Found Deceased La Crosse Police ask for community assistance locating 22-year-old Eliotte Heinz - Last Seen 3:20 AM - 20 Jul 2025

[marloweclover]

It's confusing when someone ends up in water and there's no foul play and it's not an obvious place for bodily functions. Idk. MOO but I had a wild, self-destructive college life. I drank a LOT. I once passed out in a potted shrub in a hotel lobby. I went to college in a place where downtown and the bars were on the banks of a large, cold, fast-moving, treacherous river with a 24-hour walking bridge. I was an NCAA swimmer, so probably overconfident. I still never got anywhere near perishing in it.

 

[Knox]

I would be very interested to see how the water access is between the theatre and the hotel :

500 Front St S · Building

500 Front St S, La Crosse, WI 54601

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When I pulled up the map of the Marriot and zoomed in. To me it looks like you could access the river there?

 

[Pennyfeather]

I would be very interested to see how the water access is between the theatre and the hotel :

500 Front St S · Building

500 Front St S, La Crosse, WI 54601

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[AngTxGal]

I did this because I wanted to try to illustrate something I was saying earlier. There are a lot of places where it's really easy to accidentally fall in the water. You might notice at one point I'm deliberately standing a couple feet back from the edge, while in the park. There are also places where you can sit and look at the water if you want. (The park closes at 11pm, but I doubt that deters many people.) The way she was heading, south of the hotel, is not like that. Of course that doesn't prove anything.

Thank you, much appreciation for taking the time and being so respectful in the photos and videos you’ve posted!
I couldn’t see it or imagine it and I feared foul play as all to often is the case.

Taken too soon
IMO

 

[imstilla.grandma]

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[Pennyfeather]

I would be very interested to see how the water access is between the theatre and the hotel :

500 Front St S · Building

500 Front St S, La Crosse, WI 54601

maps.app.goo.gl

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I replied to this previously, but apparently my words didn't show up. If you go back to my post #152, I posted 4 videos. The last one (with no thumbnail but just a link) is me walking along this walkway to the benches that overlook the river. There are also some cameras on the side of the theater, and we haven't seen any pictures to indicate Eliotte went that way. Hopefully that will help!

I'm not sure if you were also asking about the hotel's property. There is a fence between the hotel and the river. Not a tall fence, but the areas N and S of the hotel don't have fences. So you'd have to be pretty determined to climb the fence rather than just walk around. I haven't been behind the hotel, so I don't know if there are cameras there.

 

[truthfinder2019]

I replied to this previously, but apparently my words didn't show up. If you go back to my post #152, I posted 4 videos. The last one (with no thumbnail but just a link) is me walking along this walkway to the benches that overlook the river. There are also some cameras on the side of the theater, and we haven't seen any pictures to indicate Eliotte went that way. Hopefully that will help!

I'm not sure if you were also asking about the hotel's property. There is a fence between the hotel and the river. Not a tall fence, but the areas N and S of the hotel don't have fences. So you'd have to be pretty determined to climb the fence rather than just walk around. I haven't been behind the hotel, so I don't know if there are cameras there.

Thank you very much because I had not seen the link, just the three videos.

 

[airportwoman]

Any further updates?

 

[Pennyfeather]

Any further updates?

No updates about the investigation. She is mentioned in this news segment about trying to get more cameras on the river.

La Crosse foundation seeks funding to expand Safe-Cam network near Mississippi River

www.news8000.com

 

[Toddsgate]

If this were the case of someone taking their own life, wouldn't the authorities or families release that information? It appears that most are assuming this to be an accidental drowning since it was released that there were no signs of foul play. Although these types of things do happen, its hard for me to imagine this to be accidental. I'm sure more information would help convince me one way or the other. I, too, am awaiting the autopsy report...

Todd

 

[jillolantern]

If this were the case of someone taking their own life, wouldn't the authorities or families release that information?

In my experience, its more likely they would not. LE tends to make a vague statement about no threat to the public and family tends to hide a suicide or to go into denial about it and seek a boogeyman.

IME IMO

 

[CaMan60]

She was found a long way down the river. Does this tell us what side of the river she most likely entered the water? If she was walking along the bridge somebody must have seen her.

 

[jillolantern]

Two versions of the same article.

Here's the critical, cryptic statement. "The La Crosse Police Department announced in a press release yesterday that based on preliminary autopsy results, they do not believe there was any foul play involved in Heinz's death"

Police Make Ruling on Foul Play in Death of College Student Eliotte Heinz

Police issued another update Friday in the death of college student Eliotte Heinz, 22, whose body was found in the Mississippi River Wednesday after she went missing last weekend. The La Crosse Police Department announced in a press release yesterday that based on preliminary autopsy results...

www.yahoo.com

Police Make Ruling on Foul Play in Death of College Student Eliotte Heinz

Heinz's body was found in the Mississippi River Wednesday.

www.mensjournal.com

 

[airportwoman]

Thanks for the update. I feel that the ultimate results will be that it was a tragic accident.