Replay: Chance Englebert

The Vanished Podcast

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally aired on October 28, 2019. On July 6, 2019, 25-year-old Chance Englebert spent the day golfing with family in Gering, Nebraska. He later left with his wife, Baylee, and their infant son to stop by Baylee’s grandparents’ house. According to Baylee, it was in her grandparents’ driveway around 7:30 p.m. that Chance got out of the car and walked away. He was captured on surveillance video walking in Terrytown and was never seen again.

On October 10, 2025, more than six years after Chance Englebert disappeared, his remains were discovered below a steep cliff in a remote area of Scotts Bluff National Monument. The location was approximately three to five miles from where he was last seen on surveillance video in Terrytown, though some route-based estimates of the distance he would have traveled on foot place it closer to eight miles. Authorities say evidence at the scene was consistent with a fall of up to several hundred feet, and multiple forensic specialists concluded his death was accidental, caused by blunt force trauma from a rapid deceleration event. Investigators reported no evidence of foul play. Chance’s family, while accepting that a fall likely caused his death, continues to have questions about how he reached that location given the conditions and timeline.

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0:00.0	Chance Engelbert's episode first aired in October of 2019.
0:12.2	Since that time, there have been significant developments in his case.
0:16.1	On October 10, 2025, skeletal remains were discovered by hikers in a rugged remote area on the north side of
0:23.7	Scott's Bluff National Monument in Nebraska. The remains were later confirmed through dental
0:28.5	records and DNA testing to be those of Chance Engelbert, who had been missing since July of 2019.
0:35.1	We'll share more details in what is known now at the end of this episode.
0:42.1	So I just can't imagine what somebody said to hurt him so badly. Unfortunately, I could see my
0:48.5	son saying, let's get the fuck in the car and we're going home. If you got in the car, what was
0:53.0	said between Baird and her grandparents'
0:55.1	house is a 20-mile, 25-mile drive. It was broad daylight when he walked off. Everybody
1:00.2	keeps making a big deal out of the storm. I seen him in the videos in the surveillance cameras
1:06.0	walking. He did not appear drunk. He was upset. He was on a mission. He knew where he was walking and he was going there.
1:13.4	If I would have been driving by, I would have thought, oh, that's a nice looking kid on a walk. He didn't look like he needed help.
1:19.6	Nobody wrote a book on how to handle when your son goes missing. I just don't want my son's name forgotten. I believe somebody did something to him, and they need to pay for it.
1:29.9	He's not a kid that walked away to start a new life.
1:33.7	That's not my son.
1:35.0	He would never do that to his family, his brothers, or that little baby.
1:40.0	On July 6, 2019, 25-year-old Chance Engelbert spent the day golfing with his wife's family in Gearing, Nebraska.
1:49.7	He left with his wife Bailey and their infant son.
1:53.1	Together, they went to her grandparents' house to pick up a few things.
1:57.1	According to Bailey, it was in her grandparents' driveway around 7.30 p.m.
2:02.3	That Chance got out of the car and walked away, heading toward Terrytown.
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