Kansas family offers reward for any tips on missing man
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By Cristina Kumka
staff writer - Published: July 31, 2010
The family of a missing Rutland man and police are desperately searching for leads and are offering a $1,000 reward for any information leading to 33-year-old Danny Goldstein’s location.
Goldstein, an employee in the food service department at Rutland’s Mountain View Center on Haywood Avenue, was last seen Sunday at about 11 p.m. by his neighbor who lives in his apartment complex at 116 North Main St.
The two were talking in the neighbor’s apartment when Goldstein became melancholy, according to the neighbor, said Goldstein’s father, Gerald Goldstein of Kansas City, Kan.
“(The neighbor’s) expression to me was that (Danny) looked like somebody’s dog was run over,” but she said he promised he wouldn’t do anything to put himself in jeopardy, the elder Goldstein said.
Then, without a trace, family and police say the man disappeared.
Goldstein vanished with only his jeans, white T-shirt and sneakers.
His apartment was left untouched, with his cigarettes, cell phone, wallet, keys and bank card left there, family and police say.
With no leads to go on and no bank transactions or calls to follow, the family is offering a $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to Goldstein’s location.
“I really think he meant to go walking and wandered off,” Gerald Goldstein said. “My belief is that he’s still around, on the trails ... we just don’t know.”
Police have searched all the parks and woods within the city’s limits, said the investigator in charge, Rutland Officer Mike Warfle.
Warfle put out a nationwide alert and called all the numbers on Goldstein’s cell phone and still nothing.
“I’ve exhausted everything I can do,”Warfle said Friday.
“I’m asking the public to keep their eye out. If they see anybody strange or disoriented, call the police to check it out,” he said. “He’s got to be hungry, he’s gotta need clothes ... please call the PD.”
Goldstein, suffering from bouts of depression, has disappeared before, but for only hours at a time, not days, his father said.
The last time the family spoke with Goldstein was at 8 p.m. Sunday and he sounded a little down but nothing serious, according to Gerald Goldstein.
“I guess he fooled us or we didn’t pick up on it,” he said.
Gerald Goldstein also said that upon finding his son’s medication, he believes Danny wasn’t taking his medication as he should have been.
Goldstein had been a resident of the Rutland area for about three years.
He originally came to Vermont to attend the Spring Lake Ranch, a rehabilitation facility in Cuttingsville.
Goldstein graduated after two years and since November of last year, had been on his own and working, his father said.
The ranch hasn’t seen or heard from him, according to the family.
Goldstein’s main interests are hiking and playing the guitar but he also frequented Rutland’s Bowlerama, bars to shoot pool, Denny’s restaurant and Friendly’s, his father said.
He was last seen wearing wire-framed, oval glasses, jeans, a white T-shirt and sneakers.
Goldstein is white, 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds, has short brownish-gray hair and brown eyes.
Anyone with information on Goldstein’s whereabouts is asked to call the police at 773-1816.
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