It’s going on six years since Moorcroft's Chance Englebert vanished while visiting in-laws in Nebraska. His family remains desperate for any news of him,…
cowboystatedaily.com
March 4, 2025
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The smiling face on the billboard along the two-lane highway in rural western Nebraska is a grim reminder of a family’s loss and their desperate pleas for answers.
It’s been nearly six years since Moorcroft, Wyoming, man
Chance Englebert disappeared on a weekend trip to visit his in-laws.
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The family first put up the billboard in 2020 on the first-year anniversary of his disappearance. Every couple years, it requires a costly facelift to repair the faded image and peeling vinyl.
The billboard was initially paid for by donations, but the endeavor has since been taken over by Englebert’s grandmother, Linda Kluender, who took the occasion of her birthday in February to touch it up for the third time.
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It’s a costly endeavor at around $1,800 to $2,100 to revamp and then $350 each month to rent, but it’s worth every penny to Kluender.
“We will not give up,” Kluender said. “That billboard will be up as long as there is breath in me, and then I pray I can leave Dawn enough to continue it.”
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