CANADA Canada - Lyndon Fuller, 22, Berwick, NS, 25 Nov 1988

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.

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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.

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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

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“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.

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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.

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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?

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Case File 219DMNS

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Lyndon Howard Fuller
Missing since November 25, 1988 from Berwick, Nova Scotia Canada
Classification: Endangered Missing

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Vital Statistics

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  [*]Date Of Birth: June 14, 1966
  [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 22 years old
  [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10; 165 pounds
  [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark blond hair; blue eyes and a slight mustache. He is of muscular build.
  [*]Medical Conditions: Suffering from mild depression
  [*]Clothing: Fuller was last seen wearing white pajamas with pale blue pin stripes and was barefoot.
• Dentals: Prominent teeth showing

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Circumstances of Disappearance
Fuller was suffering from depression during the fall of 1988. He was being treated at the Western Kings Memorial Hospital in Berwick, on November 25, 1988 when he jumped from a third storey window and fled from the premises.

He may be injured from the 9 meter fall.
Despite the best efforts of both the medical staff and Fuller's family, he escaped and has never been seen again.

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Investigators
If you have any information concerning Fuller's whereabouts, please contact:
Berwick Police Department
902-538-3666
You may remain anonymous when submitting information to any agency.

NCIC Number:
M333475135
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information: Child Find Canada
MISSING PERSON - Lyndon Howard Fuller

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http://thechronicleherald.ca/novasc...s-family-still-looking-for-him-25-years-later

dotr said:

http://www.kingscountynews.ca/news/...family-still-searching-29-years-later-164309/

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Ozoner said:

I don't believe that someone with such severe issues could survive out in the world for 29 years without attracting attention to himself. I believe he died outdoors the night that he disappeared. Maybe someone who's a little more tech-savvy than I am can map the location of the hospital relative the the Cornwallis River, Caribou Bog, and Caribou Lake, all three of which are near Berwick.

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crcgirl said:

Bump. I grew up not far from Berwick but moved a few years before this happened. I am glad it has been posted. This case has disturbed me for years because it is a small town where the outcome should have been that he was found and cared for as soon as it happened.

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Melds said:

As someone who currently lives very close to where this happened, this case has always intrigued me. It is my understanding that he jumped down onto a carport roof then onto the ground. There is no significant body of water close by, but there is an old gravel pit behind the hospital. I feel like he's in that pit or close by.
I have heard whispering around town that he may have joined a religious cult that had a safe house in Waterville (the next community just East of Berwick).

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• • Date Of Birth: June 14, 1966
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 22 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'10; 165 pounds
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Dark blond hair; blue eyes and a slight mustache. He is of muscular build.
  • Medical Conditions: Suffering from mild depression
  • Clothing: Fuller was last seen wearing white pajamas with pale blue pin stripes and was barefoot.
  • Dentals: Prominent teeth showing

spartanx said:

I am under the impression that he had undiagnosed bipolar disorder... A first episode manic can be induced in a bipolar person by using antidepressants without mood stabilizers. That might explain why she jumped out of a third-story window in the cold and kept going; mania exacerbated by continued use of antidepressants can easily turn into psychosis… which might have led you to believe you were at greater risk by staying than by leaving by any means possible, and survival instincts might have prompted you to continue racing even with injuries.

Unfortunately, it seems likely that he died from exposure, due to a combination of the weather and the injuries he may have sustained when he fled...
either way
rest in peace

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