I just can't see him deserting his wife, a new baby, his mother, his brother, a new job, his home, etc. over an argument.I am thinking the same, it’s just been too long...
With that said though, without knowing the entire drama he could have been going through (very tight lipped) it’s not impossible that he did finally get ahold of one friend that could get him, explained why he needed to get out of his life and then ghosts on everyone for 3+ months? Given the situation the friend might understand and decide to comply with helping him disappear for awhile.. if a rumor once posted happens to be true.. maybe he has a reason to be angry with his own family too.
Were the ever able to question EVERY friend he had called up that night?
If only....From what I have read there is a chance he took off. Family expectation from both sides plus what he probably was was putting on himself. We can be our toughest critic. He would know a lot of people. Could of got help from someone. It would be easy for him to get work and paid under the table. Maybe now he just doesn't know how to come back home. Jmo
He seemed to have been challenged in every aspect of his life in the months leading up to this walk.If only....
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Yes, life piled things on him, for sure. However, his family appears very solid, and so did he. This is why I am strongly leaning to the accidental death theory, especially since alcohol was involved? Nothing good comes of quarreling with in-laws and alcohol.He seemed to have been challenged in every aspect of his life in the months leading up to this walk.
He met his wife to be in January of 2018.
He was married nine months later.
He was a father six months after that.
He was laid off from his mining job about four months after that.
He had just spent a week in a small house in Gering with his in-laws.
An afternoon of arguments culminating with an argument with wife.
That is a scenario of building tensions. Underlying all of these facts are all of the family dynamics we are not privy to.
I can't see it, either.I just can't see him deserting his wife, a new baby, his mother, his brother, a new job, his home, etc. over an argument.
I think he wanted to go home and was figuring it out along the way when he either had some kind of accident - likely water-related - or met with foul play. JMO
I would be overjoyed to be wrong! MOOI can't see it, either.
He either died in an accidental drowning, or he met up with foul play.
If he is alive, I will be over joyed for him and his family.
Google MapsWhat I can't understand is why they haven't come up with alternative theories re the water and where the water may have taken him. I still feel strongly that he was overtaken by a quickly rising Platte River and was carried off.
Some very good thoughts. It seemed the phone pinged in the area of owl road. That is quite close to the Platte.Google Maps
This is the bridge he would have crossed after the storm, based on the report of the woman who saw him head across the river. ( this report was later discounted by LE) I doubt the river would rise that much after the storm to wash him off the bridge because it would have been reported because of the car/truck traffic.
He might have left the roadway and walked down closer to the shore line, but why would he do that, he was trying to get back to Torrington/Gering.
The other area he could have been carried away by the river is if he had walked up Owl Road a distance, because that road comes to the river's edge and the river is at road level.
Just some thoughts.
Walking away sometimes is necessary, for myself that was the case. I can not speak for Chance, I hope he has, and I understand. It has been many years,, and many miles later for me and I have no regrets and hopefully one day he will be found. MOO