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Last I heard Cris went missing after his wife died of a drug overdose in a motel room and he fled the scene. The Meat Puppets have always been a pot and 'shrooms kind of band, but I think Cris became addicted to heroin on the Too High to Die tour. If there’s a sunny side to the whole sordid mess, maybe this incident will force him to detox and the Meat Puppets will stage a comeback.