(soft music) - Hi, guys. Welcome back to my channel. So happy to have you here with me again. If you are new, welcome. So today when I am recording this, I record about a week in advance. So I'm recording this on Sunday, May 8th, which is Mother's Day, and that's what makes today's video even more exciting to do. I get to include interview clips today from Chance Englebert's mother. Today, I'm gonna be
talking with you all about the unsolved disappearance
of a 25 year old father named Chance Englebert, and other important people in his life are also going to be helping
me to explain this case fully. I know I always say this, but please be extra cautious about the things that you
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in the fundraiser so far. So let's go ahead and jump right in here. So this is Chance Leslie Englebert. He was born on December 2nd, 1993 to his parents, Dawn and Everett. He has two younger
brothers, Miles and Clay, and the three of them
were raised out on a ranch just outside of Edgemont, South Dakota. - Chance was my big
brother and best friend. He was my mentor. And just about everything we would do, he pretty much did everything the same. We always hunt and fish and building cars or driving in therapies. - And Chance loved living
out in the country. From a young age, he really
seemed to do well there. And he was always interested in becoming a bareback rodeo rider. As a fifth grader, he
was actually too young to start as a bareback horse rider, so he started riding bulls instead. He did this for about three years, and in eighth grade he
was finally old enough to move up to rodeo bareback riding. - Watching that bull go last night, and he was just a sweetheart and I was really wanting to draw him. And then today he kinda came out there and he is a little trickier to ride. He kind of went out there to cross or really wanting to sit me back but cowboyed out and making the whistle. - Feel pretty good to
get that buckle, right? - Yep. The first one from college. - Let's talk about that. What's that like to finally have one in your hands? - Oh, it feels amazing. I've been struggling so
much in bareback riding and I just started riding
bulls again this year. And just to overcome what
I've accomplished this year is just amazing, and I'm
just proud of myself, proud of my team for
helping me in everything. - And Chance's love for the rodeo was fully supported by his parents. His mother, Dawn, was always
there to support Chance with everything that he
did related to rodeo. - When people ask me to explain Chance, that's when it gets hard. It's hard to explain something
that's bigger than light. And he lit up a room
since he was a little boy. As a baby, he was just
beautiful and so good. And he was so smart, and he
knew he wanted to be a cowboy. He was a great kid, a great brother. He would do anything for anybody. He believed in paying it forward. I was so blessed, so blessed
to get to spend so much time. With all three of the
boys, Chance was the shy, could be a little awkward at times, but just a great all around kid. I just wish he would've
known how good he was, how talented he was. He kind of lacked in
the confidence of that, but he was a very talented,
hard working young man. - And not only did he love rodeo, he was also really good at it. He was very successful in the
years that he spent riding, and he actually got a
full time scholarship to Laramie County Community College. Chance was incredibly athletic and also a very fearless type of guy. - He's pretty wild, but that's
kind of the way I grew up is being a little wild and bareback horse. And that's why I love doing it. And so it's a lot of fun. - [Interviewer] All right. The year so far is going pretty good, huh? - Yeah. So far. Oh, I don't know. It can always be a little better. I'm kinda traveling the
middle of the pack I guess, but this will help me
out for the standings. And I think I'm sitting
forth now, doing good. - But if there was anything
that he loved more than rodeo, it was his family. He loved his family and
would do anything for them. And in one of his
interviews, he was asked, what do you like to do
when you're not competing? And he said, I love to
be on the family ranch, helping my parents with everything from fencing to trucking with my dad. I have to be outdoors, and
the city drives me crazy. So anything outdoors I love. So eventually he went off to college at Laramie County Community. and he studied welding
and diesel mechanics to pursue work similar to his father. His interest in welding actually led him to take up a new hobby, which was working on
demolition derby cars, which I know absolutely
nothing about this, but this was really important to Chance. And eventually he left the rodeo world and spent more and more of his time working on these cars with his family and some local friends. And that's how he actually met
one of his closest friends, Matt Miller. The two of them worked a job site together where they actually both worked on mining. But they also did a lot
outside of work together, they hung out all the time. They would go hunting, fishing, and all the people that
were close with Chance say that he was one of
the hardest working people that they knew. People said that he was the type of person that wouldn't complain about working. He was always willing to
work sun up to sun down. And even when he ran outta work to do, he would find a useful
way to use his time. He was a very active person. And he was also very positive, he didn't spend a lot
of his time complaining according to his friends and family. - Chance and I met in 2016 when he hired on Belle Ayr mine. He was extremely nervous and had failed his weld
test to get hired on, but they brought him on anyhow, which was a good thing. We spent a lot of night
shifts getting him trained up on procedures and how to set his welder and all that good stuff. and he did finally pass, And that kind of kicked
off our friendship. Throughout the next three
years I worked with him, we got along really well. He was the type of friend you
could call up at any time, and he would do his best to help you out. Didn't matter what he had
going on, it seemed like. - So let's go back to October of 2017. Matt and Chance actually had a plan to drive to ScottsBluff, Nebraska to pick up two derby cars
that they were going to buy and then obviously work on together. But that wasn't the only reason. It was also a good opportunity for Chance to meet this girl that he
had been talking to online in Scottsbluff named Bailey. Bailey has stopped making public comments about Chance online.
But back when she did, she did an interview
with The Vanished Podcast and she kind of explained
that she always knew who Chance was even before
she actually met him. She was aware of him, I guess one of her
ex-boyfriends used to do rodeo with Chance's younger brother, so that's kind of how she knew him. But it wasn't until October of 2017, when they finally really started talking and eventually met up. And at the time, his family
actually kinda gave him shit because he was meeting this girl who was a few years younger than him, but he didn't seem to mind. I mean, he was super
excited to meet Bailey and also very nervous. And as soon as the two of them met, they hit it off and they
started dating right away. Bailey has mentioned in interviews before that Chance was a wonderful
man, and he always has been. She described him as having a bigger heart than anyone she'd ever met. Bailey was first introduced
to the Englebert family in mid-November of 2017. And the two of them seemed
really happy at this point. And pretty quick, just
after a year of dating, in October of 2018, the two of
them decided to get married. And they had a very small wedding, very tight knit group. And it was on the
anniversary of them dating. Now, when I talked to
Dawn about the wedding, she said that she was made to feel like she was not supposed to be there. Of course, keep in mind that's the way that she perceived it, but
she did not feel welcome. But she decided she wanted to
go to support her oldest son. And she said that this
caused some tension. And according to an
interview given by Matt, Chance's friend, there was a small argument that broke out over some of Chance's
family members attending. - I was under the impression that Bailey didn't want
Chance's family at the wedding. And there was a big backlash to that during that night after everybody got to drinking and whatnot. - Okay. So Chance had had
his family at the wedding and you were told that she
maybe was not happy about that, and there was some type of
fight that occurred around that? Okay. So it sounds like
there might have been some tension with the
families kind of early on. - Yes. - And according to Chance's mother, Dawn, the two of them, her and Bailey, had a fine relationship
when they first met, it was a positive experience. So she was confused about
where this kind of coldness that she was feeling was coming from. She said, in her opinion, things felt like they started to change as soon as Chance and Bailey got married. Now, Dawn is a very hands on mother. She's always been close with
her sons, especially Chance. And him being married was not gonna change the way that she had always cared for him. And I guess things got even more tense after Bailey and Chance announced that they were pregnant
with their first son. The pregnancy itself really
wasn't a shock to their family. I mean, they knew that
Chance wanted to be a father as soon as he could. And they were very happy for him. And they actually, at first
felt like having the baby could be an opportunity for them to kind of smooth things over with Bailey and her family, maybe they could all come
together for the child. So they were all feeling
really good about it. And Chance was so ready to be a father, he was so eager for his son to arrive. He couldn't wait to do
everything with him, from simple things like
being on the ranch, eventually bonding over
rodeo maybe, or cars. He was just very excited
to see what the future with his son would be like. And that day finally came
for him on April 4th, 2019, when their son, Banks, was born. - So it was my birthday
and they had snuck out and went and got me a present and a card. And they were both sitting
there with their little smiles and you could tell they
were a little nervous and something was up. I opened the card and
it said, "Don't be mad. "You knew you always
wanted to be a grandma." And I, of course, was
ecstatic and started laughing. And I was like, well, we knew
it was coming sooner later. And Chance said, "Well,
that was a pretty good gift "for your birthday, wasn't it?" And he was a very hands on. He went to probably most of her doctor's appointments with her. In that three months, he
was probably the best dad I've ever seen, and we
were so proud of him. It's really unfair that
he didn't get to spend the time he should have been, watching Banks grow up and be
the daddy he could have been. - I was at first shocked
when I heard Chance was gonna be a father. I just didn't think it was about that time to start having kids or even
thinking about having kids. But I was overall excited
and happy for him. And I could tell that
he was excited and happy and was ready to take it on. - Around this time,
Chance worked full-time to provide for their family. And Bailey actually was in
full-time nursing school. Chance worked for a local
coal mining company for years, and eventually saved up enough money to buy them a house in Moorcroft, Wyoming. Now, Moorcroft is a small town. They have a population
of less than a thousand. Chance was really
excited about this house. He was very proud of it, and he felt like this
was the perfect place for him, Banks and Bailey. Some of Chances closest
friends have said in interviews that Bailey and Chance's marriage came with a lot of
highs and a lot of lows. Like they loved each other strongly, but then those lows were
really hard for them. Bailey back in The
Vanished Podcast interview said that their marriage was
great, that they rarely fought. And she said, if they did fight, it could normally be
resolved pretty quickly. But this of course does contradict what other people have said
about their relationship. So who really knows? So before they even moved
into their house in Moorcroft, they actually lived with
Chance's friend, DJ, for a little while. And DJ has said that Bailey and him would get in a lot of fights, and that she often would accuse
him of things he didn't do, and also sometimes she would
blow things out of proportion. But again, who really knows? It's hard to judge someone
else's relationship, right? But the relationship was rough enough that Dawn actually offered to put them through relationship counseling. She even told Bailey once
that if she was so upset with Chance, maybe she
should just leave him. She says that there were times where Bailey would just call her up and just be screaming about how frustrated she was with Chance, or
complaining about something he did. And she really pushed
them to go to counseling, but they didn't. Now of course, all I have to go off of are Bailey's previous interviews. Like I said, she has stopped
doing interviews at this point. And I find it really difficult
to get a full picture of someone's relationship without being able to
interview them as well, or have more interviews out there. So just keep that in mind. But Dawn told me that
she was very concerned about their relationship and
how often they were fighting, how bad things had become. So she, especially in July of 2019, really pushed them to
try to sort things out. But Chance really seemed to
be kind of tired of her help. He'd also been going through a
really tough time that summer because he and 600 others
had been recently laid off and his friend Matt was
also one of those people who lost their job. So Chance and Matt were
both looking for new jobs around this time. And Banks was very young at that point. So he knew he had to find something quick. He was a new dad and
he knew that he needed to find something, even if it meant not making as much money as he was before, he just had to get something. So both Chance and Matt
ended up finding new jobs in the propane industry. Their start date was
Monday, July 8th, 2019, and both of them were very eager to start this new opportunity. The job wasn't starting
until after 4th of July, which meant he and Matt
had 4th of July free. And they were very excited about that. And their original plan was
to go hunting and fishing at Chance's family ranch. However Chance ended up getting in a fight with his mom that week. It was at this point that he told her that she needed to lay off, she needed to stop meddling
in his relationship. He felt like he just couldn't
handle her constant feedback. And so when they had this argument, he actually told Dawn he wanted a week off from even speaking to her. This was especially hard for
her because she loves her son, and the two of them
spoke normally every day. But she said she respected his boundaries, no matter how difficult it was. - Everybody wants to know
what the fight was about with Chance and I. We had two young girls in our lives and things had been
said that I was talking about one behind the other one's back. And I was always so careful on that. I didn't do things like that. If anything, I said about
Bailey that weekend, I would've said to Bailey herself, and most likely already had. Bailey always accused
Chance of cheating on her. There was always a talk of that. I'm not sure when he would've had time to cheat on her, honestly, especially after they found
out they were expecting because he worked overtime all the time. Anytime that kid could get
overtime, he was working. He never came to the ranch by himself, he never did anything without Bailey. So I don't really know when
there was a whole lot of time. And he told me that night, I
have never cheated on my wife. So I believe from October on,
he was very faithful to her. I don't know what happened
between them meeting and marrying. I'm not
gonna sugarcoat anything. I don't know what he
would've done or had done. So that all just escalated. And one of the last things
Chance had said to me is give me the week to work on my marriage and stay out of it. And I said, anything you
need I'm here for you. The hardest, longest week of my life, and it wasn't anything that other families haven't gone through. We honestly didn't fight much, our family just didn't. We'd go to bed and wake
up and laugh at things. We just didn't fight. So this was very hard on our whole family. - So obviously because
they weren't speaking and Chance wanted a break, Bailey and him decided
not to go to their ranch that weekend. The Englebert family
ranch is in South Dakota. And instead Chance and
Bailey, so not Matt, were going to take Banks
to Gering, Nebraska to visit Bailey's family. I guess Matt was able to make other plans, there were no hard feelings, and they went separate
ways for the holiday. So the drive from Moorcroft to Gering is just about four hours. And the three of them drove out to Bailey's grandparents' house, where they were invited
to stay for the weekend. So on the morning of Saturday, July 6th, Chance talks to a few
members of his family, including his father. And he talks to them
about how he's so excited to start his job on that upcoming Monday. And on this call, his dad
tells him that he has a package waiting for him at their
house in South Dakota. So Chance says that he's
gonna come by the next day, July 7th and pick it up. Then later that afternoon
Chance goes golfing with his father-in-law
and his brother-in-law. And then later that day, he and Bailey had plans to go meet some friends
of hers for dinner. Bailey said that she spoke to
Chance on the phone that day, while he was out and she
said he was in a great mood. And she said, because he
was in such a good mood, and because it was a nice day, she decided to bring her son, Banks, out to the golf course to see his father and to see her dad and her brother. But by the time that she arrived, Chance's mood had changed drastically. She stated that the first
thing that he said to her, when she got there, was, "Get the fuck back in
the car, we're leaving." Now, it seems his anger
was related to a comment made by either Bailey's
father or Bailey's brother about him making less
money at his new job. The exact wording isn't known, but that is according to Bailey
from previous interviews. She also said that this was something that Chance took the wrong way. Personally, I can see how
he took it the wrong way. That would be very hurtful. So I guess when they
all got back in the car, he told Bailey that he wanted
to go back home right away. He didn't wanna stay at
her grandparents anymore. But Bailey tried to convince him to stay. She drove him back to
her grandparents' house, but she said that he had consumed alcohol while he was out at the golf course and it made it difficult
to reason with him. And she said, when she
pulled in the driveway of her grandparents' house, he said he wanted to go home, home, not back to her grandparents' house. He wanted to go back to Wyoming. He didn't wanna spend
more time with her family. So she said she was
gonna go into the house and pack up their bags. So they pull up to her grandparents' house in the driveway around 7:00 PM. And she says that instead
of going inside to pack, Chance, starts to walk off. And she says, she grabs
Banks outta the car seat runs inside, gives him to her grandmother, and then as soon as she comes back out, Chance is already gone. She said, at first she
wasn't too concerned. She said it was very typical
of him to take a walk and kind of blow off
steam, think about things. And again, this is all according to Bailey from The Vanished Podcast. She said she then hops in her car and starts looking for him. She wanted to know where he was. So she says, she drives
around looking for him. She made several attempts to
call him and he didn't answer. So eventually there was
a big storm coming in, and she decides to go back home. Now this is key. It has been reported that Bailey said that she
spoke to Chance on the phone around 7:45 PM, but that he hung up on her and she was unable to
reach him after that point. And in this call Chance
supposedly told her that he was walking south towards Kimball. And she also said that
based on their past fights, she figured he would just
come home eventually. And she also noted that they
did not fight in the car. She said his anger was purely directed at whatever family member
made this comment to him. And again, it's not clear
who exactly made the comment. So we do know that Chance did
make a phone call at 7:23 PM. And this was not to Bailey,
but to his friend, Matt. And when he talked to him, he explained that he was very upset. He explained the comment that Bailey's family member made to him, and why it hurt his feelings. And he said he wanted
him to come pick him up. He wanted him to come pick
him all the way up in Gering and drive him back to Wyoming. So as we know, that's like four hours. And Matt is celebrating 4th of July, he has friends over and
he'd also been drinking. So he told Chance that he
wasn't able to pick him up, but he would make some calls and see if there was
anyone else who could. And in this call, Chance also mentioned that he was walking
Northwest towards Torrington, which is a town right across from the Nebraska, Wyoming border. Now, the exact reason why Chance was trying to walk this far is unknown, but it's probably because
he wanted to get to Wyoming as fast as possible. And it's also the complete
opposite direction that he told Bailey he was going. I mean, remember he told
her he was headed south and he told Matt that
he was headed Northwest. So Matt has noted that
Chance did not seem drunk when the two of them spoke. And he also said he was
very vague when referencing whatever fight he had gotten into. And as soon as the two of
them got off the phone, he actually called up Chance's family hoping that someone over there
could go and pick him up. Whether they went from Edgemont to Gering or Edgemont to Torrington, Matt thought they were likely
the closest people to him. So the call from Matt comes
into Dawn around 7:45. Matt explains that Chance was very upset because of a comment that
was made about his income and his new job, and that he's hoping one of
them can come and pick him up. - Saturday night, about 7:30 Everett and I were just sitting in
the house watching TV, and I got a call from Matt. And he said, "Hey, Mama Dawn, "we've got some trouble." And he's like, "Well, Chance just called, "and he had a fight with the in-laws "and he wants out of Nebraska "and he needs a ride home to Wyoming." I told him that we probably
couldn't get down to get him, but that I would find a ride
for him. So what do you think? And I said, "Well, Matt, I'm
thinking after our discussion "and fight last week
that I am the last one "he's gonna want calling him "to hear about a fight
with Bailey and her family. "But I will get his uncle
John and his aunt Katie "to call and check in with
him, see what we can do. "Let's just stay in touch." And he said, sounds great. I started calling John and Katie, Everett called Larry, another coworker and good friend of Chances that lived right across
the street from Bailey. And Larry's like, "Gosh, no,
I haven't heard from him. "Let me call Bailey and
see what's going on." Larry called Everett back and said, I just told Bailey that she had to call and talk to you guys about this. So a few minutes later,
Bailey called and told Everett that it's not that big of a deal, it was just a
misunderstanding on something that Kyler said out at the golf course and that not to worry, they
were all out looking for him and that they would find him
and they would stay in touch. So we called Matt back and
said, he won't answer any of us. He wouldn't answer his dad, he wouldn't answer his uncle
John or his aunt Katie. And Matt said, yeah, he
won't answer us either. We keep trying. - So this is when Dawn gets nervous and she decides to break their
kind of no contact agreement for the week and just let him know that she wouldn't ask any questions, but if he needed a ride or a motel room that he could ask her. So it was sometime between eight and 8:30, that Chance his parents
finally spoke with Bailey. - So we talked to Bailey
and Matt a couple times through the night. Around nine-ish she had called and said there was a bad storm that they had to take some
time off looking for him, but they'd go back out after the storm. And so just kind of sat back and waited and really thought that
that they'd find him. - But the next morning,
when Chance was still gone, panic really started to
set in for all of them. What became especially concerning was a text message that came through from Chance's phone to
his aunt Katie at 9:08 PM. - I called him first and asked him, "Hey buddy, I just had a
couple questions for you. "Would you mind giving me a call?" I didn't want him to think
that we were all worried about him or checking up on him or that he wasn't handling
something correctly. After he didn't answer and I text him, "Hey, tried calling
you, I have a question. "Would you call me back?" I didn't get a response until 9:08. And I got I'm and an emoji face with the straight line mouth. And then some gibberish after that. And I responded with, "You
are what? Are you okay?" And I got nothing after that. It's not something normal
for him just to walk away, something that had to have happened for this to all be that way. - And it became clear to the Englebert sometime after 11:00 AM, that Chance was considered
a missing person. So that morning Bailey ends up filing a missing person's report with the Gering Police
Department around 11:00 AM. That morning, Bailey
said she had first tried to call Verizon to see if
they could help her place the last phone call that he had made. And of course they weren't
able to help her at that point. That's private information. So she contacts the police. So it actually took some convincing for the police to take this
case seriously at first. According to Bailey her and her family had to make several calls to the police before they would actually really consider him a missing person
and form a search party. But eventually they did
do a massive search. It took a few days to mobilize, but it included 17 law
enforcement agencies, drones, divers, cadaver dogs, and volunteers on foot,
horseback and ATVs. Bailey posted on her
Facebook page on July 7th, that Chance had not come
home and that he was missing. And this was actually
when a lot of his friends found out as well,
including his friend DJ. That day, Dawn also called
every police station from their hometown leading up Torrington. And when she got a hold of Torrington PD, they said they had already been in contact with Bailey's father and
were aware of the situation. So Dawn called anyone she could
think of who may know Chance and could possibly have heard from him. She also spoke with Bailey
on the phone for a few times, and they offered her to come down and stay at their place in Gering so that they could be
close to the situation. However, she turned them down because she felt like she
should be back at home just in case Chance showed up there. And then she had Matt stay up in Moorcroft in case Chance showed up there. So when Chance didn't show up
to Matt's house by afternoon, he decided he was going
to drive up to Gering and look for him. But of course he had that new
job starting the next day, so he could only spend a
few days looking for him. - We wanted to go down right away but we didn't because
Dawn had asked me to stay and go to work at Blake
Men's the first day we were supposed to be back to see if Chance showed up there. That was just the kind of guy he was, he wouldn't miss a day of work, unless something was terribly wrong. So I went to work at
Blake Men's till noon, and then I left, gathered
up everybody we could and we drove down there
to start looking for him. When we were down there,
it was kind of hectic. Law enforcement was looking for him. We kind of just went to where they said his last phone location was
and started out from there. We walked mile, two miles of that river, we stayed down there for four days, just looked in every nook and
granny trying to find him. We concentrated on the river. After the fourth day, finances forced us to
return go back to work. - So the Engleberts finally decided to drive to Gering on Monday morning. And Monday was the day where
it felt like the search effort really kind of picked up. 2,400 acres were covered
during the initial search. And the Engleberts drove around the Gering Scottsbluff area for hours searching for any sign of Chance, but they found nothing. But the searches weren't being organized around these areas for no reason. There's actually video
surveillance footage recorded of Chance at
7:51 PM walking northbound at the intersection of Martha Road and 10th street that evening. And this footage shows Chance
as he comes up to a stop, looks down at his phone, makes a sharp 90 degree left turn, almost as if he's following directions. And his movements go with the direction that he told Matt he was going, Northwest towards Torrington. - Seeing those videos
was an eye opener to us. The first thing Matt said
is he's not mad in this, he might be upset, but
he's definitely not mad. And I said, and he's not drunk. They all wanted us to think that he was like falling
down drunk, stupid. And maybe he was at the golf
course when the fight started, but by the time he was on
Martha Street and 10th Street at 7:50, I don't feel he was drunk. He looked like a normal
kid walking down the street and he had a plan and he
knew where he was going. And I know there's been a lot of talk when he stops and looks at
his phone and kind of pivots. And I really think he
was busy on his phone. I think he was texting
with Bailey honestly, and he just kind of looked up to realize, "Oh, I wanted to go this way." I don't think there's
any other things to it. I honestly don't believe he had a map out. I know a lot of people
think that he was probably reading a map to know how to
get where he wanted to go. And although we were not very
familiar with Scottsbluff and he'd only been there 10, 15 times we rodeoed a lot in Torrington, we traveled that area a lot and he knew how to get to Torrington. That wouldn't have been an issue there. He wouldn't have been
looking for a shortcut. I just feel that that showed shouldn't have been any
problems with Chance getting somewhere Saturday night. I think it's great proof. For those that know Chance
and watched the video, we all said the same thing. - Martha Road is in a small
town called Tarrytown, which is about two miles from Gering. So that means that he
had walked a distance of about 30 minutes or so
since he had left the driveway. So that surveillance footage
actually captures Chance shortly after he had spoken to Matt. And it's right around
the time that his family is sending texts to him, calling him, trying to get ahold of him. And Bailey also said that
she was looking for him around this time, but was not successful at actually locating him. And then they actually uncovered
more surveillance footage that is from a ring camera. Now this footage is a lot less clear, but authorities do say that
they're certain it's Chance. And he's seen walking
west on Stable Club Road. One other thing that I've mentioned a few times in this video
but haven't really explained is the big storm that came in that night. This was a major factor
in his disappearance. There was a massive storm that rolled through their town that night. It began sometime around 9:00 PM and lasted approximately 45 minutes. And there was about an inch of rainfall. And the North Platte River, which runs right through
Tarrytown rose eight inches. That's quite a bit of rain. And there was also a lot
of thunder, lightning, and high speed winds. And the police were able
to get location data from Chance's phone. And that reportedly last
pinged off a cell phone tower near a truck stop gas station called the Western Travel Terminal. And that was about 10:00 PM. The investigators have
noted that this data is rather unspecific and the ping could span an
area of about a few miles long. But what's interesting about
the location of that ping is that it's only four-ish miles away from Bailey's grandparents' house. And the time it pinged
was around 10:00 PM, which would mean that
Chance only traveled about three to four miles in
the three or so hours that he had been gone. So all of these factors are
contributing to this search, and what they do know. They know about this storm, they know about the surveillance footage, and then the cell phone tower ping. But when they couldn't find any
more information right away, they felt a little
hopeless, especially Bailey. She actually, supposedly,
again, this is alleged, but Bailey, according to Dawn, said that she felt like Chance was gonna be coming home in a body bag. And she says this was only two days after he had first disappeared. And on that Tuesday, Bailey
was asking the Gering police for a death certificate,
which is pretty quick. Now this death certificate has
caused a good deal of drama in this case, as you can imagine. Many people, including the investigators have found this to be a red flag. I mean, Chance was still
considered a missing person. This is only a few days
into his disappearance. He was never at any point, by the police, considered to be a homicide victim. So why would she be asking
for his death certificate? That's weird. So investigators asked her about this and Bailey said that she was
concerned for her future, she had a son to provide
for and didn't have a job. So the death certificate
would allow her to collect on his life insurance policy, making it possible for her to get by until she was able to get a job. Now, of course, there is still
a lot of concern about this, a lot of public speculation. And investigators have said
that Bailey and her family have been completely cooperative with them throughout this entire process. - I've spoken with Bailey
several times, formal interviews, phone calls with followed questions, occasionally text message for a follow up just based on a tip that comes in. She's always been very
cooperative with me. Very cordial, I interviewed her at length. My first interview with her was probably a couple hours long. So she's always been
very cooperative with me. - Also, of course, we've gotta remember, Bailey was very young at
the time, she was only 20, and grief of course looks
different on everyone. So we gotta keep that in our minds, but obviously it's weird. I see why this rubs people the wrong way. So search efforts continued
heavily in those first few days, 280 miles of terrain were searched and the Nebraska State Patrol Helicopter logged over a hundred miles. So early on the investigators
had some different theories of what could have happened here. At first, police did not expect foul play, and the storm was really
their biggest theory, you could say. They felt like maybe the storm
led to a horrible accident and caused Chance's death. Because he was close to several
different bodies of water at the time that he was last seen, investigators thought maybe
he was swept up in the storm and fell into the water. And if he didn't fall in, it was thought that maybe
he became hypothermic, which could also lead him
to a dangerous situation. And hypothermia may have also explained this very strange text that
he had sent to his aunt Katie. Although becoming hypothermic
after being out in a storm for only eight minutes,
doesn't seem plausible. But investigators did get
permission to drain a canal that ran along the road
that he was last seen on. - We've gotten compliance from
the Gary Central Canal folks. They've been able to shut
the water down for us, starting at where it comes from the river. So we have people searching,
walking along the canal now. We also have a drone
right now up in the air, going from Five Rocks
Road and Stable Club Road. They're gonna follow that
canal all the way east to where it dumps into the river again. - This footage comes
from a press conference that was held on
Wednesday, July 10th, 2019. And a lot of information
was shared with the public during this press conference. They shared important timeframes for people to look at in
case someone was outside during the storm. - That storm rolled
through shortly after nine, nine, 9:15, somewhere around there, it was done around 10 o'clock. That's kind of a critical
time for us to be looking at if anybody saw somebody walking
around during that time, especially cause that would be a time you wouldn't expect to see
somebody out walking around. - But the idea that Chance was
just swept up into this river does not even feel remotely
possible for his family members, Chance's whole family
and his friend, Matt, have been very vocal about
how capable Chance was. They said he's a country man, he is not gonna put himself in a situation that would put him at risk
of falling into the water. They just can't see a situation
where that would happen, and the whole theory
makes no sense to them. They just feel like he's too tough and he's too knowledgeable
about the outdoors to fall victim to nature like that, especially in those conditions. - Chance was born and raised
for that kind of weather. There's just no way it could take him. I've hunted with him for two years, beforehand, the guy could cover country, I like to call him a mountain goat, man. He left me in the dust
anytime we went hunting. It was beyond believe
that an outdoors man, there's just no way the weather took him. - Now, even if this theory is true and Chance did end up in the river, they have not been able to find a body. So that's very difficult
to wrap your mind around. Of course, though, it
is possible for a body to become lost in a river
for a long period of time. But again, this does not feel right to his friends and family. And Matt has actually
stated that mother nature doesn't hide a body like that. - This theory makes us
all angry, very angry. And I think it's a bunch of BS, honestly. Chance was a ranch kid. He rode bucking horses and bowls and played football and
did demolition derby. He's stronger and bigger
and smarter than that. I'll never believe that is
even close to being a theory. I think the only way he ended
up in the North Platte River is somebody dumped him there, honestly. But that's my theory. - So another theory that
has been put forward is a robbery gone wrong. Maybe Chance was in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Maybe he was just a victim of bad luck and that he was robbed, or maybe he trusted the wrong person, got into the wrong vehicle possibly and something terrible happened to him. But these theories really
don't have any evidence. I mean, if this was an accident, you would likely find some trace of that, some clothing, a cell phone. And if someone took him
or if he walked away, you would think there would
possibly be some activity on his credit cards or
maybe some footage of that, maybe an eyewitness, something, but there's no evidence of anything. So the lead investigator in this case actually says that they are
treating it like a homicide and they will do so
until there is evidence to prove otherwise. And detectives have also
said they've gotten help from the FBI, they've also
used canines in their search. And they say that they've
administered polygraph tests while chasing down leads. And they've gotten some tips, but unfortunately none of
them have led anywhere. And despite the fact
that they have followed through on all the tips that have come in, they say that they have
found that people are telling similar yet ever changing stories. So that brings us to go over a few things that are important to
mention that have happened along the way during this investigation. So number one, a random phone. There is a story about
a mysterious cell phone that was found on Chance
and Bailey's front porch. The day after Chance went missing, a friend of his says that
he stopped by their place to see maybe if Chance had gone home. And when he got there, he saw a cell phone just sitting on their porch. And he wasn't sure if it was Chances, so he called Matt to tell
him what he had found. So Matt tells him that he
would go take a look at it on his way into town and
to just leave it there. And then he also calls
Bailey and lets her know about this phone. He thought maybe she would
know who it belonged to, but she didn't. But what's strange is by the time Matt goes to their house to
see this phone, it was gone. He spoke to Bailey again and she says that she called a neighbor and they went and picked up this phone. And the fact that she had
asked a random neighbor to go and pick up the phone
has been kind of confusing to a lot of people. This whole phone thing is sketchy, but it's been reported that the phone never even made it to police for evidence. It's never been identified
as Chance's phone, but the circumstances
around it are just weird and there's a lot of stories that it belongs to the town drunk. So I have a big question
mark about the phone. So another thing that
has been noted by Matt, so this is coming from Matt. He says that he started that job that Chance was supposed to
start with him that week. And the first week that he's there, he's approached by someone in HR. And according to him, they ask him if there's any reason why Bailey wouldn't want
them to hold this spot at this new job for Chance. Because apparently she had called them and she allegedly asked
them to cash a paycheck and asked about his 401k. And allegedly this is when she brought up not holding his job. So when Chance first went missing, his family actually
contacted this new job. And they were told that the
job would be waiting for him when he came back. So Matt says that when he heard Bailey didn't wanna have the job held for him, he was confused. - So you're telling me that
his wife went to his employer and told the employer to not hold the job? - Along those lines. Yes - Okay. And so because of that, they went ahead and released that. - The HR came straight to
me and asked me about it. And I said, no. Well, I contacted, Dawn told her about it. She said, no, hold his job. And I told him also - So this whole thing again
is very sketchy and confusing, but I do know that both his new employer and his previous employer have both stated that they have a job for
Chance when he comes home. So that brings us to the third thing that I wanted to go over
here, which is really weird. So there was an arm bone that
was discovered by two men hunting along the North Plate River in Minatare, Nebraska in October of 2020. And at first it was
believed that this bone could belong to Chance. But of course, Chance is
not the only missing person in that area or surrounding areas. There is a second man
who had also gone missing in that area around the same time. And I guess a piece of clothing
was found near the bone and it was more similar
to what the other man had been wearing and not to
what Chance had been wearing. But of course, investigators
sent it off for testing to see who it actually belonged to, but the bone was in pretty bad condition. It actually had to be
sent to two different labs and results have come back now, which it took two years
to get those results back, which is wild and turns out this bone does not belong to Chance. So very early on into
Chance's disappearance, the Engleberts became aware that Bailey's family had hired lawyers. Dawn said she felt very confused by this, because she didn't realize that lawyers would be something they needed, especially so early on in
a missing person's case. Of course lawyering up can look suspicious and can be suspicious, but there is a point to
be made that doing so can kind of fast track
or encourage the police to work harder to find
your missing loved one. So it's something that
other people have done. But hiring lawyers has
definitely made people in the public feel uneasy. And it's understandable 'cause there's plenty of other reasons why you could hire a lawyer. It's also important to
add that at no point has Bailey invoked her
Fifth Amendment rights. And again, she's been cooperative, she's answered any and
all questions from police. They have put out a statement saying that she's been interviewed
multiple times at length and very willingly. There have been a lot of rumors and accusations on social media towards all members of the family. But I can only speak to the ones that involve law enforcement
as I cannot speak for them. And like I mentioned, her and her family have decided not to do any
more public interviews. This could be for many different reasons. They have gotten a lot of hate online probably more than hate. That's honestly a light way to put it. They've gotten death threats. So that can be very scary. Obviously some people feel
that it's very strange that they haven't spoken out. And I feel like with the
information that's available here, it's really hard to make
a judgment call on that. But what's really unfortunate
here is to this day tensions between the Englebert
family and Bailey's family have been extremely high. And you'd hope that something like this would bring families together, but it has really done the opposite, which with so many things going on, and there's a lot to that, we're not talking about
because it just falls into the category of, he
said, she said hearsay, rumors and gossip and pointing fingers. With all that going on, it's understandable how
tensions could be so high. But the Engleberts have
said that they have tried to support Bailey
emotionally and financially through all of this. And they say, no matter what they've done it has been met with coldness
from Bailey and her family. They actually have no communication with Bailey at this
point, which is very sad considering there's a child involved. Dawn says that she really doesn't agree with the way that their family
have handled everything. She has a lot of questions for Bailey, but she wanted to remain close in order to stay in her grandson's life. That has not happened though. And it's been two years
since she's seen Banks, which is really most unfortunate for him. But in their last
communication, it was made clear that Bailey doesn't want
anything to do with Dawn and that she blames Dawn
for Chance's disappearance. Obviously there's a lot of drama here. There's a lot of back and forth, and we could sit here and
talk about all that all day. But I felt like it was
important in this video to just focus on the facts and what we do know
about Chance's last day and his last known location. And hopefully we can focus on finding him or getting answers for all of them. - Our biggest thing, we need prayers. We need prayers for strength to continue to fight for Chance. We need prayers for answers.
We need people to talk. We need 'em to quit being afraid. I feel somebody's seen
something, knows something. Whether you call one of
the tip lines that we have, call the Gary PD, call the Scottsbluff Sheriff's Department, call the Scottsbluff
City Police Department. I think we need calls to upper governments and asking for new eyes to come in. There's way too many young missing men that don't get what they
deserve to be found. And I think we need some
bigger eyes out there finding these kids and finding Chance. Send an email, call, and beg that somebody
helps take on these cases. We need new fresh eyes. I need people to keep
sharing Chance's story, keeping his picture out there, his beautiful smiling picture, 'cause Chance will not be forgotten. We will not let him be forgotten. - So there is currently a $17,000 reward for anyone who has information that could lead them to Chance. Chance was last seen
wearing a short sleeve button up Wrangler shirt that had a grayish purple tone to it and dark blue Wrangler
jeans, rope style boots, and a black and white trucker hat. He has five, nine, a 195 pounds and has light brown hair. If you have any tips or any information, please consider bringing that
forward to the right people. There are actually several
lines that you can call and you can remain completely anonymous. And these numbers will all be available in the description box. You can also help the Englebert family by purchasing any items that
they're selling in his honor. And the money will go towards
keeping up their billboards and their search efforts. I've decided to donate to their family to keep those billboards
up for six months of time. I got the pricing from her and have discussed that with her and I've sent them money for that. And I think it's really cool that they're able to use billboards. I know they can be very
productive in a lot of cases. I know they haven't
had a whole lot of luck with them so far, but
I think it's important to keep the faces of the missing up and in the public where
they were last seen. Like Dawn mentioned, you can call or email the Nebraska State
Attorney General's Office to ask that they take
over the investigation. And I wanna note that Dawn has been asked to stop contacting the
Attorney General's Office. So if you would like to
contact them yourself, it always is extremely
helpful in these cases. So I will have information
of how to do that below as always. So I wish I had more information
for you guys, I really do. That is really all the important
information to go over. It's been three years now
that Chance has been gone and all of them have so much pain. It would be amazing to finally
see either justice for Chance or just that closure for their family, knowing what happened. - He deserved way better than what he got. He should have got to grow old
and been a dad and a grandpa and took care of his family. He missed out on a lot and it's not fair. - Of course, as always, I
wanna hear what you guys have to say below. So leave me a comment. Let me know your thoughts. And of course, please
use the comment section to wish well to this family
who has been through a lot. That is it for me today. I will be back next
week with another video, but until then stay safe out there. (soft music)
