Robert Mayer missing

New article........wow

http://pix11.com/2014/02/25/mother-and-sister-of-missing-electrician-ask-wife-to-tell-what-she-knows/#axzz2uPcDjg4G

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So strange...

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Mother and sister of missing electrician ask wife to tell what she knows

LONG ISLAND (PIX11) - The mother and sister of missing, Long Island electrician Robert Mayer contacted PIX 11 News, soon after his wife, Ida, tearfully pleaded for information about his whereabouts.

“I truly believe she loved my son,” Geri Mayer told PIX 11 from her Suffolk County living room, “but there’s a big piece of the puzzle missing, and I think she holds that piece.”

46-year old Robert Mayer of Dix Hills vanished on June 14th, 2013, just after 2:30 in the afternoon. If he’s still alive, he turned 47 on February 17th, but there’s been no sign of him since that Friday in June. PIX 11 secured the photos of the last sighting of Robert Mayer. He was captured on surveillance camera receiving $300 for scrap metal he sold in West Babylon.

“There have been inconsistencies in her story, right from the start,” Geri Mayer said about her daughter-in-law.

Mayer’s sister, Christine Ellis, added, “In the beginning, she was saying the Russian mob was after him.”

Ida Mayer denied to PIX 11 that she’s changed her story about the events of Friday, June 14, 2013. She told PIX she arrived home on Leroy Street in Dix Hills with the couple’s children, shortly after 3 pm. Surveillance footage from a neighbor’s house showed Robert Mayer’s red Pontiac GTO had pulled into the driveway about 2:41 pm and pulled out about ten minutes later, before his family got home. But the footage didn’t show who was in the car. His Pontiac was found parked the next day at the Deer Park Long Island Railroad station.

Mayer’s mother–and other sources–revealed to PIX 11 that Robert Mayer, an electrician with the Local 3 union, was struggling with prescription drug use. His mother said in the late 1990's, he had fallen from a roof at Elmhurst Hospital, “landed on a pipe, broke every one of his ribs, and he was put on pain medication.”

Mayer’s mother and sister, along with the sources, said he scrapped metal to pay for Oxycontin pills, which caused a problem at home.

Ida Mayer told PIX 11 Tuesday that she believed her husband was beating his prescription drug problem, but she acknowledged when she saw Mayer working on scrap metal in the garage, the night before his disappearance, “It made me wonder, it made me worry.”

The wife, who is the mother of Robert Mayer’s two children, told PIX 11 Mayer had some problems involving work, and she wondered if that was a factor in his disappearance. She also theorized he may have owed someone money.

Robert Mayer’s mother and sister said they wonder if a mortgage fraud case Ida was charged in, back in 2006, was somehow connected to his disappearance. The New York Attorney General’s office said Robert Mayer was a participant in one of the phony, mortgage deals.

“It was so long ago; it has nothing to do with this,” Ida Mayer said about the 2006 case. “Eight years ago. It was resolved.”

Ida Mayer told PIX 11 she didn’t think her husband had relapsed into prescription drug use again. “We had reached a place of peace and happiness,” she said. “He was on the right track.” But Mayer’s mother and sister don’t share that assessment of his recovery.

“I’m pretty sure he was using, and I don’t think he was thinking clearly,” Christine Ellis said of her brother. But

she said her brother was continuing to function at work and was a loving father to his children. Ellis also told PIX her brother’s shotgun was missing from the house.

Suffolk County police detectives from the 2nd Precinct continue to work on the case. They told PIX 11 there’s no sign of criminality. They have searched the woods near the Deer Park train station extensively.

Anyone with information on the case can call the 2nd Police Squad in Suffolk at (631) 854-8252.

Ida Mayer said this about her in-laws’ questions: “You want answers, ask me. I’ve answered questions since the first day.”



This is the 1st I heard of a prescription drug problem.

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I felt that she was somehow connected to this due to her old dirty dealings. She clearly isn't an angel. That report said he was somehow involved in one of her fraudulent mortgage deals.

Now it comes out that he has a prescription drug problem. She said he had no drug problems, no alcohol problems.

She wasn't upfront about everything from the start.

Also reported now, a shotgun is missing from the house.

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I cannot believe her. So he could have been suicidal and his gun is missing, omg, she never told police? His bolo alarm would have been done differently.

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Wow.. this is nuts!!!

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Wow this is totally different from what we first though! Missing fun, drug problem, fraud problems, selling scraps for money for drugs, and that he actually did come home first! Isn't that new info? Surveillance saw him stopping home.

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This sounds like an episode of City Confidential in the making!! Bizarre an all accounts.

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wonder if they have a lot of debt and how much of a life insurance policy he has.

There is more to this story. She knows more than she is sharing.

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I am a member there also. Trigger. Lol. I wish they would open up there again.

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I am a member there also. Trigger. Lol. I wish they would open up there again.

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anyone else notice how the wife started twitching when they asked her a few questions.

i agree with his fam. seems she isnt saying everything!

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Posted by Michelle1110

Posted by Whattheheck

I am a member there also. Trigger. Lol. I wish they would open up there again.

!! That sounds so familiar - I think I remember you!
I always read, but never posted as anything I had to say was already said or asked.

Shouldn't they open it up now that there is "new info"?

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Its really shocking to find out about the gun. I was the one who made rhat video of Robert Mayer. Tribute. Glad i have a place here to talk abt this.

Oh webslueths might open it ip. Ill let u know. But if u go to missing persons support u will see people r posting there

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Omg Hi Twin Sister

We meet again!!!

Roberts sister was really quite during the interviews etc and I just thought she was to upset or shy. Others thought differently. So I was wrong. There was tension between Roberts family. Wow.

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lol All the Long Island websleuthers are popping out of the woodwork!

I always thought the wife was a little $hitshowwy.... I wonder what made his sister and mom speak out Now

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Such a wacky case.

All I think of .. Usually spouses are the first people under suspicion
I would assume police have investigated Ida. They have still deemed it a missing person case and not suspicious, last I read.

I feel for his kids and family.

I do think of that man a few summers ago who faked his own drowning on Li and was alive. So who knows.

I do not fault anyone though for not realizing right away if certain items are missing. I rarely go into my garage and it's a disaster. I couldn't tell you what might be missing or even what's in there.

But why stash the 300 in there. That's so odd to me. Why not take it - unless that was the whole point - to make it look like he didn't leave

Along with webslueths - there's a topix board that's still current

I have kept reading how odd it is that the fb page for him is private and if you have a loved one missing - why would you have it private. Also how people would ask things and they'd be ignored or deleted.

Another question I read that comes up often - his union brothers and the supposed lack of them helping. Not sure how true that is, if at all.