James Foster Chance was an ex-marine who grew increasingly isolated from his family and friends

during the COVID-19 pandemic. After hearing from James via text on his birthday, his car was

discovered abandoned in a welcome center parking lot in the Texarkana border about four hours from

his home in Texas, is never been heard from since.

Welcome back to Missing. I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

I couldn't be better Tim other than being terribly cold right now. How are you?

Oh, the same, the same. You know, it's the winter. What are you? What are we going to do?

It's terrible out there. My god. Yeah, it's so cold.

But, you know, at least we've got a really interesting case to talk about today.

It's the disappearance of James Foster Chance and the research is brought to us by private

investigations for the Missing. Check out what they're doing at InvestigationsForTheMissing.org.

It is the nonprofit that Bruce Maitland founded Lance that you and I are on the board of.

Yes, they do fantastic work. It's a great organization where proud to be a part of it.

And this research was put together by Mary Sirecki. And a lot of this research was sourced from

the Vanished with Marissa Jones, which is a phenomenal podcast. Make sure to check that out wherever

you get your podcasts. And we're focusing on James Foster Chance. He's been Missing since

January 19th of 2021. There was a factory reset on his phone on February 28th of 2021. He is an

X Marine. And Tim, all of this comes together during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

And we begin to peel back these layers of isolation and anxiety. And it really encapsulated a lot

of what everyone was feeling at the time. But unfortunately, James Foster Chance decided that he'd

had enough of it. And we don't know where he is. But it is one of those disappearances that's

really tough while we're talking about it during the episode to not speculate because you relate

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