Cowboy State Daily • 25th November 2025

DNA Confirms Chance Englebert Died In Nebraska Park, Cause Deemed Accidental

The Englebert family has confirmed that the remains discovered in October near a national park site in rural western Nebraska have been positively identified by DNA to be Chance Englebert, the Moorcroft man who had been missing for more than six years.

Cowboy State Daily • 8th November 2025

New Clues Spark Hope In Cold Case Of Disabled Casper Teen Missing For 21 Years

The Casper Police Department says new information may help finally solve the mystery of what happened to a 13-year-old developmentally disabled teen who disappeared from a Casper group home more than two decades ago.

Cowboy State Daily • 1st November 2025

50 Years After Casper Woman Vanished, Wyoming Man On Renewed Mission To Find Her

It’s a mystery that’s plagued her family and friends for nearly 50 years: What happened to Celeste Wyma Hensley Greub?

The then 20-year-old Casper woman disappeared while camping with her aunt and a family friend in the Bighorn Mountains in August 1976, never to be seen again.

Cowboy State Daily • 25th October 2025

Has Chance Englebert Been Found? Science Will Give Final Answer

The human remains discovered in rural Nebraska earlier this month are being evaluated to either confirm or rule out whether they are those of missing Moorcroft man Chance Englebert.

Cowboy State Daily • 17th October 2025

Mother Of Missing Sheridan Man Kyle Ellis Relieved Remains Have Been Identified

Human remains found on public land west of Cody in August have been identified as those of a Sheridan man missing for nearly eight years, the Sheridan County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.

Cowboy State Daily • 16th October 2025

Belongings Of Missing Moorcroft Man Chance Englebert Found Near Body, ID Pending

Authorities are one step closer to identifying the human remains discovered Oct. 10 near a national park site in rural western Nebraska as missing Moorcroft man Chance Englebert.

Although a positive identification has yet to be made through dental records and DNA samples, Englebert’s family was able to identify several unnamed items found near the remains as belonging to him, according to a statement Thursday from the Scotts Bluff County Attorney’s Office.

Cowboy State Daily • 11th October 2025

More Than 40 Years Later, Search Continues For Clues To Murder Of Buffalo Teen

It was the early 1980s and south-central Wyoming was winding down from an energy boom but was still attracting workers from all over the country and state with the promise of big money.

Among those drawn to the Rawlins area was 18-year-old Naomi Lee Kidder, who had left home three hours north in Buffalo, Wyoming, with friends to work on a seismograph crew in the oil field.

Cowboy State Daily • 3rd August 2025

Woman Hasn’t Given Up On Sister Who Vanished From A Pinedale Ranch 62 Years Ago

Camillia Olson is glad to be home. After decades of being away from Wyoming, the 77-year-old moved back to her hometown of Pinedale in March. It’s a special place to her in many ways.

Cowboy State Daily • 26th July 2025

Family Of Missing Sheridan Man More Desperate As Creek Search Turns Up No Clues

SHERIDAN — A volunteer search effort for a missing Sheridan man that included wading through a waist-deep creek yielded no clues as family and police continue to be baffled by what might have happened to him.

Cowboy State Daily • 9th March 2025

Who Killed Cheyenne Man Along Busy Street In Front Of 8-Year-Old Boy 24 Years Ago?

It was an early June morning in 2001, and Jamie Kamai was driving to work with his two young children in the backseat.

The 25-year-old was on his way to drop his baby daughter and young stepson off at the babysitter before heading off to his job as a delivery driver for Grier Furniture in Cheyenne, Wyoming.


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Cowboy State Daily • 8th December 2024

Family Still Desperate For Answers 43 Years After Young Wyoming Mother Vanished

Amber Elizabeth Scholz was 19 when she loaded up her car and infant son and headed from Ohio to Wyoming in 1979.

Her parents stood by helplessly as their daughter set off on the roughly 1,450-mile drive to parts unknown with only a paper map to guide her.

Cowboy State Daily • 25th August 2024

It’s Been 20 Years Since Renee Yeargain Disappeared From A Wyoming Rest Stop

Renee Yeargain was 24 when she disappeared from her Torrington, Wyoming, home in August 2004.

At the time, she was living with her four children and fiancé, Josh Minter, with whom she shared her youngest child. The couple planned to marry, but Yeargain vanished 12 days before the wedding day.

Cowboy State Daily • 20th April 2024

Police, Daughter Want Answers in 35-Year-Old Cold Case of Missing Wyoming Mother

It’s an anniversary Kelly Pehringer would prefer to forget. The day her mother, 42-year-old Kathleen Pehringer, vanished 35 years ago was the day her life altered permanently.

Cowboy State Daily • 3rd February 2024

Nearly 40 Years After Wyoming Man Went Missing, Family Copes With Proof Of His Death

Authorities tentatively confirm that a death certificate discovered by a Canadian genealogist and former journalist in November is that of Roque “Rocky” Najera, who disappeared from Rawlins in 1985 and has been missing for nearly four decades.

The Wyoming Truth • 16th August 2023

Over a Year Later, the Question Remains: What Happened to Chris Mauk?

Over a Year Later, the Question Remains: What Happened to Chris Mauk? Gillette volunteer investigators hit the ground to look for missing Laramie man

Yellow Scene Magazine • 23rd March 2023

Survivor Helps Put Sex Trafficker Behind Bars in One of the Region’s Biggest Trafficking Busts (Part 1)

By Jennifer Kocher

Special to the Wyoming Truth (AP Storyshare)

The first time Breahannah Leary met Penny (Gallegos) King in her Denver office in May 2015, she asked her father to wait in the car with the engine running. Leary didn’t foresee the conversation going well, if at all, and wanted a quick getaway. At the time, Leary was out on bond

The Wyoming Truth • 17th December 2022

THE SEARCH FOR IRENE: The Mysterious Life of Nathan Hightman (Part 4)

Hightman, now 39, told police that Gakwa, then 32, fled in a dark SUV in late February. He said hasn’t seen or talked to her since, according to court documents. Police have named Hightman a “person of interest” in her disappearance.

In the wake of Gakwa’s departure, Hightman was charged with five felonies, including allegedly transferring over $3,600 from her bank account and maxing out her credit card in over 90 separate transactions, according to court documents. He also has been charged wit

The Wyoming Truth • 23rd October 2023

Parents of Missing Torrington Woman Request Help Finding Their Daughter

Azia Diane Saldana left her parents’ home in Torrington in the late afternoon on Aug. 26 and never returned.

The Wyoming Truth • 30th November 2022

CRIME WATCH WYOMING: Father Wants Answers and Justice in Son’s Mysterious Death, Part 2

According to police records, Jeff Broberg was with Ken at his house in downtown Lusk the night before he disappeared in July 2014. Broberg said that Ken had been taking “large amounts of prescription medication” and that he’d hid the pills so Ken couldn’t take anymore. Broberg told police he thought Ken was depressed and had talked about killing himself before Broberg left his house late that evening.

Ernie said he received a call from his son that night. While he was taking a bath, Ken told hi

The Wyoming Truth • 29th November 2022

CRIME WATCH WYOMING: Father Seeks Answers in Son’s Mysterious Death, Part 1

“My first thoughts when I could not get a hold of Ken was he is either out and about or harm had come to him,” he said.

During what would be their last conversation, Ken complained to Ernie about two men he called “Tim” and “Jeff” who, he said, were trying to kill him.

“At the time, I first thought that he was high and being paranoid,” Ernie said.

When Ken didn’t answer, Ernie drove to Lusk from Torrington, where he met with former Lusk Police Chief Sean Dreesen at Ken’s rented home in downto

The Wyoming Truth • 28th June 2022

Eastern Shoshone Father Seeks Justice for Deceased Children

Day, who is Eastern Shoshone and lives in Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation, recently launched the “Dawn and Jeff I won’t be Silent” foundation in memory of his two deceased children. In 2012, Dawn was found floating in Morton Creek in Fremont County.