Found Deceased OR - Owen Klinger, 18, University of Portland, 6 Oct 2019

[PaulR]

If he went to an ATM, he couldn't have withdrawn that much money. A few hundred dollars at most.

 

[momrids6]

If he went to an ATM, he couldn't have withdrawn that much money. A few hundred dollars at most.

True- students typically don't have a big daily limit. The amount withdrawn may give LE a clue

 

[momrids6]

I’ll try and find the link to the article about the roommate. He found the explanation by Owen evasive and he knew something was not right. He stayed up waiting for him until 1 o’clock. He was immediately concerned and knew he needed to alert campus and the parents.

ETA Authorities are on the hunt for a University of Portland freshman who mysteriously went missing this weekend

This article said at first he was going to "a meeting". So he was meeting someone or a group, imo. (in every lie is some truth)

 

[momrids6]

These are the meetups in Portland for Sunday, Oct 6th. Find your people | Meetup

 

[bykerladi]

So was it determined that there was in fact NO lacrosse meeting that night?

 

[momrids6]

So was it determined that there was in fact NO lacrosse meeting that night?

* some articles say 730- some say 830...just noting

"Owen Klinger, 18, was last seen leaving his dorm room at 8:30 pm on Sunday. Klinger had reportedly told his roommates he was leaving for practice on the lacrosse team, but he never arrived." Authorities are on the hunt for a University of Portland freshman who mysteriously went missing this weekend

 

[Bree1950]

I just saw on the Find Owen Facebook page that they are asking people to check their security cameras the night he disappeared! I was really surprised that LE hadn’t already done this quite some time ago! I live in Southern Oregon and my cameras are registered with the Police. If something happens the Police know immediately who has cameras in the area. I don’t understand this taking this long and I don’t understand why there hasn’t been sniffer dogs used? It seems like it is rather late to be just now trying to have cameras in the area checked!

 

[PdxErn]

* some articles say 730- some say 830...just noting

"Owen Klinger, 18, was last seen leaving his dorm room at 8:30 pm on Sunday. Klinger had reportedly told his roommates he was leaving for practice on the lacrosse team, but he never arrived." Authorities are on the hunt for a University of Portland freshman who mysteriously went missing this weekend

I’m pretty sure he was last seen on campus at 7:30. He was seen at the Trimet stop at 7:50

 

[otto]

It sounds like a first year university student facing midterm exams told his roommates on Sunday evening that he had somewhere to be, but instead he withdrew a lot of money from an ATM, turned off his phone, and vanished. That doesn't sound like an abduction.

Hopefully he knows that blowing a semester is okay.

 

[Vail]

I wonder if he took a Bolt Bus (or some other kind of "Chinatown bus") north or south. Does he have friends at other universities in Oregon, or up in Washington?

Edit: UP is small, private and Catholic. Look at things and places that are basically taboo. This is not a public anything goes activist type place.

This is along my line of thinking - did he perhaps head down to Oregon State to check it out for a potential transfer? Perhaps he wants a more creative/free/liberal environment.

It sounds like a first year university student facing midterm exams told his roommates on Sunday evening that he had somewhere to be, but instead he withdrew a lot of money from an ATM, turned off his phone, and vanished. That doesn't sound like an abduction.

Hopefully he knows that blowing a semester is okay.

Unless he was on a scholarship. Either way, if his tuition was being paid by anything other than student loans, he must have been under that much more pressure to excel.


I am curious what Owen's usual pattern of communication was with his family. Did he initiate contact regularly or was it something like his mom or dad was checking on him frequently?

 

[Bree1950]

It sounds like a first year university student facing midterm exams told his roommates on Sunday evening that he had somewhere to be, but instead he withdrew a lot of money from an ATM, turned off his phone, and vanished. That doesn't sound like an abduction.

Hopefully he knows that blowing a semester is okay.

His parents said on the TV video at his vigil that all his grades were above 80% in all classes.

 

[Bree1950]

It sounds like a first year university student facing midterm exams told his roommates on Sunday evening that he had somewhere to be, but instead he withdrew a lot of money from an ATM, turned off his phone, and vanished. That doesn't sound like an abduction.

Hopefully he knows that blowing a semester is okay.

I don’t feel this is what happened. I feel he withdrew money to meet up with someone to go do something. We don’t know that his phone was turned off by him. If someone picked him up, they could have easily smashed the phone. I feel the reason that LE doesn’t appear more proactive is because they share your opinion. I really hope my feelings are wrong but I feel he may have been doing something he felt his parents’ may not approve of and met someone or was picked up. I feel he was abducted. He didn’t have enough money to survive long term and didn’t take warm clothes with him. It just doesn’t add up to me.

 

[LAborn]

I don’t feel this is what happened. I feel he withdrew money to meet up with someone to go do something. We don’t know that his phone was turned off by him. If someone picked him up, they could have easily smashed the phone. I feel the reason that LE doesn’t appear more proactive is because they share your opinion. I really hope my feelings are wrong but I feel he may have been doing something he felt his parents’ may not approve of and met someone or was picked up. I feel he was abducted. He didn’t have enough money to survive long term and didn’t take warm clothes with him. It just doesn’t add up to me.

It's unlikely he met with foul play, imo. Why would someone abduct a tall 18 year old male?

 

[Bree1950]

It's unlikely he met with foul play, imo. Why would someone abduct a tall 18

 

[Bree1950]

I was replying to the above posts comments regarding the comment someone wouldn’t abduct an 18 year old: John Gacey killed 33 construction working young men! I don’t know why anyone would abduct anyone but you can’t rule it out based on the age of someone.

 

[otto]

His parents said on the TV video at his vigil that all his grades were above 80% in all classes.

I wonder if they learned that from him or from the university. As an adult student, it would be unusual for a post-secondary institution to release grades to anyone other than the student. Furthermore, 80% in classes before midterms probably doesn't mean much.

 

[PaulR]

It's unlikely he met with foul play, imo. Why would someone abduct a tall 18 year old male?

Mugging? He just hit the ATM after all.

 

[10ofRods]

I just saw on the Find Owen Facebook page that they are asking people to check their security cameras the night he disappeared! I was really surprised that LE hadn’t already done this quite some time ago! I live in Southern Oregon and my cameras are registered with the Police. If something happens the Police know immediately who has cameras in the area. I don’t understand this taking this long and I don’t understand why there hasn’t been sniffer dogs used? It seems like it is rather late to be just now trying to have cameras in the area checked!

That's interesting that your cameras are registered with the police. I doubt it's the case in Portland, but would like to know for sure. People can buy security cameras from Amazon and just stick them up (we have trail cameras on the back side of our property, took just a few minutes to install). I can't imagine that every single camera is actually registered, even if there's a requirement. Where I live, we have to register our security system if we want the police to respond automatically should the security center call in, but they have no information about our (interior) cameras that are attached to that system.

Anyway, I hope everyone with cameras checks their recent footage

His parents said on the TV video at his vigil that all his grades were above 80% in all classes.

I wonder how they know this? It's against federal law for any college prof to share that information with a parent (or anyone) and students are notoriously unreliable in telling parents what is actually going on. I'm on reddit quite a bit (on college related subreddits) and it's a constant theme: "I told my parents I was passing but I'm really not." Midterms hadn't even happened! Many classes will have given some kind of homework or assessment in the first month, but it may not reflect the reality of actual midterms, finals, and final papers.

At any rate, deciding to leave at this time of the semester is a pretty good recipe for not passing classes. So the question becomes, did he intend to be gone for a while? Or only for the evening.

It's very worrying that the two most likely reasons for his disappearance are running away and meeting up with a stranger. Students that age really resist sharing phone accounts/data with their parents (or anyone).

 

[Bree1950]

That's interesting that your cameras are registered with the police. I doubt it's the case in Portland, but would like to know for sure. People can buy security cameras from Amazon and just stick them up (we have trail cameras on the back side of our property, took just a few minutes to install). I can't imagine that every single camera is actually registered, even if there's a requirement. Where I live, we have to register our security system if we want the police to respond automatically should the security center call in, but they have no information about our (interior) cameras that are attached to that system.

Anyway, I hope everyone with cameras checks their recent footage



I wonder how they know this? It's against federal law for any college prof to share that information with a parent (or anyone) and students are notoriously unreliable in telling parents what is actually going on. I'm on reddit quite a bit (on college related subreddits) and it's a constant theme: "I told my parents I was passing but I'm really not." Midterms hadn't even happened! Many classes will have given some kind of homework or assessment in the first month, but it may not reflect the reality of actual midterms, finals, and final papers.

At any rate, deciding to leave at this time of the semester is a pretty good recipe for not passing classes. So the question becomes, did he intend to be gone for a while? Or only for the evening.

It's very worrying that the two most likely reasons for his disappearance are running away and meeting up with a stranger. Students that age really resist sharing phone accounts/data with their parents (or anyone).

They may be able to log in to his grades online.

 

[Bree1950]

We have a program here where after we install camera’s you can register them with the Police. If anything happens on my street, the Police know that my home has cameras and will come and look at my videos to see if it can assist with an investigation. They can’t log in and watch what is happening at any given time. It saves time in cases like this because they know immediately which houses have camera systems to check.