Missing Person Case (namus.gov)
Thomas Doolan – The Charley Project
His EBT card (commonly used) has been unspent. The family believes he is deceased and are looking to recover his remains. He was reported missing by his daughter on Dec. 23 after she couldn't get ahold of him and on Dec. 19, the home he was living in said he moved out Dec. 6, the last day she had heard from him.
CT woman fights to find missing father (nhregister.com)
The Day - A year later, family still searches for New London man, offers $5,000 reward - News from southeastern Connecticut
It’s been more than a year since Paige Knobel has seen or heard from her father, Tom Doolan. But she hasn’t given up hope that someone, somewhere knows what happened to him. . . . Doolan, who would be 60 now, had been living in a sober house at 57 Berkeley Ave. for several months when he seemingly vanished into thin air on Dec. 6, 2019. . . . On that morning, Knobel picked up the phone and talked to her dad, not knowing it would be the last time she would hear his voice. Doolan, who has a history of mental illness, suicidal tendencies and drug addiction, was in a manic state. Knobel said the last update she received from investigators was information from her father’s cellphone — on Dec. 6, 2019, it pinged in Norwich, then in Bozrah not long after, she said.
Before his cellphone, issued by the state, was turned off due to inactivity, Knobel called over and over, hoping her dad would pick up.
But he never did.
Knobel thinks her dad, who didn’t own a car, must have been in an Uber, a taxi or had gotten a ride from someone after she spoke to him the day he disappeared. Doolan primarily used his bike to get around, Knobel said, but it wouldn’t have been possible for him to have been traveling quickly enough on his bike for his phone to ping in Norwich and Bozrah. She said she doesn’t understand how whoever was driving him that day has never come forward.
Doolan’s bike has never been found, and neither has his wallet, cellphone or tablet.
Investigators and search dogs in March scoured a 40-mile radius from where Doolan’s phone last pinged, Knobel said, but found nothing. She organized her own search not long after, bringing a group of friends, family and co-workers to search that area in Norwich, looking along railroad tracks and near the water, along Route 2 and into Jewett City and Bozrah.
