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Police Still Searching For Missing Newtown Man

Man was reported missing one week ago.

Imagine a couple who likes to spend time with each other and their friends. A typical evening would be spent cooking their meals and just enjoying each other’s company. That would be the life she and her husband shared, according to Jayne Fitzgibbons.

“A boring couple,” she said. “You are look at one half and all we want is to find the other half.”

Her husband, William Fitzgibbons, 56, has been missing since Monday, March 22.

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It was at about 1:30 p.m. Monday that Fitzgibbons, a day trader, left his Fox Run Lane South home where he worked to run an errand, leaving behind his cell phone because it was charging at the time, his wife said.

He went to the Big Y supermarket, bought some cream for his elbow and called his wife from the service phone at the supermarket to tell her he was having car problems and would be home late, .

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“The car was making a funny noise,” Jayne Fitzgibbons said.

That was at about 5 p.m. He has been missing since then and his family has launched a frantic search to find him and the 1993 white Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo he was driving.

Married 33 years, the couple has no children beside their dog. They have family locally, including in Brookfield, and also have friends in New Jersey.

Outside of that, there aren’t any vacation spots that they frequent or places to which her husband might have gone, she said.

“We don’t go anywhere,” Jayne Fitzgibbons said.

That is why his disappearance is so disturbing, she said.

“Nobody wants to know where he is more than me,” Fitzgibbons said.

William Fitzgibbons is described as white, bald, has blue eyes, wears glasses, stands 6-feet, 1-inch and weighs about 185-pounds. He was last seen wearing jeans, mock turtleneck shirt and green sweater vest.

“He is the most generous, kind man,” Jayne Fitzgibbons said, adding he is friendly and would be the type of person to lend help to a stranger.

She is asking that everyone keep an eye out for her husband and his Jeep.

Fitzgibbons has no known medical conditions or other circumstances that would explain his disappearance or cause officials to believe he is in danger, police said.

The Jeep is white and has an all-gray back bumper. There are no bumper stickers and the vehicle has no distinguishing marks. It has a Connecticut license plate of 709EFK.

Anyone who has seen it is asked to contact Newtown police at 203-426-5841.


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