Thanks for the support, everyone. After getting more information, we now think it's a case where the person wanted to disappear -- I'm less inclined to think the worst has happened.
The problems I mentioned have escalated in the past year more than I knew about. The situation is still tragic and painful, but not as terrifying as I thought.
The pets are taken care of -- luckily one person close to the situation is an animal lover, so she took charge of that.
Again, thanks for everyone's concern. I was feeling pretty awful when I posted yesterday.



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