Family, friends believe missing Sanford man could be suffering from a head injury after car crash

Robert Richardson, 41, has been missing ever since. He had dinner with his friends on Glenwood Avenue on May 4, and on his way home he was involved in a minor accident at Ridge Road.

The police were called to the scene and both drivers' cars were towed. Family and friends say that Richardson left his work laptop, work phone and cell phone in the car that was towed.

"He talked to police. Police let him go. Nothing was wrong," said Kensley Perry, his boss at The Village Entertainment Complex.

That Raleigh police officer was the last known person to interact with Richardson before he disappeared.

Richardson's family filed a missing person's report on Friday, and since then, officers checked Richardson's home in Sanford multiple times and also checked local hospitals and shelters.

Friends believe it is possible Richardson is suffering from a head injury after the crash.

"He could have not been strapped into his seatbelt and hit his head pretty hard," Perry said.

Raleigh police were not able to provide a report on the wreck that Richardson was in, but they did say that Richardson was at fault in the fender-bender. Police did not provide a reason for not making the wreck report public and did not provide the name of the officer who responded to the crash.

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Richardson's brother-in-law Craig Snyder flew in from Pennsylvania to join 45 searchers who scoured city parks and streets, handing out flyers and talking to people.

"Rob is always a happy-go-lucky kind of guy, always there to help out whenever you needed it," Snyder said. "For him to just up and disappear is beyond belief for us."

Snyder said family members have checked hospitals and homeless shelters looking for Richardson. The group has been reaching out to homeless Raleigh residents who may have seen Richardson on the streets.

"We've done flyers pretty much everywhere in the downtown area and where the wreck site was," Perry said.

“Someone somewhere has seen something, they know something," Perry added. "They just don’t know they’ve seen something.”​