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Your neighbor has parental rights at stake here---he needs to talk to a good family law/matrimonial attorney NOW. He needs to beat her to the punch and file proceedings before she does wherever she went. You're also probably going to be dealing with a sticky question of which state's laws with repsect to grounds for divorce, division of property, custody and support and a host of other things. That is why I stressed a GOOD attorney.
I don't know Mass law, but it is entirely possible his in-laws and his wife committed a crime here, removing a child from the state where it and the father were domiciled without any judicial determination of custody rights, and without notice to the father so he could take action to have a judge issue an emergency order preventing the child's removal, pending determination of custody. A spouse cannot deprive a husband of his parental rights, and an opportunity to assert them in a court, by just packing up and moving out of the blue. Certainly, if they took his belongings, they committed a larceny. Yes, in addition to an attorney, he should contact the police.
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