Still desperate to find her missing boyfriend, Bommarito went out to search. Meanwhile, Chesterfield Police had made the disturbing discovery that the person captured on a Detroit gas station surveillance camera making those unusual withdrawals from Matt’s account was not the missing 21-year-old. Frustrated, the man eventually ran off, leaving her behind. In a move that investigators would later credit with saving her life, Maynard refused and sat firmly down on the floor of the bank. The teller quickly handed over what money she had, but the gunman didn’t want to leave without Maynard and demanded she come with him or he’d kill her. “He said, ‘Give me $50,000 or I’ll kill her.’” “I handed them my check and then as soon as I set the check on the counter, I felt a gun to the back of my head,” Maynard recalled to "Dateline" correspondent Dennis Murphy. She tried to ignore the man and went directly to the teller’s window, but the guy followed her inside. As she entered the Harrison Township bank, she noticed a guy with sunglasses was watching her. That same day, in another suburb of Detroit, 19-year-old Sarah Maynard was having her own harrowing day after going to the bank to cash her first paycheck from a dog kennel where she worked. The next day his parents reported Matt missing to the Chesterfield Police. “Why would Matt take out all of his money out of his account?”Īlthough she was hoping the transactions had been made by her son, it just didn’t sound like something he would do.
“What was Matt doing at 7 Mile in Detroit?” she asked. The last transactions on his account were three $100 withdrawals from an ATM on Detroit’s famed 7 Mile, an area plagued by crime and gangs. She was immediately troubled by what she found. His mother, who had a background in banking, did her own sleuthing by logging into Matt’s bank account. “I wanted to know like maybe if he had gotten into a car accident, maybe he got a flat tire on the side of the road, maybe he’s in a ditch,” she said. By Sunday night, Bommarito began calling local hospitals and police stations. Matt’s interests had expanded to also include his new girlfriend shortly before he disappeared.Įveryone - including Bommarito, his parents, and his bandmates - agreed it was unlike the 21-year-old to take off without any explanation.
“Creating music was what he was happiest with,” Bob Landry recalled of the time Matt spent practicing with his bandmates. As the youngest of five children, he was still living with his parents, Doreen and Bob Landry, in their Chesterfield, Michigan home when he disappeared. Those who knew Matt described him as a good-hearted, quiet guy who loved to make his friends laugh. It would take a seemingly unrelated string of crimes in the days that followed for investigators to piece together what happened to the promising musician. That Sunday morning in August 2009, Matt had drawn a hot bath for girlfriend, Francesca Bommarito, made her a cup of tea, and brought her a thermometer before asking Bommarito if he could get her any fast food, according to “Dateline: Secrets Uncovered,” airing Wednesdays at 8/7c on Oxygen.īommarito, a waitress who shared Matt’s love of music, declined the offer and instead decided to take a short nap while Landry left to run errands.īut Bommarito’s doting boyfriend never returned. Watch Dateline: Secrets Uncovered on Oxygen Wednesdays at 8/7c.
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