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Wed Jan 23, 2013, 12:09 PM Jan 2013

Missing Coast Guardsman reappears after 3 months

CBS News
January 23, 2013, 8:54 AM

... Matthews, 36, was being investigated for illegal drug use when he disappeared.

Early last October his car and slippers were found at the out-of-the-way area of Kaena Point. His hat was in the water. The Coast Guard searched 10,000 square miles during two days, but there was no sign of him.

Three months later Honolulu Police say he appeared at his wife's home Sunday night. He was incoherent, and officers took him to Castle Medical Center in Kailua. The next morning he called his Coast Guard commanders and told them he was in fact alive ...

Sources told KGMB-TV that Matthews was going through a difficult time. In 2008 he lost four colleagues in a helicopter crash. In 2009 his first wife was critically hurt when she was hit head-on by a car while she was riding her bike. In 2011 she reportedly took her own life. His disappearance came one year later in 2012 ...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57565353/missing-coast-guardsman-reappears-after-3-months/

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Missing Coast Guardsman reappears after 3 months (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2013 OP
Aliens? liberal N proud Jan 2013 #1
Dunno. But I might guess he faked a suicide then got bored with hiding struggle4progress Jan 2013 #2
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