Sorry, CORRECTION,MISSING SINCE NOV 1988
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http://www.kingscountynews.ca/news/...family-still-searching-29-years-later-164309/
Ashley Thompson ashley.thompson@kingscountynews.ca
Published: Nov. 23, 2017
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http://www.kingscountynews.ca/news/...family-still-searching-29-years-later-164309/
Ashley Thompson ashley.thompson@kingscountynews.ca
Published: Nov. 23, 2017
BERWICK, N.S. - Earle Fuller still drives the 1988 Chevy Silverado truck his son bought brand new.
Betty Fuller regularly reflects on the bewildering events from the evening their son went missing.
And private investigator Craig MacMullen yearns to get to the bottom of the only case he’s not been able to solve.
These three lives are interconnected indefinitely by the search for answers in a 29-year-old mystery, a cold case built around the nagging question they’ve all lost sleep over: what happened to Lyndon Howard Fuller?
“When you put a puzzle together, when you get down to the last two or three pieces, there’s only so many shapes that fit, and this puzzle has pretty well been put together, so there’s only a couple of pieces left and I don’t know where those pieces are because they’re not in the puzzle box – but they’re somewhere,” says MacMullen, a retired RCMP officer.
“I believe this case starts off with a bizarre beginning and I think it’s going to have a bizarre ending,” he says.
No one would have guessed Lyndon would one day vanish without a trace.
“If he'd go somewhere and he thought he was going to be back at suppertime and he wasn't, he'd always call his mother and tell her,” recalls Earle, describing his youngest son as “the tops” and a “real nice fella.”
Lyndon was admitted to a private room at the Western Kings Memorial Hospital in Berwick for treatment of mild depression on Nov. 23, 1988.
“He wasn't a person who really wanted to be around a hospital,” says Betty, adding that Lyndon, an organized and meticulous person, was always nervous in medical settings.
He was given medications that were meant to have a calming effect during his hospital stay, but was far from calm by day three.
That day would replay in the minds of many for decades to come.
The 22-year-old dove out a third-storey window at the hospital around 7:45 p.m. on Nov. 25, 1988 and vanished under the cloak of darkness barefoot, wearing only pajamas.
Earle describes Lyndon, who was five-foot-10 and weighed 165 pounds at the time, as being wiry “like a cat.” He immediately rushed outside to help his son after the nine-metre drop, but merely found imprints in the grass
“There’s not one single new clue since his feet went through the window,” he says.
“To me, that’s a clue.”
Lyndon had discretely left the hospital earlier that same evening, around 6:30 p.m., and a gentleman escorted him back to the facility at about 7:10 p.m. after learning that he was an in-patient.
MacMullen’s investigation revealed Lyndon initiated a break-up with his long-time girlfriend the week before he was admitted as an in-patient, but she continued to visit him in the hospital and had expressed some concerns that something seemed off. There had been talk that he might be transferred to another facility.
The private investigator, owner of Craig Investigations Inc., explored the idea of Lyndon having an adverse reaction to the medication, or experiencing some sort of dissociative amnesia, a rare psychiatric disorder that can result in memory loss relating to one’s personal identity.
Did Lyndon become entangled with a secretive religious cult and get whisked away?
Was he a victim of foul play?
Did he hop a train passing through Berwick around 8 p.m. that night, heading for points unknown?
Is he somewhere out there, living his life under a new identity?