Father mysteriously goes missing, car found in state park

CORNWALL, N.Y. (WABC) -- A man vanished and now his family is torn apart.

Raymond Lacascio's car was found locked and abandoned in one of New York's biggest state parks just a month before his daughter will be married.

"I wouldn't show him a picture of my dress. I wanted him to see it that day," said Sue Lacascio, Raymond's daughter.

She's a bride-to-be with no doting father to give her away on October 18th. That's just not right.

"Today it hit me that he won't share this with me," said Barbara Lacascio, Raymond's wife.

The last thing 62-year-old Raymond Lacascio discussed with his daughter Sue, is that he had been fitted for his tux. Hours later, he was nowhere to be found.

"I got a call from his office, and they said you know, 'Have you heard from him?' and I knew right away something was wrong," Barbara Lacascio said.

That was July 8th. The bank courier dropped off his wife in Monroe, New York and then set out to work, but never made it.

Two days later, the car he was driving, a Ford Taurus, was found with the doors locked at a rest area in Harriman State Park.

"It is possible he was disoriented, he didn't feel good, if he panicked because of time, you know whether that put him into a diabetic shock," Sue Lacascio said.

Barbara Lacascio knows the more time passes the possibility is slim that her husband will ever walk through their front door again. But that doesn't stop her from thinking that he still might.

"Sometimes I kind of fantasize that he will, or that someone from some hospital will call us and say, 'Look we have this John Doe,'" Barbara Lacascio said.

"It's really hard to come home and not have him here, we were his everything, he's my dad, he's my hero," said Victoria Lacascio, Raymond's daughter.

Their home of 25 years, they now have to leave in two weeks. After he disappeared, it went into foreclosure and has since been sold. But more important to this family is finding out what happened to him.

"It's a mystery to me. But I do know in my heart, that he never would have committed suicide, especially at this time," Barbara Lacascio said.