Police find items belonging to Chance Englebert, attorney says 

(NewsNation) — A new update has been made in the case of long-time missing Wyoming man Chance Englebert.

Englebert went missing in 2019, when he was 25, during a trip to visit family in Gering, Nebraska.

He had been arguing with his wife and her family, and after saying he wanted to go back to Wyoming, he got out of her car and began walking.

Englebert was last seen on surveillance video walking through Gering, about an hour before a storm hit the area.

In a statement issued Thursday, the Scotts Bluff County attorney discussed skeletal remains found at Scotts Bluff National Monument, west of Gehrig.

"Several items were located that family identified as belonging to Chance Englebert when he went missing on July 6, 2019," the statement read.

"The investigation into his disappearance has been active and ongoing since it was originally reported. The Douglas County Coroner's Office in Omaha is assisting to facilitate the forensic examination of dental records, DNA samples, and other scientific examinations of the skeletal remains."

The examination is expected to take place in the near future, but a date has not been set. Authorities were clear that no identity could be positively identified until completion of the forensic examination.