By The newspaper
02 Mar 2024, 1:57 PM EST
Colin Marma, a 26-year-old resident of Garrison, NY, told his co-workers on February 2 that he was going out for coffee, but never returned. Then his car was found abandoned nearly 50 miles south, in Upper Manhattan.
His family in the Hudson Valley is “deeply concerned” one month after his disappearance, especially because Marma struggles with mental health issues, suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and was hospitalized twice, when he was 20 and 22, his family said. mother, Jeanne Marie Fleming. The young man lives with her and her stepfather, Roland Heitmann.
“He went out to have coffee and didn’t come back.”
At the time of her disappearance, Marma was working for a small cabinet shop tied to her stepfather’s construction company in Cold Spring, an opportunity she was “quite excited about,” her Heitmann said.
“He left here and drove to work, got to work and left work,” his mother told New York Post in a telephone interview. “Then she went back to work. “She walked into the carpentry shop, started doing some things and then ended up leaving, and the guys she worked with thought she had gone out for coffee and never came back.”
The distraught family filed a police report the next day. About four days later police notified them that their car was found abandoned at 143rd Street and Broadway in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan.
It is a 2004 white Mercedes-Benz pickup truck with New York license plate KXE6055. His cell phone was hidden in the glove compartment, but unfortunately it was in “airplane” mode, her mother said.
The last sighting of Marma was on a security video captured inside “Bless Bar & Kitchen,” at the same Upper Manhattan intersection where her car was found, according to her stepfather. “And after that she practically disappeared. There has been no sign of him anywhere. “We are deeply, deeply concerned… We have no idea where she is,” her stepfather reiterated.
Marma appeared to have a relapse in her mental problems for about a week before her disappearance. “My son sees a therapist and a psychiatrist,” Fleming’s mother said. “He’s really trying, in many, many ways, to get out, to avoid this type of situation.”
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (845) 225-4300. Also 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Or through crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.