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I think this is what probably happened. I understand why his family doesn't think that running into the woods is something he'd do...but this board is full of cases where someone does something that their family and friends swear they'd never do. And people do all kinds of out-of-character things when they've been drinking. (Which...I don't think any of the articles have specified if he was reportedly drinking or not, but...college guy, at a college party...chances are good that he was.)Maybe he was drunk and disoriented.
I think this is what probably happened. I understand why his family doesn't think that running into the woods is something he'd do...but this board is full of cases where someone does something that their family and friends swear they'd never do. And people do all kinds of out-of-character things when they've been drinking. (Which...I don't think any of the articles have specified if he was reportedly drinking or not, but...college guy, at a college party...chances are good that he was.)
The article neverletgo linked above says that "he could not tell the person where he lived" and then left the person's car. When I was college-aged, I had the experience of offering a drunk guy a ride home because I was trying to be nice and responsible...and then wasting an entire tank of gas driving around and around, and getting increasingly irritated in the process, because he was too drunk to know where he lived or how to get there, and much bitter arguing ensued. So I can see this happening in this case.
And when I was college-aged, there were also a couple of times that I hopped out of a car at a red light and then walked home because my date was getting handsy or otherwise pissing me off. In fact, once I went out on a first date double-date, and the guy upset me by sitting in the back of the car with his buddy while the other girl and I sat up front (she was driving). I was getting really miffed about being ignored, so I turned around to tell him off--and saw that he and his buddy were sorting through bags of coke in the backseat. So I thought "yeah...hell with this," noticed that we were coming up to the highway exit to a town where a friend of mine lived and figured it would be my last chance to get myself out of the situation, so I asked the driver to slow down by the exit, jumped out and made my way to a gas station pay phone (this was back in the day before cell phones), and called my friend's dad to come pick me up. And then wondered, in that oblivious teen-age way, why the dad was so panicked and screaming, "Are you OK? Did he hurt you? Do I need to get the police?" when he pulled up at the gas station. Looking back now, as a middle-aged adult, I completely understand how calling someone out of the blue to say, "Hi, Mr. Jones, it's Patty's friend Mouse. Ummm...my date turned out to be a drug dealer, so I jumped out of his car and now I'm stranded at this gas station right next to a biker bar. Do you think you could come get me?" would absolutely freak out poor Mr. Jones...but at the time, I was just thinking, "Well, that was a crappy date." My point (and I do have one in here somewhere) is that young people do a lot of things without maybe thinking through all the possible consequences, and it's just sheer luck that most of us don't end up getting ourselves into worse trouble. I never stormed out of someone's car in the dead of winter...but you know, I would have if I was drunk and/or upset. And I wouldn't have been wearing a proper winter coat and hat, because it would have ruined my cute date outfit and given me hat hair. (And my family and friends would have sworn up-and-down that I would never do something so foolish, because I was a good student and a nice, responsible Catholic girl.) I'm lucky that I never got lost and froze to death, or slipped and fell into a river while walking home in a snit. But I can completely see how those situations can happen when you mix (possibly) alcohol and the bravado and inexperience of youth (especially with a male, since they don't have *BEWARE!* drilled into their heads the way girls do).
*I found out later that Mr. Bags o' Cocaine didn't even notice I was gone until they got to their destination about an hour later. Hmmph.
Not saying there can't be more to the story. But, I remember being young, and even not young, and getting so drunk that the drama of leaving a warm car for the street could happen. And, after trying to figure out what to do next could have just confused the hell out of me. At some point, one might just think that if I lie down for a few minutes, the world will stop spinning & I can think. Hours later the wake up comes. Well, if you're out in the freezing cold during the pass-out period, then maybe that's it? My neighbor's son is a student at SIU. They visited their son this past weekend & ate at BWW. We talked about this case yesterday. Her comment was that she needs to go to colleges & lecture these kids on the whole party scene & how to survive it. So sad, but perhaps this case isn't a foul play case.
There were no drugs or alcohol in his system.
http://www.wsiltv.com/news/video/Un...eath-253672591.html?m=y&smobile=y&clmob=y&c=n
A Morton Grove mother says her son was murdered despite the coroners report.
19-year-old Pravin Varughese vanished last February from Carbondale. The sophomore at SIU was later found in a field several days after he went missing and his death was ruled hypothermia.
On Saturday, his mother told CBS 2 the funeral director tipped her off that her son may have died from something else. A second autopsy backs up the funeral directors claim.
Margolis, founder of Autopsy Center of Chicago, said the autopsy he performed found "significant injuries" to Varughese's face.
The sophomore criminal justice major suffered four different blows to the face and head, all of which could not have been caused by a single impact, such as falling on a rock or hitting atree.
Varughese's body also showed an injury to his forearm and his left thigh, Margolis said, as well as bruises below his knees and scratch marks that could have been caused by the difficult terrain.
Margolis, however, stopped short of issuing a determination of how Varughese sustained the head injuries, saying he still needed to see initial police and coroner records. "The cause of death is blunt force injury, but the cause of those injuries is pending further investigation," he said.
A southern Illinois woman, who has known some of the people involved with the Pravin Varughese case for several years, came forward over the weekend to tell her own story regarding the boys tragic death back in February.
The woman who requested that The American Bazaar not release her name, but for the sake of this story, will be called T was on a local radio show to speak about what she knows about the Pravin Varughese case. In a nutshell, she alleges that her sons friends may know a young man who beat up Pravin on the night he went missing, and that this man could have, intentionally or otherwise, caused Pravins death...
But the information she had happened upon weighed on her conscience, and within a few days, she called the Carbondale Police to inform them that she may have information about Pravin Varughese. Keep in mind that although T was able to put together that that boy who was beat up was Pravin, this is still before she or anyone else knew that he was dead.