Richard J. Heagen, 54 and known as Jay, went missing from his Gray Street home in Zanesville, Ohio after leaving around 9:00 p.m. on March 19, 2024. Security footage shows him entering his house, taking a hooded sweatshirt and leaving again without his wallet or phone. Cameras later recorded him walking past a Dollar General toward the city’s Y Bridge, but surveillance on both sides of the bridge did not capture him crossing.

An extensive search of the river near the bridge found no sign of him. Heagen had been in a somber mood that day and had visited his wife’s grave for the first time since her death less than a year earlier. He lived with schizophrenia and had wandered away before, once being found after twelve hours and hospitalized; his family reports he experienced periods of not recognizing his children during that admission.

The Zanesville Police Department is investigating. Does anyone who was in the Gray Street area or who saw someone walking toward the Y Bridge that night have information to share?