NE NE - Chance Englebert, 25, Gering, 6 July 2019 (new father)

[PommyMommy]

JUL 9, 2019
Sixteen agencies now involved with search for missing man Chance Englebert

• Surveillance video showed him walking northbound on 10th Street in Gering at approximately 7:40 p.m. Saturday.
• Rogers says a coordinated search is ongoing in the southwest portion of Scottsbluff and adjacent rural properties.
• Gering Police Chief says preliminary raw cell phone data indicates that the southwest portion of Scottsbluff was Englebert’s last known location.
• He is also asking for surveillance video from between 7:30 p.m. Saturday evening until 11 p.m. Saturday night from any homeowners or businesses.
• LE wants to make contact with anyone who may have given Chance a ride.
• LE is also asking people to search any outbuildings on their property to see if Englebert is hiding there.
• Police have not located any items belonging to Englebert.

 

[PommyMommy]

JUL 10, 2019
Family and friends offering reward to locate Chance Englebert
[...]

On Monday afternoon, crews set up the Region 22 Emergency Management Mobile Command Unit at the YMCA Trails West Camp, and search teams walked the area up to the Avenue I river bridge.

On Tuesday afternoon, more agencies got involved, and expanded the search area as well. The AirLink helicopter provided aerial support, while more than 50 people from 16 agencies scoured their search area on the ground.

Holthus says they’ve also been in contact with the Moorcroft Police Department to see if Englebert managed to hitch a ride back home.

[...]

Chance Englebert Tuesday Afternoon [JUL 9] Search Update

 

[TTF14]

Sadly I'm getting a suicide vibe with this one .

 

[PommyMommy]

JUL 11, 2019
PHOTOS: Searching for Chance
30 photos including family, search teams, a map, etc.

JUL 12, 2019
No sign of missing Gering man despite massive search effort
The Gering Police Department said despite multiple agencies searching hundreds of miles on the ground and in the air, they have not found anything to aid their investigation to the whereabouts of Chance Englebert.

[...]

"We are going to be transitioning from an actively searching phase to a phase focusing on more on the investigation - doing more with cell phones, interviews with family, co-workers and other people in the lives of (Englebert)," Chief George Holthus said.

Chief Holthus said they will review Englebert's financial records too.

Chief Holthus said the search efforts have included 147 people participating in ground searches, 2,400 acres searched, 18 agencies involved, Air Link logged 280 miles and the Nebraska State Patrol helicopter logged 100 miles.

[...]

DE made a plea to her son that if he ran away to please come home.

"I never felt that Chance would leave his family," DE said. "I feel that if he has just needed a break and ran away from being a grown-up, I get it. I'm disappointed, I'm hurt. But please, Chance, if that's the case come home."

[...]

"There's no repercussions. If that's what happened and Chance needed a break, to decompress, whatever, there is no criminal charges," Holthus said. "He has not committed a crime. He is an adult. He can go and do."

[...]

Chance's phone last pinged in the vicinity of WTT Truck Stop around 10 p.m.

 

[TTF14]

Chance's phone last pinged in the vicinity of WTT Truck Stop around 10 p.m.

Maybe he just ran away. Adulting is hard!

 

[PommyMommy]

Maybe he just ran away. Adulting is hard!

It does sound a little like that's what family is thinking. I hope that's the case, that he is safe, and nothing nefarious has happened. MOO

 

[TatianaBarbie]

A new article from July 12, with a photo of Chance taken on the day he disappeared:

Police issue new photo of missing Wyoming man on date of his disappearance

The article also cleared up details about where Chance was last seen (on video near Martha Rd & 10th, around 7:51 pm), and where his phone last pinged (Owl Road, south of the WTT around 10 pm).

Google map showing relationship between a google-chosen location on Owl Road, to the WTT: Google Maps. It has never been noted that he was at the WTT, just that the WTT was referenced to where Chance's phone pinged on Owl Road, south of the WTT.

 

[TatianaBarbie]

JUL 11, 2019
PHOTOS: Searching for Chance
30 photos including family, search teams, a map, etc.

JUL 12, 2019
No sign of missing Gering man despite massive search effort
The Gering Police Department said despite multiple agencies searching hundreds of miles on the ground and in the air, they have not found anything to aid their investigation to the whereabouts of Chance Englebert.

[...]

"We are going to be transitioning from an actively searching phase to a phase focusing on more on the investigation - doing more with cell phones, interviews with family, co-workers and other people in the lives of (Englebert)," Chief George Holthus said.

Chief Holthus said they will review Englebert's financial records too.

Chief Holthus said the search efforts have included 147 people participating in ground searches, 2,400 acres searched, 18 agencies involved, Air Link logged 280 miles and the Nebraska State Patrol helicopter logged 100 miles.

[...]

DE made a plea to her son that if he ran away to please come home.

"I never felt that Chance would leave his family," DE said. "I feel that if he has just needed a break and ran away from being a grown-up, I get it. I'm disappointed, I'm hurt. But please, Chance, if that's the case come home."

[...]

"There's no repercussions. If that's what happened and Chance needed a break, to decompress, whatever, there is no criminal charges," Holthus said. "He has not committed a crime. He is an adult. He can go and do."

[...]

Chance's phone last pinged in the vicinity of WTT Truck Stop around 10 p.m.

That article with the 30 photos was very interesting, TY for finding that, @PommyMommy! One of those photos even included the areas that have been searched.

 

[PommyMommy]

A new article from July 12, with a photo of Chance taken on the day he disappeared:

Police issue new photo of missing Wyoming man on date of his disappearance

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The article also cleared up details about where Chance was last seen (on video near Martha Rd & 10th, around 7:51 pm), and where his phone last pinged (Owl Road, south of the WTT around 10 pm).

Google map showing relationship between a google-chosen location on Owl Road, to the WTT: Google Maps. It has never been noted that he was at the WTT, just that the WTT was referenced to where Chance's phone pinged on Owl Road, south of the WTT.

So, did he stop somewhere or is there more walking around somewhere that we don't know about yet?

Google shows the entire route from O Street to Owl Street is 3 miles or about 1 hour on foot. He left at 7:30 p.m. and his phone pinged in the vicinity of Owl Road about 10:00 p.m. Hmmm...

Google Maps

 

[TatianaBarbie]

So, did he stop somewhere or is there more walking around somewhere that we don't know about yet?

Google shows the entire route from O Street to Owl Street is 3 miles or about 1 hour on foot. He left at 7:30 p.m. and his phone pinged in the vicinity of Owl Road about 10:00 p.m. Hmmm...

Google Maps

I thought the same thing - two and one-half hours to go 3 miles.

 

[PommyMommy]

JUL 12, 2019
A mother's plea: Chance, come home
[...]

DE, and BE, have said the family is close. As the press conference continued on Thursday, Chance Englebert’s brother choked up when asked to describe his brother, who he called “a hard working man.” DE said the family and Chance talk weekly, or even as often as every other day, and that family and friends are caught off guard by his disappearance. There have been times when he has been known to leave for a couple of hours or so, but to be gone for this long, without being in touch, would not be his usual character.

[...]

A last text to Chance Englebert, sent from one of the family members, DE said, was: “Your brothers need you. Your baby needs you,” she said.

If Chance Englebert were to return, she said, his mom and dad “may harp on him,” but that he was not in any legal trouble.

“We just need him home.”

[...]

 

[bdawk20]

I wonder if it was normal for him to go out for walks. If not, what was the reason for the walk?

 

[PommyMommy]

I wonder if it was normal for him to go out for walks. If not, what was the reason for the walk?

I don't think anyone has said that he's in the habit of taking walks but it was reported that there have been times when he's left for a couple hours. According to his family, to be gone this long though, is out of character for him. I'd like to know the reason for the walk too. MOO

 

[JerseyGirl]

According to Baylee, Chance had been golfing “with the guys” Saturday afternoon before returning back to the house. Later, he took a walk and never returned.

He was last spotted around 7:30 p.m. leaving the 700 block of O Street in Gering. Police traced his last phone location to the vicinity of WTT Truck Stop at around 10 p.m.

The question of whether Chance would have left on his own accord is immediately quashed by Baylee, who said, no way, not the man she knows, nor was he undergoing any kind of stress to her knowledge. Recently, he’d been laid off with nearly 600 other employees at the Blackjewel Belle Ayr mine but had already secured a new job and was set to begin the following Monday, while Baylee planned to begin the nursing program at Gillette College in the fall.

They’ve been together for two years, and in that time, he’s never done anything remotely like this, she said. At best, if he was upset, he’d take a short walk around the block but always came right back. Nor does he have any type of mental illness or medical condition that might warrant his getting lost or confused.

Half-joking, she said that if he doesn’t get his tail back here soon, she’s selling all his derby cars.

Wife of Missing Moorcroft Man Fears the Worst

The Englebert family has culled together an $8,000 reward for anyone with information regarding his disappearance that leads to solving the case. Chance is 5’ 9” with a medium build, sun-lightened brown hair, a mustache and goatee, and was last seen wearing a striped, short-sleeved Wrangler shirt, jeans, old-school Ropers, and a black-and-white trucker cap.

 

[Dre]

Is it possible he doesn’t get along well with in-laws? A new father, a new husband, on a trip visiting the in-laws.. did he get upset or overwhelmed and had an “I need to escape” mentality?
Even so, he’s been missing so long that I think something has happened to him unless he’s having a continuous “quarter life crisis”

 

[Razz]

Would like to know what "the guys" talked about on their round of golf.
He doesn't strike me as a golfer. It's not fun being the odd man out (if he was a non golfer). Personally, I have found it to be very demoralizing.

 

[PommyMommy]

I thought the same thing - two and one-half hours to go 3 miles.

The thunderstorm could explain some of that time. I think we had two threads merged into one here and wasn't aware of the storm until I went back and re-read the thread. I've added that in:

Saturday, July 6

7:30 p.m. - CE left residence in the 400 block of O Street
7:51 p.m. - Seen on video walking northbound on 10th Street; the last video was at a business near Martha Road
8:45 p.m. - Last time friends or family members spoke to him
9-9:15 p.m. - Significant thunderstorm
10:00 p.m. - Phone pinged in the vicinity of Owl Road, south of the Western Travel Terminal convenience store

 

[Jethro4WS]

Do we know who he spoke with at about 8:45?

 

[TatianaBarbie]

The thunderstorm could explain some of that time. I think we had two threads merged into one here and wasn't aware of the storm until I went back and re-read the thread. I've added that in:

Saturday, July 6

7:30 p.m. - CE left residence in the 400 block of O Street
7:51 p.m. - Seen on video walking northbound on 10th Street; the last video was at a business near Martha Road
8:45 p.m. - Last time friends or family members spoke to him
9-9:15 p.m. - Significant thunderstorm
10:00 p.m. - Phone pinged in the vicinity of Owl Road, south of the Western Travel Terminal convenience store

TY for the timeline, @PommyMommy! There is a comment on the last July 10th post on the "Help Find Chance Englebert" FB page that talks about a possible witness to what Chance did during the thunderstorm:

Help Find Chance Englebert

 

[PommyMommy]

Do we know who he spoke with at about 8:45?

Nope. Unless I missed it. MOO

TY for the timeline, @PommyMommy! There is a comment on the last July 10th post on the "Help Find Chance Englebert" FB page that talks about a possible witness to what Chance did during the thunderstorm:

Help Find Chance Englebert

Thank you!