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I live in Massachusetts and started following these these two cases when they were still disappearances, and I've always thought they really might be connected to the "river killer" cases. There's no real rational explanation for how these two young men ended up where they did - one in the Charles River, the other in the Boston Harbor. The man who was discovered in the Boston Harbor years later was staying at a hotel with his girlfriend and went outside for a smoke in the early morning hours after a late night out in the city.

Gene Losik

http://www.wickedlocal.com/northandover/news/x999952887/Body-of-missing-NAHS-grad-found#axzz1SDHlGttj

and here were some threads on his disappearance and recovery:

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96425&highlight=Losik

http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96338&highlight=Losik

Also, William Hurley, who disappeared after a Bruins game in Boston just 4 months before Gene Losik, and was waiting for a ride home from his girlfriend:

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/body_of_william_hurley_of_quin.html

Both men were in the middle of doing normal mundane things - going outside for a smoke, waiting for a ride home from a hockey game - when they disappeared. They'd each had alcohol that night but neither appeared impaired to people that were with them. IMO there is no rational explanation for how they ended up in the water - no way they could have accidentally fallen in - Hurley disappeared in October, when the nights in Boston start getting cold, and Losik in February, when it would have been undoubtedly frigid at that hour.



http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96338&highlight=Losik
 
posting this missing college student (Franco Garcia) here jik

http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/...ent-Franco-Garcia-finds-nothing#axzz1ngY1KiSB

Garcia, 21, was last seen at about 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. Investigators said Garcia was out with friends drinking inside Mary Ann's Bar on Beacon Street in Brighton.
Garcia’s family said since then, he has not attended classes or shown up for work at CVS in Waltham. His car remains parked on campus.
A search of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir by a state police helicopter did not turn up any results on Sunday. Investigators said the last ping on Garcia's cellphone came from the area.
“The last activity on the cellphone was a ping right in this location at about 1:17 a.m. on the 22nd,” said Newton Police Lt. Bruce Apotheker. “We’ve checked his ATM card, any sort of activity like that and there’s nothing.


Read more: Scan of reservoir for missing Boston College student Franco Garcia finds nothing - Allston-Brighton, MA - Allston/Brighton TAB http://www.wickedlocal.com/allston/...ent-Franco-Garcia-finds-nothing#ixzz1ngYZM5yr
 
I have followed the deaths of male college students/river deaths for a long time but Franco's death has hit hard. My son attends MIT in Cambridge (also a clarinet player) and his residence is by the river so I constantly worry about him.

Deep condolences go out to Franco's family and friends.. May he rest in peace..

The first link has news video of the discovery of his body and the second link has photos.. The article is the same as the one posted above...


http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/local/body-found-in-chestnut-hill-reservoir-20120411

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/artic...issing-Mass-student-3473973.php#photo-2804632
 
The location of this crime and the circumstances made me wonder if he could be a victim:
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He's older than many of the victims in this case, but he looks fairly young.
 
I live about 6 blocks from where Garcia was found. I was able to give my condolences/thoughts and prayers to his poor parents at a vigil outside the bar he was last seen at. I know this area pretty well and I still can't conceive of how he ended up in the Reservoir by his own volition - he was seen on surveillance camera walking purposefully and not seeming impaired at all, up a busy street next to the reservoir, with no signs of drunkenness. IMO you'd have to be really drunk and staggering to fall into the reservoir. Furthermore, it's not directly next to the street he was walking down - you have to take a dirt pathway into the woods and to the reservoir. I don't know why he would think of walking there at night when you could just stay on a main, well-lit road like Chestnut Hill Ave to get back to campus, which is presumably where he was going. Maybe a BC/former BC/Chestnut Hill resident can shed light on this - do kids frequently walk on the Res. path back to campus? it just wouldn't seem safe to me, especially by yourself. That's why I think his case, Gene Losik's, and William Hurley's all seem related to this river killer to me - as a native Bostonian, I just can't conceive of how they would end up in the bodies of water that they ended up in willingly - I've walked Boston at night plenty of times and these are not waterways that you can just slip and fall into easily, especially if you're in a city and can get to where you're going on a well-lit street. None of these men were visibly drunk, and none of them to me had a reason for walking down to the water - Hurley was waiting for a ride home; Losik went outside his hotel to smoke a cigarette; Garcia was walking home from a bar. It just makes no sense.
 
hurley's disappearance/death is one of the cases that led me to this site... i don't know much about losik (other than the parallels made in the hurley thread) and garcia's case certainly seems suspect to me, but hurley's i refuse to accept as accidental drowning. eevery time i am at the garden, i think of that case and how no one waiting for a ride would be anywhere remotely near a place he could just fall into the water and drown in slow moving/still waters.
 
I live about 6 blocks from where Garcia was found. I was able to give my condolences/thoughts and prayers to his poor parents at a vigil outside the bar he was last seen at. I know this area pretty well and I still can't conceive of how he ended up in the Reservoir by his own volition - he was seen on surveillance camera walking purposefully and not seeming impaired at all, up a busy street next to the reservoir, with no signs of drunkenness. IMO you'd have to be really drunk and staggering to fall into the reservoir. Furthermore, it's not directly next to the street he was walking down - you have to take a dirt pathway into the woods and to the reservoir. I don't know why he would think of walking there at night when you could just stay on a main, well-lit road like Chestnut Hill Ave to get back to campus, which is presumably where he was going. Maybe a BC/former BC/Chestnut Hill resident can shed light on this - do kids frequently walk on the Res. path back to campus? it just wouldn't seem safe to me, especially by yourself. That's why I think his case, Gene Losik's, and William Hurley's all seem related to this river killer to me - as a native Bostonian, I just can't conceive of how they would end up in the bodies of water that they ended up in willingly - I've walked Boston at night plenty of times and these are not waterways that you can just slip and fall into easily, especially if you're in a city and can get to where you're going on a well-lit street. None of these men were visibly drunk, and none of them to me had a reason for walking down to the water - Hurley was waiting for a ride home; Losik went outside his hotel to smoke a cigarette; Garcia was walking home from a bar. It just makes no sense.

I used to live a block from the resevoir, and was shocked when I saw this case on the news. A roommate of mine even worked at the bar Garcia was at that night. I remember immediatley thinking "smiley face killer" when I heard the story. I'm wondering if anyone has searched the area for a smiley face graffitti at all. I'm tempted myself to walk the track around the resevoir and look, but I don't live near there anymore. There are many walls and old buildings along the track that contain graffitti.
 
Dustin Willis, 26, Boston, MA
Missing: 03/16/07
Last seen: 11 PM Black Rose Pub near Quincy Market
Recovered: 03/21/07
Location: found in 22 feet of water off Long Wharf

John Pike, 23 Fairhaven, MA
Missing: 06/02/07
Last seen: Saturday 3 AM at a late night party, stepped outside
Recovered: 06/03/07
Location: body was discovered in Buzzard's Bay

William Hurley, 24, Boston
Missing: 10/08/09
Last seen: Bruins game at the TD Garden 99 Nashua Street
Recovered: 10/14/09
Location: body found in the Charles River near 200 Nashua St.

Eugene Losik, 26, Boston
Missing: 02/20/10
Last seen: 2:24 AM leaving the back entrance of the Marriott Long Wharf hotel without a jacket for a cigarette
Recovered: 11/08/10
Location: body found near Rowes Wharf in the Boston Harbor

Gregory Hart, 23, Dedham MA
Missing: 3/14/10
Last seen: 1:40 AM Red Room Tavern at One Fox Place in Providence
Recovered: 3/16/10
Location: body found three-quarters of a mile from where last been seen. Body was found washed up against a tree limb in Woonasqatucket River in Providence.
Family offers $20,000 reward for information

David Mark, 24, Albany, NY
Missing: 3/02/11
Last seen: Boston Beer Works near Fenway Park
Recovered: 3/08/11
Location: body found in the Chelsea River downstream from the Andrew McArdle Bridge, 15 feet from shore.

Alex Grant, 19, Boston College student
Missing: 3/05/11
Last seen: at a party with over 300 people on Church St.,Saratoga Springs, NY. He stayed about a half an hour.
Recovered: 3/08/11
Location: submerged in about four feet of water in Putnam Creek, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Franco Garcia, 21, Boston College
Missing: 2/21/12
Last seen: Mary Ann’s Bar in Cleveland Circle at 11:27 PM he texted a reminder: “Don’t leave without me” he left keys and jacket in the bar
Recovered: 4/11/12
Location: body found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir

Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, Harvard Business School student
Missing: 05/20/12
Last seen: Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant, 72 Commercial Street, Portland, Me. He was asked to leave around 11:30 PM because of bad behavior, not drunkenness. Friends last spoke to him by cell at 12:15, at 12:54 AM his phone stopped sending signals.
Recovered: 05/22/12
Location: Portland Harbor, Portland, ME

Jonathan Dailey, 23, Boston Architectural College
Missing: 10/02/12
Last seen: left his apartment after 9:30 PM
Recovered: 10/09/12
Location: body found in the Charles River

Eric Munsell, 24, Boston University graduate
Missing: 2/08/14
Last seen: Market Lounge, was escorted out by a bouncer about 11:30 PM without his jacket in 18 degrees. He was celebrating his birthday with friends and his mother. On Feb. 11, detectives searched for Munsell in the water behind the Marriot Long Wharf Hotel and found another man struggling to climb out of the water.
Recovered: 4/23/14
Location: body found in the water at the end of Long Wharf

Dennis M. Njoroge, 21, Northeastern University
Missing: 11/29/15
Last seen: returning to campus following Thanksgiving
Recovered: 12/31/15
Location: Body recovered in Charles River

Zachary Marr, 22 Mount Wachusett Community College
Missing: 2/13/16
Last seen: Bell in Hand Tavern at 1:30 AM he went outside for a cigarette, leaving his coat behind, 15 degrees. At 1:40 he sent a snapchat that said “They won’t let me back in, lets leave”. He was out celebrating his birthday with his cousins.
Recovered: 3/15/16 2 more bodies were also discovered in the Charles River along with Zach.
Location: Charles River
 
so if there's all these people in MA actually drowning, why don't we hear stories of people falling and being rescued!
 
I am a Massachusetts resident and also someone who lost a friend who was a victim of the Charles. NO ONE understands still, almost a year later...no one gets it...Michael Kelleher was my friend and a victim of this. He was born and raised in Massachusetts, and incredibly smart and talented, he loved the Celtics and never one to get absolutely wasted at events like this. Michael was not heard from or seen after the basketball game with friends until about a week later when his body was found in the Charles. I'm sorry but being a friend of his, he is not stupid enough to roam around the harbor while being intoxicated, I highly doubt he was even that drunk to wander around the river. Boston Police have firmly said there is no serial killer...but how the hell are you going to say that when Michael was a friend and then SIX OTHER MEN WENT MISSING right after that and many before him...these people are not falling and drowning, there is something here and I refuse to allow police officers and other government officials tell me my friend, and other men who've gone missing are THAT STUPID to go anywhere close to the nasty waters of the Charles River. I also don't believe that it was accidental on any accords...someone knew, someone saw, just in todays society everyone's afraid to speak up to save someone's life, they'd rather save themselves and deal with the burden of knowing.
 
Does anyone know why the original William Hurley thread is a dead end?
 
I started looking into this a few years ago because I knew of incidents of girls being drugged at bars in Faneuil Hall back in the late 90s, turns out by a cab driver who would later take them home and assault them. Most of the women did not recollect the events and it was not until the guy was buster for something else and caught with the women's property did anyone know what had happened. After seeing some of the footage I wondered if something like that had happened inside the bar as well to these guys. The media for some reason has added the first death of the BU music professor (although older than the rest) in with these men, which then got me thinking...What if these men are lured in some way, and what if whoever is doing this is someone like a professor? Which could account for moving from university town to university town? I babble...who knows...I lived downtown long enough and partied everywhere as a college student and early 20 something...if you could fall in water accidently I'd have done it...but its impossible
 
Dustin Willis, 26, Boston, MA
Missing: 03/16/07
Last seen: 11 PM Black Rose Pub near Quincy Market
Recovered: 03/21/07
Location: found in 22 feet of water off Long Wharf

John Pike, 23 Fairhaven, MA
Missing: 06/02/07
Last seen: Saturday 3 AM at a late night party, stepped outside
Recovered: 06/03/07
Location: body was discovered in Buzzard's Bay

William Hurley, 24, Boston
Missing: 10/08/09
Last seen: Bruins game at the TD Garden 99 Nashua Street
Recovered: 10/14/09
Location: body found in the Charles River near 200 Nashua St.

Eugene Losik, 26, Boston
Missing: 02/20/10
Last seen: 2:24 AM leaving the back entrance of the Marriott Long Wharf hotel without a jacket for a cigarette
Recovered: 11/08/10
Location: body found near Rowes Wharf in the Boston Harbor

Gregory Hart, 23, Dedham MA
Missing: 3/14/10
Last seen: 1:40 AM Red Room Tavern at One Fox Place in Providence
Recovered: 3/16/10
Location: body found three-quarters of a mile from where last been seen. Body was found washed up against a tree limb in Woonasqatucket River in Providence.
Family offers $20,000 reward for information

David Mark, 24, Albany, NY
Missing: 3/02/11
Last seen: Boston Beer Works near Fenway Park
Recovered: 3/08/11
Location: body found in the Chelsea River downstream from the Andrew McArdle Bridge, 15 feet from shore.

Alex Grant, 19, Boston College student
Missing: 3/05/11
Last seen: at a party with over 300 people on Church St.,Saratoga Springs, NY. He stayed about a half an hour.
Recovered: 3/08/11
Location: submerged in about four feet of water in Putnam Creek, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Franco Garcia, 21, Boston College
Missing: 2/21/12
Last seen: Mary Ann’s Bar in Cleveland Circle at 11:27 PM he texted a reminder: “Don’t leave without me” he left keys and jacket in the bar
Recovered: 4/11/12
Location: body found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir

Nathan Bihlmaier, 31, Harvard Business School student
Missing: 05/20/12
Last seen: Ri Ra Irish Pub and Restaurant, 72 Commercial Street, Portland, Me. He was asked to leave around 11:30 PM because of bad behavior, not drunkenness. Friends last spoke to him by cell at 12:15, at 12:54 AM his phone stopped sending signals.
Recovered: 05/22/12
Location: Portland Harbor, Portland, ME

Jonathan Dailey, 23, Boston Architectural College
Missing: 10/02/12
Last seen: left his apartment after 9:30 PM
Recovered: 10/09/12
Location: body found in the Charles River

Eric Munsell, 24, Boston University graduate
Missing: 2/08/14
Last seen: Market Lounge, was escorted out by a bouncer about 11:30 PM without his jacket in 18 degrees. He was celebrating his birthday with friends and his mother. On Feb. 11, detectives searched for Munsell in the water behind the Marriot Long Wharf Hotel and found another man struggling to climb out of the water.
Recovered: 4/23/14
Location: body found in the water at the end of Long Wharf

Dennis M. Njoroge, 21, Northeastern University
Missing: 11/29/15
Last seen: returning to campus following Thanksgiving
Recovered: 12/31/15
Location: Body recovered in Charles River

Zachary Marr, 22 Mount Wachusett Community College
Missing: 2/13/16
Last seen: Bell in Hand Tavern at 1:30 AM he went outside for a cigarette, leaving his coat behind, 15 degrees. At 1:40 he sent a snapchat that said “They won’t let me back in, lets leave”. He was out celebrating his birthday with his cousins.
Recovered: 3/15/16 2 more bodies were also discovered in the Charles River along with Zach.
Location: Charles River

I am looking back at all of these bars located in Boston...they are not "steps from the water" with the exception of the Marriot Long Wharf which I am guessing is Tias (the bar there). Speaking from bar experience there is absolutely NO WAY, you could fall in the water...anywhere...walking by accident, slipping, you name it...even at Long Wharf (regardless of time of day someone would notice). The other bars (Faneuil Hall area, Mary-Anns, etc.) are not close by water and where the men were eventually located are not even in close proximity to the bars ...(Chestnut Hill Reservoir is not a short walk from Mary-Anns when you are drunk) nor would they be a way anyone would take home walking...if you were walking...I doubt someone could even fall into the Charles intentionally to be honest. As I said earlier, I probably would have done it in my college days if it was possible being the clutz that I am and notorious for falling. I have also walked all over Boston at all hours like an idiot in my younger days in the freezing winter and heat of the summer. Even the Nashua St. location...that's at the jail basically...there are people around there all of the time! That is right by the staff parking lot (or what was). I could seriously go on about every bar mentioned and walking to the locations where people were located and the impossibility of it being an accident because I have left every one of them probably at one time in my life (I was a Boston college student and grew up in the city for most of my young adult life...I moved out of the city in 2007).
 

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