says that there wasn't and that that
he wasn't mad at her I can believe that he wasn't mad at her but I have a hard time believing that a 20-minute Drive
there's not some words exchanged and maybe by the end of the drive yes he wasn't mad at her at the start of the
drive but probably just mad at the whole situation by the time they get to her grandparents house right and again if
she's saying to him hey I I think maybe you misunderstood in a sense you're going hey you're sticking up for them so
yeah I could see him being pretty snarky towards her by the end of that drive and
want to throw something else out there too you know we we mentioned some conflicting stories and I'll give some
opinions on that here in just a second but that that statement is important to read from the vanish podcast because I
believe that interview was just about four months or so after he went missing but then we have an interview with dine
where Bailey tells Dateline and this is a quote quote he gets mad he'll walk to cool down but I didn't think he'd go far
he just just kept walking until I couldn't see him I didn't think he was serious end quote so that seems to imply
a different scenario right right when when you hear the one statement to the vanish podcast of oh you know I went
inside he said he wanted to leave I went inside told him I'm going to grab our things and we'll go and then later her
statement to dat line is well he just kept walking until I couldn't see him anymore and and that that's my first
issue my first issue is the one statement makes it sound like you're in the house when he leaves the next
statement makes it sound like you were watching him walk away one statement makes it seem like there was no argument
he wasn't mad at you the other one when you're watching and walk away seems like
it's implied that he's also upset with you so it it's uh you know she's been getting a lot of grief lately because
she hasn't been doing interviews and you know look when your husband goes missing
and there's argument with your family people are going to question your demeanor they're going to question the
details of your words well and there in lies the problem with this case if if Bailey and her family's being
100% authentic and honest then there's no concerns to be had but you question all of that and you don't know we don't
because we don't know these individuals we don't know her family it's hard for us to sit here and go okay well that
Rings true to me and let's just roll with that something else happened to this guy now I do want to point out
something here too that I think must be said in bayley's defense in regard to these two interviews where what she says
it seemingly paints a different picture MH to be clear on my opinion of of her two statements yes it's possible that
this is to two conflicting statements however I also believe that there is a possibility that these statements are
completely truthful they're just lacking detail to connect the two stories right
you know it could be something as simple as yes she she left out a couple details
in one version and a couple details in the other version but there's also a possibility that both are not completely
truthful and maybe she's sugarcoating the situation maybe there were some other words that were exchanged you know
I could see a scenario where they're arguing in the car on the way back and she says no
we're staying he says we're going home to Mor Croft she says no we're staying we're just staying one more night and
we'll leave tomorrow M and this is when it comes to push and pull here who's in charge and we've all seen this we
witnessed it as children with our parents I've experienced it as an adult as well there's no really clear
definition of who is in charge in these situations when Mom wants one thing and dad wants the other and so do we have a
situation where he says we're going home she says no we're staying another night
we'll leave in the morning get over it grow up She takes the keys and the baby inside and now he's left in the car or
left standing in the driveway with two options I can either tip my hat and Ride walk on out of this [ __ ] or I can go in
to the grandparents house where I said I wasn't going where I said I was not returning to well Colonel you have a
foul filthy mouth is what you have on you let me throw another wrinkle into the story originally they were supposed
to go out on a couple's weekend with Chance's friend Matt and his girlfriend they're going to go to a cabin in South
Dakota and go catfishing at the last minute chance caught up Matt and said hey now we're going to Bailey's family's
house and even we should point out too even if the argument did turn to him against her and her against him that
doesn't necessarily mean that bayy did anything nefarious or her family has there's still a a very plausible
situation that he storms off and the old huff and puff and something bad happened
to him be it the elements or be something else you know some kind of run in with
trouble uh when he's attempting to make it back to his home in in morof what I do see here though that is very clear to
me with the phone calls that he makes with his actions I don't know if this is a situation where he's going to get over
it that he's going to cool off after an hour like he would if they were home this seems to me like he's he's make
he's making his stand this is his Hill that he's willing to die on and he's going to go you know what I'm going to
find my own way back home and when she is done with her family she'll come home and I'll already be here and we should
also point out too something that's very obvious in this situation but it seems to be kind of kind of like brushed over
a little bit like it's always mentioned in different in in some of the articles I shouldn't say all the Articles it's
always mentioned in some of the Articles and it's always mentioned in some of the
the the news and media media coverage but it's always kind of glossed over Chance's family and Bailey's Family
did not get along nope they were not like a united front of you know what what what some people are what some
people experience where when you marry into a family be it the the husband or wife or what have you you then become
part of that family no this was this was the Bailey camp and Chance's Camp the other thing too that's weird going on
here even though chance was very close with his family and we know that even by some of the statements of the friends
that that bayy would get on to him about talking to his mother too much even though he seems to be very close with
his family it doesn't seem like he was close or getting along with his family at the time that he went missing right
so there's a lot of stuff going on in these two young people's lives he's 25 she's 20 they got a new house new baby
he's been laid off he's getting starting a new job and it sounds like she was getting ready to start uh some type of
schooling at this time too now according to Bailey her and some of her family went
looking for chance that night and as we said that night and the next morning they are calling chance and everyone
they know to try to locate him or someone who has seen him or spoke to him then they report him missing to police
now the family has given bayley's family has given some more information about the timeline Bailey last spoke with
chance on the phone at 7:46 p.m. on Saturday night after he walked off according to her he told her he was
walking South the captain pointed this out earlier heading toward Kimble as we know he was actually walking north and
west instead he apparently did not want Bailey to find him or he's already lost at this point yeah or he misspoke or she
misheard him chance was on the phone for the next hour approximately calling people asking for a ride he said he was
walking to torington Wyoming this would be about a 35m walk I don't know you about you Captain but I'm not in the
business of conducting many 35m walks well once I do a round of golf I like like to pound a bunch of beers and then
get about a 40 mile walk in getting some verbal altercations and and walk a good
35 miles I do want to pause for a second cuz we we talked about the tension within the family I I just want to talk
about that for just a second cuz one from what I've been told when they got together because she was she was younger
than he was the what I was told is that she initially lied to about her age then they start the
relationship there's conflicts right away she doesn't like his family again I I don't like any
relationship look we've seen this in many cases it's a tactic of abusers to separate their partner from their
family and it doesn't matter if it's the wife doing it to the husband or the husband doing it to the wife I I don't
like those situations I think your spouse if if you have good family members that love you and care about you
your partner should always be supportive of you having a great relationship doesn't mean
that that the you know doesn't mean that you have to have a great relationship with them but you
should be supportive of your partner having a good relationship with their family when they got married she made a
big fuss and there was a big blow up because she didn't want his family there now I just think
that's pretty ridiculous and but again I think some of this Ridiculousness is coming because of their age and their
maturity or lack thereof and but again you're commenting on situations that we we just don't know we can't claim to
fully understand I I get it that she didn't want his family there but who's to say he didn't want her family there
right um this these are details we just don't know and we could you could look at this through two different lenses one
that maybe suggests that she is trying to separate him from his family but there's also the other version where he
seems to whatever have reason for whatever reasons not be close with his family leading up to his disappearance
and that may have nothing to do with Bailey I I don't believe that it has nothing to do with Bailey but but
there's a chance that it has very little to do with her and maybe more so with the Dynamics of the relationship that he
has with his parents and and brothers at the time yeah good point and as the captain pointed out one of the friends
that chance called that night was Matt Miller Matt was Chance's best man at his wedding Matt gave an interview that was
informative he says that chance called him that night and Matt was in Gillette Wyoming at the time and chance told him
that he had gotten into a fight with his in-laws and he was walking down the road
toward torington and needed a ride home Matt says that chance did not sound drunk or disoriented but he did sound
angry Matt says he had been drinking all day and could not go to pick up chance right but told chance that he would make
some calls then he calls Dawn which is Chance's mother and she said she was going to call Chance's Uncle John and JN
was going to go get him so then Matt the friend tries to call Chance back to let
him know hey your uncle John is going to come out and get you right but now he's
getting no answer when he's calling chance this to me seems to be the Line in the Sand in our timeline here Captain
where we know and I think for a very good reason one we know chance reached out to this
person for help he seems determined to get out of the area he calls his buddy for
help it seems to me of all the calls I believe that there are people in Chance's life at this time at the day
that he went missing that if they called his phone or text him he may not respond
to right but not Matt when Matt is calling him back he is going to answer if he is able to he will answer that
call because he has asked Matt for a ride Matt his best man tells him I can't pick you up but I will find someone to
do so so this is a call that really kind of kind of scares me kind of shakes me here when I think of what is going on
and what could have happened to to chance it seems to me like some whatever went down it started to get bad between
the time he gets off the phone with Matt and the time that Matt is trying to get
a hold of chance later to let him know hey your uncle John is is going to come and try to pick you up but again like we
said Chance had been drinking I look I'm not saying Matt's a liar by any means I
think uh the interviews that Matt has done you I applaud him for taking the time and to try to share his thoughts on
um on this case he seems to be show that he very much cares about his missing friend and just wants answers just like
the so many people in this case um i' go as far as to say I like the cut of Matt's jib but I agree with you when
Matt he reaches out to Matt when Matt reaches back out he doesn't answer now I don't think he
didn't answer because he didn't want to I think at that point he's probably not capable or the phone is dead yes phone
is dead you know there is some speculation on whether the phone got shut off or not I don't think Chance is
going to reach out for help and then turn his phone off that doesn't make any sense but but back to what I was saying
is when he says well chance didn't sound drunk look your perceptions of things are impaired if you've been drinking all
day so and I would like to know just how long that conversation was it doesn't seem like it was that long of a
conversation so if somebody's mad maybe that mask the little bit of intoxication because that
footage that you see where he takes that 90° turn you know what video I'm talking
about because of that video is how they kind of conducted their search it's the last known sighting of chance mhm when
he turns his body on a 90° angle he then has to like reset his balance he almost
almost like when he the first initial step to me he looks that like he lost his balance
almost I had a State Trooper look at that video Never didn't tell him that the person was missing didn't tell the
per didn't tell the state trooper that this guy had been drinking at all and he would just all he said to me is if I was
doing a sobriety test and somebody made a movement like that that that would you know be a a big
Point against them so I think in that video it's hard to tell I mean you can see him walk for a decent amount of
distance but to me he still seems intoxicated well and that certainly will play into the possibilities of what
could have happened to chance because you know we have everybody including Matt that is telling us look you know
this guy was into hunting he's an Outdoorsman he's a rodeo rider you have to be pretty damn physically fit to ride
in the rodeo and he says that you know I don't think that he would have fallen into the river because he was surefooted
because he was an Outdoorsman but again you factor in the possibility that he was intoxicated and then later the bad
weather that's going to come in to the area I think you have to leave that as a as a possibility here in this situation
now Chance's mother told the story from her perspective saying that on Saturday afternoon July 6th the day he went Miss
Chance's dad Everett text chance to tell him that there was a package at their house for him and chance responds saying
that they would be back in town on Sunday as he was starting a new job on Monday now we know that Matt Miller says
he receives the call from chance and tells chance hey I'm going to try to get or tells us anyway that he is going to
try to get in touch with Chance's family to see if he can get somebody to go pick
him up because hey I've been drinking all day this destination is several hours away I
can't go get my friend well Dawn when she tells us what happened that night she says yes she received the call from
from Matt and tells Matt yeah we'll reach out to him I guess but I'm not sure if he'll want to talk to us meaning
chance may not want to talk to us this is his mother saying that but either his uncle or somebody will reach out and try
to get to him so this to me means that there was some kind of tension or bad blood going on within
chance and his family because his mother's own words are I'm not sure that he would want to talk to us and so she
had the uncle and his aunt all text him and call him to see about picking him up and then she says
you know he wouldn't answer any calls or text from from the family now if that was his
his by choosing that's one thing we simply don't know or if he was unable to for any number of reasons that's a
possibility as well do we know what the interaction was between Chance's family that night and
Bailey yes and there was interaction between them which I mean could be surprising to some at this point given
the difficulties in that relationship but we do know that Dawn and Everett tried to call and text their son when
they get no response they then called his friend and neighbor this guy's name is Larry Larry calls Bailey because you
know he's her neighbor as well so he has her information then Bailey calls Chance's
parents and so we know there was some interaction between Bailey and Chance's parents that night she tells them that
they were looking for chance but she also told them that you know he walked away on his own and she expected him
back after he cooled down then she calls back around 11:00 p.m. to tell Chance's parents that they
had given up looking for him because there was a bad storm in the area the next morning Bailey calls the engelberts
again this time she wants to know had they heard from him she told them that she was going to file a missing person's
report and of course no they had not heard from him that night they talked again this is now Sunday night and
Bailey was crying and said quote I just know he's coming home in a body bag end quote that's according to Dawn according
to Chance's mother yeah red flag Chance's parents then drive to Garing to help search for their son Chance's
mother Dawn says that just a little more than 48 hours after Bailey reported Chance missing to police biley was
asking the police for a death certificate and Captain Rogers with the GPD just kind of looked at her he was
surprised and he said Bailey we don't work with that kind of stuff he goes on to say in my heart I still feel we're
going to find him I'm treating this like my brother's lost and we're going to do
everything we can to find him now Bailey is pretty young so overreacting to a strange and stressful
situation might be expected but mentioning body bags and death certificates within days of chance
going missing major red flags here Captain yeah and you know Brian eids the lead investigator questioned her about
this and basically what he thought was Bailey was not working at the time so maybe somebody suggested to her hey uh
declare him dead get a death certificate and then you would get insurance and um
you could get Social Security benefits or something to that degree it's very strange that you're asking for that
right away it's almost like you know that he's not coming back it's almost like you know that nobody's going to
find him um and then Brian eids also said when she asked for that that's a huge red
flag uh but in her defense Brian eids has also said that she's been very Cooperative with law enforcement uh very
respectful to him but look we've seen this time and time again sometimes investigators or journalists or whoever
they uh they get one pulled right over their eyes because somebody is treating them nice or with respect and just kind
of filling out the timeline for that night here Captain Chance's Aunt Katie a family friend not a blood relative but
she's referred to as Aunt Katie text chance and chance did did did text her back this was at 908 p.m. now Chance's
text said and bear with me because this is a little weird I'm going to try to describe it best I can his text to his
aunt says I'm and then it has no emotion yellow face emoji capital i b d e space capital s e
RR really and then capital G so the end of that text is capital s e r and then the word really attached to those
letters followed by a capital G that's the text I'm yellow face emoji some strange letters really G and that's it
yeah it's supposed to be like a smiley face but instead of a smile it's a straight lip you know straight mouth the
Emoji yeah so so she responds to this text saying you are what are you okay and she receives no answer I think the
Emoji is supposed to represent uh like annoyed I'm annoyed and then like you said i b d e s e r e a l l y g again I I
should be able to find an image that I could share on our social media so you can see it
but I mean the no Emoji or the no emotion yellow face emoji just like the bizarre letters that
follow may not have been intended to be part of the text at all it's really difficult to say to to make heads or
Tales of this text and we know that the aunt responds immediately back and then she receives no
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On Saturday, July 6th 2019 - 25 Year old Chance Englebert vanished after an argument with his family. Chance was a new father and husband. His family says he is incredibly responsible and would never leave his son. Chance was spotted on surveillance cameras that evening but has not been seen since. He is described as 5’ 9” tall with a medium build. He is caucasian with sun-lightened brown hair. At the time of his disappearance he had a mustache and goatee. Unfortunately his family suspects foul play. If you think you have seen Chance or may know what happened to him please call the Gering Police Department @ 308-436-5089 or contact GPD through Facebook.

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Brief Summary

Chance Englebert went missing after an argument with his wife during a family visit in Nebraska, prompting extensive search efforts with no results.

Key points

Missing Person Case of Chance Engelberg. 25-year-old Chance Engelberg goes missing after a family visit. His last known whereabouts raise questions.
The Disappearance of Chance Englebert. Chance goes missing after a golf outing, leaving his family and friends in shock.
Search Efforts Intensify. Police and agencies search extensively for Chance, covering over 2,400 acres.
Conflicting Stories Arise. Bailey's statements about Chance's mood and actions raise questions about the events leading to his disappearance.
Tension with Chance's Family. Bailey's interactions with Chance's family reveal underlying tensions and conflicts.
Bailey's Disturbing Prediction. Bailey expresses a chilling belief about Chance's fate shortly after he goes missing.

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