The yellow of the HaleScomparso sergeant after a dinner – BBC

That evening had raised his elbow, and his friend Halex comrade. Beer, whiskey, beer yet. “We drank a lot, I collapsed in bed and when I woke up Halex was gone,” explain the evening companion to investigators. Since then, it was Saturday, July 2, a Saturday in heavy rains to Sacile and surroundings, the American sergeant Halex Hale does not know anything. He disappeared. They searched for five days by beating channels, campaigns, trails. They have heard friends, family, girlfriend, co-workers. Rescue teams have come to rely one hundred and fifty people, including divers from the Fire Brigade, dogs and even seventy countrymen. But no trace of Hale.

She left everything

What happened, then, that twenty-four military Middletown (Indiana) serving in the USAF base at Aviano in February 2015? Before heading out staggered in Sacile night, he left everything to the home of fellow soldier: car, mobile phone, documents and money. No one has seen and he has not written any messages. Even his mother, Amy Hale, knew the dinner, which was initially intended to be a party with other guests, then skipped. Ms. Amy adds that at a certain time Halex had gone out to reach another friend, from which, however, never arrived. Since Saturday night, the Prefecture has decided to suspend the research but men of Captain Michael Grigoletto, commander of the Sacile company will continue to investigate.

The survey

It will take the field even the prosecutor of Pordenone opening a case against unknown persons. “If it is not resolved we will occuparcene us too,” he announced the prosecutor Marco Martani without another word. At the moment the investigators do not perceive crime and the assumption that seems to prevail is the one incident. Next to the soldier’s home meanders a canal that ends in the river Livenza. “There may be dropped in,” the investigator speculates remembering that the night of the disappearance of the water level was high and, further, the swollen and impetuous Livenza. The tributary is then very particular, “Without holds, it is difficult to trace.” But the fifteen kilometers of seabed sieved, until the border with the Veneto, have not yielded results. The researches have mainly concentrated on rivers for one simple reason: the police had found on the bank of the canal Sacile of American beer cans.

the assumptions

then there is the hypothesis of suicide, it is not ruled out a priori, but it seems unlikely. Hale was not depressed, never gave signs of instability, he has not written or said anything in this regard. “I rule”, has confirmed his girlfriend. And then he loved his job, as she recalls Amy: “ Absolutely loves it .” Third possibility: the escape. The sergeant, who had entered the Air Force at 18 and at Aviano deals with communications of “Fighter Wing”, the flying units, had to leave this week for a new mission abroad. He would not have enjoyed the destination and his disappointment he had confided to some comrades. It is not the first time in Aviano someone runs before a mission. But it never disappears into thin air leaving everything and without telling anyone, neither the family nor the girl, as did Hale. Meanwhile in Friuli arrived Lance Hale, father of Halex, who prefers silence. For him talk his wife Amy: “ We’re just devastated .” They are desperate.

July 10, 2016 (amendment July 10, 2016 | 22:40)

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