NC NC - Samuel Claude Gilbert, 46, left home, leaving behind his sons & his car, Raleigh, 23 Oct 2018

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This Raleigh man left home 3 months ago, leaving behind his sons and his car. Where is he?

Samuel Claude Gilbert walked out of his Raleigh home three months ago, and his family hasn’t heard from him since.

Gilbert, 46, was last seen about 10 p.m. Oct. 23, when he left his home near Crabtree Valley Mall while his two teenage sons were in bed, according to Raleigh police and his family. He left behind his wallet, keys and Chevrolet Tahoe.

Police are investigating, and Gilbert’s mother, Tina Hough, said she is desperate to find her son.

Surveillance cameras at Gilbert’s apartment building in the 5800 block of Fairstead Drive captured images of him with his cellphone that night, Hough said.

“The video shows him going out the front door and he was walking onto Fairstead Drive and going toward Crabtree Valley Mall,” Hough told The News & Observer on Thursday. “He was walking down the hill in the direction of the mall.”

The next day, just after 8:30 a.m., Gilbert’s ex-wife called authorities, according to an incident report by the Raleigh Police Department.

Hough said she and other volunteers helped police search for her son in a heavily wooded area the week he disappeared. Officers have used search dogs, she said, and last week a search team used boats on Crabtree Creek.

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Find Missing Samuel Claude Gilbert!

Strange.

What is unsaid about the call made by ex-wife, early the next morning?
Maybe her kids told her about their father being missing and she called the police, knowing it wasn't his usual behavior to leave like that. I would do that for my children, if I had an ex that went missing.
 
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Evidently he had a plan. IMO.
A well thought out plan. What that was, we don’t know.
 
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This Raleigh man left home 3 months ago, leaving behind his sons and his car. Where is he?

“It’s so overgrown, he could be anywhere,” Hough said of the wooded area. “I want to return and look for him with cadaver dogs, because I really do believe he’s somewhere in that area.”
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Gilbert worked as a senior operations manager with the Association of International Certified Public Accountants in Durham. He often traveled for work, his mother said.
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He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1994 and moved to Raleigh about 14 years ago.
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Hough said she last spoke with her son two days before he disappeared.
“I was just checking in on him,” she said. “He was divorced in May, so I was checking in with him to see how he was doing. He was in good spirits.”
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Sarah Gilbert, his ex-wife, described him as a good father and a physical fitness buff. She said he was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white t-shirt and a blue Atlanta Braves baseball hat.
 
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The thing that makes the most sense to me, is that he planned some kind of self harm incident, but hasn't been found yet.

The divorce was only about 5 months earlier---and he may have taken it very hard. His sons were teens so they were likely married for quite awhile. JMO

He wouldn't want his sons to find him , so walking into the woods makes more sense. JMO
 
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What a fascinating case.
 
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Still missing planned ??? Not much information out there
 

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