Chet Bond is the only member of the Bond Brothers to go on the record for this project. Cole Young died of liver failure in 1989, Donny Pendle declined to be interviewed, and Beau Bond disappeared sometime in 1973, when, Chet recalls, his little brother abruptly cut off contact with family and friends. The owner of an auto-body shop in his hometown of Live Oak, Chet—who says he has been sober since 1997—is active in local politics and in 2016 campaigned in his swing state for Donald J. Trump. The ranch-style house he shares with his wife, Shelly, and their three Pomeranians is well-known in
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