Saturday, July 7, 2012
Services for Leo
Wake Monday 1-3 & 6-9 pm McDonough Funeral Home, Highland St., Lowell.
Tuesday calling hours are 8-9am at the funeral home prior to 10 am mass at St. Anthony's Church, Central St., Lowell.
St. Joseph's Cemetery, Chelmsford.
Friday, July 6, 2012
Donations
In lieu of flowers, donations for the Coutu girls should be sent to "Coutu Family Memorial Fund" @ Jeanne D'arc Credit Union P.O Box 1238 Lowell, MA 01853.
Thank you
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Update
It's with a very heavy heart that I let you know Leo was found today deep in the woods off Fellow Lane, in Dracut. Please keep Tanya, Jackie, Rylee, Lily and his extended family in your prayers during this difficult time.
Thank you to Colleen for all of her help and to all of you who came out to volunteer and spread the word.
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
No formal search planned for July 4th
There is no formal search planned for July 4th. Enjoy the time with your families.
The Coutu family will be working with the police to figure out the next steps. We'll keep you posted.
A big thank you to all of you who have volunteered, offered support and helped spread the word.
Monday, July 2, 2012
Updates from Jackie & Colleen regarding the next steps- July 2nd
Tomorrow we are just asking if you have time to go out into your own neighborhoods and do what you can. We have nothing planned for tomorrow Tuesday the 3rd or Wednesday the 4th. We are working with the police to see where to go from here. I'll keep you all updated. Thank you so much for the support and volunteer efforts!
~Jackie
Leo's daughter
Well folks, still no word on Leo Coutu. We canvassed the Tyngsborough area over by Lake Mascuppic. A wonderful outpouring of support for Tanya, Jackie, Rylee and Lily! We are not giving up!! Please keep spreading the word and photo of Leo. A video will be on local access tv and hopefully lowellsun.com. I will be on WBZ radio with Dan Rea tonight about 10:00 pm. We are deliberating on our next step. Please keep checking facebook for more information. Again, thank you to all the volunteers who have weathered the heat and prickers and even poison ivy and sumac looking for Leo.
~Colleen
MA State Representative
Search for missing Dracut man intensifies
Lowell Sun article: Search for missing Dracut man intensifies
By Evan Lips, elips@lowellsun.com
TYNGSBORO -- The search for a Dracut man missing since last Tuesday resumed again Monday morning, this time in Tyngsboro within the neighborhood surrounding Lake Mascuppic.
Dracut state Rep. Colleen Gary joined the cause to find Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer who was last seen by his family Tuesday at their Davis Road home. Scores of volunteers have already search the Tyngsboro-Lowell-Dracut State Forest and other areas with help from local police and the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.
Gary addressed search volunteers Monday morning at the Tyngsboro Multi-Service Center, located at 180 Lakeview Ave. She said she knows Coutu through several friends and added that his family has never experienced any similar behavior from Coutu.
For more information on the search for Leo Coutu please read Tuesday's edition of the Lowell Sun or visit www.lowellsun.com.
Updated: 07/02/2012 11:30:39 AM EDT
By Evan Lips, elips@lowellsun.com
TYNGSBORO -- The search for a Dracut man missing since last Tuesday resumed again Monday morning, this time in Tyngsboro within the neighborhood surrounding Lake Mascuppic.
Dracut state Rep. Colleen Gary joined the cause to find Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer who was last seen by his family Tuesday at their Davis Road home. Scores of volunteers have already search the Tyngsboro-Lowell-Dracut State Forest and other areas with help from local police and the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council.
Gary addressed search volunteers Monday morning at the Tyngsboro Multi-Service Center, located at 180 Lakeview Ave. She said she knows Coutu through several friends and added that his family has never experienced any similar behavior from Coutu.
For more information on the search for Leo Coutu please read Tuesday's edition of the Lowell Sun or visit www.lowellsun.com.
Updated: 07/02/2012 11:30:39 AM EDT
Volunteers Needed - July 2nd
Thinking of Tanya, Jacquelyn, Rylee and Lily Coutu as they go to bed for the sixth night in a row not knowing where their husband and father, Leo Coutu is.
Thank you to all who have helped in the search to date. We will continue the search tomorrow in the East side of Tyngsborough.
Anyone available to search is welcome. We meet at the Multiservice Center parking lot, 180 Lakeview Avenue, Tyngsborough at 9:30 am. Bring water and dress appropriately. Spread the word and attached photo to all of your friends.
And please say a prayer for his safe return to his family! Thank you!
Thank you to all who have helped in the search to date. We will continue the search tomorrow in the East side of Tyngsborough.
Anyone available to search is welcome. We meet at the Multiservice Center parking lot, 180 Lakeview Avenue, Tyngsborough at 9:30 am. Bring water and dress appropriately. Spread the word and attached photo to all of your friends.
And please say a prayer for his safe return to his family! Thank you!
~Colleen Gary
MA State Representative
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Daughters' plea: Help find our dad
Lowell Sun article: Daughters' plea: Help find our dad
Dracut man missing since Tuesday
By Jennifer Myers, jmyers@lowellsun.com
DRACUT -- Tears filling her eyes, Jacquelyn Coutu, 19, stood in the parking lot of Dillon McAnespie Park Saturday afternoon pleading for anyone who has information about the disappearance of her father to call Dracut police, or for her dad to call home.
Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer, has been missing since about 5 p.m. Tuesday. His wife of 18 years, Tanya Coutu, said she and her two younger daughters, Rylee, 17 and Lily, 11, went to her sister's house at 4:30 p.m. When they returned home, Leo Coutu was gone.
Jacquelyn Coutu said it is not unusual for her father to take daily walks. He often frequents places in their neighborhood off Nashua Road such as Mike's Ice Cream and Dillon McAnespie Park. Leo Coutu is 5-feet-4-inches tall, with a slim build weighing 130 pounds with fair skin, gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue-and-white striped polo shirt, blue shorts and sneakers.
"He left that evening with nothing but his wallet," Jacquelyn Coutu said. "We believe he left on foot and there have been reports of sightings. It is very important to note my father has never done anything like this before. He has never disappeared before. This is completely out of his character. "My father is very close to my mother, sisters and I, so it is hard to believe he would purposely not be in contact with us," she added.
Leo Coutu, the son of the late Edmond "Gus" Coutu, a former Lowell city councilor and School Committee member, worked as a corrections officer for 22 years, most recently at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison in Shirley.
Saturday morning, more than two dozen volunteers assisted Dracut police in searching the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest and surrounding neighborhood for signs of Leo Coutu, but came up empty.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Dracut police at 978-957-2123.
Follow Jennifer Myers at twitter.com/juicegirl01854.
Updated: 07/01/2012 06:47:07 AM EDT
Dracut man missing since Tuesday
By Jennifer Myers, jmyers@lowellsun.com
DRACUT -- Tears filling her eyes, Jacquelyn Coutu, 19, stood in the parking lot of Dillon McAnespie Park Saturday afternoon pleading for anyone who has information about the disappearance of her father to call Dracut police, or for her dad to call home.
Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer, has been missing since about 5 p.m. Tuesday. His wife of 18 years, Tanya Coutu, said she and her two younger daughters, Rylee, 17 and Lily, 11, went to her sister's house at 4:30 p.m. When they returned home, Leo Coutu was gone.
Jacquelyn Coutu said it is not unusual for her father to take daily walks. He often frequents places in their neighborhood off Nashua Road such as Mike's Ice Cream and Dillon McAnespie Park. Leo Coutu is 5-feet-4-inches tall, with a slim build weighing 130 pounds with fair skin, gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue-and-white striped polo shirt, blue shorts and sneakers.
"He left that evening with nothing but his wallet," Jacquelyn Coutu said. "We believe he left on foot and there have been reports of sightings. It is very important to note my father has never done anything like this before. He has never disappeared before. This is completely out of his character. "My father is very close to my mother, sisters and I, so it is hard to believe he would purposely not be in contact with us," she added.
Leo Coutu, the son of the late Edmond "Gus" Coutu, a former Lowell city councilor and School Committee member, worked as a corrections officer for 22 years, most recently at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison in Shirley.
Saturday morning, more than two dozen volunteers assisted Dracut police in searching the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest and surrounding neighborhood for signs of Leo Coutu, but came up empty.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Dracut police at 978-957-2123.
Follow Jennifer Myers at twitter.com/juicegirl01854.
Updated: 07/01/2012 06:47:07 AM EDT
Volunteers Needed Monday July 2st
Volunteers needed for Monday July 2nd. Meet at the Tyngsborough Multiservice center at 9:30 am. That is on Lakeview Avenue in Tyngsboro.
From Fox25 Boston - Search Continues
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From WHDH - Search Continues
Click this link to watch the news segment on the search for Leo - WHDH Boston - Search Continues
Search for missing Dracut man continues
Lowell Sun article: Dracut police search for missing man
By John Collins, jcollins@lowellsun.com
DRACUT -- A team of Dracut and NEMLEC police officers, with the help of two K-9 units, conducted a search in the area of Davis Road and Dexter Avenue Thursday for a missing 49-year-old man who hasn't been seen by family members since Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Michael Fleury said.
Leo Coutu was reported missing to police by a relative at midnight Tuesday.
On Thursday morning, about a dozen Dracut police officers and members of the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council were seen combing the area in a concentrated attempt to locate Coutu. Coutu was described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with short, graying hair and facial stubble.
"He walks with a noticeable limp due to an injury to his left leg," said Fleury, citing a family member's description. "He was last seen at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday when he was believed to have left his residence on foot." When last seen he was wearing a navy-blue-and-white-striped polo shirt, blue shorts and multicolored sneakers, a family member reported.
Officers checked in and around the local park, pharmacy and ice-cream stand that Coutu has been known to frequent, Fleury said.
Fleury requested that any member of the public who thinks he or she may have spotted Coutu or may have information about his whereabouts to call the Dracut Police Department at 978-957-2123. Dracut police said they suspended the search at 8 p.m. due to darkness and will restart the search Friday morning.
Follow John Collins on Twitter at johncolowellsun.
Updated: 06/29/2012 06:35:59 AM EDT
By John Collins, jcollins@lowellsun.com
DRACUT -- A team of Dracut and NEMLEC police officers, with the help of two K-9 units, conducted a search in the area of Davis Road and Dexter Avenue Thursday for a missing 49-year-old man who hasn't been seen by family members since Tuesday afternoon, Lt. Michael Fleury said.
Leo Coutu was reported missing to police by a relative at midnight Tuesday.
On Thursday morning, about a dozen Dracut police officers and members of the North Eastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council were seen combing the area in a concentrated attempt to locate Coutu. Coutu was described as 5 feet, 5 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, with short, graying hair and facial stubble.
"He walks with a noticeable limp due to an injury to his left leg," said Fleury, citing a family member's description. "He was last seen at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday when he was believed to have left his residence on foot." When last seen he was wearing a navy-blue-and-white-striped polo shirt, blue shorts and multicolored sneakers, a family member reported.
Officers checked in and around the local park, pharmacy and ice-cream stand that Coutu has been known to frequent, Fleury said.
Fleury requested that any member of the public who thinks he or she may have spotted Coutu or may have information about his whereabouts to call the Dracut Police Department at 978-957-2123. Dracut police said they suspended the search at 8 p.m. due to darkness and will restart the search Friday morning.
Follow John Collins on Twitter at johncolowellsun.
Updated: 06/29/2012 06:35:59 AM EDT
Daughters plead for Dracut man's return
Lowell Sun article: Daughters plead for Dracut man's return
DRACUT -- The three daughters of a Dracut man who has been missing since Tuesday pleaded for his return during a press conference Saturday afternoon at Dillon McAnespie Park.
Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer, has been missing since about 5 p.m. Tuesday. His wife of 18 years, Tanya Coutu, said she and her two younger daughters Rylee, 17 and Lily, 11, went to her sister's house at 4:30 p.m. When they returned home, Leo Coutu was gone. Coutu's oldest daughter, 19-year-old Jacquelyn, said during the press conference that it was not unusual for her father to take walks. However, "it is very important to note my father has never done anything like this before. He has never disappeared before; this is completely out of his character," Jacqueline said. Leo Coutu is 5-feet-4-inches tall, weighing about 130 pounds with fair skin, gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue-and-white striped polo shirt, blue shorts and sneakers.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Dracut police at 978-957-2123.
Updated: 06/30/2012 05:40:24 PM EDT
DRACUT -- The three daughters of a Dracut man who has been missing since Tuesday pleaded for his return during a press conference Saturday afternoon at Dillon McAnespie Park.
Leo Coutu, a 49-year-old retired corrections officer, has been missing since about 5 p.m. Tuesday. His wife of 18 years, Tanya Coutu, said she and her two younger daughters Rylee, 17 and Lily, 11, went to her sister's house at 4:30 p.m. When they returned home, Leo Coutu was gone. Coutu's oldest daughter, 19-year-old Jacquelyn, said during the press conference that it was not unusual for her father to take walks. However, "it is very important to note my father has never done anything like this before. He has never disappeared before; this is completely out of his character," Jacqueline said. Leo Coutu is 5-feet-4-inches tall, weighing about 130 pounds with fair skin, gray hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a blue-and-white striped polo shirt, blue shorts and sneakers.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Dracut police at 978-957-2123.
Updated: 06/30/2012 05:40:24 PM EDT
Please help find Leo Coutu
Leo was last seen at home on Davis Rd in Dracut MA on Tuesday, June 26th at 5 pm. He was wearing a striped blue and white polo shirt, blue shorts and sneakers. Leo is 49 years old, 5'4" and approximately 130 lbs. He has gray hair, blue eyes and fair skin. He walks with a slight limp due to an injury to his left leg. He has his wallet on him but not house keys or a cell phone.
If you have any information please contact the Dracut police at 978-957-2123
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