In 1997, Chet formed the nu-metal/punk rock band “Tezticular Torzion.” The band had large success locally in Rotborough, but struggled to gain much attention outside of the local scene. Critically, the band was panned, in part to the mostly undisclosed financial backing from Chet’s father/NXT Health. This, alongside Chet’s wealthy upbringing, caused the wider punk scene to view the band as posers and significantly hindered their success. NXT’s financial backing is very evident, with all releases prior to 2000 featuring the brand’s logo, and the band even produced a jingle for NXT’s flagship energy Drink Udder Buster in 1998. The branding was dropped in 2000 likely to combat the continued criticism, though it is unknown whether or not the financial backing ceased.
Chet Sacksman
Early Life
Chet Sacksman was born in Rotborough, Missouri in 1981 to Alfred and Jinny Sacksman, the Sacksman family’s second child. Little documentation exists surrounding Chet’s childhood, though presumably he grew up with tremendous wealth due to the success of his father Alfred Sacksman’s health supplement company “NXT Health.” Chet presumably did not finish his high school education at Rotborough High School, with his name not being present in any documentation of graduating classes. It is speculated he was expelled, due to his criminal record painting a picture of antisocial behavior dating as far back as 1993, when Chet was only 12 years old.
Tezticular Torzion
Promotional Poster for Tezticular Torzion's first live show (1997)
Radio recording of Udder Buster advertisement featuring Tezticular Torzion's jingle
Excerpt from review of Tezticular Torzion's self titled album, Bloom Heights Gazette ~1997
Legal Trouble and Counseling
Archived t-shirt from 1999 Blue Skies charity event with NXH listed as the sole sponsor
Between 1993 and 2003, Chet Sacksman was arrested a documented 12 times on charges ranging from public indecency to arson. While fragmented records from the Rotborough Police Department (RPD) offer some insight, the full extent of his legal troubles is difficult to piece together. It is unlikely that Chet served any significant time in jail, presumably due to his family’s considerable wealth and influence in the community. Police reports that do remain, some sourced from incomplete public records and anonymous leaks, frequently cite Chet’s cocaine use.
Archived posts from MyDigitalRot—Rotborough’s now-defunct forum/blog—suggest his drug use was something of an open secret, and Chet’s own posts to Tezticular Torzion’s fan subforum doing little to deny this gossip.
In a 2004 interview, Chet revealed his behavior eventually culminated in his mother issuing an ultimatum: seek counseling or face expulsion from the family home. Sources conflict on the immediacy of this intervention, and some speculate that it was more performative than genuine, with little expectation of long-term change. Chet was ultimately placed under the care of Blue Skies Recovery Group, a mutual-aid fellowship operating out of northern Rotborough along Grace Way. The decision to involve Blue Skies appears to have been heavily influenced by Alfred Sacksman, Chet’s father and CEO of NXHealth. Blue Skies had a documented relationship with NXHealth, frequently promoting the company’s supplements at local events and fundraisers, and NXHealth financially sponsoring events in return.
In a radio interview on KRRB later that year, Chet—promoting his pivot to faith-based music—credited Blue Skies with saving his life, declaring that the group had facilitated his “spiritual rebirth.” However, a deeper dive into police records and MyDigitalRot posts suggests this narrative may have been largely exaggerated, if not entirely fabricated.
Reports of continued arrests following Chet’s enrollment in Blue Skies counseling challenge the sincerity of his transformation. Blog entries from that period, many still recoverable through archived snapshots of MyDigitalRot, reveal erratic posts, self-aggrandizing tirades, and further public admissions of drug use. Chet’s behavior, if anything, appeared to intensify, not improve.
Despite these ongoing incidents, Blue Skies publicly heralded Chet’s rehabilitation as a success. Representatives of the group consistently dismissed concerns from the community and, on at least two recorded occasions, criticized RPD’s handling of Chet’s arrests, suggesting the police had unfairly targeted him. Chet’s subsequent employment at Rotborough Country Club in late 2003 was regularly cited by Blue Skies as proof of his reintegration into society. This claim, however, requires scrutiny. The Sacksman family’s long-standing membership at RBCC—paired with their status as one of the club’s top donor families—raises questions about the legitimacy of this employment. Chet was apparently fired from his position sometime in 2004, but records show this did not affect his membership or benefits at the club.
A shift in Chet’s public persona during this period also coincides with deeper Blue Skies involvement. By early 2004, media appearances show Chet shedding the punk aesthetic he had embraced during his years with Tezticular Torzion. In place of ripped leather jackets and torn band tees, Chet began appearing in preppy, country-club attire—polo shirts and khakis that more closely mirrored his father’s image than his own rebellious roots. He also began a short lived solo music project, apparently with a focus on his newfound religious faith, though none of this music has been recovered.
It is not unreasonable to conclude that Chet and the Sacksman family was failed by Blue Skies. While our documentation tries to maintain an objective tone and we avoid speculation, our thorough research of Rotborough’s missing persons history has pointed to this organization as destructively negligent in the most charitable of eyes. We implore our readers to come to their own conclusions from the information we are working to archive. However, when that work is actively trying to be impeded and censored by bad actors, that adherence to journalistic principles can only extend so far.
Disappearance
On July 18, 2004, Chet Sacksman was reported missing by his mother, Jiddy Sacksman, in a call placed to the Rotborough Police Department (RPD). Available records indicate that the initial missing persons report classified Chet as a voluntary disappearance due to his history of erratic behavior, though details regarding the initial response are fragmented. RPD’s existing documentation is sparse, and formal case files appear to have been lost or misplaced following the dissolution of the department after Rotborough’s collapse.
The day after Chet’s disappearance was reported, on July 19, 2004, RPD received a separate call regarding the disappearance of Timothy Rosewald, a groundskeeper employed by Rotborough Country Club (RBCC). While official records connecting the two cases are missing, personal accounts and posts recovered from Chet’s MyDigitalRot page suggest ongoing conflict between the two. In May 2004, Chet accused Rosewald—both publicly online and in forum discussions—of being responsible for his termination from RBCC. A single released by Chet’s band, Tezticular Torzion, titled "Kill a Snitch" (June 2004), is widely believed to reference Rosewald, though this connection was never formally established in police reports.
Chet's Status update on MyDigitalRot in 5/23/2004, in regards to his firing from RBCC
Chet’s last confirmed sightings occurred on July 17, 2004, the day prior to his reported disappearance. Eyewitness accounts—collected from archived interviews and secondhand statements—place him at Rotborough Country Club early that morning. Multiple sources, including club staff, recalled seeing Chet in the vicinity of the maintenance shed, reportedly loading Royal Greens fertilizer bags into a golf cart. Surveillance records from the club’s security system, if they ever existed, have not been recovered.
A purchase receipt dated 4:34 PM from Feldman’s Family Grocery lists several items under Chet’s name, including bleach, a hacksaw, and a shovel. While these items were flagged in subsequent investigations, no public explanation was provided for their purchase. At approximately 6:00 PM, security camera footage from the Stop n’ Slop truck stop purportedly captured Chet exiting onto I-44 in his father’s black 2003 Chevrolet Silverado. Reports indicate an unidentified individual was visible in the passenger seat. Attempts to locate the footage through RPD archives have been unsuccessful, with references to the video appearing only in secondary police notes. The footage was never released to the public.
On July 21, 2004, remains were discovered north of I-44 in a remote, wooded area approximately three miles from the nearest exit. The remains were identified as belonging to Timothy Rosewald. Available case files, though incomplete, describe the body as dismembered and concealed in Royal Greens fertilizer bags. The bags were found next to a partially dug hole. Approximately 300 feet from the burial site, the black 2003 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Chet was located, keys still in the ignition.
Footprint impressions, consistent with the shoe size worn by Chet, were found leading away from the driver’s side of the truck toward the burial site. Notably, no return footprints were identified leading away from the scene. While no conclusive evidence indicated foul play in Chet’s disappearance, this detail led investigators to hypothesize that Chet may have been killed while attempting to dispose of Rosewald’s remains. However, without physical evidence of Chet’s death at the scene, the theory remained speculative.
Investigation
Chet Sacksman was never officially named a suspect in the murder of Rosewald despite the mountain of evidence pointing to him as at the very least an involved party with a clearly plausible motive and criminal history. Despite our best efforts researching all available documents in our archive, almost nothing in terms of substantial pushback on the investigation was found. It is unclear whether the community at broad was satisfied with the outcome, or that dissenting voices were subject to censorship efforts from particular groups. The focus of investigators largely turned to Chet’s disappearance as the murder case quickly went cold with no significant leads in regard to the proposed 3rd individual involved.
During a press appearance held discussing Chet’s disappearance, Alfred Sacksman expressed a confounding level of indifference and confidence that Chet was alive and well. From archived excerpts that exist, it appears most of his time speaking was spent promoting new products from NXT. He expressed that he firmly believed the narrative that Chet had embarked on a spiritual journey of some nature, adding that it was likely Alfred’s own pilgrimage in the Amazons, that inspired his son. This theory had been propagated by the Blue Skies Recovery Group, with multiple of its members attesting to Chet expressing interest in the idea during his group counseling sessions. Gray Jones, the then Mayor of Rotborough and co-founder of Blue Skies, went as far as to tell the press that Chet formally told him of this plan weeks before but insisted that Jones was not to disclose them to his family as to not cause them to intervene with his healing. This explanation is incredibly unconvincing, when accounting for the fact that no change of clothes or other necessities were found in Chet’s car, nor was anything indicating plans to move in his room at the Sacksman family home.
Little information on Timothy Rosewald has been archived, but it is presumed he did not have any living family which, along with the Sacksman family’s apparent lack of concern for Chet’s whereabouts, presumably contributed to the lack of scrutiny. Furthermore, archived posts on MyDigitalRot reveal that the community at large had come to view Chet as a nuisance, and with him falling out of favor with Tezticular Torzion’s fanbase due to his transition to faith-based music, there was unlikely very much pressure on local law enforcement to complete a more thorough investigation, and it is unfortunately unlikely any more answers will be found in regards to the case.
Partially recovered audio recording from Alfred Sacksman’s appearance at conference held for Chet’s disappearance
Fall Out From Disappearance
While it appears the case of Chet’s disappearance blew over rather quickly and without fanfare, one of the few people to seem affected was his older brother, Phil Sacksman, a professional golf caddy and local celebrity. It is unknown whether or not Phil expressed any concerns publicly, but there was a marked turn in his career immediately following the disappearance. Accounts detailing Phil’s poor caddying performances began to circulate as early as forum posts from September of 2004, and photos of Phil vomiting and falling asleep after a supposed drunken meltdown were distributed in local tabloids not long after. Though he was already an open alcoholic and prominent figure in Rotbrough’s nightlife scene, these meltdowns betrayed the image of a playboy bachelor Phil was known for. By the end of 2004, it appears he was dropped by all of his sponsors outside of NXT, his father’s company, and production on the next title in his eponymous videogame series, “Phil Sacksman’s Caddy Simulator 2004”, had been canceled according to Rageboy Monthly. Between 2005-2007 multiple reports document arrests ranging from public drunkenness to domestic battery, and though no formal documentation is known to have been filed a split from his wife was thoroughly reported. Little is known of Phil’s current situation, though rumors of him being homeless and panhandling from some time in 2007 were purported by the local gossip radio program “The Secret.”
Phil Sacksman supposedly panhandling in 2007
Archived Recording from 90.3 The Secret (~2007)
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Chet Sacksman
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| General Info | |
| Sex | Male |
| Born | 1981 |
| Disappeared | 2004 |
| Place Of Birth | Rotborough, Missouri |
| Relatives | |
| Parents | Alfred Sacksman, Jiddy Sacksman |
| Siblings | Phil Sacksman |