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L.I. Man Missing 5 Weeks After Internet Blind Date
Jul 31, 2010 7:30 am US/Eastern
L.I. Man Missing 5 Weeks After Internet Blind Date
Jul 31, 2010 7:30 am US/Eastern
Jennifer McLogan WEST ISLIP, N.Y. (CBS) ― A Long Island couple is looking for help to find their missing son, who left for a blind date with a woman he met on a social dating website.
Michael Taus, 24, of West Islip and his dog Romeo went missing June 18 and his parents are heartbroken and frantically seeking their son.
"I can't describe how bad I feel," Taus' mother Barbara told CBS 2 HD. "I feel sadder than I've ever felt in my whole life."
Taus' parents said their son had been on several social networking sites during the third week of June.
Taus' father, Russel, recounted a conversation he had with his son about the date before he went missing.
"He seemed happy," Russel Taus said. "I told him to be careful because he met this girl on the computer."
However, Michael Taus never returned to his West Islip apartment after his internet date. Another perplexing element to this case is that his dog and the dog's water and food bowls were also missing from the apartment.
Six days after he went missing, police discovered Michael Taus' 2004 black Jetta abandoned with the engine running 30 miles away from his home in Elmont.
Inspector Gerard McCarthy said police have done a forensic examination of the vehicle.
"There is nothing to indicate that the vehicle was part of a violent scene," McCarthy said. "He seems to have fallen off the face of the earth."
Authorities said they are mystified about how the man went missing and are reaching out to law enforcement across the county.