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Speaker 1: Missing a Rock War veteran, Chase Masner of Cherokee County,

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Speaker 1: disappeared on Wednesday. His wife told us she dropped him

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Speaker 1: off at a quick trip in Cobb County, where he works.

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Speaker 1: Masner was honorably discharged in two thousand eleven. His family

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Speaker 1: says he was diagnosed as bipolar and treated for post

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Speaker 1: traumatic stress disorder. This is crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Time has not healed the pain of the family and

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Speaker 1: friends of Chase Masner, young Iraqi War veteran who disappeared

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Speaker 1: without as race. Despite some intense searching, few clues have

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Speaker 1: been found. We have a missing veteran, We have a friend,

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Speaker 1: a son, a father, and our main goal has always

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Speaker 1: been to bring him home, and that emotion will never

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Speaker 1: end until he's brought back home. What do you do

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Speaker 1: when your child is missing? What do you do when

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Speaker 1: your son is gone and you beat the streets, You

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Speaker 1: talked to the neighbors, you look at phone records, you

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Speaker 1: go to police, you perform a search, you do everything

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Speaker 1: you can, and then you find out the case is

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Speaker 1: being handed over to cold case. Does that mean the

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Speaker 1: end of the search? Does Does it mean it's all over?

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Speaker 1: There's nothing else you can do. I am talking about

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Speaker 1: a very handsome young man and Iraqi war Vette, a

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Speaker 1: married father of two little girls. I'm talking about Chase Masner.

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Speaker 1: Chase Master was twenty six when he vanished on March.

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Speaker 1: His last known whereabouts was a friend's home in kenne Saw, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: where he spent the night after an argument with his wife.

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Speaker 1: Massive searches followed, but not a trace of Chase was found.

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Speaker 1: An intense investigation by Cobb County, Georgia police has produced

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Speaker 1: no suspects or direct evidence of foul play, but few

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Speaker 1: people believe this father of two young daughters just walked

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Speaker 1: away from his family. Sources are telling us within the

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Speaker 1: police department in Cobb County, Georgia that Chase's case has

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Speaker 1: gone cold, the trail is dead, and the case is

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Speaker 1: being sent to a cold case division within the District

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Speaker 1: Attorney's office. Is that true? I Nancy Grace, this is is

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us, for us

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Speaker 1: at Crime Online and at Crime Stories. This case is

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Speaker 1: anything but cold, and we are doing all we can

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Speaker 1: do to keep Chase's case alive. We are beating the streets,

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Speaker 1: we are talking to potential witnesses. We are poring over

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Speaker 1: what phone records we can get in order to find

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Speaker 1: out what happened to this young man. Starting March, the

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Speaker 1: third anniversary of Chase's disappearance, Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: will focus each day for a week and longer if needed,

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Speaker 1: on what might have happened Master and where he is today.

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Speaker 1: It all solidified for me when I met his mother,

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Speaker 1: Stephanie Cadina. She's beautiful, but I don't believe ten minutes

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Speaker 1: went by without her crying. Her eyes red, her nose red,

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Speaker 1: her face red. She couldn't stop. People just carried a

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Speaker 1: box of Kleenex with them to hand to her because

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Speaker 1: this case going cold is her worst nightmare. I've lived

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Speaker 1: the last three years not knowing, and every single day

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Speaker 1: it's just hell, you know what. I don't know what's

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Speaker 1: going to happen, but I know this. We're gonna try,

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Speaker 1: because I can't stand see any cry like this, and

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Speaker 1: if it were God forbid my own child, I get

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Speaker 1: lived with myself either. I started with the person who

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Speaker 1: has launched the search, and he was steadfastly continue trying

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Speaker 1: to find Chase, and that is Stephanie and Team Chase.

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Speaker 1: The first several weeks, they were not actively investigating because,

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Speaker 1: in their words, it's not a crying to be missing.

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Speaker 1: If he wanted to walk away, it's not a crying. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about that. Had he ever in his life

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Speaker 1: gone this long without texting you were calling you? Ever?

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Speaker 1: And you know what I say, If you don't know

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Speaker 1: a horse, look at his track record. So what somebody

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Speaker 1: has done in the past, they're likely to do again.

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Speaker 1: If he had gone his whole life texting you and

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Speaker 1: call you every what day, other day, what all the time,

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Speaker 1: then why would he quit that day and say to

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Speaker 1: h G double l with my mother. So I don't

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Speaker 1: believe that. I don't either. We've done it all. We've

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Speaker 1: visited his last known location. We have sifted through the grounds,

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Speaker 1: there canvas in the neighborhood, talked to every witness we

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Speaker 1: can find, including the elusive Brad, the friend who saw

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Speaker 1: him alive last But now I'm wondering, was Brad the

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Speaker 1: last person to see Chase Masner alive? Before I go

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Speaker 1: They're my treasures. I put that alarm on whether I'm

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Speaker 1: we're doing to try to keep the Chase Masner search alive.

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Speaker 1: We started with Stephanie, the mother, and she told me

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Speaker 1: that the day he goes missing, this is what went down.

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Speaker 1: He Chase and the wife, Amanda, the mother of the

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Speaker 1: two little girls, just fought endlessly about everything. She just

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Speaker 1: had another baby. He had been stationed in Iraq. The

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Speaker 1: baby is born, the mom's not working. He is trying

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Speaker 1: to reassimilate into society as a civilian. He's having a

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Speaker 1: hard time with it, but all of his friends say

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Speaker 1: he was pretty upbeat and even funny. In fact, I

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Speaker 1: found out today his ringtone was happy, you know, the

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Speaker 1: one the minion sing. And he was just a funny,

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Speaker 1: fun guy. And according to his mother and all of

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Speaker 1: his friends, that was his demeanor all the time. But

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Speaker 1: according to the wife, Amanda, he was angry and agitated. Well, anyway,

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Speaker 1: they were getting along so badly. Chase came to stay

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Speaker 1: with his mom for two or three days until Amanda

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Speaker 1: And she did, and the argument re ignited almost immediately

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Speaker 1: within a couple of hours. She dumped him where he

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Speaker 1: had managed to get a job at Quick Trip and

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Speaker 1: let him off for things to cool down again, and

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Speaker 1: he went to Brad, the friend Brad's home. It was

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Speaker 1: there he was last seen alive. But having spoken in

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Speaker 1: depth to the mystery man, Brad, I'm not so sure

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Speaker 1: that's the case. There's a lot of witnesses to sift through,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of reports, fun records, a lot of

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Speaker 1: tracks to retrace, but we are doing our very best.

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Speaker 1: I hope you join us on our search for the

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Speaker 1: truth finding Chase Masner. Nancy Grace signing off from Crime Stories.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, friend. I don't want this case to go cold.

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Speaker 1: I want to see Stephanie Cadena stop crying. I want

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Speaker 1: to find out what happened to Chase Masner. Goodbye friend,