There are a couple of connections to the Sandy Hook shootings.
#1) When he was announced as missing a friend on FB stated something about a witness to the shooters escaping on ATV's leaving the school. Maybe ROBERT was that witness. But it never came up again.
#2) Robert was a real-estate appraiser in the area. The strange real-estate transactions in that area between 2009-2012 led many to suspect something was up.
#3) Robert worked part time for a law-firm in Bridgeport, CT. It was known that he was interested in becoming an expert witness.
#4) His wife, Lori Hoagland is a culinary teacher at Newtown High School. She works with Jeannette Manfredonia (wife of Chris Manfredonia who was briefly detained)
EDIT: Chris Manfredonia was briefly detained and his wife is Georgeann Manfredonia. They reside at 35 Charter Ridge Road in Sandy Hook. Georgeann is a parent-volunteer at Sandy Hook Elementary.
Lori Hoagland works at Newtown High School with Jeanette Manfredonia, the Biology Teacher. She is married to Robert Manfredonia and they reside at 16 Yogananda and have three children. The OTHER Manfredonia in the area is the former Newtown High School principal, Bill, who left in 2004 to teach in NYC.
Those are the connections that I have come up with.
He would have to be missing for a number of years before his life insurance policy would come into play, by having him declared dead, unless there is a body.
In the meantime they can gain control of his assets and use them for their maintenance and upkeep in his absence.
Would he just have walked away from his life for a new one??? What would be the circumstances in his family where that would be an attractive option for him??
NEWTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) -- It's been a mystery for nearly four months now -- where is Robert Hoagland of Newtown?
NEWTOWN, Conn. (WTNH) -- It's been a mystery for nearly four months now -- where is Robert Hoagland of Newtown?
NEWTOWN The family of Robert Hoagland and the Newtown Police Department request the publics help in locating this man.
NEWTOWN The family of Robert Hoagland and the Newtown Police Department request the publics help in locating this man.
The appeal refers people to the helpusfindhoagie FB for more information.
You have to belong to FB to view the information on that page.
Under half the US population are on Facebook.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats26.htm
That means over half are not. There's a good chance that a large proportion of any people interested enough to look for more information, won't be able to see it. As the number of people prepared to actively help amongst those interested will be tiny anyway, it makes no sense to me that any missing person's FB page would ever have barriers to open viewing by all.
I wish this wouldn't happen, but it does, all the time. It's such a wasted opportunity.
I'm sure the local community would participate in public searches and vigils to help keep Robert's case in the news and maybe generate some tips. Family will have to take the lead in organizing them though - it will never happen otherwise.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) Police in Newtown, Connecticut believe a missing 50-year-old man may be in the Southland.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) Police in Newtown, Connecticut believe a missing 50-year-old man may be in the Southland.