Monday, May 28, 2012

Amtrak mystery: Train arrives in Chicago but Texas man no longer on it

A man who was traveling to Chicago disappeared while on a train from San Antonio, Texas last weekend, an Amtrak spokesman and his family said today.

The family of Andrew Haukereid Jr., 79, was going to meet him at Union Station last Sunday, but Haukereid never arrived, said his son, Greg Haukereid, who has flown into Chicago from Hawaii to help look for his father.

Amtrak police are working with other agencies and Andrew Haukereid?s family to try to locate him, said Marc Magliari, a Chicago-based Amtrak spokesman.

Amtrak investigators have alerted police departments along the Amtrak route, especially between Arkansas ? where the train was when Andrew Haukereid was last seen on Saturday --and Chicago.

A passenger who was traveling on the same part of the train as Andrew Haukereid told his family that he had been on the train, but was last seen at some point while the train was between Little Rock, Ark., and St. Louis.

Andrew Haukereid?s luggage, including his prescription drugs for pain and high blood pressure, arrived in Chicago, but when another son who was supposed to take him to Rockford tried to find him at Union Station, he was not there.

Greg Haukereid said his father may be confused, but does not suffer from dementia. He had retired and moved to San Antonio from Chicago.

Police told the missing man?s family that surveillance video doesn?t appear to show Andrew Haukereid getting off the train in either St. Louis or Chicago, Greg Haukereid said.

Andrew Haukereid is white, with thick, curly grey hair and is tanned. He stands about 5-foot-6 and weighs about 150 punds.

When last seen, Andrew Haukereid, who also is known as Junior, was wearing black dress pants, black dress shoes, a red T-shirt and a medium-colored blue jacket.

Anyone who may have seen Andrew Haukereid is asked to call local police.

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