Specialty K9 Search and Recovery

10/31/2026

Team members had another amazing day of training at CUE Center for Missing Persons 2026 HRD Specialty Training Seminar. K9's are resting up for day 3

10/30/2026

Team members are attending the CUE Center For Missing Persons 2026 HRD Specialty Training Seminar this week. Training with other teams and their resources make a well rounded search dog. Handlers and dogs gain valuable experience training outside their regular training areas.

10/28/2026

10/28/2026

10/28/2026

The search comes nearly a year after Rutgers student Mortimer Wortman vanished in Jackson Township in November 2025.

10/25/2026

10/20/2026

It is with great sorrow that we announce the passing of retired HRD K9 Elsa. Thank you for your years of service, Elsa.

10/19/2026

Raymond “Ray” Emilo LoCascio had been fitted for a tuxedo the day he disappeared. The 62-year-old father was excited to walk his daughter down the aisle at her October wedding. But on July 8, 2014, Ray vanished from Monroe, New York, leaving his family searching for answers.

Ray was last seen at approximately 2:30 p.m., dropping his wife, Barbara, off at work in a rented 2006 Ford Ta**us. He was supposed to head to his job as a bank courier in Peekskill. Instead, he was reportedly spotted around 3:30 p.m. at the Silver Mine Lake parking area on Seven Lakes Drive, in the opposite direction from where he should have been traveling. He briefly spoke with Barbara by phone at 3:45 p.m., but never arrived at work.

Two days later, the rental car was found abandoned in the Turkey Hill parking lot off Route 6 in Harriman State Park in Woodbury, New York. The doors were locked, but the keys were missing. Search crews combed the surrounding woods without finding any trace of him.

Ray’s health made his disappearance especially concerning. He had diabetes and heart disease, and two stents had been implanted in his heart the previous month. His medication was left at home. Barbara said he had been awake since 2 a.m. and had not eaten that day, raising concerns that he may have become disoriented. Although the couple faced financial difficulties, including foreclosure, Barbara did not believe those struggles explained his disappearance. Ray had also been planning to apply for another job.

At the time, Ray was described as a white man with blue eyes and graying brown hair, standing 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighing between 190 and 220 pounds. He wears glasses and was last seen wearing a navy blue polo shirt with a “BeavEx” logo, denim shorts, tan loafers, and possibly a black or blue baseball cap.

A father looking forward to his daughter’s wedding never made it home. His family deserves to know what happened. Anyone with information about Raymond “Ray” LoCascio’s disappearance is asked to contact the Cornwall Police Department at 845-534-8100 or New York State Police at 845-457-1388. Information can also be emailed to [email protected]. Even the smallest detail could help bring answers.

06/19/2026

Please join us in wishing retired HRD K9, Elsa, a very happy 13th birthday