We conclude our look at the Chance Englebert case. Is it solved, and what can we learn if it is?

When a young cowboy goes missing in a sudden storm, his family is desperate for answers. What happened to Chance Englebert?

Resources:

• Chance Leslie Englebert – The Charley Project
• EPISODE 197: Chance Englebert — The Vanished Podcast
• Walmart video unable to confirm missing man sighting in Casper – Casper, WY Oil City News
• https://youtu.be/kqNe2gD2Cwk?si=HD7QUbtqhGMvs99n
• Missing: Chance Englebert | Terrytown, NE | Uncovered
• Gering Police release updated information in Chance Englebert investigation (starherald.com)
• Missing: Chance Englebert (youtube.com)
• Family fears the worst two months after Wyoming man Chance Englebert vanishes from Gering, Nebraska (nbcnews.com)

Even more of our fun ramblings, trip-ups, and silly bloopers from 2025.

2025 has come and gone and what a year it has been. We review our favorite cases and give you some stats.

It should have been a wonderful Christmas with family. Instead, it turned into an unimaginable horror.

Resources:

• Man on death row for 1990 Oakley cabin murders files fifth appeal
• Crime scene photos: Deadly home invasion
• Sisters survive deadly attack at Utah cabin – CBS News
• Gifts and Gunfire: Inside the Tiede Cabin Killings
• Taylor v. Powell, No. 20-4039 (10th Cir. 2021) :: Justia
• USCOURTS-utd-2_07-cv-00194-1.pdf
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Article clipped from The Park Record – Newspapers.com™
• DELI GETS LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE – Deseret News
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Judge overturns Utah death row inmate’s murder conviction | AP News
• Death row inmate in cabin killings dealt setback on appeal | AP News

We conclude our look at the Bryce Laspisa case.

When Bryce Laspisa left college heading for his parents’ home, what began as a simple drive turned into a bizarre, unending road trip, culminating in a mystery that persists to this day.

Resources:

• Roommate Hoping for the Best after Sierra College Student Goes Missing | FOX40
• The Missing: Bryce Laspisa – The Morbid Library
• WHERE IS Bryce Laspisa? California College Student Vanishes (youtube.com)
• Missing: Bryce Laspisa | Castaic , CA | Uncovered
• Disappeared, Episode Name: Road to Nowhere, Season 7, Episode 3
• Bryce Laspisa: What Happened to Him? Has He Been Found? (thecinemaholic.com)
• CA – CA – Bryce Laspisa, 19, Castaic-Timeline and Media Thread **NO DISCUSSION** | Websleuths
• Bryce David Laspisa – The Charley Project
• Crime Junkie- Missing: Bryce Laspisa, January 28, 2018
• The Disappearance of Bryce Laspisa – Stories of the Unsolved

Four young girls die tragically in a fire in Flora, Indiana. Was it preventable? And more importantly, was it murder?

Resources:

• One year later, what we know about Flora fire
• Flora Fire | Questions remain 7 years after 4 sisters killed in intentionally set fire – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Flora fatal fire ruled undetermined – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Flora fatal fire intentional; Investigators ask for help from citizens | wthr.com
• THE FLORA FIRE – A BRIEF TIMELINE : r/flora_arson
• Flora fire department chief resigns
• Flora Fire | Resignations, conflicting reports and suspicions of fraud cloud the investigation into fire that killed four girls – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Lawsuit filed on behalf of mother who lost 4 daughters in Flora fire expands to include Sears, others | Fox 59
• Docs: Settlement reached in Flora arson fire civil suit
• Flora fatal fire intentional; Investigators ask for help from citizens | wthr.com
• 5 years later: Mom of 4 girls killed in Flora fire feels ‘robbed as a mother’
• FBI Revisits 2016 Fatal Arson Case in Flora, Indiana, Urging Public to
• Indiana State Police: Mother Gaylin Rose ‘not a suspect’ in deadly Flora fire investigation | WTTV CBS4Indy
• FBI, state police go door to door to try to solve fatal 2016 Flora fire
• Lawsuit filed on behalf of mother who lost 4 daughters in Flora fire expands to include Sears, others | Fox 59
• Flora house where 4 children died demolished | News | wlfi.com
• Flora Fire | Questions remain 7 years after 4 sisters killed in intentionally set fire – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |

We have received a lot of questions about the trial in the Julia Bevely case for the murder of her stepdaughter, Jade Beasley. In an effort to help you understand the case, we have requested and begun to receive the trial transcripts in the case. Linked below is the first week of trial. As we receive more transcripts, we will post them here.

Week 1

We conclude our look at the Jodi Huisentruit abduction.