article_snippet.sent: John Daniel Tohill, 37, was last heard from by family in 2005 after A New Zealand man left Nelson on the Tasman bay to travel north.
article_snippet.sent: John Daniel Tohill, 37, made contact with John this week for the first time since 2005 .
article_snippet.sent: Over the years John has hired investigators and police, but because John was an adult and had disappeared without notice before there was little incentive for police to appeal to the public for information.
article_snippet.sent: his family learned that John had never left the country, had no savings and did not possess a driver's licence.
highlights_snippet.sent: John Daniel Tohill, 37, was last heard from by John Daniel Tohill family in 2005 .
  