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- 0:08Speaker 1: Time has not healed the pain of the family and
- 0:10Speaker 1: friends or Chase Masner, young Iraqi war veteran. He disappeared
- 0:13Speaker 1: without a trace. Despite some intense searching, a few clues
- 0:17Speaker 1: have been found. We have a missing veteran. We have
- 0:20Speaker 1: a friend, a son, a father, and our main goal
- 0:23Speaker 1: has always been to bring him home and that emotion
- 0:26Speaker 1: will never end until he's brought back home. This is
- 0:30Speaker 1: crime Stories with Nancy Grace and I personally served in
- 0:34Speaker 1: the United States Army with Chase Master went missing from
- 0:38Speaker 1: kind of Faw, Georgia. We want him located and we
- 0:41Speaker 1: want the truth come out. Three years if veteran has
- 0:44Speaker 1: been missing, please please do a follow up on that
- 0:48Speaker 1: and dig deeper and see if we can't bring him home.
- 0:51Speaker 1: You know the saying no soldier left behind with pulsier
- 0:55Speaker 1: has been went behind. Hello Nancy, my name is Stephanie Kadina.
- 1:00Speaker 1: I'm just mom and my question is very simple and
- 1:08Speaker 1: to the point. What happened to my son and where
- 1:14Speaker 1: is my son? Do any of you listening have children, nephews, nieces, grandchildren.
- 1:24Speaker 1: Imagine your son disappearing, vanishing into thin air and nobody
- 1:30Speaker 1: knows where he is. I've got a son and a daughter.
- 1:36Speaker 1: They're nine right now, but no matter how old they
- 1:40Speaker 1: grow to be, they will always be my boy and girl.
- 1:45Speaker 1: So you can only imagine how much it broke my
- 1:49Speaker 1: heart to hear the plea of a mother, another mother
- 1:55Speaker 1: like myself, begging us me, you, you to help her
- 2:01Speaker 1: find her son. And I am talking about Chase Masner.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Hello everyone, Nancy Grace here with crime stories. The story
- 2:11Speaker 1: I'm telling you today is ongoing. First of all, I
- 2:16Speaker 1: want you to hear what Chase's mother, Stephanie said to
- 2:20Speaker 1: me last night. Hello Nancy, my name is Stephanie Kadina.
- 2:26Speaker 1: I'm Jesus mom, and my question is very simple and
- 2:33Speaker 1: to the point. What happened to my son? And where
- 2:39Speaker 1: is my son? Chase Master, a military veteran, a husband,
- 2:47Speaker 1: a father himself to two little girls, just vanishes into
- 2:52Speaker 1: thin air March. Nobody seems to know where he is.
- 2:56Speaker 1: No one has ever heard from him. We have no
- 2:59Speaker 1: Indica Haitian that he's dead or alive. He was last
- 3:04Speaker 1: seen around Kinneesaw, Georgia, and he had been at a
- 3:08Speaker 1: friend's home that evening. Chase's mother says, quote, I never
- 3:13Speaker 1: imagined it would be my last hug, the last kiss
- 3:17Speaker 1: on my cheek. I had to pause just hearing her words.
- 3:26Speaker 1: She says, I never imagined it would be my last
- 3:29Speaker 1: goodbye to my son when he left our house March.
- 3:38Speaker 1: It just reminds me so much of how often I
- 3:41Speaker 1: have played over in my mind the last time I
- 3:45Speaker 1: saw my fiancee, Keith before he was murdered. It was early,
- 3:50Speaker 1: early on a Monday morning. It seems like it was yesterday,
- 3:54Speaker 1: and he had been visiting with me and my mom
- 3:58Speaker 1: and dad and my family and our home, and he
- 4:01Speaker 1: got up super he didn't want to go back Sunday night.
- 4:05Speaker 1: He wanted to stay even though it meant he had
- 4:07Speaker 1: to get up at about three o'clock in the morning
- 4:10Speaker 1: and take off to get to work on time. And
- 4:15Speaker 1: the last thing I remember it was him driving away
- 4:19Speaker 1: and holding his arm out waving goodbye, tooting the horn,
- 4:25Speaker 1: and I remember closing my eyes and thinking, oh, it's
- 4:29Speaker 1: bad luck to see someone on delder, out of luck,
- 4:31Speaker 1: out of sight. That was the last time I saw Keith,
- 4:36Speaker 1: and I remember it like it was this morning. And
- 4:40Speaker 1: when I hear Chase's mother say, I had never imagined
- 4:45Speaker 1: it would be my last hug, the last kiss on
- 4:48Speaker 1: my cheek, my last goodbye to my son. It just
- 4:53Speaker 1: kills me to even say those words. But that is
- 4:56Speaker 1: the hell that this woman and Chase, his tired family
- 5:01Speaker 1: has been living through. The worst nightmare has come true
- 5:06Speaker 1: for this mom. His closest friends and family say he
- 5:10Speaker 1: has would never be gone like this without checking in.
- 5:13Speaker 1: He would never leave his two little girls without even
- 5:17Speaker 1: saying goodbye with me, is investigative reporter Alan Duke. You
- 5:23Speaker 1: know the night he disappeared, he was very morose, He
- 5:29Speaker 1: felt down on his luck. He was having arguments with
- 5:32Speaker 1: his wife, Amanda, and they weren't getting along. Uh. He
- 5:37Speaker 1: went to his friend Brad's home. That's where everything goes sideways.
- 5:42Speaker 1: What do we know at that point? Chase Master is
- 5:46Speaker 1: who we are talking about, A handsome young man with
- 5:50Speaker 1: two little girls and a wife whose family is carrying
- 5:55Speaker 1: the torch and is asking us, me, you to help
- 5:59Speaker 1: find her son. What do we know, Alan, We know
- 6:03Speaker 1: that he told his wife he needed to go over
- 6:06Speaker 1: someplace else, to Brad's house. Brad invited him over to
- 6:09Speaker 1: stay at his house in Kinnesaw because he needed some space.
- 6:12Speaker 1: He needed some time because, as you said, there had
- 6:15Speaker 1: been some some discord at home, so he went over
- 6:18Speaker 1: there and he spent the night. We know that Chase
- 6:22Speaker 1: stays at his friend Brad Clement's home that evening, but
- 6:26Speaker 1: that is where everything goes murky, because Brad gets up
- 6:31Speaker 1: and goes to work and he had Chase's cell phone
- 6:34Speaker 1: with him. So Brad gets back to the home, gives
- 6:39Speaker 1: Chase's cell phone back, and then went to either start
- 6:43Speaker 1: a barbecue or talked to some roovers who are working
- 6:46Speaker 1: on his home. But in that time, Chase disappears walks away.
- 6:52Speaker 1: No one seems to have seen Chase leave, including Brandon,
- 6:57Speaker 1: the friend, or the owner of Duck Ruth who was
- 7:00Speaker 1: there working at the home. So no bad light should
- 7:05Speaker 1: be cast on the friend. Because Brad Clements was there
- 7:09Speaker 1: with Chase. The roofers came, they saw Chase. He was
- 7:13Speaker 1: alive and well at that time, and then he seemingly disappears.
- 7:18Speaker 1: It's a suburban subdivision filled with lovely homes uum called
- 7:23Speaker 1: a sack. It would have taken him at least five
- 7:27Speaker 1: minutes to walk down the street and get out of
- 7:29Speaker 1: the neighborhood because it's about a half a mile and
- 7:31Speaker 1: you have to wind around to get there. Now, did
- 7:34Speaker 1: he walk away, did somebody come pick him up? Neighbors
- 7:38Speaker 1: say there were no unknown vehicles that they saw pull
- 7:41Speaker 1: up to Brad's home. There's no suicide note. There's no
- 7:45Speaker 1: suggestion he ever wanted to commit suicide. All we know
- 7:50Speaker 1: is that his phone was cut off and he goes missing.
- 7:54Speaker 1: And another thing, Alan Douke, you can't blame the spouse.
- 7:57Speaker 1: That's usually where every investigation start. It's with a spouse,
- 8:01Speaker 1: boyfriend or girlfriend, because the wife was home with the
- 8:04Speaker 1: two girls and he was at the friend's house. So
- 8:08Speaker 1: what more do we know? What about the search? Well,
- 8:10Speaker 1: there was for a long time. This man has a
- 8:13Speaker 1: lot of people who care about him, and a lot
- 8:15Speaker 1: of people who knew him or didn't know him, came
- 8:18Speaker 1: out for a massive search. You know that whole area.
- 8:21Speaker 1: You and I are both familiar with the area around
- 8:24Speaker 1: Cobb County and Kenne saw it's very beautiful, rolling hills,
- 8:27Speaker 1: a lot of trees, pine trees and very wooded, a
- 8:30Speaker 1: lot of hiking trails. They searched, they searched, and they
- 8:34Speaker 1: searched with no sign of chase. Well, I know that
- 8:39Speaker 1: um not only did friends, families and friends, family and
- 8:43Speaker 1: volunteers like you just said search several times. They also
- 8:48Speaker 1: brought in professionals. They brought in people that were a
- 8:53Speaker 1: national group UH to come and help find him. It
- 8:57Speaker 1: wasn't just a bunch of amateurs. They brought in professionals
- 9:01Speaker 1: to help find Chase. They went throughout the area. They
- 9:05Speaker 1: brought in the Guardian Angels who rolled into Metro Atlanta
- 9:09Speaker 1: to help look. There was a four day search the
- 9:13Speaker 1: locations urban and rural. They looked through areas mapped out
- 9:19Speaker 1: that they shared with each other. There were several areas
- 9:21Speaker 1: of interests. Nothing and that was just one of several searches.
- 9:27Speaker 1: They went to dumpsters, they went through his home, they
- 9:32Speaker 1: looked all around commercial areas. Nothing, nothing at all. I'm
- 9:38Speaker 1: a veteran. I unfortunately never had to serve in a
- 9:40Speaker 1: war zone as Chase did. But I do know that
- 9:45Speaker 1: when you come back into civilian life, it's not so
- 9:50Speaker 1: easy because when you were in that uniform, you had
- 9:53Speaker 1: this identity, you had this mission, you had this team.
- 9:58Speaker 1: I don't even want to call it pt s D,
- 10:00Speaker 1: which is the common phrase post traumatic stress syndrome. Whether
- 10:04Speaker 1: it's that or not. Everybody, no matter what you what
- 10:08Speaker 1: you experienced when you were in the military, you miss
- 10:12Speaker 1: that and it's it's missing, and that structure is not
- 10:16Speaker 1: there anymore, and so there's there, there is some adjustment
- 10:20Speaker 1: and and maybe some some depression. That that is very
- 10:23Speaker 1: natural because you don't know what your future is when
- 10:26Speaker 1: you're in the when you're in the army, you know
- 10:28Speaker 1: what your future is. You you know what you're doing
- 10:30Speaker 1: and you have a purpose. But when you when you
- 10:33Speaker 1: come back and you can't find anything, but let's say
- 10:35Speaker 1: a job overnight as the clerk at a convenience store,
- 10:40Speaker 1: that can be depressing. Now, are you intimating that Chase
- 10:43Speaker 1: committed suicide. No, I am not. I'm just saying that
- 10:46Speaker 1: that could explain. I was just wondering where that train
- 10:48Speaker 1: of thought that let me just like rambling train of
- 10:51Speaker 1: thought was leading. So that's just what a stairway to
- 10:55Speaker 1: know where. No, you hear people talk about, oh, well,
- 10:58Speaker 1: he was suffering from how having been in Iraq and everything.
- 11:01Speaker 1: I was trying to put a little context into that
- 11:03Speaker 1: because even if no matter what you saw in Iraq
- 11:06Speaker 1: or wherever, that transition to civilian life can be difficult. No,
- 11:12Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that that he did himself in as
- 11:14Speaker 1: a result of all of that I'm just saying that
- 11:17Speaker 1: could explain why people are saying, well, he wasn't so
- 11:19Speaker 1: happy that day or that week. Okay, So I'm trying
- 11:23Speaker 1: to shed light on I'm trying to go through forensics
- 11:27Speaker 1: and evidence to determine what happened to Chase Masner. Now,
- 11:31Speaker 1: what you've just told me is about a painful reentry
- 11:35Speaker 1: into society after seeing action in the Iraqi War. Okay,
- 11:41Speaker 1: I get it, and I get that as background, and
- 11:43Speaker 1: that may explain some of his problems he was having
- 11:46Speaker 1: with his wife, which is not uncommon. My dad was
- 11:49Speaker 1: in the military. A lot of vets come home and
- 11:52Speaker 1: it's hard to settle into regular civilian life. I know,
- 11:56Speaker 1: even from prosecuting violent crimes for so many years. When
- 12:00Speaker 1: I would go anywhere else, say I was at a
- 12:02Speaker 1: cocktail party or a dinner, if people weren't talking about
- 12:05Speaker 1: violent crime, I'm just just not interested in frankly, same way,
- 12:09Speaker 1: still mean that it's in your blood. So it may
- 12:12Speaker 1: have been hard for him to re enter into domestic life. However,
- 12:17Speaker 1: that has nothing no bearing on his disappearance that we
- 12:21Speaker 1: know of. That's actually a good point that we know of,
- 12:24Speaker 1: because if alan nobody saw him walking away, and nobody
- 12:30Speaker 1: saw a car coming up to Brad's home. Obviously nobody
- 12:33Speaker 1: saw him committing suicide or buying a gun, or buying
- 12:39Speaker 1: a length of rope, or buying pills to kill himself,
- 12:43Speaker 1: nothing like that. The point is there's no clue. I
- 12:46Speaker 1: know this. He was last seeing wearing his red Quick
- 12:50Speaker 1: Trip sweatshirt. He had on khaki pants. He's tall, He's
- 12:53Speaker 1: six ft two, he weighs weighs around a hundred and
- 12:56Speaker 1: seventy five pounds, with dark brown hair and brown eye.
- 13:00Speaker 1: He has a couple of tattoos. The name Masner is
- 13:03Speaker 1: across his back, shoulder brick blades, and he has an
- 13:06Speaker 1: angel on his right forearm. Take a listen to another call,
- 13:10Speaker 1: Alan and I received. Hi. My name is Teresa Saving
- 13:13Speaker 1: Center and I personally served in the United States Army
- 13:16Speaker 1: with Chase Master government went missing from kind of Fawn, Georgia.
- 13:20Speaker 1: And I am also part of the group that is
- 13:23Speaker 1: trying to get his story put out there and located.
- 13:27Speaker 1: We want him located and we want the truth come out.
- 13:30Speaker 1: So I'm just helping with that battle. Think you know, Alan,
- 13:34Speaker 1: Before I go back into Chase Masner, I just want
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- 14:42Speaker 1: get back to the disappearance of Chase Master. Listen to
- 14:46Speaker 1: what his mom said, Hello, Nancy, my name is Stephanie Cadina.
- 14:52Speaker 1: I'm just mom and my question is very simple and
- 14:59Speaker 1: to the point, what happened to my son and where
- 15:05Speaker 1: is my son? There is a Facebook group Justice from
- 15:10Speaker 1: Chase Master. It's got over a thousand members. Tammy Childs
- 15:16Speaker 1: is the administrator, and she wrote, when a loved one
- 15:19Speaker 1: passes away, a family gains a type of closure by
- 15:24Speaker 1: a funeral or a memorial. Well, you know what, She's right,
- 15:27Speaker 1: Chase's family never had that. They still to this day
- 15:32Speaker 1: don't know what happened. Now police say, do they not
- 15:35Speaker 1: alan that they're still working on the case. Yes. Sergeant
- 15:39Speaker 1: with Cobb County Police assured Crime Online very recently that
- 15:43Speaker 1: it is an active case that they are currently still investigating.
- 15:48Speaker 1: Now they say that they are talking about Cobb County Police.
- 15:52Speaker 1: They say they are working behind the scenes with new information,
- 15:55Speaker 1: but will not divulge the details. And I completely understand
- 15:59Speaker 1: that just because it's in a police final does not
- 16:02Speaker 1: mean the media gets to know about it. Uh. The
- 16:04Speaker 1: media always acts so offended when police won't give them
- 16:07Speaker 1: the details. You know what, it's none of their business.
- 16:11Speaker 1: It could totally ruin an investigation. But it's now been
- 16:16Speaker 1: quite sometimes since Chase disappeared. I want to give you
- 16:19Speaker 1: a tip line Cobb County Crimes Against Person's Unit. The
- 16:23Speaker 1: lead detective is Chris Twiggs, and twigs is number is
- 16:27Speaker 1: seven seven zero four nine nine three nine three one
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- 16:38Speaker 1: and you can always reach us Crime online dot Com
- 16:42Speaker 1: at nine zero nine four nine two seven four six
- 16:47Speaker 1: three nine oh nine four nine Crime nine oh nine
- 16:52Speaker 1: four nine two seven four six three. So what's the
- 16:56Speaker 1: state of it now, Alan, Where does it stand? Aw,
- 17:00Speaker 1: It's an ongoing investigation and we know very few clues,
- 17:03Speaker 1: and all that is happening now is people are very
- 17:06Speaker 1: frustrated wanting something to happen. As you said, the Cobb
- 17:10Speaker 1: County Police may know something that they're not telling the
- 17:14Speaker 1: news media. Let's expect that they do. They're investigating, but
- 17:18Speaker 1: as far as what we know in the media, what
- 17:21Speaker 1: is out in the public is nothing. You know, it's
- 17:25Speaker 1: even gone to the point where psychics have been weighing
- 17:29Speaker 1: in on Chase's disappearance. But I know this. I know
- 17:34Speaker 1: that his mom is continuing to search. His wife, Amanda,
- 17:38Speaker 1: is continuing the search. Twenty six year old Chase Master,
- 17:42Speaker 1: a veteran of the Iraqi War, vanished in Metro Atlanta.
- 17:47Speaker 1: Now police are now calling it a suspicious missing person.
- 17:51Speaker 1: At first, they would not label it that way. They
- 17:53Speaker 1: weren't sure whether he walked off on his own or not.
- 17:56Speaker 1: But they are definitely upgrading it to suspicious person. To
- 18:01Speaker 1: get police to do that is no small thing, Alan Duke, Yeah,
- 18:04Speaker 1: we've dealt with that, haven't we. They also say police
- 18:08Speaker 1: say that he was last seeing at his job at
- 18:11Speaker 1: a quick trip in Kennesaw, Georgia, but a friend says
- 18:15Speaker 1: he left from his home and we've talked about Brad.
- 18:19Speaker 1: I just don't know what more there is bearing on this.
- 18:23Speaker 1: Have there been any sightings. I'm not aware of any
- 18:26Speaker 1: verified sightings of him. No, it's without a trace, not
- 18:30Speaker 1: a single one vanished. I know dumpsters were searched, land
- 18:35Speaker 1: fields were searched. It's a lot different when you're looking
- 18:39Speaker 1: for a missing person versus a homicide. But here we
- 18:43Speaker 1: don't even know which one it is missing our homicide.
- 18:47Speaker 1: There's also a reward right now, it's two thousand, five
- 18:50Speaker 1: hundred dollars. I just wonder what detectives can do at
- 18:54Speaker 1: this point. Are they reinvented, are they re interviewing witnesses?
- 18:58Speaker 1: What are they doing? Nancy, I don't know the answer
- 19:01Speaker 1: to that, because they're not telling us, they're not talking
- 19:03Speaker 1: to the media telling us what they are doing other
- 19:05Speaker 1: than that they are doing. Do you think that's because
- 19:09Speaker 1: they don't want us to know, or is it because
- 19:11Speaker 1: they're not really doing anything. I have actually a fair
- 19:15Speaker 1: amount of faith in the Cobb County Police. I've when
- 19:17Speaker 1: I was living in Atlanta, I dealt with him as
- 19:19Speaker 1: a journalist and as a civilian, and I can tell
- 19:22Speaker 1: you that they're pretty aggressive. I don't mean that they're
- 19:24Speaker 1: not doing anything because they're sitting around eating Cheetos. They're
- 19:27Speaker 1: not They're not doing that. I mean they're not doing
- 19:29Speaker 1: anything because they don't know what else to do. They've
- 19:32Speaker 1: run out of leads. That's what I'm talking about. I
- 19:35Speaker 1: guess as an investigator, you end up chasing the same
- 19:39Speaker 1: leads over and over and going in circles. And what
- 19:42Speaker 1: do you do then, Nancy? What could happen? I mean,
- 19:45Speaker 1: if he was there that day and is not there anymore,
- 19:49Speaker 1: He's somewhere one way or the other. I think of
- 19:53Speaker 1: these things, and I don't want to suggest anything other
- 19:56Speaker 1: than you come to Los Angeles. There are hundreds of
- 20:00Speaker 1: thousands of people basically living off the grid, if you will,
- 20:04Speaker 1: just here in Los Angeles County. By off the grid,
- 20:07Speaker 1: I mean they're living in tents, under the bridges or wherever.
- 20:12Speaker 1: Who are these people? Are they? The missing we've been
- 20:15Speaker 1: looking for. Are these people we talk about who are
- 20:18Speaker 1: missing among them? What is going on this? Chase was
- 20:23Speaker 1: a substantial young man, and so I really don't expect
- 20:27Speaker 1: that he would be among them. But where is he?
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- 21:27Speaker 1: us bring Chase home. Nancy Grace Crime Stories, signing off
- 21:34Speaker 1: goodbye friend,