The facts as I see them:
Healthy, fit, grown man missing.
No crime scene.
No body.
No blood.
Left his wallet home.
Was in the neighborhood but passed by to go elsewhere.
Cell phone deactivates.
Had (surprisingly?) little cell phone activity earlier that day that despite leaving work early, heading home and it being the Friday before a "holiday" weekend.
Arrow Scrap Metal also recycles electronics, i.e. computer harddrives and cell phones, i.e. devices with traceable data.
"Prized" automobile found unharmed in a prominent space in a locale which would certainly be searched.
Locale where auto is found also is convenient to transportation to NYC in one direction, Montauk in the other.
The trunk of the auto, possibly containing the "tools of the missing man's trade", was swept clean.
LE has not determined a crime has been committed.
...So what is that all about? Got a wife and kid in Baltimore, Jack?