Thomas A. Karpiuk Jr & Thomas M. Leone [BOTH DROWNED] Southampton,VA

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SOUTHAMPTON COPS SEEK MISSING MAN

MATTHEW CHAYES May 18, 2008Southampton Town detectives are looking for a man who went missing last Wednesday and hasn't been heard from since, police said. Thomas A. Karpiuk Jr. was last seen Wednesday about 10:30 p.m. in Montauk, police said. Karpiuk - white, 33, about 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds - is believed to be driving his 2003 silver GMC Yukon Denali with Florida license plate I48 HCC, police said. A woman who identified herself as the missing man's fiancee, Caroline Day, told the cable station News12 that he is a former Marine who came to Long Island about a month and a half ago to be an estate manager. Karpiuk has a 5-year-old daughter. Day said he was last seen at Rowdy Hall, a restaurant in East Hampton.http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-librf5691232may18,0,1668401.story

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Two Men Are Missing After a Nighttime Sail
By Taylor K. Vecsey

(5/18/2008) Police are investigating the disappearance of two men who have not been seen since early Thursday.


Thomas A. Karpiuk, 33, of West Palm Beach, Fla., who has been working on an estate in Bridgehampton, had left Rowdy Hall, a restaurant and bar on Main Street in East Hampton, on Wednesday at about 10:30 p.m. His 2003 Silver GMC Yukon Denali was found Saturday night in the Breakwater Yacht Club’s parking lot in Sag Harbor.

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Thomas A. Karpiuk Jr. has been missing since Wednesday.

In a late and apparently related development, police have also issued a missing persons alert for Thomas M. Leone, 56, of Sag Harbor , who was last seen on the Sag Harbor waterfront Wednesday evening. The following morning a dory was found capsized outside the Sag Harbor channel.
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Thomas M. Leone, 56 of Sag Harbor was last seen on the Sag Harbor waterfront Wednesday evening.

Mr. Karpiuk’s fiancee, Caroline (Lizzy) Day, also of West Palm Beach, filed a missing persons report late Thursday night, after countless calls to his cellphone had gone unreturned for 21 hours. On Sunday, she said detectives had learned that after leaving Rowdy Hall, Mr. Karpiuk had gone to Murf’s Tavern on Division Street in Sag Harbor, in the shadow of Sag Harbor Village Police headquarters. There, police said, Mr. Karpiuk met some men who invited him to go sailing. Apparently, four men went aboard, but only two, who are being interviewed by police, have been accounted for.

Mr. Karpiuk’s family is devastated by his disappearance, his father, Thomas A. Karpiuk Sr., 53, said by phone on Sunday. “We’re just worried sick,” his former wife, Rachele Scholes, said from West Palm Beach on Sunday. They have a 5-year-old son, Aden. “He never missed a daily phone call to his son. He never misses work. It’s just not like him. That’s why we know something is wrong.” Ms. Scholes said he hoped “to get out of some financial trouble and then come back down here.”

“All avenues are open at this juncture and we’re pursuing all leads,” Detective Sgt. Randy Hintze said on Sunday. The detective is on the Southampton Town police force, which is leading the investigation with assistance from the Sag Harbor department. Police described Mr. Karpiuk as white, 5’11”, and 185 pounds.

Ms. Day last spoke to her fiance on Wednesday night. He said he was going to sleep, “But he never went to sleep. He went out. He must have gotten bored and hungry. And he went to go get something to eat,” she said. She first called him at about 2 a.m. Thursday. Her water heater had broken and she wanted him to tell her how to turn it off. “I called him five times. Usually if he saw me call so many times, he thinks something is wrong with me.”

After just a few hours, his father and fiancee called the Rosenberg estate. Mr. Karpiuk said another employee there, whose full name he didn’t know, said, “Tom just never showed up for work.” And he never called or went back to the estate – a place where Mr. Karpiuk said his son had reported being “very happy” to work. Mr. Karpiuk. said his son was “a very responsible guy,” who was close to his family and always returned calls promptly. “As sons go, you couldn’t have gotten a more perfect son,” he said.

His father said the younger Mr.Karpiuk had worked on the Palm Beach estate of Nelson Peltz, the billionaire chief executive officer of Triarc, which owns the Arby’s fast food restaurants. He had “self-promoted” his way from security jobs into estate management, his father said, noting that he had never been in this area before getting the job through an agency a month or so ago.

It doesn’t surprise Mr. Karpiuk that his son might have gone out on the water at night. He owns a power boat, and is comfortable on the water, he said. “He’s a good swimmer. He would have been wearing a life preserver if the weather said he should.”

The missing man grew up in Seymour and Waterbury, Conn., where he attended Holy Cross High School. He joined the Marine Corps right after graduation, and was stationed in Yuma, Ariz., for four years. When he was discharged, he joined his father and extended family in Florida.

Ms. Scholes and Mr. Karpiuk were married for five years before divorcing in October. She is a 15-year NBC television news veteran and the owner of a public relations firm in West Palm Beach. She said she had not told her son that his father was missing. “I don’t know what to tell him,” she said. “We are all just hoping and praying that he is all right.”

“I find it to hard to believe that Tom put himself in any type of position that would be unsafe. Let me put it that way. He’s very savvy, very bright, and he was a marine.”

http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Home/News/Karpiukmissing/tabid/5539/Default.aspx

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May 18, 2008 Sunday


SOUTHAMPTON COPS SEEK MISSING MAN.
MATTHEW CHAYES

Southampton Town detectives have found a truck belonging to a man they said had "family and financial issues" who went missing last week, police said last night. But the man, Thomas A. Karpiuk Jr., is still nowhere to be found. He was last seen Wednesday about 10:30 p.m. in Montauk, police have said. Karpiuk - white, 33, about 5-foot-11 and 185 pounds - was believed to be driving his 2003 silver GMC Yukon Denali with Florida license plate I48 HCC, police said. He is believed to have been on his way to meet friends, said Sgt. Walter Britton of Southampton Town police.

Sag Harbor Village police found his car at the Breakwater Yacht Club last night, said Det. Timothy Wilson.

Police do not suspect foul play, Wilson said, explaining that police are investigating because Karpiuk tends to be punctual and regimented - and friends say it's unlike him to miss commitments.

A woman who identified herself as Karpiuk's fiancee, Caroline Day, told the cable TV station News12 that he is a former Marine who came to Long Island about a month and a half ago to manage an estate. Karpiuk has a 5-year-old daughter. Day said he was last seen at Rowdy Hall, a restaurant in East Hampton. Karpiuk works at an estate in the Bridgehampton area, Wilson said.
Photo - Karpiuk Jr.
May 18, 2008

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Search is on for two men in waters off Sag Harbor

JENNIFER MALONEY
May 19, 2008

As Southampton police turned up the truck of a man who went missing in Sag Harbor last week, they searched the waters off Long Island for another man who disappeared from the seaside village the same night.

Thomas Karpiuk Jr., 33, of Bridgehampton, and Thomas Leone, 56, of Sag Harbor, have been missing since Wednesday night, police said.

Karpiuk was last seen Wednesday about 10:30 p.m. in East Hampton Village. Police found his unoccupied truck Saturday evening in a parking lot near the Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor.

Leone, who was living part-time on a boat moored off Sag Harbor, was also last seen Wednesday evening on the Sag Harbor waterfront.


He used a small dory to travel from his boat to the shore. Another boater found Leone's dory capsized Thursday morning outside the Sag Harbor Channel.

The East Hampton Town police marine unit searched the area with SONAR and divers. The Coast Guard and Suffolk police aviation unit assisted.

Police ask that anyone with information call the Southampton police tips line at 631-728-3454.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-limiss195692959may19,0,5085503.story

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May 19, 2008 Monday

Search for missing men;
Local divers, Coast Guard comb waters off Sag Harbor for pair of seaside community men who haven't been seen since last week
JENNIFER MALONEY

As Southampton police turned up the truck of a man who went missing in Sag Harbor last week, they searched the waters off Long Island for another man who disappeared from the seaside village the same night.

Thomas Karpiuk Jr., 33, of Bridgehampton, and Thomas Leone, 56, of Sag Harbor, have been missing since Wednesday night, police said.

Karpiuk was last seen Wednesday about 10:30 p.m. in East Hampton Village. Police found his unoccupied truck Saturday evening in a parking lot near the Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor.

Leone, who was living part-time on a boat moored off Sag Harbor, was also last seen Wednesday evening on the Sag Harbor waterfront.

He used a small dory to travel from his boat to the shore. Another boater found Leone's dory capsized Thursday morning outside the Sag Harbor Channel.

The East Hampton Town police marine unit searched the area with SONAR and divers. The Coast Guard and Suffolk police aviation unit assisted.

Police ask that anyone with information call the Southampton police tips line at 631-728-3454.
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May 22, 2008 Thursday

SAG HARBOR: Missing men said to be pals

Southampton Town Police now believe that two men who have been missing for a week - Thomas Karpiuk Jr., 33, and Thomas Leone, 56 - had struck up a friendship toward the end of April.

The two men were last seen May 14. Until Tuesday, police had no reason to connect the two disappearances, although both men had been linked to the Sag Harbor area: Karpiuk because his truck was found parked near the Breakwater Yacht Club and Leone because he lived part-time on a boat moored off Sag Harbor.

Karpiuk, who police say had been on Long Island for only about six weeks, had been working as an estate manager in Sagaponack. They say Leone worked as a handyman and had an address just outside Sag Harbor village.

Southampton Police Det. Sgt. Randy Hintze said yesterday that on Tuesday, because of the publicity given to the disappearances, a witness - whom police are not identifying - came forward to say Karpiuk said earlier this month that he had become friends with a man he met at a local bar, and that the man owned a sailboat. He said the two had gone sailing recently.

Southampton police followed up and now say it is possible the two were together on the night they disappeared.

But, Hintze added, that remains a theory. There is no evidence to indicate they actually met that night or to place either on Leone's overturned dinghy around the time they vanished.

The capsized dinghy was found off Sag Harbor before police learned the men were missing; the boater who found it took it to a private dock for safekeeping.

Leone used the dinghy to go back and forth to his boat. It has since been impounded by the Sag Harbor Village Police.

Police from Sag Harbor village, East Hampton and Southampton towns, the Sag Harbor harbormaster, and East Hampton police divers and the Suffolk County Aviation Unit are continuing to search the waters off Sag Harbor.

May 22, 2008
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Missing Men Are Linked By a Sailboat

Jaunt in a dory may have proved treacherous

(5/22/2008) Police continued this week to search for two men who have been missing since the night of May 14, when, police believe, they decided to go out to a sailboat moored in Sag Harbor Cove. Search efforts by air and sea focused in recent days on the waters of and around Sag Harbor Cove, Northwest Harbor, and the Sag Harbor Breakwater.

Thomas A. Karpiuk, 33, of West Palm Beach, Fla., who was working on a Bridgehampton estate, and Thomas M. Leone, 56, of Sag Harbor and Montclair, N.J., who was living on his sailboat, were reported missing last Thursday and on Saturday, respectively.

On Tuesday, five days into their investigation of Mr. Karpiuk’s disappearance, Southampton Town police said they had confirmed a link between the two men.

According to a press release issued yesterday, “a person previously unknown to the investigation” contacted police to say that Mr. Karpiuk had mentioned meeting someone, in a bar at the end of April, who owned a sailboat. They struck up a friendship and went sailing together, police said, adding that they had determined “the validity of the information,” and that they believed the person Mr. Karpiuk mentioned to be Mr. Leone.

Police said that the person who contacted them, whose name they did not release, had done so after learning from the news about the men’s disappearance.

Mr. Karpiuk’s 2003 silver GMC Yukon Denali was found Saturday night in the Breakwater Yacht Club’s parking lot in Sag Harbor. Mr. Leone’s dory, which he uses to get to his sailboat, was found, capsized, outside the Sag Harbor channel last Thursday morning before police knew either man was missing.

The investigation started when Mr. Karpiuk’s fiancée, Caroline (Lizzy) Day, filed a missing persons report with Southampton Town police late Thursday night after making numerous unreturned calls to his cellphone over 21 hours. Ms. Day said on Monday that she last spoke to Mr. Karpiuk, with whom she lives in West Palm Beach and whom she has dated for over a year, on May 14 at around 9 p.m.

He said he was going to sleep, “but he never went to sleep,” she said. “He went out. He must have gotten bored and hungry. And he went to go get something to eat.”

Police learned that Mr. Karpiuk had left Rowdy Hall in East Hampton at about 10:30 on May 14, after having three to four beers, Ms. Day said.

She first called him at about 2 a.m. Thursday. Her water heater had broken and she wanted him to tell her how to turn it off. “I called him five times,” she said. “Usually if he saw me call so many times, he thinks something is wrong with me.”

A few hours later, his father, Thomas Karpiuk Sr. and Ms. Day called the Rosenberg estate, where he had been working for the past five weeks. Mr. Karpiuk’s father said that another employee there, whose full name he didn’t know, said “Tom just never showed up for work.”

Mr. Karpiuk said his son had indicated that he was “very happy” with his job. He described him as “a very responsible guy” who was close to his family and returned calls promptly. “As sons go, you couldn’t have gotten a more perfect son,” he said.

According to his father, Mr. Karpiuk previously worked on the Palm Beach estate of Nelson Peltz, the billionaire chief executive officer of Triarc, which owns the Arby’s fast food restaurants. He had “self-promoted” his way from security jobs into estate management, his father said, noting that he had never been in this area before getting the Bridgehampton job through an agency.

After leaving Rowdy Hall, Mr. Karpiuk went to Murf’s Tavern in Sag Harbor, Ms. Day said detectives had learned. Some men there, including Mr. Leone, apparently discussed going for a nighttime sail around Shelter Island. Police do not believe Mr. Leone or Mr. Karpiuk went on that sail.

Police said Mr. Leone, who was living part time on his sailboat, Cayenne, was last seen on the Sag Harbor waterfront the evening of May 14. He reportedly had a few beers that night at Murf’s following races at the Breakwater Yacht Club, during which, friends said, he crewed for another friend.


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On Monday, Caroline (Lizzy) Day, Thomas A. Karpiuk’s fiancée, stood in the Breakwater Yacht Club’s parking lot, where Mr. Karpiuk’s car was found days before. “I don’t know what else to do,” she said.

Cayenne, Mr. Leone’s 41-foot Tarpin sailboat, was still moored on the east side of the cove this week. Friends said they grew concerned when they spotted the dory tied to Billy Joel’s dock, which is down the street from where Mr. Leone normally kept it.

According to Sag Harbor Village Police Detective Paul Fabiano, a boat captain found the dory but did not report it, thinking it belonged to an acquaintance. The captain tied the dory to a private dock and tried to reach the person he believed to be the owner.

At about the same time the captain realized his mistake, the police realized that he had the dory, Detective Fabiano said. Peter Greene, an acquaintance of Mr. Leone’s for about 10 years, had reported Mr. Leone missing on Sunday at 12:15 p.m.

The dory was discovered a few hours before Mr. Leone was due to appear in East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday morning. When Mr. Leone failed to appear to answer a charge of driving while intoxicated, Justice Lisa R. Rana issued a warrant for his arrest, unaware that he would become one of two missing persons in an investigation spanning several police jurisdictions.

Ed Burke Jr., a Sag Harbor attorney, said he was surprised when his client did not show up for his court date. After a year Mr. Leone had decided to plead guilty to the misdemeanor charge of D.W.I., and he informed Mr. Burke of that decision on Tuesday. The attorney and the client expected little more than probation and a fine.

“He said he wanted to get it over with,” Mr. Burke said on Monday. “I’m worried about him.”

Friends in the Sag Harbor area described Mr. Leone as an adventurous new sailor who was looking forward to spending the summer living on his old sailboat. He had inherited it from a friend and spent weeks sprucing it up for the season, said Bob Beres of Sag Harbor, who on the morning of May 14 helped Mr. Leone moor it next to his own boat. “It was going to be a good summer,” Mr. Beres said.

A few days earlier they had talked about how dangerous it could be to fall overboard out in the mooring field. Mr. Beres said Mr. Leone had made himself a rope ladder and cautioned Mr. Beres to keep his own hanging from the boat.

Mr. Greene said Mr. Leone’s dory was “a pretty stable little tender. But two people step on the same side of the gunwale, you got a problem.”

“We’re just worried sick,” Mr. Karpiuk’s former wife, Rachele Scholes, said from West Palm Beach on Sunday. They have a 5-year-old son, Aden. “He never missed a daily phone call to his son. He never misses work. It’s just not like him. That’s why we know something is wrong.”

Ms. Scholes said she had not told her son that his father was missing. “I don’t know what to tell him,” she said. “We are all just hoping and praying that he is all right.”

Ms. Scholes said Mr. Karpiuk had hoped “to get out of some financial trouble and then come back down here.”

Mr. Karpiuk’s father said that his son owns a power boat and is comfortable on the water. “He’s a good swimmer. He would have been wearing a life preserver if the weather said he should,” he said.

“I find it to hard to believe that Tom put himself in any type of position that would be unsafe. Let me put it that way. He’s very savvy, very bright, and he was a marine.”

Mr. Beres joined Mr. Greene in his Piper Cherokee and the friends set out on their own search by air on Monday. “I’m not seeing anything,” Mr. Greene said that day.

“It would be lovely if they showed up in some topless bar in Babylon, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.”

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Updated: May 22, 2008 4:48pm

Police Find Link Between Two Missing Persons

Sag Harbor - As the search continues for two men who have been missing since last Wednesday, Southampton Police reported today they may have established a connection between the two men.

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Thomas Leone, 56, was last seen in Sag Harbor last Wednesday.

A small dory belonging to Thomas Leone, 56, of Sag Harbor, was found capsized on Thursday morning in Sag Harbor Bay near Breakwater Yacht Club. The car of the second missing person, Thomas Karpiuk, 33, of Bridgehampton, was found in the parking lot near the yacht club.

Leone, 56, a handyman who lived part-time on a sailboat docked in Sag Harbor, was last seen on the Sag Harbor waterfront in the early evening of Wednesday, May 14. Leone, who keeps a house in Sag Harbor, was reported missing on Saturday, May 17, by his landlord. Karpiuk, 33, who arrived from West Palm Beach approximately a month ago, was last seen at Rowdy Hall in East Hampton at approximately 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday night. His 2003 GMC Denali was found on Saturday in a lot near the Breakwater Yacht Club. Karpiuk, who was working as an estate manager in Sagaponack, was reported missing by his girlfriend on Thursday, May 15.

Leone used the dory, which was found capsized by another boater and towed into a private dock, to ferry between his sailboat and the shore. Weather conditions were calm on Wednesday, with no precipitation and winds from the east.

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Karpiuk, 33, was last seen at Rowdy Hall in East
Hampton at approximately 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday
night.

On Tuesday, an acquaintance of Karpiuk, whose identity is being withheld, came to police and told them Karpiuk had told the source that he had met someone in a bar at the end of April and "struck up a friendship." According to the police, Karpiuk told his acquaintance that this person owned a sailboat and he had been sailing with him. After investigating the story, detectives investigating the case now believe the person Karpiuk met was Leone.

In addition to the police departments in Southampton, East Hampton, and Sag Harbor, the East Hampton Town Marine Patrol has been searching in Sag Harbor Bay using side scan sonar. Scuba divers from the East Hampton Town Police Dive Team have conducted search dives in the bay. “We’re looking on and we’re looking in the water. We’re talking to anyone who has information,” Hintze said.

As of Monday afternoon, East Hampton Marine Patrol continued to use sonar to sweep the bay, and Hintze said there was no timetable for ending the water search. “We evaluate it consistently,” he said.

Karpiuk is 5’11” tall, 185 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. Leone is 5’11” tall, 175 pounds, with brown eyes and long, brown hair worn in a ponytail. Police are asking anyone with information about either of the men to call Southampton Town Police at 631-728-5000 or the Sag Harbor Police Department at 631-725-0058. Information can also be sent via email at crimtips@southamptonny.gov.
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COMMENTS

Hamptonite, East Hampton 2 hrs ago
Missing Link, doesn't Madeline Gleason's son have the same last name as Thomas Karpiuk? Very strange! But I don't think the disappearance is "suspicious as you point out. They are doing all they can to look for these two.

Diana, West Palm Beach, FL 1 day ago
I pray for Tom's safe return to his family and friends who love and miss him very much.

Dina, WPB,FL 1 day ago
I am praying every day for your safe return Tom and remaining positive you will come home to all who love and care for you.You are in all of our hearts Tom and we miss you.

Aunt Lori, Ct 1 day ago
Tom we know you would not intentionally disappear on your own. We are worried sick for you! Please god bring him back home safely. You are sadly missed and we are praying for you. You have always been a fighter.We love you.Please don't stop looking for him!!!

Nancy, Beacon Falls, CT 1 day ago
Thoughts & Prayers are with Tom & his family. Praying for a safe return.

Missing Link, Beacon Falls, CT 1 day ago
Have any of you read the history of Madeline Gleason/ Billy Smolinski. There is no doubt in our minds that there is a connection here. Also, there is NOTHING on the local news/ media about Tom's disappearance. Wake up. It's too suspicious.

Shelly , West Palm Beach, Fla 2 days ago
Lord please shine your light on Tom make him seen to those who are searching, please keep him safe and warm. Please have mercy on him and his family. Please let him come home to his son. In your name we pray.

Stephanie , West Palm Beach, FL 2 days ago
Lord, I ask that you bring Tom home to us safe...` My sister needs you and your family and friends want you home. I love you and miss you.

blairnix, West Palm 2 days ago
Miss you brother.

Mason, NJ 3 days ago
Hopefully Tom has found himself a beautiful woman and a nice tropical island. Tom, we hope to see you again one day, in this world or the next...

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This comment has me curious

Missing Link, Beacon Falls, CT 1 day ago
Have any of you read the history of Madeline Gleason/ Billy Smolinski. There is no doubt in our minds that there is a connection here. Also, there is NOTHING on the local news/ media about Tom's disappearance. Wake up. It's too suspicious.

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Well.....this sure is a strange case, indeed.....


Missing Persons Investigation Continues in Southampton


What began as a strange missing persons case, may be beginning to make some more sense.

Southampton Town Police and Sag Harbor Village Police are continuing their lengthy investigation into the disappearances of Thomas Karpiuk, 33, and Thomas Leone, 56. Karpiuk and Leone both went missing during the evening hours of Wednesday, March 14 off the shores of the Sag Harbor Waterfront. The following morning, a dory boat was recovered capsized outside the Sag Harbor Channel.

Police, suspecting there was a likely link between the two missing men, were unable to confirm their suspicions until an unidentified friend of Karpiuk phoned into police. The friend told police Karpiuk had met someone towards the end of April at a bar and struck a friendship. This bar friend apparently owned a sailboat and Karpiuk started going sailing with him. Police now believe the man at the bar to be Leone.

The name of the source is being withheld by police at this time.

Police are hesitating to finalize their suspicion noting they have not found any evidence to indicate that the two met on March 14.

Sag Harbor Police, Sag Harbor Harbor Master, Easthampton Town Police divers, Easthampton Town Police Marine Patrol and Suffolk County Police Aviation continue to search the waters off Sag Harbor.

Police continue to ask anyone with information to contact the Southampton Town Police tipline at 631-728-3454.
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Body found believed to be that of missing Sag Harbor man

BY SOPHIA CHANG | sophia.chang@newsday.com
4:17 PM EDT, May 24, 2008

A body believed to be that of a missing Sag Harbor man has been found, washed ashore on Barcelona Point in East Hampton, police said Saturday.

Authorities were awaiting confirmation from the Suffolk County medical examiner's office that the body discovered Friday by a passerby was that of Thomas Leone, 56, who has been missing since May 15, Lt. Tom Mackey of the Sag Harbor Police Department said.

Mackey said the body, which he estimated was in the water for at least seven to eight days, matched a description of Leone. There was no sign of foul play, he said.

After the body was discovered Friday, police combed the surrounding waters for signs of Thomas Karpiuk Jr., 33, an estate manager from Sagaponack and friend of Leone's who went missing the same day. They found no sign of him.

Karpiuk's truck was found parked near the Breakwater Yacht Club, where Leone moored a dinghy he used to travel to his boat, police said. The dinghy was found capsized by another boater.

Sag Harbor police worked with East Hampton Town police, Southampton Town police, the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department's Marine Bureau and the Suffolk County Police Department's Aviation unit to search the Barcelona Point area.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-lidrow0524,0,1032304.story

[TigressPen]

How very sad a ending to a case that is very mysterious. Condolences to Leone's family. :1222423:

[Pauli]

I'm so sorry to hear this :1222423:

[Faith]

Body found in E. Hampton may be missing Sag Harbor man

May 25, 2008

A body believed to be that of a missing Sag Harbor man has been found washed ashore on Barcelona Point in East Hampton, police said yesterday.

The corpse was wearing Thomas Leone's jewelry, had his distinctive tattoo and had $800 on it, said Lt. Tom Mackey of the Sag Harbor Village Police Department.

But the body was so badly decomposed that the medical examiner's office wasn't able to use fingerprints to positively identify it as that of Leone, 56, police said. Mackey said investigators were seeking Leone's dental records so a forensic dentist could match them to the corpse.

The body was discovered Friday by a passerby. It had been in the water for at least a week and there was no sign of foul play, Mackey said. Leone has been missing since May 15, he said.

After the body was discovered, police combed the surrounding waters for signs of Thomas Karpiuk Jr., 33, an estate manager from Sagaponack and a sailing companion of Leone's who went missing the same day, Mackey said. They found no sign of him.

Both men had been last seen heading to separate bars - Leone to Murf's Tavern in Sag Harbor and Karpiuk to Rowdy Hall in East Hampton.

Karpiuk's truck was found parked near the Breakwater Yacht Club, where Leone moored a dinghy he used to travel to his boat, police said. The dinghy was found capsized by another boater.

Sag Harbor police worked with East Hampton Town police, Southampton Town police, the Suffolk County Sheriff's Department's Marine Bureau and the Suffolk County Police Department's Aviation unit to search the Barcelona Point area.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lidrow5701995may25,0,2523871.story

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Body tentatively identified as missing Sagaponack man

May 26, 2008

Police yesterday recovered the body of a man tentatively identified as Thomas Karpiuk Jr. - one of two men who went missing from Sag Harbor on May 14 and appear to have been found dead in Sag Harbor Bay in the past two days.

A body believed to be that of Thomas Leone, 56, was found Saturday on Barcelona Point in East Hampton. The body was so badly decomposed that the medical examiner's office has yet to positively identify the man but he was wearing Leone's jewelry and had the Sag Harbor resident's distinctive tattoo.

The second body was spotted by a boater yesterday afternoon in Sag Harbor Bay between Sag Harbor and North Haven, police said. Southampton police Det. Timothy Wilson declined to say how police had made the tentative identification of the second body, saying he was withholding details "out of respect" for some family members.

"At this point, we still have no reason to believe foul play was a factor," he said.

Karpiuk, 33, was an estate manager from Sagaponack and a sailing companion of Leone's, according to Sag Harbor police.

It was unknown whether the two men had been sailing together the night they disappeared. The men were last seen heading to separate bars - Leone to Murf's Tavern in Sag Harbor and Karpiuk to Rowdy Hall in East Hampton.

The case is under investigation by Southampton, East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor police, as well as the Suffolk medical examiner's office.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/suffolk/ny-lisag265703061may26,0,1098088.story

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My thoughts and prayers are with family and friends of Thomas Karpiuk Jr and Thomas Leone.

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Second Missing Person Found, In Local Waters Near North Haven

http://www.hamptons.com/detail.ihtml?id=3855&apid=7866&sid=27&cid=54&hm=1&iv=1&townflag=

So Sad