WESTPORT, Conn. — Stamford Police are investigating what they think about the “suspicious disappearance” of a 63-year-old man.
Police from Stamford and Westport teamed as much as search a southbound stretch of I-95, in search of proof within the disappearance of Errol Whyte.
“No dementia, no medical points that we all know that might trigger him to stroll away,” Stamford Police Capt. Diedrich Hohn mentioned.
Hohn says the stretch between exits 18 and 17 is the place a member of the family situated the lacking man’s SUV on Friday, parked on the shoulder.
Whyte, a local of Jamaica, was final seen on Thursday, Dec. 29, leaving his son’s house in Bridgeport.
Cops searched the automobile and located an empty cash bag mendacity on high of Whyte’s pockets.
“A financial institution cash bag like for night time deposit drops, that is in there. Two cell telephones are in there, after which on high of it, we had his keys, however the important thing to the automobile was not in there. The automobile does appear like it was simply stopped there, completely stopped, after which from there on in, we do not know what occurred to him,” Hohn mentioned.
Monday afternoon, an investigator stopped by the Stamford house the place Whyte rented a first-floor residence.
Landlord Mervin Johnson tells CBS2 Whyte has lived quietly there for about 20 years, working jobs in building and landscaping.
“We’re like household, he is been round me for thus lengthy, and to know he is simply lacking and not using a hint, it is like, I am very distraught,” he mentioned.
“It is sort of baffling proper now and it’s worrisome,” Hohn mentioned.
Police will proceed to look alongside 95 for proof and ask drivers who noticed something suspicious on Thursday the twenty ninth to contact them.
