Every day for almost two years, Mirna Dotzler has dialed her husband’s cellphone, hoping against reason that this time he might answer.

The call always goes to voicemail. She still listens, she says, just to hear his voice.

Michael Dotzler, 59, vanished on Jan. 17, 2024. No one — not his family, not his closest friends, not the investigators now studying his case — has seen or heard from him since.

The only sign of him that day came from his car, discovered the next morning at the Point Lookout marina. Inside were no keys, no wallet, no phone. There was no note. No hint of where he might have gone or why.

WHAT NEWSDAY FOUND

New York State court officer Michael Dotzler has been missing since Jan. 17, 2024.

The 9/11 responder had been diagnosed with cancer, which his family said he w

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