1 00:00:01,729 --> 00:00:05,729 [narrator] Christopher Hoye disappeared on May 19th, 2022. 2 00:00:05,763 --> 00:00:07,280 [Andrew Sheeley] It's gonna be nearly impossible 3 00:00:07,315 --> 00:00:10,315 to find somebody in the Ozarks and they disappear. 4 00:00:10,349 --> 00:00:12,867 [Alysha Hoye] I heard a truck start up and so I ran out to the front 5 00:00:12,901 --> 00:00:14,142 and Chris's truck isn't there. 6 00:00:14,177 --> 00:00:15,315 And I looked down, 7 00:00:15,349 --> 00:00:16,867 and his wallet's there and his phone's there. 8 00:00:16,901 --> 00:00:19,177 I need to find him 'cause this isn't right. 9 00:00:19,211 --> 00:00:20,625 Something's not right. 10 00:00:20,660 --> 00:00:23,625 [narrator] His family is desperate for answers. 11 00:00:23,660 --> 00:00:25,349 [Alysha] I started going through his email, 12 00:00:25,384 --> 00:00:28,005 and there were some emails missing, 13 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:29,177 and it was very odd. 14 00:00:29,211 --> 00:00:31,349 My husband doesn't delete emails. 15 00:00:31,384 --> 00:00:32,832 [Andrew] The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office 16 00:00:32,867 --> 00:00:34,832 does a thorough search of the vehicle. 17 00:00:34,867 --> 00:00:37,177 The only clue that's recovered is a cigarette butt. 18 00:00:38,315 --> 00:00:40,487 Did he have a relationship we don't know about? 19 00:00:40,522 --> 00:00:42,625 [narrator] This episode ofDisappeared 20 00:00:42,660 --> 00:00:45,729 retraces Christopher's last-known steps. 21 00:00:45,763 --> 00:00:47,970 [Andrew] A canine unit is deployed in this case 22 00:00:48,005 --> 00:00:50,142 to try to find a scent trail of Chris, 23 00:00:50,177 --> 00:00:53,349 and it does hit on one towards the highway. 24 00:00:53,384 --> 00:00:57,522 That only, in my mind, makes me think that he got picked up. 25 00:00:57,556 --> 00:01:00,246 Like, he didn't just disappear out of thin air. 26 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:03,798 [Alysha] I don't see my husband willingly leaving his children. 27 00:01:03,832 --> 00:01:05,280 They need to know where their dad is. 28 00:01:06,211 --> 00:01:07,453 They need their dad home. 29 00:01:08,384 --> 00:01:09,660 [sniffles] 30 00:01:09,694 --> 00:01:12,349 I need my husband home. 31 00:01:12,384 --> 00:01:14,694 [narrator] The more people who know Christopher's story, 32 00:01:14,729 --> 00:01:17,694 the greater the chance of bringing him home. 33 00:01:18,315 --> 00:01:19,798 Share on social media. 34 00:01:20,384 --> 00:01:21,349 Get the word out. 35 00:01:21,901 --> 00:01:23,073 Help find him. 36 00:01:23,970 --> 00:01:26,073 Have you seen Christopher Hoye? 37 00:01:44,246 --> 00:01:45,728 [Teresa Hoye] My name is Teresa Hoye. 38 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:51,487 My nephew Christopher James Hoye went missing 39 00:01:51,522 --> 00:01:54,177 May the 19th, 2022 40 00:01:54,728 --> 00:01:56,280 in Dixon, Missouri. 41 00:01:57,556 --> 00:01:58,798 And he's still missing. 42 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,591 He was born in Peoria, 43 00:02:03,211 --> 00:02:04,522 and he grew up there. 44 00:02:06,349 --> 00:02:08,453 I think everybody should know Chris. 45 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:14,108 When he was growing up, he was very energetic. 46 00:02:14,142 --> 00:02:17,315 When he gets excited about something you get excited about it. 47 00:02:17,349 --> 00:02:19,315 Always kinda laughing. 48 00:02:19,349 --> 00:02:20,936 He liked to make people happy. 49 00:02:22,108 --> 00:02:25,246 He was a pitcher in the baseball team. 50 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,315 He was pretty good. 51 00:02:26,349 --> 00:02:29,763 He also, um, had his own paper route. 52 00:02:31,625 --> 00:02:34,072 And once he was on his own, 53 00:02:34,108 --> 00:02:36,072 he was working at Caterpillar. 54 00:02:36,108 --> 00:02:39,005 But any job that controlled him, 55 00:02:39,039 --> 00:02:42,315 he really didn't care for after a while. 56 00:02:42,349 --> 00:02:47,453 So then he turned around and he wanted to better himself further. 57 00:02:48,108 --> 00:02:50,349 He started buying houses, 58 00:02:50,384 --> 00:02:54,694 and then doing what he loved was fixing 'em up, working with his hands. 59 00:02:56,867 --> 00:03:00,073 He had met a lady. He was crazy about her. 60 00:03:00,108 --> 00:03:01,867 And they had two children. 61 00:03:01,901 --> 00:03:03,832 But then all of a sudden, something happened. 62 00:03:04,729 --> 00:03:06,660 And I'm not real privy to it. 63 00:03:06,694 --> 00:03:07,936 She was nowhere to be found. 64 00:03:07,970 --> 00:03:10,867 He went gung ho and got custody of his two kids. 65 00:03:11,832 --> 00:03:13,177 And started a life. 66 00:03:14,005 --> 00:03:15,867 And a fatherhood will change you. 67 00:03:17,073 --> 00:03:18,418 And then he met Alysha. 68 00:03:20,073 --> 00:03:22,487 I'm Alysha Hoye. I am Chris's wife. 69 00:03:22,522 --> 00:03:24,556 I met Chris, um, at a bar... 70 00:03:26,625 --> 00:03:29,591 ...on November 3rd of 2017. 71 00:03:31,556 --> 00:03:33,211 I was meeting a friend of mine there. 72 00:03:33,246 --> 00:03:34,625 And we were gonna play pool. 73 00:03:34,660 --> 00:03:35,970 [indistinct chattering] 74 00:03:36,005 --> 00:03:37,211 And Chris is sitting at the bar. 75 00:03:37,901 --> 00:03:39,384 And he kinda scoots over. 76 00:03:39,418 --> 00:03:41,487 Asked... Just asking me how my day was. 77 00:03:41,522 --> 00:03:43,867 You know, what do... what do I do and all that. 78 00:03:43,901 --> 00:03:46,970 And we just sat and talked, and we talked a lot, 79 00:03:47,005 --> 00:03:49,729 uh, just about everything under the sun. 80 00:03:49,763 --> 00:03:51,832 [indistinct chattering] 81 00:03:51,867 --> 00:03:55,005 I might have fallen in love with him that night, you know.[chuckles] 82 00:03:57,211 --> 00:03:59,522 His kids lived with him, so I met them pretty early on. 83 00:04:02,591 --> 00:04:05,798 He seems like this very sweet, caring, father, you know. 84 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:12,142 But he didn't meet my daughter Zoe until four months later. 85 00:04:12,177 --> 00:04:15,901 All you need colors, powers, sound effects. 86 00:04:15,936 --> 00:04:18,591 Like, the first night we went over to his house, 87 00:04:18,625 --> 00:04:22,072 we sat in the kids playroom hitting each other with light sabers. 88 00:04:23,522 --> 00:04:26,970 -[exclaims] -[Zoe] And there were little sticky hands. 89 00:04:27,005 --> 00:04:28,453 Like, we were throwing 'em at each other, 90 00:04:28,487 --> 00:04:31,280 and then he made fun of me 'cause I got stuck one on the ceiling. 91 00:04:31,315 --> 00:04:33,970 -[laughing] -Oh, my God. 92 00:04:34,005 --> 00:04:36,039 [Zoe] And Mom was, like, recording all of it. 93 00:04:36,073 --> 00:04:38,108 She had this video, and she was just laughing 94 00:04:38,142 --> 00:04:39,763 like I've never heard her laugh before. 95 00:04:39,798 --> 00:04:42,418 -Dear, Lord. -[Alysha laughing] 96 00:04:44,694 --> 00:04:46,832 So I had always, like, prayed for siblings. 97 00:04:46,867 --> 00:04:48,936 Like, I always wanted a little brother, a little sister. 98 00:04:48,970 --> 00:04:50,280 And then I got both. 99 00:04:50,315 --> 00:04:51,453 It was really exciting. 100 00:04:51,487 --> 00:04:52,970 Like, the kids were so cute. 101 00:04:53,005 --> 00:04:55,073 It seemed like they were just immediately my siblings. 102 00:04:55,625 --> 00:04:57,211 I loved them. 103 00:04:57,246 --> 00:05:01,522 And I didn't really know how to feel about having a dad. 104 00:05:01,556 --> 00:05:03,867 But I was also super excited about it. 105 00:05:03,901 --> 00:05:06,005 And he was just super open. 106 00:05:06,039 --> 00:05:08,867 Like, we would try to help me whenever possible. 107 00:05:08,901 --> 00:05:12,798 It means a lot because I never thought I would have a dad. 108 00:05:12,832 --> 00:05:14,211 And he just jumped in. 109 00:05:17,246 --> 00:05:20,039 [Alysha] It was April of 2019 is when we found out... 110 00:05:21,315 --> 00:05:22,280 ...that we were pregnant. 111 00:05:24,384 --> 00:05:27,453 And we had already at that point set a date for the wedding. 112 00:05:33,901 --> 00:05:36,694 And we just had a... We had a small backyard ceremony 113 00:05:37,729 --> 00:05:38,970 with just the kids. 114 00:05:39,625 --> 00:05:41,005 And my cousin officiated. 115 00:05:50,936 --> 00:05:53,384 But I couldn't ask for anything more than that. 116 00:05:55,867 --> 00:05:56,936 Chris was very excited. 117 00:05:56,970 --> 00:05:58,970 He was just hoping for another boy. 118 00:05:59,005 --> 00:06:02,349 And he did not get that, um...[laughing] 119 00:06:02,384 --> 00:06:05,694 But he loves... He loves all his kids. 120 00:06:05,729 --> 00:06:10,073 And he was ecstatic to have another one join the family. 121 00:06:16,108 --> 00:06:20,384 But when I met Chris, he had some rental properties, um, in Peoria. 122 00:06:20,418 --> 00:06:22,418 And then he had Airbnbs. 123 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:26,177 So we decided we would grow the rental properties. 124 00:06:26,211 --> 00:06:28,246 You know, passive income is a great thing. 125 00:06:29,798 --> 00:06:32,039 The Airbnb business was booming then. 126 00:06:32,073 --> 00:06:34,418 So we were making decent money 127 00:06:35,142 --> 00:06:36,280 until COVID hit. 128 00:06:37,832 --> 00:06:40,591 New York, California, Illinois, and Connecticut, 129 00:06:40,625 --> 00:06:43,591 all ordering non-essential employees to stay home. 130 00:06:43,625 --> 00:06:47,418 Those orders cover 75,000,000 people across the United States. 131 00:06:47,453 --> 00:06:49,901 And then it all, you know, 132 00:06:49,936 --> 00:06:51,246 it all kinda fell apart. 133 00:06:52,556 --> 00:06:54,108 We lost 10 grand a month. 134 00:06:56,108 --> 00:06:58,453 So we made that hard decision together. 135 00:06:58,487 --> 00:06:59,867 Um, and we decided, 136 00:06:59,901 --> 00:07:01,694 you know, we were gonna cut our losses. 137 00:07:01,729 --> 00:07:04,798 We took what we had and we moved here to Missouri. 138 00:07:12,694 --> 00:07:15,763 We wanted the homestead, uh, with the garden and the animals. 139 00:07:15,798 --> 00:07:19,039 I always had baby goats in mind, you know. And so did he. 140 00:07:19,073 --> 00:07:21,763 It just seemed like the next chapter in our story. 141 00:07:23,211 --> 00:07:24,729 [Andrew] My name's Andrew Sheeley. 142 00:07:24,763 --> 00:07:27,315 I'm a news reporter withPhelps County Focus in Rolla, Missouri. 143 00:07:28,798 --> 00:07:30,349 Since the COVID-19 pandemic, 144 00:07:30,384 --> 00:07:33,246 we've had this wave of folks moving into the Ozarks 145 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:37,039 who are trying to live this homestead lifestyle. 146 00:07:37,073 --> 00:07:39,936 And Chris was part of this migration that's going on right now. 147 00:07:41,729 --> 00:07:44,763 They wanted to be able to grow their own food, have their own animals. 148 00:07:45,625 --> 00:07:47,177 I did think it was cool, 149 00:07:47,211 --> 00:07:49,970 and they were doing something together that they both loved doing. 150 00:07:50,005 --> 00:07:53,867 And they just had more big plans for the future. 151 00:07:53,901 --> 00:07:58,522 I did stay up in Illinois because I had gotten accepted into nursing school. 152 00:07:58,556 --> 00:08:01,556 But by the time I had come down for the first time 153 00:08:01,591 --> 00:08:05,487 they had gotten pretty much everything they needed, uh, set up. 154 00:08:05,522 --> 00:08:07,522 Like, they had pens for the animals. 155 00:08:07,556 --> 00:08:11,039 The house was looking a lot better than the pictures. 156 00:08:11,073 --> 00:08:13,901 Um, the kids were super excited to show me their rooms 157 00:08:13,936 --> 00:08:15,418 and what they were doing, their toys. 158 00:08:15,453 --> 00:08:17,798 Like, I had never seen them so proud 159 00:08:17,832 --> 00:08:19,211 of what they had made down here. 160 00:08:22,591 --> 00:08:25,694 But I noticed something was off about Chris. 161 00:08:25,729 --> 00:08:27,384 And I didn't know what it was. 162 00:08:27,418 --> 00:08:28,901 And I asked him if he was okay. 163 00:08:28,936 --> 00:08:31,660 And he's like, "You know, I'm just... I'm going through it." 164 00:08:31,694 --> 00:08:34,314 And he just seemed a little different. 165 00:08:34,349 --> 00:08:36,832 [Blake Potter] My name is Blake Fodder, and, 166 00:08:37,556 --> 00:08:39,556 Chris is my fiancee's stepdad. 167 00:08:41,005 --> 00:08:43,073 Obviously, the family was happy. 168 00:08:43,107 --> 00:08:44,141 The kids were happy. 169 00:08:50,142 --> 00:08:54,487 But moving to Missouri with all that because of COVID, 170 00:08:54,522 --> 00:08:57,177 that puts a... a stress on everybody, 171 00:08:57,211 --> 00:08:59,384 especially with the money loss. 172 00:08:59,418 --> 00:09:00,901 [Alysha] And the first couple of months we were there 173 00:09:00,936 --> 00:09:03,384 all we did was we settled in. 174 00:09:03,418 --> 00:09:07,936 And then I got a job as an ABA therapist part-time. 175 00:09:07,970 --> 00:09:09,729 Chris, he's like, "I wanna home-school the kids." 176 00:09:09,763 --> 00:09:12,418 Like, we were building our dreams. 177 00:09:12,453 --> 00:09:14,453 [music playing] 178 00:09:16,142 --> 00:09:17,108 [child exclaims] 179 00:09:19,177 --> 00:09:22,108 [Alysha] May 19th, 2022, we wake up at 6:00, 180 00:09:22,142 --> 00:09:23,625 and we go have our coffee. 181 00:09:23,660 --> 00:09:24,798 You know, we do our chores. 182 00:09:24,832 --> 00:09:26,487 I take off to work. 183 00:09:26,522 --> 00:09:29,418 Come home, and there's a severe thunderstorm warning. 184 00:09:29,453 --> 00:09:32,246 Our property has a habit of flooding. 185 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:37,108 And we go to the back and we work on preventing it from flooding. 186 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,418 We're outside, and we're soaking wet 'cause of the... the rain. 187 00:09:45,453 --> 00:09:48,280 And he's like, "All right, I'm gonna go take a shower." 188 00:09:48,315 --> 00:09:50,384 Said, "Okay, babe." And I go in and I check on the kids. 189 00:09:51,591 --> 00:09:52,901 Kinda clean up. 190 00:09:52,936 --> 00:09:54,625 And I'm standing at the counter when he comes out. 191 00:09:55,901 --> 00:09:57,867 And I'm like, "Hey, baby, I'm gonna go. 192 00:09:57,901 --> 00:09:59,005 I'm gonna go milk the goats." 193 00:10:00,591 --> 00:10:01,591 And he goes, "Okay, baby." 194 00:10:02,522 --> 00:10:04,142 And so I go through the basement, 195 00:10:05,005 --> 00:10:06,384 to the garage down to the basement. 196 00:10:08,005 --> 00:10:10,315 And I hear a truck start up and leave. 197 00:10:11,108 --> 00:10:12,280 And so I run up to the front. 198 00:10:16,108 --> 00:10:17,487 And Chris's truck isn't there. 199 00:10:17,522 --> 00:10:18,625 And the gate's open. 200 00:10:19,867 --> 00:10:21,798 And so I run inside, "Where'd your dad go?" 201 00:10:21,832 --> 00:10:25,246 My son, he said, "I don't know." He told me to go to my room. 202 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,418 I'm like, "That's all he said? He's like, "Yeah." 203 00:10:27,453 --> 00:10:28,798 So he goes, "Where'd he go?" 204 00:10:28,832 --> 00:10:30,729 I said, "I don't know, bud," you know. 205 00:10:31,832 --> 00:10:34,039 I go out to the porch and I'm... I'm kinda mad. 206 00:10:34,073 --> 00:10:36,211 You know, 'cause Chris never leaves. 207 00:10:38,522 --> 00:10:42,556 He never leaves the house without giving me a kiss, telling me he loves me. 208 00:10:42,591 --> 00:10:46,005 Or giving the kids a kiss, telling them that he loves them, you know. 209 00:10:46,625 --> 00:10:47,832 It's routine with him. 210 00:10:51,142 --> 00:10:53,073 And I sit on the porch and I called Zoe, 211 00:10:53,108 --> 00:10:54,487 and I'm like, "Chris just left. 212 00:10:56,005 --> 00:10:57,832 And he left the gate open." 213 00:10:57,867 --> 00:10:59,005 She goes, "Okay, what did he take?" 214 00:11:00,315 --> 00:11:03,970 And I looked down at the porch table,[sniffles] 215 00:11:04,005 --> 00:11:05,867 and his wallet's there and his phone's there. 216 00:11:05,901 --> 00:11:08,453 And I'm like, "Well, he didn't take his wallet or his phone." 217 00:11:08,487 --> 00:11:11,487 And I just have this nagging feeling that I need to find him... 218 00:11:12,832 --> 00:11:14,142 ...because this isn't right. 219 00:11:14,177 --> 00:11:16,522 Something's not right. 220 00:11:16,556 --> 00:11:20,211 So I call a friend of mine over to watch the kids. 221 00:11:20,246 --> 00:11:24,039 And I tell her, I'm like, "I... I gotta go check the river." 222 00:11:24,073 --> 00:11:26,384 And it was just, like, instinct. 223 00:11:26,418 --> 00:11:28,349 I don't... It was a gut feeling. 224 00:11:28,384 --> 00:11:30,280 You know, so if he just needs to get away, 225 00:11:30,315 --> 00:11:32,315 I feel like he would go and sit at the river. 226 00:11:32,349 --> 00:11:35,211 You know, commune with nature 'cause that's what he likes to do. 227 00:11:35,246 --> 00:11:36,832 You know. [chuckles] 228 00:11:36,867 --> 00:11:41,487 Um, so I think that's why I'm thinking, "Look there. 229 00:11:41,522 --> 00:11:42,487 I gotta find my husband." 230 00:11:43,694 --> 00:11:45,108 And so I go the river. 231 00:11:45,142 --> 00:11:46,625 It's not even a mile from my house. 232 00:11:48,142 --> 00:11:49,280 And I see his truck. 233 00:11:49,867 --> 00:11:51,694 So I pull off. 234 00:11:51,729 --> 00:11:56,005 I smell honeysuckle, and it's his favorite flower. 235 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:59,522 I walk across the road and I look in the truck. 236 00:11:59,556 --> 00:12:02,936 And it's not locked. The key is in the ignition. 237 00:12:02,970 --> 00:12:04,280 There's nothing in there. 238 00:12:04,315 --> 00:12:06,246 He's not there. 239 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,522 And I look around. There's no footprints. 240 00:12:08,556 --> 00:12:11,867 So the river, um, 241 00:12:11,901 --> 00:12:15,418 where he parked his truck is actually where we go and we take the kids swimming. 242 00:12:16,315 --> 00:12:18,005 I mean, it can get kinda deep. 243 00:12:18,970 --> 00:12:20,901 Given where Chris's truck is found 244 00:12:20,936 --> 00:12:22,936 by the Highway 28 bridge by the Gasconade, 245 00:12:22,970 --> 00:12:25,280 it looks immediately like an emergency. 246 00:12:25,315 --> 00:12:26,694 Because the Gasconade River 247 00:12:26,729 --> 00:12:30,073 is actually one of the deadlier rivers in this area. 248 00:12:30,108 --> 00:12:33,418 And the reason why is it's deeper, strong current. 249 00:12:33,453 --> 00:12:35,073 And many people have drowned in that. 250 00:12:36,315 --> 00:12:38,901 His truck is parked. He's nowhere to be found. 251 00:12:38,936 --> 00:12:40,901 Now, given that the river's right there, 252 00:12:40,936 --> 00:12:44,694 you have to logically conclude he may have gotten swept up in the river. 253 00:12:44,729 --> 00:12:47,591 And the fact that it swelled up because of a rainstorm 254 00:12:47,625 --> 00:12:48,867 makes it all the more dangerous. 255 00:12:49,556 --> 00:12:50,522 [Alysha] So at that moment... 256 00:12:52,660 --> 00:12:56,246 ...every worst-case scenario is running through my mind. 257 00:12:57,384 --> 00:13:00,522 And... And I don't know what to think. 258 00:13:01,349 --> 00:13:02,936 I don't know what to feel. 259 00:13:02,970 --> 00:13:05,798 I don't... Like, I don't know what to do. 260 00:13:05,832 --> 00:13:09,108 Just everything starts running through my... my head... 261 00:13:10,625 --> 00:13:13,522 ...of what could have possibly happened. 262 00:13:13,556 --> 00:13:15,005 He could be floating down river. 263 00:13:15,039 --> 00:13:16,936 He could be clinging to a log. 264 00:13:16,970 --> 00:13:19,005 He could be moments away from drowning. 265 00:13:29,556 --> 00:13:32,384 Given the circumstances of Chris's disappearance, 266 00:13:32,418 --> 00:13:33,901 time is of the essence. 267 00:13:33,936 --> 00:13:37,763 Ad so the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office responds in full force. 268 00:13:39,625 --> 00:13:41,901 But unfortunately, at that point, it's so dark, 269 00:13:41,936 --> 00:13:44,039 the woods are so dense. 270 00:13:44,073 --> 00:13:45,901 There's just not a lot you're gonna be able to do 271 00:13:45,936 --> 00:13:47,280 if you're searching for a person. 272 00:13:52,487 --> 00:13:55,073 [Alysha] So the next morning by 9:00 o'clock, 273 00:13:55,108 --> 00:13:58,522 the detective comes over and he talks to me. 274 00:13:58,556 --> 00:14:00,453 And he goes, "Okay, I've got a search team." 275 00:14:00,487 --> 00:14:02,763 And I was grateful. 276 00:14:02,798 --> 00:14:05,832 [Andrew] I mean, they put together a team of 50 officers 277 00:14:05,867 --> 00:14:08,349 because they know if he is in that river, 278 00:14:08,384 --> 00:14:09,763 he might be moments from death. 279 00:14:09,798 --> 00:14:11,936 The sooner that they can find him, 280 00:14:11,970 --> 00:14:14,487 the more likely it is that he's gonna be able to survive. 281 00:14:16,556 --> 00:14:18,108 [Alysha] It was approaching 5:00 o'clock, 282 00:14:18,142 --> 00:14:21,108 so I decided I was gonna go ahead and call the detective. 283 00:14:21,142 --> 00:14:22,591 He's like, "We just got back." 284 00:14:22,625 --> 00:14:24,660 Um, so they were there six hours or so. 285 00:14:25,798 --> 00:14:29,453 And he goes, "We searched everywhere we could. 286 00:14:29,487 --> 00:14:31,694 We took drones out." 287 00:14:31,729 --> 00:14:34,315 They searched, uh, three miles downstream. 288 00:14:34,349 --> 00:14:38,453 Three or four miles upstream just in case. 289 00:14:38,487 --> 00:14:41,246 And he said, "We didn't find any signs. We didn't find him." 290 00:14:43,901 --> 00:14:45,798 [Andrew] The river is the initial focus. 291 00:14:45,832 --> 00:14:47,867 There's an intensive search made of the river. 292 00:14:48,832 --> 00:14:50,453 For five miles going down the river, 293 00:14:50,487 --> 00:14:53,246 they drag it, they search it, they look for clothing. 294 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:54,901 Nothing is found. 295 00:14:54,936 --> 00:14:57,315 And five miles is key in this case 296 00:14:57,349 --> 00:15:00,177 because the Gasconade River's particularly windy. 297 00:15:00,211 --> 00:15:03,349 And I mean, it's unlikely the body's gonna float down river 298 00:15:03,384 --> 00:15:06,211 past all of those curves, all of those twists. 299 00:15:06,246 --> 00:15:08,039 It would get hung up in branches. 300 00:15:08,073 --> 00:15:10,418 It would get stuck in a whirlpool, something. 301 00:15:12,522 --> 00:15:14,005 They don't find any clues. 302 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:17,418 Now, if there's no clothing found, if there's no footprints, 303 00:15:18,177 --> 00:15:19,177 they're at a dead end. 304 00:15:24,591 --> 00:15:26,211 [Alysha] Doesn't make sense why he would leave. 305 00:15:27,556 --> 00:15:29,763 Like, why? 306 00:15:29,798 --> 00:15:33,211 When Chris gets down he... he usually just bounces right back. 307 00:15:33,246 --> 00:15:37,039 The events of the last few years did weigh on him 308 00:15:37,073 --> 00:15:39,280 quite a bit. 309 00:15:39,315 --> 00:15:43,349 But before this appeared he wasn't quite as vibrant of a person. 310 00:15:45,108 --> 00:15:48,867 You know, the rental businesses were a flop with COVID. 311 00:15:48,901 --> 00:15:50,591 And he would tell me, you know, he was sad 312 00:15:50,625 --> 00:15:52,729 that he didn't have this empire, 313 00:15:52,763 --> 00:15:56,211 you know, that he was trying to create and to leave for his kids. 314 00:15:57,936 --> 00:16:01,142 [Zoe] Chris pretty much had no business anymore. 315 00:16:01,177 --> 00:16:03,211 Like, COVID just shot everything down. 316 00:16:03,246 --> 00:16:05,798 Like, I know income dropped a lot. 317 00:16:05,832 --> 00:16:07,660 And bills were just piling up 318 00:16:07,694 --> 00:16:12,901 because they didn't have a whole lot to help pay anymore. 319 00:16:12,936 --> 00:16:15,556 I just know after COVID really hit, 320 00:16:15,591 --> 00:16:18,211 everything just kinda went to hell. 321 00:16:21,177 --> 00:16:24,418 [Teresa] All the houses were all in foreclosure then. 322 00:16:24,453 --> 00:16:27,763 And I know it had hurt him bad. 323 00:16:27,798 --> 00:16:30,418 He was a proud guy, a proud man. 324 00:16:30,453 --> 00:16:32,211 I'm sure he felt ashamed. 325 00:16:33,970 --> 00:16:36,073 There's a lot to home studying. 326 00:16:36,108 --> 00:16:38,522 A lot of people think they can just jump right into it, 327 00:16:38,556 --> 00:16:39,729 and you can't. 328 00:16:39,763 --> 00:16:43,108 It is a lot of work and a lot of money. 329 00:16:43,142 --> 00:16:45,073 They home-schooled their kids. 330 00:16:45,108 --> 00:16:47,867 So that on top of everything else, 331 00:16:47,901 --> 00:16:49,763 that's a lot of pressure. 332 00:16:49,798 --> 00:16:51,005 [Zoe] Right before he left, like, 333 00:16:51,832 --> 00:16:53,625 he was consistently depressed. 334 00:16:53,660 --> 00:16:56,798 Like, it didn't seem from what mom said that he bounced back up, 335 00:16:56,832 --> 00:16:59,142 or even from the last time I saw him, like, 336 00:16:59,177 --> 00:17:00,832 he had just been depressed. 337 00:17:02,315 --> 00:17:04,901 [Alysha] The week before he disappeared, 338 00:17:04,936 --> 00:17:07,624 he did tell me that he didn't wanna do this anymore. 339 00:17:07,660 --> 00:17:09,210 "I'm like, "Don't wanna do what?" 340 00:17:09,246 --> 00:17:11,487 I'm like, "Babe, if there is anything I can do, 341 00:17:12,383 --> 00:17:13,522 you... you know I'll do it. 342 00:17:13,555 --> 00:17:14,867 You know, whatever you need." 343 00:17:15,832 --> 00:17:18,005 And he couldn't pinpoint anything. 344 00:17:18,039 --> 00:17:20,108 Communication wasn't all that strong. 345 00:17:20,142 --> 00:17:22,797 But I felt like there was stuff on his mind. 346 00:17:22,832 --> 00:17:25,108 There's something big in his head, 347 00:17:25,142 --> 00:17:28,901 um, and he wasn't sharing in that week. 348 00:17:28,936 --> 00:17:31,936 Whether it was, you know, some outside force, 349 00:17:31,970 --> 00:17:33,901 or just something, his own thoughts, 350 00:17:34,660 --> 00:17:36,384 I could never... 351 00:17:36,418 --> 00:17:41,142 And, like, to do this day I can't... I can't pinpoint what was going on. 352 00:17:42,073 --> 00:17:43,798 I didn't know what to do. 353 00:17:44,970 --> 00:17:46,970 Like, I felt like things had changed. 354 00:17:47,005 --> 00:17:48,005 Something had changed. 355 00:17:50,005 --> 00:17:53,349 Chris was probably doubting himself for months 356 00:17:53,384 --> 00:17:55,315 leading up to his disappearance. 357 00:17:55,349 --> 00:17:58,177 He probably had this anxiety building up in himself, 358 00:17:58,211 --> 00:18:02,005 this fear, this dread that he was a failure, 359 00:18:02,039 --> 00:18:04,970 that he was dragging his family down. 360 00:18:05,005 --> 00:18:08,039 And that developed malignantly within himself. 361 00:18:08,073 --> 00:18:09,763 He started to doubt whether or not 362 00:18:09,798 --> 00:18:12,177 they were going to be able to make it in the Ozarks. 363 00:18:12,211 --> 00:18:15,280 And it developed into this overwhelming fear. 364 00:18:15,315 --> 00:18:18,418 And what his family was seeing is this sudden break. 365 00:18:18,453 --> 00:18:21,211 It actually had been building up over time, for months 366 00:18:21,246 --> 00:18:24,936 as Chris started to doubt whether or not the homestead was gonna be successful. 367 00:18:26,418 --> 00:18:28,211 I think that suicide is something 368 00:18:28,246 --> 00:18:30,073 we have to seriously consider in this case. 369 00:18:32,970 --> 00:18:35,763 One of the biggest things I did think at first was suicide 370 00:18:35,798 --> 00:18:38,108 because he left his phone, left his wallet, 371 00:18:38,142 --> 00:18:40,005 took his truck down to the river. 372 00:18:40,039 --> 00:18:42,005 I don't think that so much anymore 373 00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,211 because when he had first met me 374 00:18:44,246 --> 00:18:45,591 I self-harmed a lot, 375 00:18:45,625 --> 00:18:48,763 and one of his biggest things that always stuck to me was, 376 00:18:48,798 --> 00:18:50,798 "Do you want me to have to explain to your siblings 377 00:18:50,832 --> 00:18:53,039 why they don't have a big sister anymore?" 378 00:18:53,073 --> 00:18:55,867 And that... that was always such a big deal to me. 379 00:18:55,901 --> 00:18:58,763 I don't think he would ever commit suicide 380 00:18:58,798 --> 00:19:02,832 because he would always fight through whatever was going on. 381 00:19:04,211 --> 00:19:05,487 He wanted to clean out the basement. 382 00:19:05,522 --> 00:19:07,177 He wanted to become a notary. 383 00:19:07,211 --> 00:19:09,108 He had all these wants. 384 00:19:09,142 --> 00:19:11,280 And he... He had plans. 385 00:19:11,315 --> 00:19:13,970 You're not gonna make those plans 386 00:19:14,005 --> 00:19:16,349 if you're not gonna try to follow through. 387 00:19:16,384 --> 00:19:19,349 At least, my husband never made plans without following through. 388 00:19:19,384 --> 00:19:21,453 He was very deliberate in his actions. 389 00:19:22,798 --> 00:19:25,177 [Blake] I don't think he was suicidal. 390 00:19:25,211 --> 00:19:26,729 Depressed, most definitely. 391 00:19:26,763 --> 00:19:28,349 But suicidal, no. 392 00:19:28,384 --> 00:19:30,867 No, I don't... I don't think that one bit. 393 00:19:36,142 --> 00:19:38,591 [Alysha] So the night I found his truck at the river, 394 00:19:38,625 --> 00:19:41,694 my thought was not that he went, you know, suicide. 395 00:19:41,729 --> 00:19:43,729 And to this day it's not... It's not my thought. 396 00:19:43,763 --> 00:19:45,108 I don't know what happened, 397 00:19:45,142 --> 00:19:46,487 but I don't believe it was suicide. 398 00:19:54,625 --> 00:19:57,246 The police did search 10 days after. 399 00:19:57,280 --> 00:19:59,936 Had conservation out there, highway patrol. 400 00:20:00,556 --> 00:20:02,591 People in boats, you know. 401 00:20:02,625 --> 00:20:04,832 A canine unit is deployed in this case 402 00:20:04,867 --> 00:20:06,901 to try and find a scent trail of Chris, 403 00:20:06,936 --> 00:20:08,315 and it does hit on one. 404 00:20:08,349 --> 00:20:10,453 In fact, it leads away from the truck 405 00:20:10,487 --> 00:20:12,142 and towards the highway. 406 00:20:12,177 --> 00:20:16,108 But the scent trail that the dog picks up suddenly stops. 407 00:20:16,142 --> 00:20:18,798 When you have the canine unit come out, 408 00:20:18,832 --> 00:20:21,591 and they get a scent that leads up to the road, 409 00:20:21,625 --> 00:20:23,280 and then it just disappears, 410 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:26,280 that... that only, in my mind, 411 00:20:26,315 --> 00:20:28,763 makes me think that he got picked up. 412 00:20:28,798 --> 00:20:31,108 Like, he doesn't just disappear out of thin air. 413 00:20:33,315 --> 00:20:34,798 [Zoe] We don't know who would have picked him up. 414 00:20:34,832 --> 00:20:36,901 Like, who, if he was picked up, 415 00:20:36,936 --> 00:20:38,177 like, who would have picked him up? 416 00:20:38,211 --> 00:20:40,073 And why has no one said anything? 417 00:20:41,211 --> 00:20:42,694 [Andrew] The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office 418 00:20:42,729 --> 00:20:44,246 does a thorough search of the vehicle, 419 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:45,729 and there's no evidence of foul play. 420 00:20:45,763 --> 00:20:46,798 There's no blood, 421 00:20:46,832 --> 00:20:49,039 there's no signs of violence or struggle. 422 00:20:49,073 --> 00:20:51,487 The only clue that's recovered is a cigarette butt. 423 00:20:53,556 --> 00:20:55,798 [Alysha] And it wasn't a brand that Chris smokes. 424 00:20:55,832 --> 00:20:57,625 Uh, wasn't a brand that I smoke. 425 00:20:57,660 --> 00:21:01,005 So I thought it was odd. Something was amiss. 426 00:21:01,039 --> 00:21:04,177 [Andrew] This cigarette butt is one of the only clues in this case. 427 00:21:04,211 --> 00:21:05,901 And it could be significant. 428 00:21:05,936 --> 00:21:08,005 I mean, could this be the key to solving this crime? 429 00:21:19,039 --> 00:21:21,142 [Andrew] The cigarette butt being found in Chris' truck 430 00:21:21,177 --> 00:21:22,936 opens up the possibility 431 00:21:22,970 --> 00:21:25,315 that someone else is involved in this case. 432 00:21:25,349 --> 00:21:26,591 Who could that be? 433 00:21:27,729 --> 00:21:30,487 Was there somebody that wanted to do him harm? 434 00:21:30,522 --> 00:21:33,832 [Alysha] The fact that his scent was tracked to the road, 435 00:21:33,867 --> 00:21:38,005 it tells me that he was picked up. 436 00:21:38,039 --> 00:21:40,763 I think there's a likelihood of Chris 437 00:21:40,798 --> 00:21:42,832 being forced out of the house, 438 00:21:42,867 --> 00:21:45,591 um, of being lured away, if you will, 439 00:21:45,625 --> 00:21:46,591 to protect his family. 440 00:21:48,556 --> 00:21:51,349 [Andrew] What we know is the scent trail that the dog picks up 441 00:21:51,384 --> 00:21:54,798 leads to the highway and then it suddenly stops. 442 00:21:54,832 --> 00:21:57,246 Now, we've got to consider two possibilities there. 443 00:21:57,280 --> 00:22:00,142 Now, it could be that Chris voluntarily got in a vehicle, 444 00:22:00,177 --> 00:22:03,487 or maybe Chris was forcibly put in a vehicle. 445 00:22:03,522 --> 00:22:05,660 Thrown in the bed of a truck, driven off. 446 00:22:07,660 --> 00:22:09,832 The way Chris left his house 447 00:22:09,867 --> 00:22:12,315 the day he disappeared is a big red flag. 448 00:22:14,039 --> 00:22:15,556 He leaves behind his wallet. 449 00:22:15,591 --> 00:22:17,349 He leaves behind his cell phone. 450 00:22:17,384 --> 00:22:19,177 He leaves his kids behind. 451 00:22:19,211 --> 00:22:21,177 He doesn't say where he's going. 452 00:22:21,211 --> 00:22:22,729 And he leaves his gate open. 453 00:22:23,453 --> 00:22:25,660 Given the way Chris left, 454 00:22:25,694 --> 00:22:27,763 homicide is something you've gotta consider. 455 00:22:31,211 --> 00:22:33,177 [Alysha] Apparently, our area, it's, uh, 456 00:22:33,211 --> 00:22:35,315 a place where meth heads frequent. 457 00:22:36,798 --> 00:22:38,867 And six months before he disappeared, 458 00:22:38,901 --> 00:22:41,625 woken up, at 4:00 a.m., 459 00:22:41,660 --> 00:22:42,660 and the dogs were barking. 460 00:22:43,418 --> 00:22:45,211 [barking] 461 00:22:45,246 --> 00:22:46,970 Chris goes to the front door, 462 00:22:47,005 --> 00:22:49,246 and he sees someone leaving our property, 463 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:50,832 walking out of our drive, 464 00:22:50,867 --> 00:22:52,832 down the road, and gets into a red car. 465 00:22:52,867 --> 00:22:55,694 I don't know if they saw that we had, 466 00:22:56,832 --> 00:22:58,177 that we were building stuff, 467 00:22:58,211 --> 00:23:00,073 so maybe, you know, we either had the money, 468 00:23:00,108 --> 00:23:01,729 or we had materials they could use, 469 00:23:01,763 --> 00:23:04,453 or, you know, what a heavy, um, I don't know. 470 00:23:05,246 --> 00:23:07,453 So my husband, he follows them. 471 00:23:07,487 --> 00:23:09,315 And, you know. Has a confrontation. 472 00:23:09,349 --> 00:23:10,729 Basically says, you know. 473 00:23:10,763 --> 00:23:12,936 Tells 'em, told 'em to, uh, 474 00:23:12,970 --> 00:23:14,315 stay off our land. 475 00:23:14,349 --> 00:23:15,936 It's ours, like, 476 00:23:15,970 --> 00:23:17,591 you don't need to be on it, there's no reason for it. 477 00:23:17,625 --> 00:23:19,315 We have livestock, we have animals, we have kids. 478 00:23:21,694 --> 00:23:23,418 [Andrew] You know, the Ozarks is very beautiful, 479 00:23:23,453 --> 00:23:26,280 but unfortunately, it has a massive drug problem. 480 00:23:26,315 --> 00:23:27,798 You know, we had a meth boom 481 00:23:27,832 --> 00:23:30,108 starting in the '90s, that has not let up. 482 00:23:30,142 --> 00:23:31,763 And then within the last 10 years, 483 00:23:31,798 --> 00:23:34,177 the opioid crisis has really taken over, 484 00:23:34,211 --> 00:23:37,108 and that's really been a one-two punch for this region. 485 00:23:38,522 --> 00:23:40,280 When Chris and Alysha moved to the Ozarks, 486 00:23:40,315 --> 00:23:42,315 they encounter this kind of pecking order 487 00:23:42,349 --> 00:23:44,315 that exists in the countryside. 488 00:23:44,349 --> 00:23:45,970 You know, we have a lot of drug addicts, 489 00:23:46,005 --> 00:23:49,142 we had a lot of crime that is associated with that. 490 00:23:49,177 --> 00:23:50,936 And whenever somebody moves here, 491 00:23:50,970 --> 00:23:52,591 you know, they start looking for, you know, 492 00:23:52,625 --> 00:23:53,936 vulnerabilities, you know, 493 00:23:53,970 --> 00:23:55,384 is this somebody I can rob? 494 00:23:55,418 --> 00:23:57,418 Is this somebody I can burglarize? 495 00:23:57,453 --> 00:24:00,142 And indeed, they do encounter some of that. 496 00:24:00,177 --> 00:24:01,625 You know, they have to deal with somebody 497 00:24:01,660 --> 00:24:04,280 on their property, who they don't know. 498 00:24:04,315 --> 00:24:06,108 What are they doing there? 499 00:24:06,142 --> 00:24:07,349 You know, very likely, that, you know, 500 00:24:07,384 --> 00:24:09,280 that was somebody trying to get a sense 501 00:24:09,315 --> 00:24:11,384 of how protective they were. 502 00:24:11,418 --> 00:24:12,556 Are they armed? 503 00:24:12,591 --> 00:24:14,039 Is this somebody that I can rob? 504 00:24:14,073 --> 00:24:16,142 Is this somebody I can burglarize? 505 00:24:16,177 --> 00:24:17,763 Do they have valuables? 506 00:24:17,798 --> 00:24:19,108 You don't know what it is. 507 00:24:19,142 --> 00:24:21,280 And you've gotta question, 508 00:24:21,315 --> 00:24:22,660 is that a factor in this case? 509 00:24:24,729 --> 00:24:27,660 [Alysha] For, like, the next six or so months, 510 00:24:27,694 --> 00:24:29,660 any time this car would drive by our house, 511 00:24:29,694 --> 00:24:31,660 honk all hours of the night, 512 00:24:31,694 --> 00:24:33,660 honk and flipping us off. 513 00:24:33,694 --> 00:24:36,832 Like, it was surreal, I guess, you know, 'cause why? 514 00:24:36,867 --> 00:24:40,039 Why even be on our property to begin with? 515 00:24:40,970 --> 00:24:43,798 But one day, Chris had enough. 516 00:24:43,832 --> 00:24:45,280 I go outside, 517 00:24:45,315 --> 00:24:47,832 and my husband is at the fence. 518 00:24:47,867 --> 00:24:50,108 And there's a guy. They were screaming at each other. 519 00:24:51,487 --> 00:24:53,867 And I can't really make out what's being said, 520 00:24:53,901 --> 00:24:55,349 until I approach, 521 00:24:55,384 --> 00:24:56,763 and I hear, 522 00:24:56,798 --> 00:24:58,625 "You're lucky you have kids here. 523 00:24:58,660 --> 00:25:00,556 Otherwise, I'd burn your house down." 524 00:25:00,591 --> 00:25:03,349 And then he had threatened his life. 525 00:25:03,384 --> 00:25:06,177 But then after that, like, all activity stopped. 526 00:25:08,556 --> 00:25:10,349 We know that Chris and Alysha said 527 00:25:10,384 --> 00:25:13,591 that nothing had happened recently involving, you know, 528 00:25:13,625 --> 00:25:15,211 disputes with neighbors, 529 00:25:15,246 --> 00:25:18,384 or any type of, uh, run-ins with tweakers, 530 00:25:18,418 --> 00:25:20,177 or people strung out on opioids. 531 00:25:20,211 --> 00:25:22,418 But, you've gotta consider that. 532 00:25:22,453 --> 00:25:24,073 Given where they were living, 533 00:25:24,108 --> 00:25:25,625 in the rural countryside, 534 00:25:25,660 --> 00:25:28,763 you've gotta consider that perhaps something came up again. 535 00:25:29,694 --> 00:25:30,832 [Zoe] I've lived down there. 536 00:25:30,867 --> 00:25:33,384 I haven't seen anything out of the ordinary, really. 537 00:25:33,418 --> 00:25:35,729 Uh, so I don't really know too much about the situation. 538 00:25:36,487 --> 00:25:37,763 [Alysha] I told the detective, 539 00:25:37,798 --> 00:25:39,625 and they took it pretty serious. 540 00:25:39,660 --> 00:25:40,936 But nothing really came of that. 541 00:25:44,487 --> 00:25:46,384 [Blake] I don't think he was forced out of the house, 542 00:25:46,418 --> 00:25:49,729 or out of his vehicle, 543 00:25:49,763 --> 00:25:53,108 because knowing the Chris, uh, that I know, 544 00:25:53,142 --> 00:25:55,211 he would have done anything and everything 545 00:25:55,246 --> 00:25:58,694 to get away from anybody and everybody, 546 00:25:58,729 --> 00:26:02,660 or anybody trying to come up on his property. 547 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:03,936 You know, he has weapons. 548 00:26:05,108 --> 00:26:06,936 He has rifles. Handguns. 549 00:26:06,970 --> 00:26:09,522 And anything and everything that he would do 550 00:26:09,556 --> 00:26:10,694 to protect that family. 551 00:26:12,177 --> 00:26:15,694 Given the lack of leads, the lack of clues in this case, 552 00:26:15,729 --> 00:26:17,280 anything could have happened to Chris. 553 00:26:22,142 --> 00:26:23,108 [Alysha] June 2. 554 00:26:24,384 --> 00:26:26,763 I get a call from the detective, 555 00:26:26,798 --> 00:26:29,798 saying that he's got the kids' mom on the phone, 556 00:26:29,832 --> 00:26:31,280 and she wants to come get her kids. 557 00:26:32,142 --> 00:26:33,453 Chris' ex hasn't been in the picture 558 00:26:33,487 --> 00:26:35,142 for over a year and a half now. 559 00:26:36,625 --> 00:26:39,246 And Peoria, Chris' ex, wanted to see the kids. 560 00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,280 And at that time, she had told him 561 00:26:41,315 --> 00:26:42,970 that she had moved in with a guy. 562 00:26:44,660 --> 00:26:47,591 And Chris wanted to know his last name. 563 00:26:47,625 --> 00:26:48,970 She refused to tell him. 564 00:26:49,005 --> 00:26:50,867 And so every other weekend, when it was her weekend, 565 00:26:50,901 --> 00:26:53,660 she'd ask for the kids, he'd ask for the guy's last name. 566 00:26:53,694 --> 00:26:54,798 She'd always refuse. 567 00:26:54,832 --> 00:26:56,522 And he goes, until you can tell me a name, 568 00:26:56,556 --> 00:26:59,522 you're not going to see the kids. 569 00:26:59,556 --> 00:27:02,142 Five months later, she finally tells him his last name. 570 00:27:02,177 --> 00:27:03,867 And he's, like, it's been five months. 571 00:27:03,901 --> 00:27:05,418 You have not been in their lives. 572 00:27:05,453 --> 00:27:07,315 You're, going in and out like this 573 00:27:07,349 --> 00:27:08,832 is going to do more harm than good. 574 00:27:08,867 --> 00:27:10,142 And he goes, take me to court. 575 00:27:10,177 --> 00:27:12,177 At this point, take me to court. 576 00:27:12,211 --> 00:27:14,798 They're in a routine. No. 577 00:27:14,832 --> 00:27:16,867 And so, she never took him to court. 578 00:27:16,901 --> 00:27:19,315 She never stepped foot on our property to see the kids. 579 00:27:19,936 --> 00:27:21,039 Neither did her family. 580 00:27:21,073 --> 00:27:22,660 And then we moved to Missouri. 581 00:27:25,556 --> 00:27:28,349 So when Chris disappeared, she calls me. 582 00:27:28,384 --> 00:27:30,832 -[phone ringing] -And, uh, she's like, I want my kids. 583 00:27:30,867 --> 00:27:31,901 I'm gonna come and get them. 584 00:27:31,936 --> 00:27:33,487 I will be there at 8:00 in the morning. 585 00:27:34,763 --> 00:27:36,211 And I'm like, that's no good. 586 00:27:36,246 --> 00:27:39,729 We're not gonna, not gonna disrupt their routine like that. 587 00:27:39,763 --> 00:27:41,694 I said do you realize, you're gonna take them, 588 00:27:41,729 --> 00:27:43,763 their dad just went missing. 589 00:27:43,798 --> 00:27:46,177 So they are dealing with trauma from that. 590 00:27:46,211 --> 00:27:48,763 And you're gonna take them rom the only family they know? 591 00:27:48,798 --> 00:27:51,418 You're gonna take them from their sisters? 592 00:27:51,453 --> 00:27:53,798 Their, the only mom that they know? 593 00:27:53,832 --> 00:27:55,005 She says, "I want my kids." 594 00:27:55,901 --> 00:27:57,384 And so, 595 00:27:57,418 --> 00:27:59,832 that night, I spent as much time with those kids as I can. 596 00:27:59,867 --> 00:28:02,073 And I soak up every minute. 597 00:28:02,108 --> 00:28:03,901 And they get a good night's sleep. 598 00:28:03,936 --> 00:28:06,556 And they eat breakfast the next morning. 599 00:28:06,591 --> 00:28:08,315 And I explain to them what has to happen. 600 00:28:11,625 --> 00:28:13,556 At one point they were screaming at me, 601 00:28:13,591 --> 00:28:15,142 not to make them go. 602 00:28:16,349 --> 00:28:17,901 And so I hand them over. 603 00:28:19,246 --> 00:28:24,660 I've never seen either of my kids cry so hard. 604 00:28:24,694 --> 00:28:27,246 [Zoe] I don't really feel comfortable speaking about her too much. 605 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,970 I don't have anything really good to say. 606 00:28:31,005 --> 00:28:33,142 Especially with what's happened after he left. 607 00:28:35,798 --> 00:28:38,142 [Andrew] Unfortunately, we just don't have a lot of information 608 00:28:38,177 --> 00:28:41,211 about what this custody dispute was like 609 00:28:41,246 --> 00:28:43,453 with his ex-girlfriend. 610 00:28:43,487 --> 00:28:46,418 Could that have been a factor in Chris' disappearance? 611 00:28:47,660 --> 00:28:49,246 You have to question. 612 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,039 How did the ex-girlfriend know 613 00:28:52,073 --> 00:28:53,625 that Chris went missing? 614 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:55,591 How did she know? 615 00:28:55,625 --> 00:28:58,798 [Alysha] I am not sure how Chris' ex found out, 616 00:28:58,832 --> 00:29:00,142 that he went missing. 617 00:29:01,005 --> 00:29:02,556 When she called me on June 2, 618 00:29:02,591 --> 00:29:04,660 I asked her how she found out, and she wouldn't tell me. 619 00:29:04,694 --> 00:29:06,694 She just said she found out. 620 00:29:06,729 --> 00:29:08,384 I don't know how she found out, but she did. 621 00:29:11,073 --> 00:29:13,487 And we found out on Facebook, 622 00:29:13,522 --> 00:29:15,832 that she was here, in Missouri, an hour away, 623 00:29:15,867 --> 00:29:17,384 the weekend he disappeared, 624 00:29:17,418 --> 00:29:19,660 mud racing, or, you know, four wheeling, 625 00:29:19,694 --> 00:29:20,936 that kind of thing. 626 00:29:20,970 --> 00:29:22,660 That's odd. 627 00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:24,349 You know? She's so close. 628 00:29:24,384 --> 00:29:25,901 And then my husband disappears. 629 00:29:25,936 --> 00:29:28,280 There are a lot of unanswered questions there. 630 00:29:28,315 --> 00:29:29,798 Makes a person wonder. 631 00:29:37,418 --> 00:29:40,522 [narrator] Christopher Hoye was last seen May 19, 2022. 632 00:29:41,936 --> 00:29:46,039 [narrator reading] 633 00:29:57,556 --> 00:29:58,763 [Andrew] In any disappearance, 634 00:29:58,798 --> 00:30:00,936 motive is the central question. 635 00:30:00,970 --> 00:30:03,039 I mean, if you're gonna factor in 636 00:30:03,073 --> 00:30:04,280 possible foul play, 637 00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:06,384 who has a motive to do that? 638 00:30:07,453 --> 00:30:09,556 When you look at potential suspects, 639 00:30:09,591 --> 00:30:12,280 you've gotta consider if they have a ex-girlfriend, 640 00:30:12,315 --> 00:30:13,591 did they have a bad break up? 641 00:30:14,453 --> 00:30:15,729 When we look at Chris, 642 00:30:15,763 --> 00:30:18,729 we know that he did have this past relationship. 643 00:30:18,763 --> 00:30:20,729 We know that they had a bad break-up. 644 00:30:20,763 --> 00:30:22,763 We know that there was a custody dispute. 645 00:30:24,522 --> 00:30:25,763 There's motive there. 646 00:30:25,798 --> 00:30:27,729 Now, does that mean that anyone's guilty? 647 00:30:27,763 --> 00:30:29,729 No. But, 648 00:30:29,763 --> 00:30:32,625 that's a factor that you've gotta consider in this case. 649 00:30:32,660 --> 00:30:35,625 In my opinion, Chris' ex-girlfriend is suspicious. 650 00:30:37,625 --> 00:30:38,729 [Alysha] The detective said, 651 00:30:38,763 --> 00:30:40,556 that beyond that initial contact, 652 00:30:40,591 --> 00:30:41,729 she wouldn't call back. 653 00:30:43,315 --> 00:30:45,246 It bugs me that no one 654 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,901 can get any information out of her. 655 00:30:48,970 --> 00:30:51,005 I'd like to get the detective to start 656 00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:54,280 questioning her, her boyfriend. 657 00:30:54,315 --> 00:30:58,211 I do believe something is there. 658 00:30:58,246 --> 00:30:59,763 And that's where we're at right now. 659 00:31:12,315 --> 00:31:13,936 [Andrew] It is entirely possible 660 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:17,280 that he has just chosen to voluntarily leave home. 661 00:31:17,315 --> 00:31:19,453 Maybe he wanted to start a new life again. 662 00:31:20,453 --> 00:31:22,694 Since we know that that cigarette 663 00:31:22,729 --> 00:31:24,660 is not the brand that Chris smoked, 664 00:31:24,694 --> 00:31:26,867 what that opens up is the possibility 665 00:31:26,901 --> 00:31:29,660 of there being another person in that truck. 666 00:31:29,694 --> 00:31:30,936 You've gotta wonder, I mean, 667 00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:33,142 who is this person that was smoking this cigarette? 668 00:31:34,487 --> 00:31:36,280 Did he have a relationship we don't know about? 669 00:31:38,005 --> 00:31:40,315 [Alysha] I started going through his Facebook, 670 00:31:40,349 --> 00:31:43,005 his email conversations, phone calls. 671 00:31:43,039 --> 00:31:44,280 And there were... 672 00:31:45,832 --> 00:31:47,970 ...some emails missing. 673 00:31:48,005 --> 00:31:51,798 It's, like, up until May 19, there was no emails. 674 00:31:52,763 --> 00:31:54,970 I thought it was very odd that, 675 00:31:55,005 --> 00:31:56,832 my husband doesn't delete emails. 676 00:31:56,867 --> 00:31:59,970 And prior to May 19, there were no emails. 677 00:32:00,005 --> 00:32:03,177 And he used that email regularly. 678 00:32:03,936 --> 00:32:05,246 So I thought it was very odd, 679 00:32:06,522 --> 00:32:08,073 that out of... 680 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,246 ...all of this on his phone, 681 00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:12,729 it didn't look like he had deleted anything. 682 00:32:12,763 --> 00:32:14,039 And Facebook was still there. 683 00:32:14,073 --> 00:32:15,556 All his messages seemed to be there. 684 00:32:16,246 --> 00:32:17,384 But there were no emails. 685 00:32:19,246 --> 00:32:21,177 The cops couldn't do anything about it, 686 00:32:21,211 --> 00:32:22,660 'cause they're, like, well, if they're deleted, like, 687 00:32:22,694 --> 00:32:23,867 they're just out there somewhere, 688 00:32:23,901 --> 00:32:25,936 and there's not really a way of getting them back. 689 00:32:25,970 --> 00:32:28,522 But that was really the biggest thing, was... 690 00:32:29,591 --> 00:32:30,832 ...just that chunk of emails missing. 691 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,694 First and foremost, Chris would never have an affair, 692 00:32:34,729 --> 00:32:36,418 when he's in love with someone. 693 00:32:36,453 --> 00:32:37,798 And we were in love. 694 00:32:37,832 --> 00:32:38,901 His past relationships, 695 00:32:38,936 --> 00:32:40,625 every single past relationship, 696 00:32:40,660 --> 00:32:41,660 had ended, 697 00:32:42,591 --> 00:32:44,211 with the woman cheating on him. 698 00:32:45,453 --> 00:32:47,177 And I know how devastating that is. 699 00:32:47,211 --> 00:32:48,487 And he would not. 700 00:32:49,556 --> 00:32:50,694 He would not do that himself. 701 00:32:51,591 --> 00:32:53,177 There was not another woman. 702 00:32:58,005 --> 00:32:59,556 At first, I thought, okay. 703 00:32:59,591 --> 00:33:02,142 If something happened with him and Alysh, 704 00:33:02,177 --> 00:33:04,798 or the homestead was too much, 705 00:33:04,832 --> 00:33:07,280 then he might have ran a little bit, to get away. 706 00:33:08,763 --> 00:33:11,246 Chris was a guy who was getting into his mid-30s, 707 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,763 and it's not rare at all for men who get 708 00:33:13,798 --> 00:33:16,418 into their early 30s to have a midlife crisis, 709 00:33:16,453 --> 00:33:18,418 and run away from home. 710 00:33:18,453 --> 00:33:19,556 I mean, that's not rare at all. 711 00:33:19,591 --> 00:33:21,315 That actually happens all the time. 712 00:33:21,349 --> 00:33:23,315 You know, it's something you've gotta consider. 713 00:33:25,522 --> 00:33:27,384 It's gonna be nearly impossible to find somebody 714 00:33:27,418 --> 00:33:29,487 in the Ozarks when they disappear. 715 00:33:29,522 --> 00:33:32,246 I mean, it's really this perfect place for a disappearance. 716 00:33:32,280 --> 00:33:35,384 It's very rural. It's rough ground. 717 00:33:35,418 --> 00:33:36,798 Not a lot of people live here, 718 00:33:36,832 --> 00:33:39,384 which means there's not gonna be a lot of witnesses. 719 00:33:39,418 --> 00:33:42,073 There's no surveillance footage. 720 00:33:42,108 --> 00:33:44,453 Given all that, the chances of him being found 721 00:33:44,487 --> 00:33:45,832 are very remote. 722 00:33:48,177 --> 00:33:50,142 [Blake] Nine months after Chris' disappearance, 723 00:33:50,177 --> 00:33:52,625 we moved down here to Missouri. 724 00:33:53,660 --> 00:33:55,901 And in March of 2023, 725 00:33:57,108 --> 00:34:00,142 I went to go for a job interview in Lebanon. 726 00:34:00,177 --> 00:34:02,108 And when I went in for the interview, 727 00:34:02,142 --> 00:34:03,211 I left, and, 728 00:34:03,246 --> 00:34:05,694 I'm driving in the left lane. 729 00:34:05,729 --> 00:34:09,142 And I see somebody in a plumbing truck to the right of me. 730 00:34:10,177 --> 00:34:11,901 And it looks just like Chris. 731 00:34:13,177 --> 00:34:14,452 He, acting like Chris. 732 00:34:15,315 --> 00:34:16,452 He was in the driver's seat, 733 00:34:16,487 --> 00:34:18,177 like, rocking back and forth, laughing. 734 00:34:18,901 --> 00:34:21,901 He looked so much like Chris. 735 00:34:23,521 --> 00:34:26,039 By the time everything clicked in my head, 736 00:34:26,073 --> 00:34:27,556 I was taking the exit, 737 00:34:27,590 --> 00:34:29,211 and he pulled into the gas station. 738 00:34:29,246 --> 00:34:31,211 But, what if it was? 739 00:34:31,246 --> 00:34:32,384 You know? What if it was Chris, 740 00:34:32,418 --> 00:34:34,177 and I just missed my shot to catch him? 741 00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:36,798 That does add some weight to this idea 742 00:34:36,832 --> 00:34:38,798 that, you know, maybe he is alive. 743 00:34:38,832 --> 00:34:40,867 Maybe he did voluntarily disappear, 744 00:34:41,487 --> 00:34:43,315 want to start a new life, 745 00:34:43,349 --> 00:34:45,142 maybe he ran away with somebody. 746 00:34:46,867 --> 00:34:48,211 [Alysha] I need to call the detective. 747 00:34:48,246 --> 00:34:49,315 I gotta find my husband. 748 00:35:00,418 --> 00:35:02,384 [Teresa] If you knew it looked like Chris, 749 00:35:02,418 --> 00:35:03,625 you knew he was missing, 750 00:35:04,418 --> 00:35:05,694 why didn't you take the time 751 00:35:05,729 --> 00:35:07,694 to walk up and say, hey, Chris? 752 00:35:07,729 --> 00:35:12,039 Or, actually follow that plumber's van, 753 00:35:12,798 --> 00:35:15,142 and just walk up and, you know, 754 00:35:15,177 --> 00:35:16,694 act like you were an old friend, 755 00:35:16,729 --> 00:35:18,487 and see if it was him. 756 00:35:19,177 --> 00:35:20,832 You know? My thoughts are, 757 00:35:20,867 --> 00:35:23,625 you saw him, you didn't care to go chase after him? 758 00:35:24,625 --> 00:35:25,970 I mean, if I saw him, 759 00:35:26,005 --> 00:35:27,280 I'd have been jumping in my truck, 760 00:35:27,315 --> 00:35:30,349 and I don't care if they wanna list me as a stalker or what. 761 00:35:30,384 --> 00:35:31,970 I'd have been on that van's tail, 762 00:35:32,522 --> 00:35:33,591 all the way down. 763 00:35:33,625 --> 00:35:35,349 If I saw him leaving, 764 00:35:35,384 --> 00:35:37,832 I would have been right into my truck and following it. 765 00:35:40,487 --> 00:35:41,867 [Blake] I should have stopped to get gas. 766 00:35:43,073 --> 00:35:45,901 Because, uh, I kinda hold regret. 767 00:35:46,487 --> 00:35:48,039 Like, I should have, 768 00:35:48,073 --> 00:35:49,487 should have put more thought into that. 769 00:35:50,005 --> 00:35:51,005 'Cause, like... 770 00:35:52,418 --> 00:35:53,384 ...what if it was him? 771 00:35:55,039 --> 00:35:57,936 And I stop at the same gas station every night now. 772 00:35:57,970 --> 00:35:59,384 After I get off work. 773 00:35:59,418 --> 00:36:02,349 Hoping to see that van. 774 00:36:02,384 --> 00:36:04,522 To this day, I still haven't found this van. 775 00:36:05,556 --> 00:36:06,798 I've looked everywhere. 776 00:36:07,901 --> 00:36:09,349 It's like it just disappeared. 777 00:36:11,970 --> 00:36:15,384 But there have been a couple of sightings, of Chris. 778 00:36:15,418 --> 00:36:17,039 My daughter's boyfriend, Blake. 779 00:36:20,315 --> 00:36:23,280 Then, I was in the feed store a few weeks later. 780 00:36:25,211 --> 00:36:27,763 And that same lady who keeps his poster up, 781 00:36:27,798 --> 00:36:29,591 she's, like, I had a customer come in. 782 00:36:29,625 --> 00:36:30,901 And said, he could have swore, 783 00:36:31,970 --> 00:36:34,901 he saw Chris in Lebanon. 784 00:36:34,936 --> 00:36:37,522 That's two sightings, in that same town. 785 00:36:37,556 --> 00:36:39,177 I couldn't wrap my head around it. 786 00:36:40,487 --> 00:36:42,349 [Zoe] The sightings have all been so close to us. 787 00:36:43,211 --> 00:36:46,108 Only 50 minutes away, and... 788 00:36:47,418 --> 00:36:48,867 ...they definitely brought us hope, but, like, 789 00:36:48,901 --> 00:36:50,660 why is he so close, 790 00:36:50,694 --> 00:36:53,039 and he hasn't said anything? 791 00:36:54,487 --> 00:36:56,177 [Andrew] Unfortunately, a lot of these sightings 792 00:36:56,211 --> 00:36:57,832 just didn't have a lot of details. 793 00:36:57,867 --> 00:36:59,384 And that means that there's really 794 00:36:59,418 --> 00:37:00,970 not anything to follow up on. 795 00:37:01,005 --> 00:37:02,625 It's just this noise. 796 00:37:07,522 --> 00:37:08,798 [Alysha] And so I called the detective, 797 00:37:08,832 --> 00:37:11,591 and follow through with the sightings, 798 00:37:11,625 --> 00:37:13,970 and we're coming up on the year mark in May, 799 00:37:14,005 --> 00:37:16,418 and I call him, and I said, okay, 800 00:37:16,453 --> 00:37:17,694 it's been a few months. 801 00:37:19,211 --> 00:37:21,763 What's it gonna take to get you to look into this? 802 00:37:21,798 --> 00:37:23,798 Well, it's really hard to, you know, 803 00:37:23,832 --> 00:37:25,005 look for someone, 804 00:37:26,142 --> 00:37:29,177 if we don't have any identifying information. 805 00:37:29,211 --> 00:37:31,108 I said, have you contacted these people? 806 00:37:31,142 --> 00:37:33,901 And at that point, I think he just, kind of, 807 00:37:33,936 --> 00:37:35,694 gave me a non-committal answer. 808 00:37:35,729 --> 00:37:37,280 'Cause I can't tell you if he did or not. 809 00:37:39,384 --> 00:37:40,453 [Teresa] I do believe, 810 00:37:41,384 --> 00:37:43,832 that Pulaski Police Department 811 00:37:43,867 --> 00:37:46,142 down in Missouri dropped the ball, big time. 812 00:37:46,177 --> 00:37:47,798 But we're not gonna give up. 813 00:38:01,729 --> 00:38:03,384 [Andrew] From an investigation standpoint, 814 00:38:03,418 --> 00:38:04,487 what else is there to do? 815 00:38:05,211 --> 00:38:06,729 I mean, no body's been found. 816 00:38:06,763 --> 00:38:08,591 No clue has been found. 817 00:38:08,625 --> 00:38:10,591 There's only random reports of sightings. 818 00:38:11,694 --> 00:38:13,694 What do you do if you're a detective? 819 00:38:13,729 --> 00:38:15,763 It may be that the law enforcement 820 00:38:15,798 --> 00:38:18,005 is thinking that he voluntarily disappeared. 821 00:38:20,039 --> 00:38:22,315 [Alysha] When I hear about the sightings, 822 00:38:22,349 --> 00:38:24,901 like, it's actually really hard for me to believe, 823 00:38:26,073 --> 00:38:27,418 that he'd be so close, 824 00:38:27,453 --> 00:38:28,522 but he's not at home. 825 00:38:28,556 --> 00:38:31,729 And, like, I don't know what to think of it, um... 826 00:38:33,763 --> 00:38:34,901 ...'cause that's not my husband. 827 00:38:34,936 --> 00:38:36,798 My husband would never be so close, 828 00:38:36,832 --> 00:38:38,487 yet so far away from his family. 829 00:38:40,729 --> 00:38:43,384 So, I honestly, I don't know. 830 00:38:43,418 --> 00:38:44,487 I don't know what to believe in. 831 00:38:44,522 --> 00:38:45,694 I don't know how to feel about it. 832 00:38:46,246 --> 00:38:47,487 I really don't. 833 00:38:48,867 --> 00:38:52,073 I don't see my husband willingly leaving his children. 834 00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:56,556 And even, like, if he, 835 00:38:56,591 --> 00:38:59,384 we didn't have such a good marriage, which we did, 836 00:38:59,418 --> 00:39:01,625 he wouldn't have done that to those kids, 837 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:03,453 he wouldn't have left those kids. 838 00:39:03,487 --> 00:39:05,591 And so I don't think this was his choice. 839 00:39:15,108 --> 00:39:17,142 [Andrew] As this case hits the one year mark, 840 00:39:17,177 --> 00:39:19,591 there haven't been any new developments. 841 00:39:19,625 --> 00:39:21,315 And we really don't know how active 842 00:39:21,349 --> 00:39:22,901 the investigation is. 843 00:39:22,936 --> 00:39:24,418 It's more important now than ever 844 00:39:24,453 --> 00:39:26,246 to get this story out there, 845 00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,453 because getting Chris' face out there 846 00:39:28,487 --> 00:39:30,591 could be the key to solving this. 847 00:39:30,625 --> 00:39:32,936 And it's up to the media to help make that happen. 848 00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,556 It's been 14 months. I haven't quit looking for my husband. 849 00:39:38,591 --> 00:39:39,591 And I won't. 850 00:39:40,142 --> 00:39:41,453 My kids deserve answers. 851 00:39:41,487 --> 00:39:42,832 I deserve answers. 852 00:39:44,453 --> 00:39:46,108 But it's really hard to take care of kids 853 00:39:46,142 --> 00:39:47,660 if you don't take care of yourself. 854 00:39:47,694 --> 00:39:49,246 And it's hard to find your husband 855 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:50,729 if you're not taking care of yourself. 856 00:39:50,763 --> 00:39:52,005 So I had to make a decision. 857 00:39:53,625 --> 00:39:55,418 I could let this kill me, 858 00:39:55,453 --> 00:39:57,660 or I can let it make me stronger. 859 00:39:57,694 --> 00:39:59,418 And I chose to let it make me stronger. 860 00:40:01,453 --> 00:40:04,487 [Blake] I believe he was stressed and depressed, 861 00:40:04,522 --> 00:40:06,280 and maybe he just needed time. 862 00:40:06,315 --> 00:40:08,591 Do I think he's hurt? No. 863 00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:11,556 I don't believe he was forced 864 00:40:11,591 --> 00:40:12,970 to do anything. 865 00:40:13,005 --> 00:40:14,901 I don't think anybody can give anybody 866 00:40:14,936 --> 00:40:17,729 a clear answer on what it was. 867 00:40:19,005 --> 00:40:21,418 [Zoe] The only thing I don't believe happened for sure 868 00:40:21,453 --> 00:40:22,487 was suicide. 869 00:40:22,522 --> 00:40:25,418 I absolutely do not think he committed suicide. 870 00:40:27,591 --> 00:40:29,901 I think it's possible it could have been foul play, 871 00:40:29,936 --> 00:40:31,246 but I also think it's possible 872 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:34,142 that there was a mental breakdown, and he left, 873 00:40:34,177 --> 00:40:36,039 with the intentions of coming back. 874 00:40:36,073 --> 00:40:37,142 He just needed a break. 875 00:40:37,177 --> 00:40:39,453 But, a year and a half later, where is he? 876 00:40:39,487 --> 00:40:40,763 And why has no one found him? 877 00:40:45,453 --> 00:40:48,246 [Andrew] This is a case that hasn't gotten a lot of traction. 878 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:49,970 It hasn't gone viral. 879 00:40:50,005 --> 00:40:54,039 It hasn't gotten into the major media markets in the state, but, 880 00:40:54,073 --> 00:40:56,246 at this point, there just isn't any evidence 881 00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,073 to give a clear picture of what happened to Chris. 882 00:40:59,108 --> 00:41:01,039 I mean, this case is truly a mystery. 883 00:41:11,729 --> 00:41:13,349 [Zoe] We need him back. 884 00:41:13,384 --> 00:41:16,625 If nothing else, the little ones need him back. 885 00:41:16,660 --> 00:41:19,315 'Cause they deserve to be raised with a father. 886 00:41:21,591 --> 00:41:23,832 [Alysha] I've never had a better friend than my husband. 887 00:41:24,936 --> 00:41:26,970 You would tell Chris that he needs to come home. 888 00:41:28,142 --> 00:41:30,453 Life's not any good without him. 889 00:41:33,694 --> 00:41:35,177 Chris is loved by so many people. 890 00:41:37,142 --> 00:41:40,073 And he's a loving father, and he's a loving husband. 891 00:41:40,108 --> 00:41:43,522 And, uh, I believe someone out there knows something. 892 00:41:44,970 --> 00:41:46,625 If you know of anything, 893 00:41:48,315 --> 00:41:49,522 call the sheriff's department. 894 00:41:51,039 --> 00:41:52,522 These kids deserve answers. 895 00:41:52,556 --> 00:41:54,005 They need to know where their dad is. 896 00:41:54,867 --> 00:41:56,108 They need their dad home. 897 00:41:57,005 --> 00:41:58,039 [sniffles] And... 898 00:41:59,970 --> 00:42:01,522 ...I need my husband home.