South Carolina man with dementia goes MISSING in Mexico during Royal Caribbean cruise after wandering off and hopping into a taxi: Vanished American, 66, has still not been found after three days

A South Carolina family is desperate for answers after their 66-year-old father recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia wandered off during a Royal Caribbean cruise with his wife.

Edmond Bradley Solomon III, who suffers from the degenerative disorder, was last seen on Wednesday when the cruise he was on with his wife, Mimi, made a stop at Cozumel, Mexico.

The pair went to the terminal's restroom after the ship, the Icon of the Seas, was docked, but since then, Solomon has not been seen or heard from by his family. 

'When my stepmom, Mimi, came out, he wasn’t there,' Solomon's daughter Savannah Miller told WCBD in an emotional interview.

'She thought he might still be in the bathroom so she waited for him for a few minutes. He didn’t come out.'

Edmond Bradley Solomon III, 66, was recently diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia before his Caribbean cruise

He disappeared after he and his wife exited the Royal Caribbean cruise ship that had docked in Cozumel, Mexico, on Wednesday

Despite a family member checking in on him, he was nowhere to be seen in the bathroom. At that point, Miller says, his family knew her father was 'lost.'

The only reported sighting of him came from a cab driver who said he was hailed by the missing American on the Isla de la Pasión road.

Municipal authorities say a taxi driver, responding to an alert about Solomon, said he was flagged down by the lost American around 2:30 pm, drove him to a road with beach access and was paid by Solomon with a wrist watch because he said he had no money, according to Mexico News Daily.

Before his vanishing, Solomon was wearing was a white T-shirt, grey shorts and dark sunglasses.

Miller told WCBD that his disorder - which is behavioral and doesn't affect his memory - makes him say 'odd things' and behave 'erratically — or oddly — because he’s just doing what he knows how to do'

'He can’t process the same way you or I can,' Miller added of her father, a former critical care nurse at Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston.

Solomon and his wife went to the terminal's restroom after the ship was docked but since then, he has not been seen or heard from by his family - including daughter Savannah who is helping raise the alarm

A GoFundMe page has also been set up to help with the search after the family contacted the Mexico City's U.S. Embassy and the consulate.

The fundraiser has already raised more than $15,000 toward its $5,000 goal as of Saturday evening.

'The local military is actively searching. Mimi is at a hotel in Mexico. There are many unknowns right now and we want to help relieve any upcoming financial burdens,' organizer Marissa Aldridge wrote. 

A tearful Miller, who advocated that the 'best thing that anyone can do is just spread the word,' said she would be heading down to Cozumel to join the search with Mimi, who has remained in the area.

'I’m really looking forward to having Mimi by my side and being able to give my dad a hug again,' Miller said.