Reading William Hurley thread reminded me of Brian. Hurley was at a Boston Bruins game with friends and decided to leave early. The friends left with him; he called his girlfriend and gave her his location. The friends left. The girlfriend arrived a couple of minutes later and William was gone. His smashed cell phone was found and his body turned up in the river. His wallet and money were still on him.
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Reminds me of the recent Jack Culolias case. If I recall right there was not footage of him leaving the restaurant he'd been in, but somehow he'd gotten out and was found dead in a river.
We all know that apparently in America...men drinking plus a river near by equals probable body in the river. Something wonky is going on...but that's for another forum.
These examples remind me of a similar case... in 2002, a 26 year old businessman named Lon Dowdle traveled to Cincinnati (about 2 hours south of Columbus) and stayed at a Holiday Inn in Covington KY just across the Ohio River. He and his friend went bar-hopping in the nearby pub district, then when the bars closed, took a cab back to their hotel. There was a Waffle House directly opposite so they decided to eat. While his friend paid the cab driver, Lon headed towards Waffle House. Instead of going in, for some reason he walked around the corner of the building, and apparently vanished into thin air. His friend looked all around calling for him, since he had to be nearby, but he never got a response and never found him. The friend was distraught and cooperative, passed a polygraph, and was cleared as a suspect.
Lon's body was found 6 days later about a half mile away. He was lying on the muddy bank of the Ohio River with his feet in the water, barefoot and shirtless, but still wearing pants. His wallet with cash and credit cards, as well as his Rolex watch, were intact -- he had not been robbed. He had no sign of injury, and it was ruled an accidental drowning.
Oddly, his blood alcohol level was just barely over the legal limit, so he wasn't staggering drunk. He apparently wasn't attacked or mugged. By all accounts he was not suicidal. How he ended up in the water is a mystery. Hypothermia and confusion may have played a part. It was
April 4th and chilly the night Lon vanished. I note that Brian vanished
April 1st (but I don't know the weather). That calls to mind another famous vanished Ohio college student, Ron Tammen, who disappeared
April 19th, 1953, on an unusually cold night.
Sometime after 8:30 pm on a quiet Sunday night (time known because he signed out fresh bed linens from the dorm attendant), for unknown reasons Ron left his room, with every appearance of intending to return shortly, but instead disappeared forever. There were no witnesses, no unusual noises, no unfamiliar people around. His lamp and radio were on, psychology book open, jacket hanging on his chair in spite of the cold, wallet and keys on desk, car sitting in the parking lot, bank account left untouched. He has still never been found.
I really wonder about this pattern of 20-something young men vanishing from populous areas yet witnessed by no one, only to be found later drowned in rivers or lakes... or not found at all. Chris24, you seem to wonder too. Any thoughts?
