Maybe he swam away

Just got a call from a detective. Apparently, one of my school friends is an official missing person, which I guess would explain why he hasn’t responded to my emails lately. It was weird to be giving my hesitant opinion about the life and psychology of someone I’ve only known a few months; I kept prefacing everything with “Let me stress that I hardly know anything about him and for all I know everything he ever said to me was a lie, so I am not a good source for this…” I guess in that case I should have just clammed up, but you want to do what you can in a case like this don’t you? I hate to think anything’s happened to him; the detective seems to be hoping he’s just voluntarily gone AWOL for a while.