So is Robert Hoagland, who friends know as "Hoagy," roaming the East Coast as a drifter? Was he kidnapped? Will some unsuspecting traveler stumble across his remains? "That's the part we just do not know, and maybe we never will,'' she said.ĭetectives have investigated reported of sightings as far away as Rhode Island, as close to home as Brookfield, and even, more recently, at the Putnam County Correctional Facility. "I've seen him chase people down the street with baseball bats," Lori Hoagland said.Ĭould someone he encountered have felt threatened enough to harm him? Lori Hoagland and other friends, however, have said if Hoagland thought his son was in any danger, or if someone threatened the family, he would not have hesitated to confront them. He told police he was looking to buy drugs, but police have not suggested his activities or associations had anything to do with his father's disappearance. The following day, Max was arrested in Bridgeport on a charge of misdemeanor trespass.
The initial investigation determined Robert had gone to the local bagel shop and then filled his Volkwagen Golf at the Mobil station on Church Hill Road, where he bought a map of the eastern United States, according to information posted on the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System ( NamUS). He stopped the mower to say goodbye to Max, who was going out for a few hours. When she realized he wasn't there, but his keys, wallet and other possessions were, she notified police.Īccording to witness and family accounts, Hoagland had breakfast with his son Max, played online Scrabble and paid some bills before going outside to mow the lawn. When he didn't, she was puzzled but not overly alarmed, and found another way home.
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