Years Later, Missing Newtown Man Found Dead In NY: Police

NEWTOWN, CT — A Newtown man who disappeared in July 2013 has turned up dead in New York after living under an assumed name, according to police.

Robert Hoagland was found dead in a home in Rock Hill, NY on Monday. The Sullivan County Sheriff's Office contacted the Newtown PD on Tuesday, after a search turned up papers identifying Hoagland, and an investigation connected him with the nearly decade-old missing person case.

The cause of Hoagland's death is pending an autopsy, but there were no signs of foul play, according to police. Hoagland had been living under the name Richard King in Sullivan County since around November 2013.

The missing man, then 50 years old, was last seen locally on July 28, 2013. He had been scheduled to pick up his wife, the mother of his children, at JFK Airport in New York City, but never showed.

Hoagland was the subject of an extensive search by law enforcement, and his case gained nationwide notoriety as the subject of an episode of Investigation Discovery, "Disappeared: A Family Man."

As of Wednesday morning, the last post on the Facebook page Help Us Find Hoagy, run by the Hoagland's family and friends, was July 1, 2016.