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, th

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 inte

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 per

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.

In November 1982, a Chevy Blazer was found running along Interstate 80 near Elk Mountain, Wyoming. The doors were open. A single set of footprints led north into the prairie. The vehicle belonged to 35-year-old Don Kemp, a former New York advertising executive who had set out west to write a book. Days later, a storm shut down the search. Months after Don was believed to have died, a turn in the case raised a startling possibility: that he might still be alive.