Dead & Gone in Wyoming

For more than six years, the disappearance of 25-year-old Chance Englebert remained one of Wyoming’s most haunting missing-person cases. In October 2025, hikers at Scotts Bluff National Monument discovered human remains that were later identified as Chance. Investigators concluded that he died from injuries sustained in an accidental fall.

In this follow-up to one of Dead & Gone in Wyoming’s most-listened-to episodes, Scott Fuller revisits Chance’s life, the stormy July night he disappeared, the massive search that followed, and the rumors and accusations that grew in the absence of answers.

Chance has finally been found. But while investigators now know where his journey ended, one question may never be completely answered: How did he get there?

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Six years after Dead & Gone in Wyoming first examined cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in the episode 'Indigenous', Scott Fuller brings you back to the Wind River Reservation to revisit those stories and the lives behind them.

The episode remembers Elyxis (Ohetica) Win, Winter Rose Jenkins, Alexandrea WhitePlume, and Marisa Spoonhunter, while confronting the violence, addiction, unanswered questions, and institutional failures surrounding their deaths.

It also features a new interview with Robert Spoonhunter, who served approximately a decade in federal prison after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of his sister Marissa, and Terri Smith, a former chief tribal judge convicted in a federal drug case. Today, both are involved in re-entry work aimed at helping tribal members return home from incarceration.

Learn more about the Northern Arapahoe Re-Entry Program through this featured video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xW-LjIp88gM&ra=m

On September 17, 2024, 22-year-old Austin King stood on the summit of Eagle Peak, the highest point in Yellowstone National Park. In the summit register, he wrote about numb fingers, fogged glasses, rain, sleet, hail, wind, and a route he knew was “not the right path.” Then he wrote one final line that would come to define the search for him: “Life is beautiful. Go out and LIVE IT.”

Three days later, Austin missed his scheduled boat pickup near Yellowstone Lake’s Southeast Arm. His camp and personal effects were found in the upper Howell Creek area, but Austin was gone.

In this episode, we follow Austin’s final known route, the search around Eagle Peak, the volunteer effort at Eagle Creek, the theories and limits of public speculation, and the reason this story matters now: Yellowstone fills with millions of visitors every summer, and one careful witness may still notice something the mountain has not yet given back.

Resources

Join the public Facebook group: Help Bring Austin King Home
https://www.facebook.com/groups/helpbringaustinkinghome/

Support the family’s search fund: Please help bring my son Austin King home
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Help-Resune-Searching-For-Austin-King-Fund

If you have information related to Austin King’s disappearance, contact Yellowstone National Park through current official channels or call 911 in an emergency.

In 1982, a pipe bomb exploded in Green River, Wyoming, badly injuring a 23-year-old woman and destroying an apartment.

Stephen Craig Campbell was soon after arrested, charged with attempted first-degree murder. Then, after being released on bond, he failed to appear in court — and vanished.

For more than forty years, Campbell’s wanted poster remained on a wall at the Sweetwater County Sheriff's Department, but Campbell remained at large.

In 2025, federal investigators say they found out why.

In October 1997, 14-year-old Amanda Gallion disappeared on her way to school in Gillette, Wyoming. Six days later, 20-year-old Patrick Ghering vanished too. Nearly three decades on, the space between those two disappearances remains one of Wyoming’s most haunting unsolved mysteries.