Family Still Searching for Missing Mineola Woman

The family of a missing Mineola woman is at a loss to explain her disappearance more than 10 days after she was last seen.

Debra Guiliano, 53, was last seen on June 6 near her Wilson Boulevard home.

“I have no idea where she could be,” her mother Dorothy said, noting that her daughter had no friends of which to speak and did not spend time with anyone.

Guiliano reportedly suffers from bipolar disorder and is recovering from drug and alcohol problems. According to her mother, there was an incident in 2005 where her stepfather and a close friend both passed away and an “altercation” with her mother over a relationship.

“It was like everything at once all these things we assumed, otherwise nothing,” Dorothy said. “Most people didn’t know she was mentally ill because you couldn’t tell. If you’d meet her she’d be the sweetest kid going.”

Guiliano’s mother last saw her daughter on the morning of June 5 and spoke with her the following morning when Debra was on her way to a day program at the Zucker Hillside Hospital, a behavioral health center.

She knew Debra was at the house Sunday morning because the newspaper was on the kitchen able after being delivered and the front door was locked. The fans were also on downstairs, as well as lights and the living room window was opened.

“You don’t leave the house and leave the windows open, you don’t leave two fans running when you leave the house for a long time,” Dorothy said.

Her mother stated that she did not call the police right away since she was not at the house that day.

“I kept thinking she was coming home,” she said, noting that her daughter’s behavior followed a pattern of sitting on the front porch and smoking, a walk down for cigarettes or watching a ballgame at nearby Herricks Park.

Debra is on medication for her condition, but family members did not know if she took medication that day. Unfilled prescriptions from May were found in the home.

“She asked for new meds just the other day; nothing’s concrete. I have no clues, no anything,” her mother said. “She’s very high functional, but if she’s not taking her meds...I don’t know if she’s taking her meds.”

There were also no other items missing and no money was taken out of the bank accounts.

“Everything that we’ve double-checked has come up negative,” her mother said. “I don’t really have an answer for anything. If she’s out having a good time and things, great, let me know.”

Debra had moved back in to the Wilson Boulevard home from Port Washington in order to take care of her mother after Dorothy had heart surgery in March 2012.

“What’s troubling though is we don’t know if she had been talking to anybody because she wasn’t telling us,” said Rich Hoag, who is married to Debra’s sister, Donna. “So if there is another person involved, we’re really unaware and sometimes she just hooks up with strangers.”

However, the family states that there had been no strange persons coming to the door recently.

“There was no sign to show she was going to do something like this,” Hoag said. “Sometimes she was being a little quiet and not talking to her [sister] and I at times, but her mother was always communicating with, sometimes it always wasn’t a good thing, but this one is throwing us for a curve.”

Debra also reportedly did not use the computer or other electronic devices besides a cell phone, according to her family, who attributed the aversion to her condition.

“She was keeping us very, very out of anything that she herself was doing, she just wasn’t talking in that regard,” Hoag said.

“There’s no clue, we don’t have anything, that’s what’s making it so difficult,” her mother said. “What bothers me most is the house looked like somebody was coming back.”

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