IL IL - Hiep T. Luu, 21, Berwyn, 15 Dec 2003

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Luu was last seen in Berwyn, Illinois around 6:30 a.m. on December 15th, 2003 at his home on the 1600 block of Ridgeland Avenue where he lived with his parents, two sister and brother-in-law. Usually he left between 5:45 and 6 a.m. but on this morning he was running late for his 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. shift at Storm Products, an electronics manufacturer, in Woodridge. He had only been working there for about two weeks.


His vehicle, a dark gray 1992 Nissan Maxima with the Illinois license plate number 335 6037, is also missing.
His usual route was west on 16th Street to Harlem Avenue, south onto the Stevenson Expressway to Lemont Road, then on to 101st Street.
This ~20 mile drive crosses the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal twice and the Des Plaines river once.

His employer, Storm Products, reported that Luu never showed up for work, according to relatives and Berwyn Public Safety Director Frank Marzullo.

Luu moved from his native Vietnam to the United States about seven years before his disappearance. He and his family had lived in Berwyn for about fifteen months by the time he went missing. He attended Senn High School and Truman College, and worked at a pizza restaurant for a time before he took the job at Storm Products. Luu is described as a reclusive person with few friends. He didn't own a cellular phone or any credit cards and he didn't have a bank account.

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Out of the many cases where people are missing with vehicles, this might be the only one with a complete route that he would have likely taken.
I'm trying to go over and include sources for these cases & verify as best I can ones still missing.

If anyone can find the article by The Life that the doe network mentions here that would be helpful! (The Life (Berwyn, IL) - Jan. 7, 2004) Not sure if it still exists.
 
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Dec 30, 2003

<<“We’ve been to Chicago [where the Luus formerly lived] and we’ve been to Woodridge. We checked the roads to his job, and we have other towns looking,” said Ronald Volanti, deputy public safety director. “We still have a few leads to check out, but so far we don’t know what happened to him.”

Vuong said Luu is the second of three children born to his parents in Vietnam. His father, Ty Luu, ran a wholesale business in what was then South Vietnam and was a soldier for the government. Ty left Vietnam by boat 15 years ago and settled in Chicago, then sent for his wife and children about seven years ago, Vuong said.

The family lived in Uptown while Hiep Luu attended Senn High School and then Truman College, Vuong said. The family moved to Berwyn about 15 months ago. After leaving school, Luu worked in a pizza restaurant for a time, then landed the job in Woodridge two weeks before his disappearance, Vuong said.

Luu has few friends and doesn’t spend time with people outside his family, Vuong said. “He comes home from work and plays on his computer. This is the first time he left home without calling or anything,” Vuong said.>>
 
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Not really any more info but this is the newspaper article on him.

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  • #6
In 2008 a sonar scan was done of the Chicago Ship & Sanitary Canal, vehicles were found but I don't know if they were ever checked out or removed. Two of those scans are here and other possible locations for an accident are marked: Hiep T. Luu - 2003 - Google My Maps

This has been sent to a few groups that have been close to that area before searching with sonar.
 
  • #7
Vehicle and remains found submerged in Lake Osborne. Identification of remains will need to be confirmed but the vehicle appears to be connected to an old cold case of a missing person from 2003, Hiep Luu.

September 26, 2025

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Human remains were found in a vehicle that was located during a training exercise Thursday morning in Naperville, police say.

The car was removed from the lake about 3:40 p.m., and identified as a 1992 Nissan Maxima. The vehicle's license plate is connected to an ongoing Berwyn Police Department investigation into the disappearance of Hiep Luu, who was reported missing in 2003, police said.

 
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Vehicle and remains found submerged in Lake Osborne. Identification of remains will need to be confirmed but the vehicle appears to be connected to an old cold case of a missing person from 2003, Hiep Luu.

September 26, 2025

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) -- Human remains were found in a vehicle that was located during a training exercise Thursday morning in Naperville, police say.

The car was removed from the lake about 3:40 p.m., and identified as a 1992 Nissan Maxima. The vehicle's license plate is connected to an ongoing Berwyn Police Department investigation into the disappearance of Hiep Luu, who was reported missing in 2003, police said.

Thank you for sharing.

Chaos Divers was just up there searching for him, they located another person missing since 2001 in Hodgkins IL the same way, also unexpected. This location Hiep was found isn't on the route to his work, I hope more answers are able to be found on why he was there :(
 

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