St. Louis Alderman Joseph Vaccaro has not seen Gary Schaefer for about three years and began searching for his old pal as the city continues to grapple with a homelessness problem.
“All of a sudden I’m thinking about him,” Vaccaro told The Post. “I got too busy, and I don’t know if he’s dead, alive … I don’t think he’d leave the area.”
Years ago, Vaccaro promised Schaefer’s mother that he’d watch out for her “defiant” son.
After her death, he transferred her cash and bonds totaling nearly a million dollars to an account in Schaefer’s name. Schaefer also has a pension from his time working for the St. Louis Fire Department.
But Schaefer didn’t want any part of the money, preferring to live near a creek in Maplewood, Missouri.
“He didn’t want to conform to any rules,” Vaccaro said.
Over the last eight years that Schaefer has lived on the streets, Vaccaro sometimes went by the creek to catch up. He’d also host the vagrant at his home and “he would smell pretty bad, permeate everything, but I liked him.”
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