Costa Rican Man Says He's Seen Gimelfarb
By BJ LUTZ
Within the last day or two, a Costa Rican
man has told authorities there that he's
twice seen a dirty, bearded David Gimelfarb.
Gimelfarb is the Chicago doctoral student
who went missing in the Costa Rican jungle
almost a month and a half ago.
The man lives outside the Rincon de Vieja
National Park, Gimelfarb's friend Christine
Shaw told NBC Chicago, and says that on both
occasions, Gimelfarb appeared frightened and
ran away.
That park is where Gimelfarb set off on a
solo trip last month.
If the man who was seen is Gimelfarb, his
strange behavior could be "due to head
trauma, infection or poor blood chemistry
due to inadequate nutrition and
dehydration," Shaw wrote in a post to the
"Help Find David Gimelfarb" group on
Facebook.
The Costa Rican man looked at a photo of
Gimelfarb and identified him as the man he'd
seen near the park. He apparently told
authorities that the man he saw wasn't
wearing his glasses, which Shaw said
wouldn't be at all unusual.
The local Costa Rican police are taking the
sighting seriously, Shaw said, but they need
help. The local police dogs aren't trained
to track a specific person and are only able
to track scents for a few hours.
They need trained bloodhounds, which can
track a specific individual for a great
period of time, but there are non in the
country.
Shaw said the FBI has trained bloodhounds,
but so far searchers haven't been able to
secure their help.
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