NY NY - Richard “Max” Albright, 69, registered nurse anesthetist, Jackson Heights, Queens, 14 Oct 2021

[JerseyGirl]

Nurse from prestigious NYC hospital goes missing near Queens home | PIX11

Richard “Max” Albright, 69, a registered nurse anesthetist at the Hospital for Special Surgery, was last seen the morning of Thursday, Oct. 14, near Junction Boulevard and 34th Avenue in Jackson Heights, close to his home, according to the social media post from the hospital.

Albright is described in the hospital’s post as a white male, standing 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighing around 250 lbs.

 

[Hope32]

Sadly I don't think this has a great ending to it. As soon as I read anesthetist I just had a feeling that things may not turn out well. Just being in NY and in a hospital . I can see this last 18 months being super stressful and him looking for relief.

I am hoping that I am wrong...

 

[JerseyGirl]

Nurse from prestigious NYC hospital goes missing near Queens home | PIX11

The worried wife said she was notified her husband’s phone received a text she sent at 1:30 p.m. last Thursday, but he never responded. His cell phone is still going to voice mail.

Richard Albright was just finishing up three weeks of vacation and was supposed to return to work in Manhattan on Saturday, Oct. 16.

The hospital’s Facebook page has a missing persons post for Albright, asking anyone with information to call the 115th Detective Squad at (718) 533-2002.

Cathy Albright said her husband was wearing slippers when he went for his walk last Thursday, because his regular shoes were hurting him. He seems to be limping slightly in the surveillance footage.

And even though Richard Albright is an imposing six feet, three inches tall, he’s dealt with numerous health concerns in recent years. His wife said Albright left the medicine he takes every day at home.

She said her husband requires blood thinners after undergoing three open heart surgeries, and also needs antibiotics every day to prevent infection after getting two knee replacements.

 

[Unsolved]

His FB - last post September 21

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[hibachai]

"The wife of a missing nurse from the Hospital for Special Surgery said Richard “Max” Albright would always find a way to let her know he was okay, so she wouldn’t worry.

“He would crawl through broken glass and swim through a river of hot lava to let me know where he was,” Cathy Albright told PIX11 News at their Jackson Heights home Thursday. “He’s a devoted husband"

“He doesn’t have a secret life; he’s just an honest person,” Albright’s wife noted. “Almost to a fault.”

She said her husband loves being a nurse.

“He loves the hospital and everyone loves him,” she said. “His co-workers are beside themselves.”

Jennifer Rentas, senior vice president and chief of staff at the Hospital for Special Surgery, called Albright a “respected member of the HSS family.”

“Richard is beloved as a colleague and expert in a highly distinguished profession,” Rentas said. “He treats each patient with compassion and is an example for others in his positive bedside manner.”

He has worked at the Hospital for Special Surgery for 16 years, ever since he and his wife moved to New York from Amarillo, Texas.

“We love New York, all the food,” Cathy Albright said. “We go all over.”

Nurse from prestigious NYC hospital goes missing near Queens home | PIX11

 

[Darling136]

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[GuyfromCanada]

Still missing.

JACKSON HEIGHTS, Queens — Cathy Albright looked distraught but determined when she boarded the No. 7 train recently at Junction Boulevard in Queens, carrying posters about her missing husband, Richard “Max” Albright.

“This is our stop; we live right down the street,” she told commuters, as she stood in the middle of one subway car, holding posters translated into Chinese and Spanish. “He’s a registered nurse at the Hospital for Special Surgery.”

The 69-year-old nurse went missing more than a month ago, on Thursday morning, Oct. 14.

More at The Missing: Queens nurse vanished after going out for walk; wife riding No. 7 train to find him | PIX11

 

[Fleur-de-lis]

I worry about the 61 hospitals there. The wife did call according to the PIX11 article, but I would think that would be something that needs to be done repeatedly and through LE doing the questioning bc sometimes staff isn't that helpful to regular people and bc the clients/patients change. I saw at a "humane society" where they had listed a German Shepherd as a lab and would not change that description. Anyone calling in for a GS would be told, no GS's here. Likewise, searching by description over the phone might not yield good quality answers. Just saying. MOO.

The Missing: Queens nurse vanished after going out for walk; wife riding No. 7 train to find him | PIX11

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I really feel for his family. Has law enforcement conducted ongoing searches, considering he left on foot wearing slippers?

Is anyone here good at posting maps? I think he'd most likely be within a (?) radius of his home...

 

[alucardsdream]

I really feel for his family. Has law enforcement conducted ongoing searches, considering he left on foot wearing slippers?

Is anyone here good at posting maps? I think he'd most likely be within a (?) radius of his home...

I can't imagine he got very far wearing slippers...more likely he either got on public transportation or got a ride with someone. I know his wife said that he loved his job, but this is a terrible time to be in healthcare and many workers are frustrated and burned out. I hope he just went off somewhere to clear his head, but he doesn't sound like the type of person who would want to worry his wife...I have a bad feeling about this one.

 

[flower_girl]

Really interesting he bought a 30 day metrocard ($127) instead of a) using his likely unlimited card he has as a New Yorker, or b) buying a 7 day card or even just a pay as you go card - $33 or as low as $1 + whatever funds you add to your card.

you can do all of these things at the same terminals for the same level of ease.

what bus was he on that day? Was it a bus he usually took?

 

[flower_girl]

Also, nurse anesthetist make ~$217k on average in NYC, that’s a comfortable income even there.

I know she says it is insulting people even ask but…..could he have been squirreling away money? was he married before they met when he was 46?

Feeling bad even verbalizing this so I hope it is not offensive!

 

[Kimkimba]

Really interesting he bought a 30 day metrocard ($127) instead of a) using his likely unlimited card he has as a New Yorker, or b) buying a 7 day card or even just a pay as you go card - $33 or as low as $1 + whatever funds you add to your card.

you can do all of these things at the same terminals for the same level of ease.

what bus was he on that day? Was it a bus he usually took?

This is the part I just don’t understand. It really makes no sense unless he buys a card every month for work and to get around New York.
Do we know what time he took the bus?

 

[modesty blaise]

Buses in nyc have cameras where did he take the bus to?? There are so many men of all ethnicities living on the streets in ny for a number of reasons, its so disheartening.

 

[LadyL]

very strange circumstances

 

[TwinkieDefense]

Sept 7, 2022 article : Indicates wife is still searching. I’m not sure what if anything is new here, other than his whereabouts are still unknown.

New York woman desperately searching for missing husband

Cathy Albright rides New York train cars daily, desperately spreading the word about the search for her missing husband.

www.newsnationnow.com

[…]

Richard Albright, 69, has survived three open heart surgeries, malaria and a run-in with poisonous tomatoes that almost killed him.

[…]

Richard can be seen on surveillance footage from the night he disappeared, shuffling out of their New York apartment in slippers, seemingly indecisive about which direction to go. It would be the last time he was seen.

Cathy called every hospital in the area; none of them had Richard or any John Doe fitting his description.

[…]

“He’s such an honest person,” Cathy Albright said. “He wouldn’t even know how to be shady.”

[…]

But, almost one year later, there is still no clue about Richard Albright, a man who spent his boyhood with a missionary family in Africa.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Bumping case up.

Here is his NamUs profile:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov