https://nypost.com/2023/05/31/texas...ported-missing-after-wife-spotted-eerie-clue/
This is shaping up to be a bizarre, headscratcher of a case of a missing man.
A Texas father of two vanished after leaving for an early morning walk last week — and relatives say one troubling detail alerted his frantic wife that something was amiss.
Colby Richards, 31, was last seen at his home on Musgrave Place in The Woodlands on the morning of May 26,
FOX 26 Houston reported.
Richards, an engineer and part-time baseball coach, typically got up for work around 5 or 6 a.m., his wife, Callie, told the outlet.
Last Friday, however, Callie woke up to her husband gone and the family’s gate wide open, which prompted her to call the police.
“She was waiting to come back to bed and he didn’t,” the family’s spokesperson, Richards’ cousin Allison Fox, told
the Courier.
“[Callie] noticed it was getting light out and she went downstairs to check on him and he wasn’t downstairs. He sometimes goes into the backyard and he wasn’t there but she noticed the gate was open.”
Richard frequently went on walks without his phone, but Fox
explained to the US Sun that Friday’s pre-work stroll seemed different.
“I would say that it’s atypical for him to leave and not say, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go for a walk,'” she said.
“Especially given that he was supposed to go to work that morning.”
Authorities walking the trail behind the family’s home eventually found a water bottle identified as Richards’, but have no other evidence to indicate his whereabouts.
Callie Richards is “just as surprised” as the rest of the family by her husband’s sudden vanishing, Fox told the outlet.
“He just kind of walked out and didn’t say anything,” she said.
On Tuesday, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office continued to spearhead the ongoing search.
Local volunteers were also out in droves on foot, bicycles, ATVs, and even horseback, the Courier said.
Callie Richards told FOX 26 over the weekend that she is struggling to explain her husband’s absence to their 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son.