David Luborsky | 33 | Missing Ottawa | November 2, 2010

[Concerned]

Missing man expecting payout
By TONY SPEARS, OTTAWA SUN
Last Updated: December 16, 2010 10:57pm

When he vanished, David Luborsky was one signature away from thousands of dollars.

Luborsky, 33, was going to use the cash to see his two-year-old son Wyatt.

His ex didn’t want him to see Wyatt, and Gatineau’s child welfare department had made the mentally ill but high-functioning man undergo psychological tests before he could take action to get him back.

He would have hired a lawyer with his share of a multi-million-dollar class-action settlement with a pharmaceutical firm whose drug sent him into a four-day coma.

“He was one signature away,” said his mother Sue Kearns from her Windsor home. “His life was looking a little brighter.”

Luborsky, who also goes by David Kearns, last spoke to his Ottawa family on Nov. 2. He sounded extremely agitated. Two days later, his home — Parklane Residence on Merivale Rd. — reported him missing.

Luborsky took nothing with him, not even a toothbrush.

And he stopped phoning his mother.

“He’s always on the phone,” Kearns said. “He’s just a social guy.”

She also worries because Luborsky’s diabetic and needs insulin.

Luborsky may be wearing a navy-blue Tommy Hilfiger jacket with beige piping and Harley-Davidson boots.

Anyone with information about Luborsky should call police at 613-236-1222, ext. 3726.

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2010/12/16/16584041.html

[Mysticmusicgurl]

He would have hired a lawyer with his share of a multi-million-dollar class-action settlement with a pharmaceutical firm whose drug sent him into a four-day coma.

Could it be The Pharmaceutical firm that hired somebody to make him go away? It sounds like they had a lot of money to lose. Just my thought's as soon as I read this.

I wonder has there been threats made against him for seeking a lawyer and fighting this company?

[kathybarnes]

i saw a new-looking poster up for him recently in my local grocery store. still no news i guess!

here is a link for his police file: http://www.missingadults.ca/viewMAcase.php?case=ON-MM-2010-11-01381

and a fairly recent article:
http://m.ottawasun.com/2012/04/09/mom-waiting-for-call-from-missing-man

Mom waiting for call from missing man
Danielle Bell
Monday, April 09, 2012, 9:05 PM

David Luborsky stares out from a missing person poster a block from the residence where he was last seen. Family have been putting up posters near Merivale Rd. and Kirkwood Ave. hoping for tips. Luborsky, who has mental health problems, was reported missing from the Merivale Rd. home Nov. 4. Nov. 17, 2010. (Tony Spears/Ottawa Sun)
For Sue Kearns, it is the agony of not knowing whether her missing son is dead or alive that kills her.
David Luborsky, a young father who regularly phoned his mom, vanished without a trace in Ottawa in November 2010.
He would celebrate his 35th birthday on April 26.
Kearns said her heart still skips a beat when the phone rings, wondering if it will be her son.
But more than a year after Luborsky disappeared, that call has never come, despite Kearns hiring a private investigator and offering a reward.
“My son would call me, I know my son. I’m just waiting for him to call,” said Kearns from her Windsor home on Easter Monday. “It’s the not knowing. You cannot explain how I feel. Empty.”
The Kearns are one of several families in Ottawa and hundreds across the province living with uncertainty over the fate of their loved ones.
Luborsky — who also goes by David Kearns — is schizophrenic and visited the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre on a regular basis, where he played basketball.
Shortly before he disappeared, he told friends around the Parklane Residence that he was about to come into a large sum of money.
Luborsky was in the process of signing documens to entitle him to be part of a multi-million-dollar class-action settlement against pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. The company was accused of not properly advising Zyprexa users of dangerous side effects that caused Luborsky to lapse into a four-day coma a decade ago. He was a signature away from thousands of dollars.
His Ottawa family last heard from Luborsky on Nov. 2, 2010.
Two days later, staff at his Merivale Rd. home reported him missing.
Ottawa police reported no activity in the fall and Kearns has heard nothing since.
A private investigator hired by the family also turned up no trace of Luborsky’s location.
Kearns believes her son may have suffered a psychotic break, but that doesn’t make the uncertainty any easier.
Reports of found remains surface from time to time, worrying Kearns, although she clings to the hope no news is good news.
“It’s the most bizarre thing that’s ever happened to me,” said Kearns. “It’s heartbreaking. It’s affecting everyone. Really, we just want him back.”