Hi everyone, longtime lurker here, but I registered to weigh in on this case. I grew up in the Deer Park / Dix Hills area and this case drew me in from the beginning.
At first my thoughts were going between RM harming himself or walking away from his life. If reading between the lines of what IM states - We are heartbroken and believe he is hurt and her statement regarding her daughter being in denial, with a list of things to show Daddy when he gets home, it leads me to believe he said something to her to indicate he may harm himself or that he was not planning to come home. How would the daughter expecting her father to come home mean shes in denial? Its denial if you know hes not coming home but cant face it. As for searching in the preserve, she may believe that after parking the car at the train station he went deep into the Edgewood preserve, to harm himself.
http://longisland.news12.com/news/f...ssing-man-robert-mayer-of-dix-hills-1.5499513
I would think that if he told her that he was leaving and no mention of harming himself, why would you search the preserve? In that case Id assume he hopped a train to wherever he was going off to. Which still doesnt make sense, why not take his car if he was leaving voluntarily? Why do this to your children?
Now, with the latest regarding his last being seen in a scrap yard, I feel uneasy. Without knowing if it is his regular practice to visit scrap yards, it could be a normal stop hed make at the end of the week for extra cash. If not, was he meeting someone? Scrap dealers, for the most part, do require ID. However, there are some shady places where no questions are asked but theyre more middle-of-the-night places in the Bronx.
Because of the lack of camera surveillance at the Deer Park train station (which honestly blows my mind knowing its not the safest place), we dont know when the car was driven there. Considering the spot it was parked in, Id think it was late Friday night/Saturday morning. Is the car a 2 door or 4 door? Im not clear on the drivers seat was it pulled up, as if a shorter person were driving, or the back of the seat pulled forward, as if getting something out of the back of a 2 door?
As for Pilgrim State I dont believe the search was meant for the parts of Pilgrim that are in use. I havent been there in years but it was a creepy place with abandoned buildings that kids would go to scare themselves silly. Those buildings were demolished about 10 years ago.