Dix Hills NY, Robert Mayer-46

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Neighbors Continue Search For Robert Mayer

Friends, family and neighbors hang posters and search the area to find clues.

Friends and neighbors continued their search parties Sunday for Robert Mayer, the local man who went missing in June.

Mayer's wife, family and neighbors scoured the Long Island Rail Road station in Deer Park, where Mayer's car was found, to search for clues of his disappearance.

Mayer left for work on June 14 for his job as an electrician in Brooklyn, but he never made it back home. Police were last able to track Mayer's cell phone signal around Route 110 in Huntington, while he was on his way home around 1:45 p.m.

Following an investigation, it's now been revealed that Mayer, a father of two, was last seen at Arrow Scrap Yard in West Babylon a 2:15 p.m. on June 14. His cell phone signal was either turned off or went dead a half hour later.

Mayer occasionally visited scrap yards and he sold metal from his job site to Arrow, according to a recent Long Island Press article.

Mayer never returned home and his wife, Ida, reported him missing at 1 a.m. the next morning. Mayer's red 2004 Pontiac was found at the Deer Park train station by friends of his wife at 8:30 p.m. on June 15.

Ida Mayer has told Patch that she didn't know how his car got there, since Mayer never took the train for work because he worried about leaving his car unattended at the station.

Police have still maintained that they do not believe foul play is involved in Mayer's disappearance. Mayer's wife is offering a reward for any information that leads to locating Mayer and/or information on anyone involved in his disappearance.

Robert Mayer is a white male, 6-feet and 1-inch-tall and about 200 pounds. He has brown hair, hazel eyes and was last wearing light blue jeans, a gray polo-type work shirt and sunglasses.

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Robert Mayer, Dix Hills Husband and Father, Still Missing After 7 Weeks

August 2, 2013

Robert Mayer, a 46-year-old husband and father of two from Dix Hills, has been missing since June 14, 2013, when he did not return home. His 2004 bright red Pontiac GTO was discovered abandoned the following day at the LIRR Deer Park station. Mayer was last seen at Arrow Scrap yard in West Babylon.

Robert Mayer left his Dix Hills home around 4:30 a.m. Friday, June 14 in his bright red 2004 Pontiac GTO, the same he’d done countless mornings as an electrician rising before dawn to get to his jobsite—this time, a massive theater complex under construction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Around 9 a.m., he spoke with his wife Ida about that weekend’s plans. Father’s Day was on Sunday, and his mother and in-laws were coming by for a barbeque. Ida told him she’d buy some lobster; he asked her to also pick up some oysters. Mayer loved to barbeque.


They also talked briefly about an upcoming vacation to Italy they’d been planning, for July 7.


“He was happy,” Ida tells the Press. “Everything was good.”

Unbeknownst to her, it’d be the last conversation she’d have with her husband of 18 years. Robert never came home that night, nor any since.

His car—which Ida says he “loved”—was discovered the next day abandoned at Long Island Rail Road’s Deer Park station. Its keys were missing, the front seat was moved forward closer to the steering wheel than he’d have it, and the trunk, where Mayer typically would keep his tools, lunchbox and water bottles, was empty; the latter found on the front seat.


Ida subsequently discovered Robert’s green mountain bike also missing.


A Suffolk County Police Department spokesperson tells the Press detectives do not believe Mayer’s disappearance to be the result of foul play at this stage and that the investigation is ongoing.

Ida, however, fears the worst.

“This is a man who never once spent a night away from home,” she stresses, between sobs. “Not once, not one night in 18 years was he not with me.

“He didn’t like the Long Island Rail Road parking lot because of all the thefts [there],” Ida continues, explaining that they’d go so far as to drive into Queens where relatives lived and hop a subway from there rather than take the LIRR whenever heading into the city. “His car, that was his baby, aside from the family, that was what he loved the most, was his car. He just would never leave it there. To find it there without a Club on it—he wouldn’t park it there.

“He wouldn’t walk away from everything he has, everything he’s worked for his whole life,” she adds, weeping. “He had no reason to—and his children. We have two children. My son is 15 and my daughter is 11. They mean the world to him.”

Their son plays in a band, and Robert, a drummer, attends his shows and helps set up equipment. Their son had a gig that Saturday the weekend Robert went missing—he just wouldn’t have missed that show, Ida insists.

“I believe that he’s in danger,” she cries. “Something happened to him.”

The 6-foot, 200-pound electrician was last seen around 2:15 p.m. June 14 at Arrow Scrap yard in West Babylon—where he sold scrap metal from his jobsite. His cell phone went dead about a half hour later.

An Arrow foreman tells the Press Mayer had been a longtime, if sporadic, “customer” of the recycling center.

“He was a nice, well-composed individual,” he said Friday, August 2—exactly seven weeks to the minute of Mayer’s last known visit—but with little other details to offer. “Over the years, he probably came in here every so often to scrap some metal.”

Arrow’s surveillance cameras are aimed at the parking area and entrance, but the foreman declined to say whether they captured Mayer’s sharp red sportscar June 14—a vehicle, said another worker, that would have stood out from the typical daily parade of beat-up pickups and trucks filled with wiring and wreckage the majority of sellers haul their scraps to the center in (as was the case Friday afternoon).

“So strange,” said the worker, shaking his head and expressing sympathy for Mayer’s family as he clenched the “Missing” flyer.

Workers at Heavy Metal Scrap a few blocks away—the other recycling yard in the area that deals with the type of materials Mayer would have sold—did not recognize him, nor his car, when shown the handout.

“I feel bad for the family,” says Bob Savage, 53, of Port Jefferson, one of dozens of volunteers—many complete strangers—who’ve been searching for answers and trying to raise awareness about the case since Mayer’s abrupt disappearance.

He joined about 60 others July 7, along with New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials and nonprofit Long Island Search and Rescue, scouring 813-acre Oak Brush Plains Preserve at Edgewood in Deer Park. Savage also teamed up alongside about two dozen others handing out flyers and searching for clues and potential witnesses July 21 at Deer Park train station, which abuts the preserve.

Savage, a photographer and mountain biker who heard about Mayer’s vanishing from a friend, has been contributing photos he’s taken during the searches to the “Robert Mayer Search Group” Facebook page, which currently has more than 1,000 members. The page serves as a bulletin board for updates and to strategize future searches, flyer-handout drives and media attention.

These selfless efforts from complete strangers mean the world to Ida, who gets emotional at the mere mention of the grassroots efforts.

“There’s over 900 people on this group that I don’t even know, that are amazing,” she tells the Press, sobbing. “And they have reached out to me and they’ve supported me.

“The community support and just the support of people all over has been overwhelming,” she adds. “Thank God for them, because they’re working so hard to try to find him.”

Local Union 3, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has also posted the Mayer’s “Missing” flier on their website. His most recent worksite had been at the Theatre for a New Audience complex on Ashland Place in Downtown Brooklyn’s BAM Cultural District.

Mayer went missing June 14, 2013, two days before Father’s Day. Suffolk County Police ask anyone with information about his disappearance to call 631-854-8252.


Robert Mayer is 6’0 and weighs about 200 pounds. He has short brown hair, hazel-green eyes and possibly a beard by now. Mayer was wearing a grey polo shirt with a J.C. Electrical logo emblazoned on it, light blue jeans and black work boots. His left middle finger is slightly chopped off at the tip and he didn’t have his wallet or any identification with him at the time of his disappearance.

Until there is “concrete evidence” otherwise, Suffolk County police will treat Mayer’s vanishing as a Missing Persons case, Ida says, despite his nearly two-month-long disappearance.

Any one who may have seen Robert or who may have information about his disappearance is asked to call the Suffolk County Police Second Squad at 631-854-8252.


Ida describes her husband as a “homebody” who enjoyed lounging around the house watching TV and playing video games with their children, and a loving, caring family man who would do anything for his family, friends and neighbors.

“His family is the most important thing to him,” she says, between long pauses and sobs, “followed by his friends. During Hurricane Sandy, he was the one helping everyone set up generators and lending them anything they needed. He was the first one out there, and my neighbors will tell you that.”

“Someone out there knows something,” Ida insists, vowing never give up on finding her husband. “Whether it’s at the scrap yard or with the worksite in Brooklyn, any of the last places he was seen—or the train station. Someone saw something, someone knows something.

“My husband would not just disappear.”

www.longislandpress.com/2013/08/02/robert-mayer-dix-hills-husband-and-father-still-missing-after-7-weeks/

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Search Continues for Dix Hills Father Robert Mayer, Missing for Two Weeks
Published on August 14, 2013 [/i]

August 14, marks two months that Dix Hills father of two Robert Mayer is missing.

“My family is still searching; and heartbroken,” his wife Ida Mayer said. “It is getting harder every day.”

On Sunday, August 11, family and friends conducted a search of the Deer Park train station and surrounding areas where Mayer’s car, a 2004 Pontiac GTO was abandoned.

“Sunday’s search was amazing. People I had never met actually came out to help.”,” Ida Mayer said.

The group searched the train station and gave out fliers to everyone getting off the train. People went to the Edgewood and Heartland areas.

“We were trying to cover as much ground as we could,” Ida Mayer said. “We were looking for any signs of life. Clothes, anything that said he could have been somewhere. We found animal bones on the grounds. I told people to keep an eye out for strange odors. One searcher found boots and took pictures of the boots. There were lots of tents because there are a lot of homeless people there.”

The search did not yield anything.

There is talk of setting up a search around the Arrow scrap yard where Robert Mayer was last seen.

Robert Mayer was reported missing on June 15, after he did not come home from his work as an electrician on the evening of the 14th. Robert was last seen on June 14 at 2:15 pm, at a scrap yard in West Babylon, NY, where he would visit occasionally to scrap copper from the job-site he was working at in Brooklyn.

From there, nothing is known of his whereabouts, but his 2004 Pontiac GTO was abandoned at the Deer Park LIRR station. His seat was moved forward, and everything was missing out of his trunk.

The club he used to secure his steering wheel was also not in place. His next destination should have been his home in Dix Hills, by car. He doesn’t take the train, because he doesn’t trust those parking lots, he would actually go to great lengths to avoid parking there.

www.newsli.com/2013/08/14/search-continues-for-dix-hills-father-robert-mayer-missing-for-two-weeks/