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He was just outgoing and

he was homeless at the time when I met him and he was so smart, he would do the New York Times Crossword puzzle

and half an hour or 45 minutes. He just didn't sit in with normal 9-5 working type things,

so he traveled around a lot and made friends with people.

I mean, we were really good friends and I constantly think all he's going to, for the first couple of years,

he's going to call me, he's going to be a term in weed up in the mountains of California or something.

He got a free ride to Mexico, you know, something just crazy, but a lot of that stuff has kind of

gone out the window for me. The people that last saw him should be suspects, I guess, in my mind.

Something bad happened, like something's wrong, and this is, I think when I talked to them at that point,

I had been four or five months and I'm like, nobody's seen that. His parents are worried.

I was a little frantic at the time. I'm like, oh, they're in spray-luminol.

I feel like something bad happened there, and they moved out shortly after that too, and I said to the cops,

you don't think that's strange. And this will at least could have been up. I said, well, did you talk to the landlord?

I said, I feel like I'm going more work than you guys. And that wasn't rude.

In the fall of 2014, 44-year-old Matthew Hulse was struggling with an addiction to alcohol and homelessness.

He was taking odd jobs, fixing up things he found in the trash, and living with two men.

We only know by their first names. Matt didn't always keep in touch with his friends and family.

But when months had gone by with no communication, they started to worry. Matt had disappeared, and since some time had gone by,

it was very difficult to find the puzzle pieces to help them solve this mystery.

I'm Marissa, and from Wondery, this is episode 205 of The Vanished. Matthew Hulse's Story.

Matthew Hulse's Story.

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