Multiple search teams look for Shelby man missing for 5 weeks
By David Jacobs
The search for a 37-year-old Shelby man missing for five weeks featured professional volunteer searchers with the Ohio Special Response Team on Wednesday.
"We have multiple search teams all around the city today," Shelby police detective Adam Turner said.
"We're actively searching multiple areas in the city with dogs and drones and people on the ground," Turner said.
Shelby police on Wednesday updated the timeline involving the disappearance of Robert Shaull.
New timeline details, per Shelby PD:
-- On Nov. 13, Shaull’s mother told Shelby police she had not seen him since Nov. 2
-- Shelby police Sgt. Sean Nolen had seen Shaull earlier on Nov. 13 in front of KFC.
-- This sighting prompted police to list Nov. 13 as the date Shaull was reported missing.
"The family agreed that if we found Robert, just bring him home," Turner said. "But by the 20th of November, he had not come home."
That is when Shaull was officially entered into the missing persons system.
The search was organized once police could get the search teams in place.
Shaull is described as a white male, 6 feet 1 inch and weighing 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
Shaull was last known to be wearing a black hoodie, blue jeans, and brown hiking boots.
Shaull is a Gamble Street resident.
Nothing indicates foul play, Turner said. "That is certainly something that has to remain on the table," Turner added. "But there is no evidence to substantiate that at this point."
Shaull did not have a car or a phone and has not recently used social media, Turner said.
Shaull mainly walked in the city of Shelby but family said he has walked out into the county in the past, such as Myers and Rock roads, Turner said, "but that was some time ago. That wasn't while he was missing."
The Shelby police ask anyone with information on Shaull’s whereabouts to contact them at 419-347-2242.
The Ohio Special Response Team describes itself as "a team of multiple units throughout Ohio providing advanced search and rescue operations, K9 operations and disaster response services to law enforcement, Ohio Emergency Management, and local, state, and federal agencies, as well as (providing) services" (with authorities' approval) to individual families with lost loved ones.
"There is never a charge" for special response team services, its website states.