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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 14:09:41 GMT -5
Damien Sewell - February 23, 2015
For over three years, the family of Damien Sewell has been searching for answers about his disappearance and death.
Family members immediately notified the Juneau County Sheriff's office when Damien, 17, went missing on November 30, 2011. However, authorities were slow to respond. Months went by with very little attention from the police or the media. The case of the missing Wisconsin Dells High School student disappeared. Then, on February 29, 2012, Damien Sewell's body was recovered in the Wisconsin River by the dam in Wisconsin Dells.
Despite the many leads, clues and questions in this case, the authorities failed to pursue answers and have now all but forgotten it. The family has not forgotten Damien, who was a proud member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. They ask anyone with information about what may have happened to Damien to please come forward.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 14:18:51 GMT -5
Nick Wilcox- he body that Milwaukee Police officers "discovered floating in the Milwaukee River behind 1030 North Old World 3rd Street" Thursday, March 28, has been positively identified as Nick Wilcox.
The 24-year-old University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student had celebrated the New Year with friends at the Irish Rec Room, a downtown Milwaukee bar. Reportedly, Nick was kicked out of the bar and was last seen between 1 AM and 2 AM on January 1. Nick's family and friends began a comprehensive area search within hours.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 14:22:37 GMT -5
Tom Hecht - the body was pulled from the Milwaukee River near N. Water and E. Pleasant streets - about halfway between the bar where Hecht was last seen and his N. Commerce St. condo.
March 15, 2012
Tom Hecht, a 28-year-old man from Milwaukee, has been missing since Saturday, March 10th at around 10 PM. He was last seen at Rosie's -- a tavern on Water Street in downtown Milwaukee -- after a pub crawl with friends. According to police, Tom Hecht was last known to be wearing a green t-shirt with a St. Patrick's Day inscription. Although authorities have not explained why, their search for the young man is focused on Milwaukee's riverfront area.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 14:28:06 GMT -5
Eric Duffey - 03/03/12 - 21-year old University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point student, was last seen about 1:15 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, leaving Joe's Bar in downtown Stevens Point, Wisc. Duffey had been out celebrating his 21st birthday, and he was believed to be heading home when he left the bar. He lived only blocks away on Isadore Street. It was the last time he was seen.
On March 5, emergency personnel scoured the river around the Clark Street bridge in "a part of the river where the ice becomes open water," according to the Associated Press. Divers then found a body in the Wisconsin River near the Clark Street Bridge. According to the paper, "the coroner's office made a positive identification after meeting with Duffey's family."
Name/age: Eric Duffey, 21
Hometown: Fitchburg, WI
Residence: 700 Isadore Street
College: University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
Last Seen: 03/03/12, 1:15 a.m., Joe's Bar, Main Street, Stevens Point, WI
Recovered: 03/05/12, Wisconsin River
Physical Description: 6'0," 150 pounds, red hair, green eyes.
Last Wearing: orange flannel shirt, blue jeans, a brown jacket, and possibly a gray and white stocking hat.
Investigating Agency: Stevens Point police, 715-346-1501
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 14:54:02 GMT -5
Craig J. Meyers - Feb 17, 2010 - Meyers went missing after attending a wedding reception at a La Crosse bowling alley, and visiting two bars on Saturday night. A bloodhound tracked Meyers' scent to river, where police found footprints leading out to the icy river.
A cousin had reported dropping Meyers off on the 700 block of Market Street about 1:50 a.m. Sunday, after he spent the evening at a wedding reception at All-Star Lanes, 4735 Mormon Coulee Road, and two downtown bars, according to La Crosse police.
Meyers indicated he was near his girlfriend's home, though she lives on Sixteenth Street.
A Sara Lee Bakery surveillance camera showed a man matching Meyers' description walking alone west on Cass Street about 2 a.m. Sunday, police said. A bloodhound Monday tracked his scent to the river, where police Sunday had discovered a set of footprints in a snow bank leading out onto the ice.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 16:13:23 GMT -5
Lucas Homan - Sept. 30, 2006 - 21-year-old Lucas Homan disappeared early Saturday morning while celebrating Oktoberfest in La Crosse. Yesterday divers recovered his body from the Mississippi River around 10:00 a.m. near Riverside Park in 10 feet of water.
Police said Luke Homan, whose blood-alcohol level was 0.32 percent during autopsy, could have stumbled into the river and drowned.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 23:33:45 GMT -5
Joshua Snell - June of 2005 - His brother says he was in town for a wedding and later went to the bars. Snell was found four days later; pulled from the Chippewa River.
He was playing pool and drinking beer at "Brothers Tavern" in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Preliminary autopsy results from the Eau Claire County medical examiner's office indicate the cause of Joshua Snell's death was drowning.
Investigators say there are No Signs of Foul Play.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 7, 2017 23:34:36 GMT -5
Craig Burrows Craig Burrows went missing in September 2002 in Eau Claire. A week later, he was found dead in Half Moon Lake.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:00:04 GMT -5
Nathan Kapfer - Mar 2, 1998 - was last seen in the early hours of Feb. 22, walking on La Crosse's Third Street, a popular hangout for students wanting to go to taverns.
Kapfer's baseball cap and billfold were found later Sunday morning in Riverside Park.
After having dj'd a local party, Kapfer headed to Brother's Bar, a downtown pub. Although he was not regarded by his friends as wild or particularly belligerent when drunk, when the bartender refused to serve him because he was intoxicated, he became agitated, authorities said, and "cursed at the bouncer after being escorted out of the bar." Police were summoned and they picked Kapfer up, but rather than lock him up, they released him at 2 a.m with four citations for disorderly conduct. Not long afterwards, his hat, wallet and police citations were all found neatly arranged near the Indian statue in Riverside Park. Kapfer was nowhere to be found.
Nathan's body was found in the Mississippi River, downstream from La Crosse, 42 days later. An autopsy was performed by Dr. Lindsay Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office (MRCO). The findings were pulmonary congestion, watery gastric contents, and a mastoid petrous ridge hemmorrhage, but no injuries from trauma were found. His blood alcohol content was determined to be 0.22.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:04:27 GMT -5
Charles Blatz - 09/28/97 - Friends last saw Blatz alive around midnight at Sneakers, a popular downtown bar in the Pearl and Third area known for its drink specials. Blatz's body was found five days later in the Mississippi River.
Blood Alcohol Content: 0.20
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:08:09 GMT -5
Anthony Skifton - 10/10/97 - was last seen by friends about bar time as he left a party. His body was found five days later in Isle La Plume Slough, which runs along the east side of Houska Park south of the Cass Street Bridge. An autopsy performed by Dr. Lindsay Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office (MRCO), reported that no foul play was involved but "acute alcohol intoxication'' was a contributing factor in the death.
Blood Alcohol Content: 0.23
Anthony could not swim and was scared to death of water.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:14:05 GMT -5
Jeffrey Geesey - 04/13/99 - disappeared after a night of partying in downtown LaCrosse, Wisconsin with friends. He was last seen at Club Millennium (121 3rd Street) in the early morning hours talking to two girls. Police said Geesey was drinking with two friends who were so intoxicated that they could not remember what bars they had frequented. His body was found the following month in the Mississippi River by fishermen.
An autopsy was performed by Dr. Lindsay Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office (MRCO), who said Geesey probably drowned.
Blood Alcohol Content: 0.42
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:17:15 GMT -5
Patrick Runningen - 03/01/01 - Patrick Runningen, 23, was last seen alive leaving the Nutbush City Limits tavern in LaCrosse, WI on March 1, 2001. Bartenders there told police he sat at the bar by himself, holding his head and looking extremely drunk. He said he needed a quarter to call a cab. The bartender flipped him one and he made a call. A cab arrived, but by then Runningen was gone. Some people at the bar told police they saw Runningen leave about midnight and walk south toward LaCrosse.
Two fishermen called police on March 7 to say they'd read about Runningen's disappearance in the media. They said they found a hole in the ice covering the Black River, which runs just behind Nutbush, on March 2, the day after Runningen disappeared. Searchers dragged the area on March 8 and found Runningen's body. Toxicology reports found no signs of drugs in his system. His blood-alcohol content was 0.24 percent. Police concluded Runningen had probably walked out on the ice and broke through.
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Post by LadyBlue on Mar 8, 2017 0:20:40 GMT -5
Jared Dion - 04/10/04 - After a night of drinking and dancing, Jared was seen by a friend getting on the Safe Ride bus, which takes riders from the UW-L campus to downtown and back at no cost. It was last call at John's Bar. Most of Dion's friends already had left, but Dion told his buddy Mark Hoglund he wanted just one more drink. No way, Hoglund said. They had to catch the last bus home. He thought Dion followed him as he left. When he looked back, Dion wasn't there.
Five days later, Jared’s body was found in the Mississippi River by divers. His cap was found in nearby Riverside Park by a group of joggers passing by. According to the joggers, the cap was found casually hanging on a post not far from where police assumed Dion jumped or fell in the river. Dr. Lindsay Thomas of the Minnesota Regional Coroner's Office (MRCO) performed the autopsy. She found the death to be a cold water drowning.
Injuries: no signs of trauma or foul play
Blood Alcohol Content: 0.27
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