After a 57-year-old man escaped from Heywood Hospital on Halloween — a disappearance his loved ones say was caused by a lapse in care — a Westminster family is pleading for help in the search.

But as days have stretched into weeks without answers, the family has grown frustrated with law enforcement’s progress.

They’ve begun to organize search parties, hired a private investigator with aid from a GoFundMe fundraiser and are calling on the public for information — hoping someone, somewhere, can help bring their husband and father home safely.

Leonard J. Mercury, 57, is a Black man, is 6 feet tall and weighs 195 pounds, according to the Gardner Police Department .

Mercury was last seen leaving Heywood Hospital in Gardner at 2 a.m. on Oct. 31, wearing hospital clothing and no shoes. H

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