Search on for missing Buffalo Grove teen

Search on for missing Buffalo Grove teen
Originally published Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007

By Nadia Malik
Daily Herald Staff Writer

Buffalo Grove police are searching for a Stevenson High School senior whose car was found Monday in Wisconsin.
Lee S. Cutler, 18, has been missing since Saturday. Police said he dropped a friend off at 9:50 a.m. that day and then didn't show up for his job at Rock America in Vernon Hills at noon.
His friends and family haven't heard from him since, which they say is out of character for Cutler.
Buffalo Grove Police Cmdr. Steve Husak said so far there is no evidence that foul play is involved.
However, the Sauk County Sheriff's Department in Wisconsin is doing an air and ground search after Cutler's gray 2007 Toyota Corolla was found near a corn field near Baraboo. The vehicle was locked and unoccupied.
"There doesn't seem to be any sort of a link," Husak said. "There's no family or friends who live in that area."
Daniel de Grazia, who is friends with the family, said Cutler's friends have started a Facebook group to get any sort of leads they can.
"He was supposed to be going to a new job that he loves," de Grazia said. "His cell phone seems to be turned off or lost or ran out of battery."
He said Cutler's voice mail is also full after his family started calling him over the weekend.
De Grazia said Cutler's friends said there was no indication that anything was going on that would make him go away.
"It's completely out of left field," he said. "No one had any inkling that he was dissatisfied or interested in taking a break."
De Grazia said Cutler seems to have taken a change of clothes with him and his parents and family still have high hopes that he can be found safely.
Anyone with information on Cutler should call the Buffalo Grove police at (847) 459-2560.