The Mysterious Disappearance of Craig Frear
He walked into a wooded area and vanished without a trace.
When Craig Frear left his house on the morning of Sunday, June 27, 2004, his parents assumed he was going to work. The 17-year-old had been working several shifts a week at the Price Chopper grocery store in his hometown of Glenville, New York for a few months, and his mom saw him carry his uniform shirt out to his car. Yet when Veronica Frear stopped by the Price Chopper to pick up some groceries a few hours later, her son wasn’t there.
Veronica left the Price Chopper and went looking for her son, eventually finding him hanging out at a friend’s workplace. She confronted him about not working, and Craig assured her that it was all a mistake and he was going to be leaving for work shortly. Veronica believed her son and went home, but sent Craig’s father, Bill, to the grocery store later to see if Craig was really there. He wasn’t. It turned out that Craig had been fired from Price Chopper more than a month earlier after he stopped showing up for his scheduled shifts; rather than tell his parents, he simply pretended he was still employed.
Veronica knew that Craig had a new girlfriend, so she called her house to see if he had gone there. His girlfriend initially said that she hadn’t seen Craig that day, but Veronica was…