Read all about it A former auctioneer and father of 12 (yes, 12) was shopping with his wife at a department store when he told her he was going to grab a quick coffee somewhere, not to be seen again for five years. When the man submitted a rental application, the police received word of this missing person's location. They went to interview him, and essentially, he just doesn't want to be found. Mrs. McFly denies that the man they found is him, that she won't believe it's him unless she can talk to him. He doesn't want to talk to her... Well it all sounds plausible and reasonable that someone could have stolen his identify, the police made a mistake in identifying him, yadda yadda. However, then we learn he has done this before. In a fabulous case of living on the river DeNial, she says of the most recent disappearance:

"We were very close and we did everything together, every day. I don't know what to think, I still feel something happened to him -- why would he be in Pennsylvania and not call us? I mean that's not that far away."

Now, I don't know what could have happened between Mr. & Mrs. McFly that would make Mr. McFly feel this burning desire to vanish while getting coffee not once--but twice. One telling clue is Mrs. McFly's statement that they did everythign together every single day. That's enough to make one feel like they're living with a pillow pasted over one's head just a millimeter short of suffocation. And given the fact that he disappeared one other time under the exact same circumstances:

"We then began to dig into the history of Mr. Van Tassel and learned that he did a similar thing and was missing in another part of the country a year previously," said a detective working on the case.

In the earlier disappearance, he also told his wife he was going for coffee. His abandoned truck was found weeks later in Ohio, and Van Tassel was found 72 days later at a homeless shelter in Iowa.

At the time, family members blamed his disappearance on stress and a lack of business at his 32-year-old company, Van Tassel's Auctions.

...you have to wonder how Mrs. McFly still seems to have absolutely no clue why Mr. McFly wanted to flee so badly he was willing to let his entire family think he is dead. Maybe that very blind eye is just one of the reason.