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A CHILLING voicemail from a man that has been missing for almost 20 years has been shared after he was reportedly feuding with a love rival on the day he vanished.
William “Billy” Smolinski, 31, from Waterbury, Connecticut was last seen by his neighbor on August 24, 2004.
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Days before, he had an argument with his girlfriend, Madeleine Gleason, who was 16 years older than him and had five kids from other marriages.
The pair met while they were school bus drivers for B & B Transportation based near Bethany and later started dating.
“I don’t know how the hell he came up with this girl, boy, I’ll tell you,” says William Smolinski Sr. told Newsweek in 2014. “We weren’t too crazy about her.”
Around this time, Gleason was grieving the loss of her daughter, Krystal Rapuano, who died by suicide and Smolinski got out of a long relationship a short while before.
However, their relationship turned sour when Smolinski found out that Gleason was talking to the married owner of a school bus company, Chris Sorensen.
Gleason is believed to have had an affair with Sorensen.
Smolinski and Gleason set out on August 21, 2004, for a weekend trip to West Palm Beach, Florida, where Gelason’s son, Thomas Karpiuk Jr., worked in security.
One day into the trip, Smolinski reportedly caught Gleason talking to Sorensen on the phone in the bathroom.
Later on at the beach, Smolinski tried to take her phone and she reportedly screamed for the police.
They returned home to Connecticut late that night.
In the early hours of August 24, the day Smolinski disappeared, he went to Gleason’s and climbed up to her second-floor window.
After she let him in, she says they argued over getting back together – he wanted to rekindle things, but she didn’t. He then left.
The day he vanished, Smolinski made three calls to Sorensen.
After hanging up without leaving a message on the first two calls, Smolinski left a haunting warning on the last call – “watch your back.”
Smolinski went to see his neighbor Laroi Henley before he vanished.
He told him about his breakup with Gleason and “asked me if I would watch his dog because he was going to go up north for a couple of days,” according to a statement Henley gave the Waterbury Police Department a year later.
But no one ever saw him again.
