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Mass. man reported missing from S.C. vacation home found dead, officials say [Video]

A Massachusetts man who disappeared more than a week ago on Hilton Head Island has been found dead.His family confirmed the news Monday afternoon, saying his body was found four houses down from their rental unit.Stanley Kotowski, 60, of Methuen, was last seen Aug. 16 around 10:30 a.m. leaving the familys vacation rental at 226 South Sea Pines Drive, shoeless and without his phone or drivers license. “He just walked out the door. He had really bad insomnia for about a month. He doesn’t have dementia. His anxiety just kept getting worse and worse and worse and he started to get a little paranoid,” his wife Jackie Kotowski said.According to the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, authorities were alerted to the rental home around 11:30 a.m. Monday. Kotowski’s body was found underneath the home.”The body was recovered from underneath the home at about 3:30 p.m. this afternoon. The Beaufort County Coroners Office will conduct an autopsy on Tuesday, August 27, 2024, to determine the manner of death, as well as positively identify the decedent.” Video: Mass. man vanishes during SC vacationThe Beaufort County Sheriffs Office responded to the home at 12:42 p.m. the day he went missing. They mobilized a substantial search effort, deploying K-9s, drones and helicopters to locate Kotowski. According to a report from the BCSO, Jackie Kotowski told deputies that her husband “believes Sea Pines is a ‘set up’ and has a conspiracy that the people here are out to get him. She stated that Stanley has made several statements of people at this place “watching him.””She also told deputies that, before he left, Stanley told her, “Promise me you will go on without me.”Support for the family flooded in on social media, where people offered up their homes for the family to stay as search efforts continued.