JAN 10, 2023
Persian Gulf Navy veteran and Sterling Heights resident Kellie Tolstoy believes somebody knows something about her 26-year-old son Drexyll Tolstoy who has been missing since Sept. 25.
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Drexyll’s phone has been turned off since that night, he did not show up for work the next day, and his belongings including his medications were left in his apartment. He is not believed to be carrying any identification as he told his mother a few days prior to his disappearance that his wallet had been either lost or stolen.
“He doesn’t have any ID, he doesn’t have any of his meds; I’m hoping for the best but planning for the worst,” said Tolstoy.
Drexyll is Tolstoy’s only child and since she last spoke to him on the night of Sept. 25 she has been embroiled in a situation every parent fears. Her son is missing, there have been no leads as to his whereabouts, and the disappearance of a young adult is often viewed by law enforcement as possibly being voluntary as opposed to something demanding a sense of urgency as would the disappearance of a young child.
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Tolstoy recently returned from a six-day trip to New York with her partner, Tom Campbell, to try and find answers to Drexyll’s disappearance. It is their second trip to the city since Drexyll’s disappearance. They put up posters near Black Fish Tattoo and in the Upper West Side neighborhood where he lived.
“Another thing we did, and it was pretty brutal. I’m not going to lie, we went to the chief medical examiner’s office and I left a sample of my DNA,” said Tolstoy, who has spent the past four months calling morgues in the New York City area.
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“Someone reached out to the television reporter saying they saw someone fitting Drexyll’s description under the stoop at a specific address,” said Tolstoy. “We drove out there and didn’t find him but I had brought some of his favorite Arabic snacks from Michigan and I left those under that stoop just in case.”
That address was just 10 blocks from the apartment he shared with his ex-girlfriend and Tolstoy said a woman who she approached with one of the flyers told her she also saw a man who looked like Drexyll near that same address.
“My ex husband, Drexyll’s dad, lives in New York and just got back in town last night and he is going to keep going by that address and checking,” said Tolstoy.
Meanwhile, Tolstoy is making plans to make a third trip to New York in the coming weeks. She has considered hiring a private detective to assist with the search and would like to try and gather some volunteers who could help post flyers and canvass the neighborhoods he frequented.
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