- Edmond Bradley Solomon III, 66, was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia before his Caribbean cruise.
- He disappeared after he and his wife left the Royal Caribbean cruise ship that had docked in Cozumel, Mexico, on Wednesday.
- He was last seen by a local taxi driver who said he took the missing man to a beach access road.
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A South Carolina family is desperate for answers after their 66-year-old father, recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia, wandered off during a Royal Caribbean cruise with his wife.
Edmond Bradley Solomon III, who suffers from the degenerative disorder, was last seen Wednesday when the cruise ship he was on with his wife, Mimi, stopped in Cozumel, Mexico.
The couple went to the terminal bathroom after the ship, the Icon of the Seas, was docked, but their family has not seen or heard from Solomon since.
“When my stepmom, Mimi, came out, he wasn’t there,” said Solomon’s daughter, Savannah Miller. WCBD in an emotional interview.
“She thought he might still be in the bathroom, so she waited for him for a few minutes. He didn’t come out.
Edmond Bradley Solomon III, 66, was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia before his Caribbean cruise.
He disappeared after he and his wife left the Royal Caribbean cruise ship that had docked in Cozumel, Mexico, on Wednesday.
Even though a family member checked on him, he was nowhere to be seen in the bathroom. At that moment, Miller says, his family learned that his father was “lost.”
The only reported sighting of him came from a taxi driver who said he was called by the missing American on the road to Passion Island.
City officials say a taxi driver, responding to a tip about Solomon, said the missing American stopped him around 2:30 p.m., took him to a beach access road and Solomon paid him with a wristwatch because He said he had no money, according to Daily news from Mexico.
Before his disappearance, Solomon was wearing a white T-shirt, gray shorts, and dark sunglasses.
Miller told WCBD that his disorder, which is behavioral and does not affect his memory, causes him to say “strange things” and behave “erratically, or in a strange way, because he’s just doing what he knows how to do.”
“He can’t process it the same way you or I can,” Miller added of his father, a former critical care nurse at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston.
Solomon and his wife went to the terminal bathroom after the ship was docked, but his family has not seen or heard from him since, including his daughter Savannah, who is helping raise the alarm.
TO GoFundMe page It has also been set up to help with the search after the family contacted the US embassy and consulate in Mexico City.
The fundraiser has already raised more than $15,000 toward its $5,000 goal as of Saturday night.
‘The local army is actively searching. Mimi is in a hotel in Mexico. “There are many unknowns right now and we want to help ease any future financial burden,” wrote organizer Marissa Aldridge.
Miller, tearfully advocating that “the best thing anyone can do is spread the word,” said he would head to Cozumel to join the search with Mimi, who has remained in the area.
“I’m looking forward to having Mimi by my side and being able to give my dad a hug again,” Miller said.
