Episode 305: Bradley Chace Stracener: The Danger Zone

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Ed Dentzel

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Bradley Chace Stracener was a 30 year old from Leesville, LA. He had 3 siblings and was very mechanically inclined. On the afternoon of Oct. 30, 2019, Bradley left his mother's to return his girlfriend's car to her. Bradley never arrived. The car was found only half mile down the road. He was never seen again. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brad.where.r.u Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/bradley-chace-stracener NAMUS: https://www.namus.gov/MissingPersons/Case#/64064 Articles: https://www.kalb.com/2021/11/05/crime-stoppers-disappearance-bradley-stracener/ https://www.theleesvilleleader.com/2022/05/17/cold-case-remains-cold-new-search-leaves-team-empty-handed-in-missing-person-investigation/ If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Bradley Stracener, please contact the Vernon Parish Sheriff's Office at (337) 238-1311. Where You Can Find Unfound: On These Following Podcast Platforms: Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, Podbean, and many others. Especially outside the United States. Social Media sites: YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and the newest one, TikTok. Listener support sites: Patreon.com/unfoundpodcast. Paypal.me/unfoundpodcast The website: theunfoundpodcast.com The email address: [email protected]. And please mention Unfound at all true crime websites and forums. Thank you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bradley Chase Strastner was a 30-year-old from Lee'sville, Louisiana.
0:05.6	He had three siblings and was very mechanically inclined.
0:10.8	On the afternoon of October 30th, 2019, Bradley left his mothers to return his girlfriend's car to her.
0:19.4	Bradley never arrived. The car was found only a half-mile down the road.
0:25.3	He was never seen again.
0:30.0	I'm a dancer, and this is unfound.
1:00.0	Unless you live under a rock, you know Top Gun Maverick is now playing in theaters.
1:11.0	I've seen it. It's fantastic. In both the original and the sequel,
1:18.2	the main theme is a pilot must be ready to push to the very edge and even go over it to accomplish
1:25.8	a mission. And this is real life for people defending their countries today.
1:33.4	For the rest of us in real life, the opposite is almost the case. The biggest risk we take
1:42.2	is driving. Yet for disappearances, we know of many people who probably went missing
1:50.2	because of also living on the edge like fighter pilots, but in bad ways.
1:57.2	Drugs, horrible friends, tumultuous relationships, money problems,
2:03.9	all combining to put these people in what the airplane industry calls the coffin corner.
2:10.7	A place so close to death that one wrong move and that's it.
2:18.3	Some unfound examples, Jake Lachelay, Jamie Bowen, Leah Peoples, Donnie Smatlach.
2:28.7	Well, with the disappearance of Bradley Straisner, he certainly had some of those issues going on,
2:36.0	despite him otherwise being a brilliant young man. How do we find out what happened to him
2:44.0	when he went into the danger zone? And now a summary of the case, this is brought to you by my
2:53.0	friend Megan Linus' website, Charlieproject.org. Bradley Straisner was some kind of amateur mechanical
3:03.9	and electrical whiz. Yes, he was a welder by trade, but when Bradley wasn't doing that,
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