The popular television show’s Web site now features details and photos concerning the Oct. 20 disappearance of Thomas Boylan, 82.
The Web link for AMW’s information on Boylan is www.amw.com/missing_persons/brief.cfm?id=69096. (The final period is a punctuation mark, not part of the link).
 Boylan was last seen leaving his house in this vehicle. Advertisement |
This raised concerns because Boylan does not like to drive at night and prefers to stay at home. He also left behind his medication, as well as the lights in his home still burning.
His family and police have been searching for Boylan for more than two weeks now. The family says it is out of character for Tom to leave in the middle of the night, and they suspect he had been asked to help someone, or was coerced into leaving.
Late last week, daughter Jeanne Boylan, a renowned forensic investigator, contacted AMW, having assisted the program several times in the past.
“We’re doing everything we can to help somebody who has helped us in the past,” AMW’s managing editor Mark Moynihan said Tuesday. “She’s earned from us the ability to reach out and say: ‘My dad is missing, please help.’”
America’s Most Wanted relays tips received directly to the appropriate investigative agency, in this case, the Montrose Police Department. It will be up to the MPD to determine the merits of any information received.
Moynihan said the hope is to get more people looking for Boylan and his distinctive vehicle, a 1990 Suburban with dark blue front side panels (which can appear black), and light blue and white panels on the side rear, plus a white hood.
The vehicle also has a roof rack and chrome hood ornament shaped like a skull, the family told AMW.
“It’s going to provide people with important information to give to the police, as far as what to do next,” Moynihan said of the vehicle.
“The more eyes on this case, the better. Everyone is interested in trying to bring a resolution to this.”
Jeanne Boylan said in an e-mail that she would also like people to keep an eye out for abnormal behavior.
“Did a co-worker miss a few days of work around Oct. 20, or has someone noted a change in behavior of someone around them lately, anyone they know been paying abnormal attention to the news, or had an absence from normal activities, nervousness, an increase in violence? Did someone who always parked inside their garage now inexplicably change that pattern and begin parking on the street or side of their home?”
Police officials have previously said they do not at this time suspect foul play, but the Boylan family is very concerned that there could have been some.
“I wish I could get all the landowners around the county to go out and walk their properties and look for things like clothing, tracks, items that shouldn’t be there,” Jeanne Boylan said.
She believes her father’s vehicle is either long gone or hidden away in town.
“We move forward and keep working and put one foot ahead of the other until we can find some answers.”
Tom Boylan is 5-feet, 10-inches tall, 135 pounds, gray hair and brown eyes. Though known to wear suspenders, the ones he had no longer fit as well because he has lost weight.
He always wears white socks with black shoes and usually wears plaid sweat pant-type/fleecey bottoms, which he usually rolls up. He usually wears a plaid shirt.
His Suburban bears Colorado license plate number 540 PCP.
Anyone with information about Boylan should contact authorities immediately at (970) 252-4010, (970) 252-4020 or (970) 252-4021. You can also e-mail a tip to America’s Most Wanted at the above-listed link, or call 1-800-CRIME-TV.
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