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By Steve Huff in missing persons
Wednesday, Oct. 29 2008 @ 9:38AM

walshes.jpgLeah Walsh, age 29, has been missing since Monday morning. Walsh's employer reported the teacher missing that morning, and then her father found her abandoned vehicle by a highway. It looked as if Leah, who teaches autistic kids at the School for Language and Communication Development in Glen Cove, had had a flat tire.

Leah was having problems in her marriage to William Walsh, who made what the New York Daily News aptly described as a "somewhat bizarre plea" yesterday for his wife to come home. Walsh said, "You can have my cars. You can have everything [...] I just want my wife back."

A friend of Leah's told the same paper that she'd been sending him text messages. Lucas Bean said that Leah "was telling me that things are not going to work out with her and her husband and she had to tell me something very important, but she needed to wait 'til she got out of the car with him." Bean continued, saying that Leah was in the car with her husband as she was sending out text messages. "That was Saturday around 7 p.m.," said Bean, "They were in a huge fight."

Police began stopping Long Island commuters early Wednesday to hand out fliers and look for possible witnesses who could aid in the search for Leah Walsh.

According to police in Nassau County, NY, they are looking into Leah's disappearance as a missing person investigation. They do not believe there was an abduction.

It's a little too early to read between the lines of that statement, but it is hard to not wonder what's really going on here.

As for William Walsh, he spoke with police Tuesday night until almost 9 p.m. He didn't speak with reporters when he left the police station in Levittown last night.

[NYDN and Newsday.com.]