The spouse of Stanley Kotowski, the Massachusetts man whose physique was discovered this week on Hilton Head Island, S.C. — 10 days after he disappeared — is sharing her heartache.
Kotowski, 60, was found beneath townhomes on the Sea Pines Resort on Hilton Head Island on Monday, Aug. 26, in response to authorities.
He went lacking greater than per week prior, on Friday, Aug. 16.
Jackie Kotowski, Stanley’s spouse, mourned the loss of life of her husband in a statement shared on Fb the identical day he was discovered. “Sadly, he’s not with us,” she wrote on Monday. “Our hearts are heavy with grief as we start to course of this unimaginable loss.”
Jackie then thanked “everybody who supplied their assist, shared info, and helped within the search efforts” for her husband.
“Your kindness and concern have meant the world to us throughout this extremely troublesome time,” she wrote. “As we take the time to come back to phrases with this information, we ask on your continued ideas and prayers.”
Stanley disappeared on Aug. 16 round 10:30 a.m. native time, officers have stated.
Jackie advised authorities that her husband was apprehensive that the Sea Pines Resort, the place they have been staying, was “a ‘arrange’ and that the individuals there have been “out to get him,” in response to local TV station WJCL, citing a report from the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Within the police report, Jackie additionally stated her husband claimed individuals have been “watching him” and advised her earlier than his disappearance, “Promise me you’ll go on with out me.”
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In an interview with WJCL earlier than her husband was discovered, Jackie stated he had been experiencing points with insomnia for a couple of month and that his anxiousness was progressively “getting worse and worse and worse.”
“He began to get a bit of paranoid,” she stated then.
Jackie advised WJCL that her husband had “simply walked out the door” on Aug. 16. Authorities stated he left the holiday house with out his telephone or pockets and was seen in doorbell digital camera footage strolling away barefoot.
On Monday, Stanley’s physique was present in a small crawl area beneath a pair of townhomes about 150 to 200 ft away from the place he was final seen on digital camera, in response to authorities.
Authorities consider he died the identical day he went lacking.
An post-mortem decided he died by suicide, Beaufort County Coroner David Ott introduced at a information convention on Tuesday, Aug. 27.
In the event you or somebody you realize is contemplating suicide, please contact the 988 Suicide and Disaster Lifeline by dialing 988, textual content “STRENGTH” to the Disaster Textual content Line at 741741 or go to 988lifeline.org.
