FL FL - Patrick Real, 48, Jacksonville, 22 April 2011

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Former prosecutor Patrick Real, who has been missing for months, has a brilliant mind, is from a deeply rooted Lake City family and was in a serious relationship with a woman in South America, those who know him said.

Since April, family, friends and police have been looking for the 48-year-old Jacksonville man following his disappearance from a Girvin Road neighborhood.

He left no trace.

A friend who spoke with Real on April 13 called police nine days later, concerned he had heard nothing from him.

Police who went to the house in the Lena’s Walk neighborhood found Real gone, along with his wallet, cellphone and bicycle, his half-sister Linda Davis said.

His passport was still there.

Davis, who now has control of her brother’s credit and other accounts, said there has been no activity on them since he disappeared.

http://m.jacksonville.com/news/metr...sinessmans-april-disappearance-still-baffling
 
I found this article from Oct 21, 2011:

[...]

He was an insomniac who might well have taken off one night, she said.People who live in Lena’s Walk said they didn’t see much of Real, who had only lived there since December.

He’d moved from Neptune Beach, where neighbors also recalled infrequent contact.

One thing stuck with Cheri Wagner, who lives a few doors from where Real rented a house there off Florida Boulevard.

“He rode a skinny bike,” she said. It seemed odd in a beaches neighborhood where fat tires were more common on local two-wheelers.And, she said, she saw him riding at night.

Police detectives have pursued the bicycle theory without results.

[...]

Robert Hendricks, a close friend and business associate, contacted police when he couldn’t get in touch with Real.

“We went to have lunch one afternoon and I took him back to his house and that was the last time I saw him,” he said.

He said Carolina Gonzalez, Real’s girlfriend in Colombia, has not heard from him.

“He would go down there for three or four weeks at a time several times a year,” Hendricks said.

[...]

Real learned to speak Spanish fluently before traveling to Mexico as a Mormon missionary. He attended Brigham Young University and the University of Florida. He studied law at Stetson University in Deland and was a prosecutor in the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando.

Hendricks met Real around 1990 in Lake City, where Hendricks was in a business deal with Real’s family. They had property he was considering for a development.

Hendricks, 55, said Real had taken up wind surfing and was an expert with remote-control helicopters. He often flew at a field on Jacksonville’s Northside.

“Everybody would just stop and watch this guy,” Hendricks recalled.

He said he thought Real became disinterested in the law so left the business. According to The Florida Bar, Real is not eligible to practice law in Florida and is delinquent in paying his fees.

“He was so smart that things didn’t keep his interest very long,” Hendricks said.

Firefighter Dean Ward considers himself Real’s best friend. He said he has been told he was the last one to talk with him.

Ward, 44, who lives in southern Volusia County, said there was nothing unremarkable about the conversation.

“He was in a good mood, upbeat,” Ward said.

Particularly troubling are the things Real has not been home for, Ward said.“He never would have missed his mother’s birthday or Mother’s Day,” he said. “They are both celebrated in the same weekend because they are so close.”

Ward said he has even thought there might be something buried in his friend’s stint as a prosecutor. Some act of revenge, perhaps.

“There’s some foul play involved somewhere,” he said. “We’re baffled.”

Read more: Jacksonville businessman's April disappearance still baffling
 
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