The Peculiar Disappearance of Wojciech Fudali

The Missing 
Wojciech Fudali
Narragansett, Rhode Island

🚨 STILL MISSING: The Peculiar Disappearance of Wojciech Fudali 🔍

On Saturday, December 6, 2008, 22 year old Wojciech (pronounced Voytek) Fudali was last seen running naked on Gallilee Escape Road adjacent to the Gallilee Bird Sanctuary in Narragansett, Rhode Island. 
Wojciech was born in Poland and grew up in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Earlier in 2008, he graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a bachelor’s degree in international business.
He’d attended a party that day at a friend’s home in the 70 block of East Shore Road and stayed overnight. The group was awakened sometime after 5:00 a.m. to the sight of Wojciech standing completely nude, hitting himself in the head with a metal pole from the bedframe, and saying “trust me.” For unknown reasons, they didn’t call the police or an ambulance, and eventually went back to sleep. When his friends woke up the next afternoon, Wojciech was gone and the clothing he’d worn the night before was found to be neatly folded on the floor. He also left his sneakers, car keys, cellular phone, Massachusetts driver’s license, debit card and $86 in cash. 
Wojciech was seen twice after he left his friends’ home. First, neighbors saw him sitting on a dock at 8:30 a.m., claiming he was “naked or nearly so.” Two hours later a friend saw him running, still nude, on the grounds of the 128-acre Galilee Bird Sanctuary. Friends at the party would later tell police that Wojciech wasn’t using drugs and had just one glass of wine that night. 
He has never been heard from again. 
His friends stated he seemed depressed and despondent at the time; Wojciech had been prescribed anti-anxiety medication prior to this,  but his roommate said he recently stopped taking it cold turkey. The roommate also stated he had become interested in nature and also very religious, and he spent a great deal of time reading the Bible in the days before his disappearance. He began under-dressing for the cold weather and would walk around outside with no shoes on. He talked about trying a simpler life and even mentioned possibly going on a bread-and-water diet. His mother Anna stated that she spoke to him three days before his disappearance and didn’t notice anything wrong. 
“He told me, ‘I think I’m coming back home, but I’ll let you know on Saturday.’ And that’s it. I didn’t see him anymore,” she said.
Temperatures outside on the day he disappeared were about thirty degrees, and he could not have survived long without any clothes.
The day before he vanished, he was stopped by police on Newport’s Cliff Walk. He wasn’t wearing any shoes and was “inappropriately dressed for the weather and distraught,” said police.
Wojciech is a white male, standing at 5 ’10 to 6 feet tall, weighing around 200 pounds at the time. He has light brown hair and blue eyes.  His hair was shoulder-length at the time of his disappearance. He may spell his first name “Wojtek” or use the nickname “Tek.” He has a tattoo of a black eagle on a yellow and green background below the left side of his ribcage. He has visible acne and a gap between his upper front teeth, and he has previously broken his clavicle. 
“Maybe he had some problems and I didn’t know,” said Anna.
Around 3 a.m. on the morning Wojciech was reported missing, police made a well-being check on one of his friends, Burton Wilkins, who was renting the home on East Shore Road. There was not much information available about why the well-being check was made or who had called the police. 
Police K-9s searched the cove and nearby marsh. Nothing turned up. Police and volunteers helped the family search several homeless shelters in Boston after a possible sighting was reported. Nothing came of this either. 
Bizarrely, Anna and her husband came home one day in 2018, to find a post-it note in their kitchen. The note read:  “I mise y’all, love Woit – and I am at the bet.” Then, they received a phone call from a child in Puerto Rico asking for Wojciech. Police traced the number to a woman on the Caribbean island but couldn’t locate her. As for the Post-it, the handwriting was child-like, and investigators found it inconclusive.

His case remains unsolved. 

 The Fudalis are offering a $4,000 reward for information related to their son’s disappearance. Anyone who has information is asked to contact Narragansett police at 401-789-8967 or send a confidential email to MissinginNewEngland@gmail.com.

Sources:
Missing: Wojciech Fudali | Narragansett, RI | Uncovered 
Wojciech Fudali – 3 of Spades, Rhode Island – The Deck
NBC 10 I-Team: Family of missing URI grad searching for answers 10 years later 
 Wojciech Fudali – The Charley Project
Missing Person Case