Missing Man Found Dead Under House After Vanishing During Beach Vacation

LOADING ERROR LOADING A 60-year-old Massachusetts man reported missing during a South Carolina beach vacation earlier this month was found dead on Monday beneath a nearby home, ending a frantic 10-day search, authorities said. Stanley Kotowski’s remains were found late Monday morning under a crawl space in the same Hilton Head Island neighborhood resort that he was last seen walking in on Aug. 16, the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday. A deputy was able to enter the narrow area, described as not more than 3 feet high, and locate Kotowski’s body hidden behind a pillar, Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Stanley Kotowski was found dead on Monday, ending a 10-day search for him in the Hilton Head Island area, authorities said. Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office Kotowski, who was said to be experiencing mental distress in the days before his disappearance, died from self-afflicted asphyxiation by hanging, the coroner said at the press conference following an autopsy. “It’s mainly cutting off the flow (of oxygen),” Beaufort County Coroner David Ott said while declining to go into further detail about the manner, particularly concerning the amount of space beneath the house. Advertisement Kotowski had flown down to Hilton Head Island on Aug. 11 with his wife and two family friends, Tanner said. He “believes Sea Pines is a ‘set up’ and has a conspiracy that the people here are out to get him,’” she told deputies, according to an incident report obtained by local station WJCL. She also said that her husband had made “several statements of people at this place ‘watching him.’” He asked her to promise to “go on without me,” according to the report. Kotowski was last seen leaving his family’s rental barefoot around 10:30 a.m. Surveillance video shared by the sheriff’s office shows him walking out the door and into the street, where he appears to stand, looking around in place for several seconds, before walking off camera. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/stanley-kotowsk-found-dead-hilton-head_n_66cdd4afe4b09c9ffeaf964b