Army Veteran David Folsom Found Dead

METRO DETROIT, MI — Tragedy has struck a metropolitan Detroit family searching for a missing military veteran. The body of David Folsom was found Wednesday, according to multiple media reports. The Waterford Township man served for more than two decades in the Army National Guard, including numerous overseas assignments.

Folsom, 54, was last seen in the early morning hours of July 12. Belinda Mirovsky-Folsom told Patch that her husband had been battling post-traumatic stress disorder for years and that over the past few months his sleep had badly deteriorated. He got up at about 3:30 a.m. that morning after another sleepless night, but when she woke up, Folsom was gone.

An intensive search followed. Numerous law enforcement agencies and volunteers combined efforts to find Folsom. WJBK-TV reported that Folsom’s body was found near the area of Cooley Lake and Hiller roads. (For more local news, click here to sign up for real-time news alerts and newsletters from Rochester Patch, click here to find your local Michigan Patch. Also, follow us on Facebook, and if you have an iPhone, click here to get the free Patch iPhone app.)

Mirovsky-Folsom said her husband’s most recent deployment was in Afghanistan in 2011. But he had also spent time Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in his long tenure with the Army National Guard. He was still active and served out of the Guard’s Taylor Armory.

Folsom had also gone missing for about nine hours earlier this month. Belinda said he couldn’t remember where he had gone or when he returned home. When he left on July 12, he didn’t take his phone, credit cards or his truck, she said.

“He doesn’t want to be found right now,” Mirovsky-Folsom told Patch in an interview earlier this week. “It appears he’s trying to isolate himself.”

Folsom had recently been seeing a counselor for his PTSD. He was also wrestling with what to do about his career in sales, Mirovsky-Folsom said.

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