Possible Victims: Illinois

[SeriouslySearching]

1) Jesse Ross 20 yrs. Chicago, IL (from Belton, MO)

Missing- 11/21/06

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44888&highlight=jesse+ross

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/12/112106-jesse-ross-20-chicago-il.html

2) Matthew Soumakis 31yrs. Chicago, IL (from East LongMeadow, MA)

Missing- 12/5/05

Found- 12/20/05, Chicago River near Halsted and Division Streets near Goose Island

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33374&highlight=Matthew+Soumakis

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51744&highlight=Matthew+Soumakis

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2005/12/120606-matthew-soumakis-31-chicago.html

3) Glenn Leadley 23 yrs. Chicago, IL (from Portage, MI)

Missing- 02/08/03

Located- 02/23/03 Lake Michigan near Fullerton Avenue

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/11/glen-leadley-23-chicago-il.html

4) Marlon Blue 21yrs.

(No information yet)

5) Brian Welzien 21 yrs. Chicago, IL

Missing- 01/01/00

Found- 03/17/00 Lake Michigan Gary beach

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/11/brian-welzien-21-chicago-il.html

[fran]

Reference #4
Marlon Blue, age 21, Illinois (NIU student)
bar hopping with friends, dropped him off at apartment complex to visit friends.

Located, drowned, area retention pond. BAC .155.........4/17/04

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/11/041704-marlon-blue-21.html

[fran]

Trevor Hoheisel, age 27, disappeared 3/07/98, Chicago, Illinois

Located drowned, Chicago River

Last seen at a bar near his hotel. Surveilance camera to end of pier shows him alone and then he suddenly disappeared. Was he alone?

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/


Anthony Keith Klama
37 (but youthful looking), tall and thin

Disappeared without a trace 11/05/98, Palatina, Illinois

Last seen at Sprinter's Sports Bar playing darts with a stranger

http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/k/klama_anthony.html


Ryan Karcher, age 19

Missing from Oakwood, Illinois, 11/05/00

His friends dropped him off at home after a night of drinking. They left him on the living room couch. He was found 5 years later, drowned in his truck at Kickapoo State Park Pond.

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/11/ryan-katcher-19-oakwood-il.html

Albert Papandreou
Age 32, missing from Chicago Illinois, 4/12/02

Located drowned, Lake Michigan.

Last seen at Greyhound Bus Station


http://www.vanceholmes.com/court/trial_missing_students.html



Mathew Schiess, age 17
Missing from Lena, Illinois, 11/01/03

Located drowned, Pecatonica River

Last seen at a party

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2003/11/103103-matthew-schiess-17-mcconnell-il.html

[fran]

FWIW, IIRC, Jessee Ross and Matthew Soumakis stayed at the same hotel. Interesting that several of those missing were staying at a downtown hotel, they were there from out of town.


Also, Brian Welzien

http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/2006/11/brian-welzien-21-chicago-il.html

However, police called the circumstances of Welzien's disappearance suspicious,'' and one investigator has said it is ”the most perplexing case'' he has ever handled.

............snip..............

Police also wonder whether he could he have wandered the few blocks east to Lake Michigan. Crossing eight lanes of traffic on Lake Shore Drive to get to Lake Michigan would be a formidable task even for a sober person, police say, though he might have found the tunnel underneath the drive at Division Street, which is more plausible.

[Meyahna]

3. St. Paul Pioneer Press (MN) - March 13, 1998

MISSING MAN DIED OF ACCIDENTAL DROWNING A Minnesota man was drunk when he fell into the Chicago River and drowned, according to Chicago authorities.The body of Trevor Hoheisel, 27, of Blaine, was pulled from the Chicago River on Tuesday, three days after he last was seen leaving a bar. An autopsy determined his death was caused by ``drowning due to alcohol intoxication,'' a spokeswoman for the Cook County, Ill., Medical Examiner's Office said Wednesday.The death was ruled an accident....

Purchase Complete Article, of 129 words (http://nl.newsbank.com/nojavascript.html)

[MissHolmes]

This article was posted on 4/3/08. Graduate student dies in 3 feet of water:

CARBONDALE, Ill. - A coroner says a Southern Illinois University graduate student from China who was found dead in a creek on the Carbondale campus drowned. No foul play is suspected.

Thirty-one-year-old Huaijun Meng (hew-eye-juhn ming) was found fully clothed and face down shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday in the creek near Wright Hall.

Jackson County Coroner Thomas Kupferer (KOOP'-fer-er) says an autopsy shows Meng drowned in the creek, where the water was about three feet deep.

Tests to determine if drugs or alcohol were in his system are pending.

Neighbors described the student as quiet but friendly, and they say they last saw him Tuesday evening.

Meng was studying electrical and computer engineering.




http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2008/04/03/News/Coroner.Siu.Student.Found.Dead.In.Campus.Creek.Dro wned-3301692.shtml

[PMLsmom]

How about this one - Michael Jansson? http://charleyproject.org/cases/j/jansson_michael.html

[Filly]

This article was posted on 4/3/08. Graduate student dies in 3 feet of water:

CARBONDALE, Ill. - A coroner says a Southern Illinois University graduate student from China who was found dead in a creek on the Carbondale campus drowned. No foul play is suspected.

Thirty-one-year-old Huaijun Meng (hew-eye-juhn ming) was found fully clothed and face down shortly before 8 a.m. Wednesday in the creek near Wright Hall.

Jackson County Coroner Thomas Kupferer (KOOP'-fer-er) says an autopsy shows Meng drowned in the creek, where the water was about three feet deep.

Tests to determine if drugs or alcohol were in his system are pending.

Neighbors described the student as quiet but friendly, and they say they last saw him Tuesday evening.

Meng was studying electrical and computer engineering.




http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2008/04/03/News/Coroner.Siu.Student.Found.Dead.In.Campus.Creek.Dro wned-3301692.shtml

Tox reports back for Huaijun Meng. This poor man had no drugs or alcohol in his system.

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/09/11/breaking_news/doc48c96fb788950832748921.txt

[Cherish]

http://a.abcnews.com/images/US/ht_trevorboehm_081112_mn.jpg

Jacket of missing Northwestern student found
Associated Press - November 14, 2008 4:04 AM ET

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) - Authorities at Northwestern University say a university police officer has found a jacket belonging to missing freshman Trevor Boehm on some rocks along the Lake Michigan shore.

The 20-year-old Boehm was reported missing Nov. 5 when his parents arrived from Monument, Colo., for Parents' Weekend and could not find him.

The university says the jacket found Thursday morning contained Boehm's student identification card, keys, cell phone and other personal property.

After the discovery, university police contacted the Evanston Police and Fire Departments and the U.S. Coast Guard, which began a search of the area by boat and helicopter.

Boehm is described as 5-foot-10 and 145 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=9348527