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2005 Tang, Jerry 11-29-2005; San Francisco
Topic Started: Sep 30 2006, 09:02 AM (581 Views)
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Jerry Tang
MISSING Nov. 29, 2005
San Francisco

Steve Ginsberg is on the hunt. Checking out darkened alleyways, under bushes and behind Dumpsters, he's responding to another "Jerry sighting"–a police tip or an Internet clue–in hopes of locating his lifelong friend Jerry Tang, who disappeared Nov. 29, 2005. Ginsberg has spent endless hours searching homeless shelters, parking lots and under bridges for any trace of Tang, 41, a father of two and a brainy, popular partner in a high-tech start-up firm. Following a stroke three years ago, Tang had been battling seizures, as well as balance and vision problems. "We have no reason to believe Jerry is not alive," says Ginsberg, 40. "Let's say I'm skeptically optimistic."

So are local authorities, despite the failure so far of one of the most extensive searches for a missing adult in San Francisco history, an effort involving hundreds of family members, friends, police officers, mounted and bike patrols, canine units, psychics and other volunteers. The family is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to Tang's safe return. They also have posted his missing persons flyer all over central San Francisco, on Craigslist and www.findjerry.org. "His disappearance is still a mystery," says Inspector Angela Martin, the veteran SFPD missing persons officer who heads the Tang investigation. "His case is officially still open because there were multiple credible reports of seeing someone in the city who looked like a homeless, distressed version of Jerry Tang."

After the stroke, things often overwhelmed Tang, says his wife, Joyce, 40, a nurse. "Sometimes just to cross the street was stressful. But he never wanted to complain." Tang believed that his antiseizure medication, which was due to be refilled the day he vanished, was making him foggy-headed and drowsy. But without medication "his memory could be further impaired," says his neurologist Dr. Wade Smith. "It's possible he's in a state of amnesia and doesn't know how to find his way back." His brother Austin, 43, a Berkeley architectural designer, says that Tang "had too much to live up to" and wishes that if he voluntarily "checked out" because of high-stress work and financial burdens, he comes home soon. "We keep our hope up."

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