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Body of missing Northwestern PhD student recovered in Chicago harbor

Peter Salvino was reported missing on Sunday by his family.

The body of a missing 25-year-old Northwestern University Ph.D. student has been recovered in Chicago's Diversey Harbor, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Tuesday night.

Peter Salvino was last seen when he left a party in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on Saturday night, police said.

Chicago police said they "responded to a follow-up investigation" at the harbor Tuesday night, Chicago ABC station WLS reported.

Salvino's last known contact was via FaceTime at 12:15 a.m. on Sunday, according to police.

He had FaceTimed a friend at 11:59 p.m. saying he was walking home and was about 30 minutes away, according to a family spokesperson. When the friend called Salvino back at about 12:15 a.m., Salvino said he was still walking, the spokesperson said.

At 12:31 a.m., Salvino's phone pinged near Diversey Harbor, a marina by the Lincoln Park neighborhood, the spokesperson said.

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Salvino, a Ph.D. candidate in Northwestern's interdepartmental neuroscience program, was reported missing on Sunday by his family, according to the university.

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Body of Missing Northwestern PhD Student Found in Chicago's Diversey Harbor: 'He Was a Great Guy'

Peter Salvino, 25, was found dead on Tuesday after he was reported missing by family and friends early Sunday morning

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The body of 25-year-old Northwestern University student Peter Salvino was found on Tuesday, days after he was reported missing.

According to NBC affiliate WMAQ , the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office confirmed Salvino's body had been discovered on Tuesday night. They have not released a cause of death, and the incident is still under investigation, per the Chicago Tribune .

The Chicago Sun-Times reported that his body was pulled from Diversey Harbor.

Per the Tribune , Salvino last spoke to loved ones over a FaceTime call after leaving a party around midnight on Saturday.

When a friend called Salvino to confirm he had returned home a few minutes later, the call went unanswered, according to WMAQ. The next morning, additional calls to Salvino's phone went straight to voicemail, and texts were marked as undelivered.

"We've not heard from him since midnight Saturday," Scotty Gruska, Salvino's brother-in-law, said before Salvino's body was discovered. "We all miss him. I know there's people working on it, and law enforcement is doing everything they can. But we want to keep doing more."

"People don't vanish out of thin air," he added to CBS News , "and again — he was a great guy. There's no reason to believe that he would have just gone off the grid, so, you know, we can't rule out anything, obviously."

Northwestern University asked its community to help with their search for the Ph.D. candidate after he was reported missing the next day.

A tweet from the school said Salvino was last seen around 12:15 a.m. on Sunday, in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

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A restaurant in the area, Wieners Circle, had posted a surveillance video image that showed Salvino at the location before his disappearance.

"Ok #wienersleuths, Peter Salvino is a regular at our store and is well-liked, this is so sad," they wrote on social media . "We believe the picture below is of him at our store, not long before he was last heard from Saturday night. Please retweet this and help his family find Peter."

The restaurant called the discovery of Salvino's body " devastating news " in a post on Twitter Tuesday.

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Peter Salvino missing: Northwestern PhD student's body pulled from Chicago's Diversey Harbor

Peter salvino, 25, had gone missing early sunday morning after leaving a party.

Emergency crews in Chicago pulled the body of Peter Salvino from Diversey Harbor

Emergency crews in Chicago pulled the body of Peter Salvino from Diversey Harbor. (Source: WFLD)

The body of the Northwestern University doctoral student who went missing after leaving a party in Chicago was found Tuesday evening in Lake Michigan.

Peter Salvino, 25, had gone missing early Sunday morning after leaving a property in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Chicago Police confirmed at around 6 p.m. Tuesday that a body was found in Diversey Harbor, which is located near where Salvino's phone had last pinged.

The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office later confirmed the body was Salvino's. An autopsy is pending and officials have not released a cause of death.

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Salvino was last heard from at around 12:15 a.m. Sunday morning when he was on FaceTime with a friend as was walking to his apartment from the party.

A local Chicago eatery called The Wieners Circle took to Twitter to say: "Ok #wienersleuths , Peter Salvino is a regular at our store and is well liked, this is so sad. We believe the picture below is of him at our store, not long before he was last heard from Saturday night. Please retweet this and help his family find Peter."

The Salvino family released the following statement:

"We are both shattered and relieved to report that, earlier today, we found Peter during the marine search of Diversey Harbor. Throughout the last three days we have been overwhelmed by the support and assistance we've received from friends, family and local residents and businesses in our search for Peter. We are grateful beyond measure for their diligence, without which Peter may not have been found. At this time, our family appreciates the public affording us privacy as we process our grief over this devastating loss."

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Chicago Police confirmed at around 6 p.m. Tuesday that a body was found in Diversey Harbor, which is located near where Salvino's phone had last pinged. (Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Salvino's family said in a statement he was on FaceTime with a friend at 11:59 p.m. Saturday night as he was walking home and that the friend called back at 12:15 a.m. to make sure he made it home safely. Salvino told the friend at the time that he was still on the way back.

His phone pinged a location near Diversey Harbor at 12:31 a.m. and the friend called again at 12:37 a.m. to confirm he made it home, but Salvino did not answer. 

Multiple friends texted him between then and 9:30 a.m., according to the family spokesperson. The messages were successfully delivered to his phone, but none of the friends received a response.

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Northwestern University is asking its community to help locate a doctoral student, Peter Salvino, 25, who was reported missing Sunday by his family. University representatives are in contact with Peter’s family and share with his parents and friends their serious concern for his safety and overall well-being.

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) is leading the investigation, and CPD has stated that Salvino was last seen around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, near the 800 block of West Lill Avenue in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood. Salvino was last known to have left a party in the 2400 block of North Geneva Terrace while wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and maroon pants.

Northwestern’s Police Department will support Chicago Police in their investigation efforts.

If you or someone you know has information that could help locate Salvino, CPD asks you to call (312) 744-8266. 

Salvino is a Ph.D. candidate in the Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience program.

Northwestern encourages students, faculty and staff to use, and share, the resources below if you or someone in our community is in need of support. 

• CAPS offers crisis support (for those needing to speak to someone immediately) and the TimelyCare virtual mental health support platform .
• Faculty, staff and postdoctoral trainees can access the Employee Assistance Program , which provides a network of services including free and confidential short-term counseling.
• All members of the Northwestern community can access Religious and Spiritual Life , where chaplains are available to talk confidentially and provide support.

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By staff reports • published december 20, 2022 • updated on december 20, 2022 at 7:07 pm.

A body was recovered in Lake Michigan near Diversey Harbor early Tuesday evening, close to where missing 25-year-old Northwestern doctoral student Peter Salvino 's phone was last pinged before he went missing early Sunday morning.

Chicago police confirmed shortly after 6 p.m. that a body was recovered in Diversey Harbor, but could not confirm the identity of the individual found.

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Salvino was last seen late Saturday night after leaving a party in Lincoln Park in the 2400 block of North Geneva Terrace, last making contact with a friend through FaceTime while walking back to his apartment at around 12:15 a.m.

In a statement, a family spokesperson explained Salvino talked to a friend via FaceTime 11:59 p.m. and said that he was walking to his apartment in the 800 block of West Lill Avenue and was about a half-mile away. That friend called again at 12:15 a.m. to confirm that Salvino had arrived home, but the 25-year-old said he was still walking to his residence.

At 12:31 a.m., Salvino's phone pinged a location near Diversey Harbor, the family spokesperson said. Then, at 12:37 a.m., the friend called again to confirm Salvino had gotten home, but the call went unanswered. Several friends sent text messages to his phone between then and 9:30 a.m., the spokesperson said, adding the messages were successfully delivered to his phone but unanswered.

At approximately 9:45 a.m., all calls went straight to voicemail and all text messages went undelivered.

The man's family and friends have been asking for the public's help in recent days to check nearby surveillance footage in hopes of retracing his steps.

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"The goal is to get camera footage," said Scotty Gruska, Salvino's brother-in-law. "We've not heard from him since midnight Saturday. We all miss him. I know there's people working on it, and law enforcement is doing everything they can. But we want to keep doing more."

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Surveillance video from Lincoln Park restaurant The Weiner Circle also provided footage of Salvino inside the eatery Saturday night, before he went missing.

Salvino, who is approximately 6 feet tall, was wearing a grey hooded sweatshirt and maroon pants at the time of his disappearance. The above photo of Salvino was taken the night he disappeared, as was the following photo:

Anyone with information or surveillance footage is asked to contact the Area Three Special Victims Unit at 312-744-8266.

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Northwestern PhD student missing since leaving party in Lincoln Park Saturday night

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A Northwestern University graduate student has been missing since leaving a North Side party late Saturday night, police said.

Peter Salvino was last seen leaving a party in the 2400-block of North Geneva Terrace in Lincoln Park. Chicago police said he FaceTimed a friend at 11:59 p.m. saying he was walking to his apartment in the 800-block of West Lill Avenue and was about half an hour away. The friend called him again about 15 minutes later to confirm he arrived home, but Salvino said he was still walking.

Police said at 12:31 a.m. Sunday his cell phone pinged a location near Diversey Harbor. At about 12:37 a.m., the friend once again called Salvino to see if he had gotten up, but police said the call went unanswered.

CPD said that between then and 9:30 a.m. multiple friends sent text messages, all of which were successfully delivered but none of which were answered.

Police said beginning at 9:45 a.m. all phone calls made to Salvino went straight to voicemail, and all text messages went undelivered.

His girlfriend said he is a doctoral student researching in the interdepartmental neuroscience program at Northwestern.

The Weiner's Circle confirmed that Salvino, who is a regular customer, stopped into the restaurant that night between 10:30 and 11 p.m., and shared an image of them caught on their surveillance video.

Police said Salvino is a 25-year-old white man, 6 ft. 1 in. tall and about 190 lbs. with brown eyes and brown hair. He was last seen wearing a maroon beanie, gray and black bomber jacket over a gray sweatshirt and maroon pants. Police said he had a mustache at the time of his disappearance.

If you have any information about his whereabouts or relevant security footage, either business or residential, contact Area 3 SVU at (312)744-8266 immediately.

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The body of neuroscience third-year Ph.D. student Peter Salvino was recovered from Chicago’s Diversey Harbor, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office announced Tuesday night.

Salvino was first reported missing by his family on Sunday. According to the Chicago Police Department, Salvino was last contacted via FaceTime shortly after midnight Sunday as he walked to his apartment on the 800 block of West Lill Avenue in Lincoln Park. He was reported to have been wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and maroon pants after leaving a party in the 2400 block of North Geneva Terrace.

At 12:31 a.m., Salvino’s phone pinged near Diversey Harbor, according to a statement by a family spokesperson. Calls and messages to his phone went unanswered after it pinged.

CPD asks anyone with information on Salvino’s death to call 312-744-8266. 

In a Monday statement on Salvino’s disappearance, Northwestern encouraged community members in need of support to connect with resources such as Counseling and Psychological Services, the Employee Assistance Program and Religious and Spiritual Life.

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Local News | Missing doctoral student from Northwestern University found dead

A doctoral student at Northwestern University who was last seen early Saturday has died, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Peter Salvino, 25, was found dead Tuesday evening at 2431 N. Cannon Drive, according to the medical examiners office.

On Tuesday evening, the Chicago police Marine Unit responded to a follow-up investigation of a missing person around 5:15 p.m. and “the remains of a male victim” were recovered from Diversey Harbor by authorities and taken to the medical examiner’s office, police said.

No further information was immediately available. The investigation is ongoing.

He was last known to have left a party in the 2400 block of North Geneva Terrace and was last contacted through a FaceTime call just after midnight Saturday, police said.

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Missing northwestern grad student found dead in diversey harbor, peter salvino, 25, disappeared early sunday morning in lincoln park, police said..

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CHICAGO, IL — A missing Northwestern University graduate student was found dead Tuesday in Diversey Harbor nearly three days after he disappeared, according to reports.

Peter Salvino, 25, went missing after leaving a party over the weekend in Lincoln Park, Chicago Police said. His last known contact was via FaceTime around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

Emergency personnel pulled a male body from the harbor in the 2400 block of North Cannon Drive shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday while responding to a follow-up investigation of a missing person in the area, law enforcement said. Police noted that Salvino had been located but couldn’t confirm the body in the harbor was his, pending identification by a medical examiner and family. Several news outlets reported the body was Salvino’s.

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Salvino was a doctoral candidate studying neuroscience at Northwestern, according to his social media accounts. He was also a regular at The Wieners Circle and stopped there not long before he disappeared, the restaurant tweeted Monday, including an image of Salvino at the eatery taken the night he went missing.

Before he disappeared, Salvino told a friend on the phone that he was on his way home, but camera footage verified he was traveling in the opposite direction, according to WLS , which reported Salvino's cellphone pinged near the harbor about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Salvino’s phone received multiple text messages until 9:30 a.m. that morning, but after that, texts became undeliverable, WLS reported.

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The body of a missing PhD student was pulled out of the waters of Lake Michigan on Tuesday days after he disappeared.

Peter Salvino, 25, disappeared after leaving a party on Saturday night. He was a third year student in a neuroscience PhD program at Northwestern University.

According to his family, Salvino spoke to a friend using FaceTime that night around 12am. The same friend called back again around 12.15am, and Salvino was still walking to his apartment.

Around 12.40, Salvino’s friend called back again to see if he had arrived home safely. This time, he didn’t answer.

Investigators reviewed security camera footage from the neighborhood that show Salvino ate at a local restaurant before the party, but are still looking for recordings that show his walk home.

Several friends and family members tried to contact Salvino on Sunday morning, but the messages continued to go unanswered. Around 9.45 that morning, messages and calls to Salvino’s phone began failing to deliver.

His family filed a missing person report when they realized he never returned home to his apartment.

Salvino’s body was recovered on Tuesday evening around 5.15pm. Chicago Police confirmed it was the missing student.

Diversey Harbor is located about 1 mile northwest of the party Salvino attended on Saturday night – the opposite direction of his apartment in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.

Salvino’s father Martin said that their family was ‘both shattered and relieved’ at the news on Tuesday night. The family has requested privacy at this time.

Northwestern University said the school was ‘deeply saddened’ by the news, and offered condolences to Salvino’s friends and family.

‘This is an incalculable loss,’ said Dr. Lucas Pinto, who Salvino worked a research assistant for at Northwestern. ‘All of us who knew Peter know how effortlessly brilliant he was. But what we will truly miss is his endless kindness, humbleness and generosity with his time and intellect.’

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The body of a missing PhD student has been discovered and his boyfriend named as a person of interest in the homicide investigation.

Deundray Cottrell, 31, was found dead on July 6 after he was last seen at a Fourth of July party at his sister’s home in Birmingham, Alabama .

His body was discovered in a shed two blocks from his sister’s home after his shoe was spotted outside, WVTM reported.

Jefferson County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled Cottrell’s manner of death as a homicide. No arrests have been made.

Birmingham Police Department later named Julian Taylor Morris, 31, as a person of interest in the investigation and are trying to locate him, according to a news release. The pair were believed to be in a romantic relationship.

Angelica Cottrell, the victim’s sister, told WSB-TV that her brother and Morris had driven from Atlanta, Georgia, to Birmingham to celebrate the Fourth of July with family.

“My children started to pop fireworks and because my brother had his dog with him, he was gonna run into the house real quick and go and check on the dog,” Ms Cottrell said.

She said Morris was the one who then alerted her that her brother was missing.

Morris allegedly told Angelica that her brother had jumped off the patio balcony, then “took off running.”

But as the family began to search for him, she said that Morris’ behavior was strange.

“While we looked – Julian didn’t,” she told the TV station. “At one point when everybody was searching, Julian had fixed a plate and was sitting there eating, and he looked at me and said, OMG, the food is so good.”

Birmingham police officers said they were dispatched to a missing person call at a residence in the 7900 Block of 4th Avenue South on July 4.

On July 5, police recovered some of Cottrell’s clothing in the area, and a neighbor provided officers with surveillance footage of him.

Officers discovered Cottrell’s body the following day. “Details surrounding this investigation are suspicious,” Birmingham police said.

After learning that Morris was named a person of interest, the victim’s brother, Tim Cottrell, said it was “hurtful” because “my mom was there, staring her son’s killer in the eye.”

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A graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, has been killed in Mexico — where his bullet-riddled body was found in his SUV after his fiancée reported him missing on his trip to conduct field research about plants.

Gabriel Trujillo, 31, a botanist and fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of Integrative Biology, was shot seven times June 19 in the northwest state of Sonora and his body was discovered three days later, his family said.

Trujillo, who drove across the Arizona border into Nogales on June 17, told his fiancée, Roxanne Cruz de Hoyos, on the morning of his death that he was going out to collect plants and would later return to his Airbnb.

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On June 22, authorities made the gruesome discovery of his body inside an SUV about 62 miles from the Airbnb, Cruz said.

Trujillo’s dad, Anthony Trujillo, flew from his home in Michigan to Mexico and joined Cruz-de Hoyos, but they said they’ve received little information and are urging the US and Mexican governments to provide help.

“Evidently he was in the wrong place,” Trujillo told the Associated Press on Thursday before he boarded a flight back home with his tragic son’s remains.

The Sonora state prosecutor’s office said in a statement that it was analyzing evidence “to establish the facts, conditions and causes of the death,” which it did not describe as a homicide.

UC Berkeley in Northern California said it received word about Trujillo’s death on June 23.

“Local police authorities are investigating. This is heartbreaking news and campus officials have reached out to his family to offer support and assistance,” the school said in a statement.

A GoFundMe page also announced Trujillo’s death.

“Gabriel was and is beyond what words can express. He was brilliant, genuine, talented, adventurous, brave, generous, and above all unfailingly kind and loving to everyone,” organizer Cruz wrote.

“He was a son, brother, cherished family member, fiancé, and friend. He was a deeply spiritual Danzante and was reconnecting to his Indigenous Opata and Nahua ancestry,” she said.

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“Please know that Gabriel is still with you. He was and is a deeply spiritual person whose love is boundless and eternal. When you remember him, he would want you to be happy. That is how we can celebrate his life,” she added.

Born March 4, 1992, in Arizona, Trujillo later moved with his blended family to Michigan, where he and his siblings lived in a predominantly white neighborhood.

“We were like the Mexican Brady Bunch,” his father said.

Trujillo attended a boarding school in New Mexico and earned his bachelor’s degree from Lake Forest College in Illinois. A Ford Foundation fellow, he was on track to complete his doctorate at Berkeley in 2025.

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The US State Department urges Americans to “reconsider travel” to Sonora “due to crime and kidnapping.”

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Search for missing Dartmouth graduate student ends tragically

New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officers, from left, Rob McDermott, Matt Holmes, and Lt. James Kneeland scan the bottom of the Connecticut River during a search for missing Dartmouth College graduate student Kexin Cai above the Wilder Dam in West Lebanon, N.H., on Monday, May 20, 2024. Cai, a graduate student in Dartmouth College’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was last seen on Wednesday, May 15, near her Drake Lane residence in West Lebanon and may have been riding a silver and white e-bike. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson

The Lebanon Police Department is looking for public assistance in locating Kexin Cai, 26, from West Lebanon, N.H. She was last seen in the area of Drake Lane in West Lebanon on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Courtesy Lebanon Police)

Lebanon Police Officer Eric Hunter returns to his vehicle after assisting a Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team helicopter search from the ground for missing West Lebanon resident Kexin Cai, 26, at the Boston Lot on Monday, May 20, 2024. Fellow members of Cai's graduate program in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College were also searching the conservation area on foot on Monday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected].

Information about missing West Lebanon resident Kexin Cai, 26, is posted on a kiosk at the entrance to the Boston Lot near Wilder Dam in West Leabnon, N.H., on Monday, May 20, 2024. Cai, a graduate student in Dartmouth College’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was last seen on Wednesday, May 15, near her Drake Lane home and may have been riding a silver and white e-bike. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson

WEST LEBANON — Police on Monday retrieved the body of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor, nearly 16 miles downriver from where her e-bike was last seen leaning against a picnic table in a parking lot across the road from the Wilder Dam last Thursday.

Authorities found the body of Kexin Cai, 26, of West Lebanon, a graduate student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, after being alerted by a fisherman, police said late Monday.

The sad discovery ended a multi-day search for Cai by authorities and dozens of volunteers who scoured the conservation area that police believed had been Cai’s last known location.

Lebanon Police Chief Phil Roberts said police do not have any indication that Cai’s disappearance is the result of foul play and that an autopsy would be conducted by the New Hampshire State Medical Examiner.

A second-year doctoral candidate, Cai had not been seen since last Wednesday, when she was released from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and taken to Dartmouth’s on-campus health facility, Dick’s House. She had received mental health care at both locations last week, according to police and a friend of Cai’s.

Cai was at Dick’s House for a “brief time” before Dartmouth Safety and Security brought her back to her apartment at 3 p.m. on the same day, he said.

Staff at Dick’s House, concerned that Cai was not responding to their attempts to reach her, contacted Lebanon police at 6 p.m. last Friday requesting a wellness check at her apartment in Sachem Village in West Lebanon, according to Roberts.

When Cai could not be located at her apartment at the college-owned housing complex, the search widened over the weekend.

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A key clue emerged when police checked footage from private surveillance cameras that recorded Cai riding her e-bike south along Route 10 toward West Lebanon at around 6 p.m. on May 15, Roberts said.

Police said on Monday they were contacted by a witness who recalled seeing a white e-bike like the one Cai owned on Thursday or Friday in Boston Lot Conservation Area across from the Wilder Dam on Route 10. That dovetailed with the last registered pings from Cai’s phone and led them to focus their search in the area of the Boston Lot.

On Monday evening, Jon Kull, dean of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, sent out an email alerting the community to Cai’s death. He said that Cai was a Chinese national who was in her second year in a doctoral program and had a special interest in communication challenges presented by autism.

“According to her advisor, Kexin was an exceptionally gifted and humble researcher with a genuinely sweet personality,” Kull wrote. “She loved cats so much she would sneak images of them into every poster or presentation. Kexin loved the Upper Valley. Here, she discovered the joys of hiking, skiing and road trips.”

Kull said a remembrance gathering would be scheduled at a later date.

Roberts said that the search efforts included foot patrols, New Hampshire Fish and Game boats on the Connecticut River above and below the Wilder Dam and airborne surveillance by a DHART helicopter that was pressed into service on Monday.

Police also deployed drones, but until the fisherman had reported a body in the Connecticut River just south of the Windsor golf course, there had been no evidence of Cai’s whereabouts, Roberts said.

Because Cai had already been missing for days before police had been notified by Dick House’s staff, any traceable scent that could have been detected by canines had already dissipated, Roberts said.

A check with Cai’s banking records showed that there had been no financial transactions during the time of her disappearance, he said.

Roberts also noted that it would not be unusual for the strength of the Connecticut River’s current to have borne Cai’s body from West Lebanon to Windsor.

“That’s unfortunately very common in body recoveries.The current in that river is going to take a body south,” he said.

In an interview on Monday evening before police announced the discovery of Cai’s body, her friend and coworker Kristian Droste said that Cai had been experiencing a “mental health crisis” and had sought care earlier last week.

She was admitted to Dick’s House, Dartmouth’s on-campus medical facility, where she spent at least one night before being transferred to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, Droste said.

Roberts said that the police investigation found that Cai had been discharged by DHMC on May 15 and was transported by Dartmouth Safety and Security to Dick’s House.

On Tuesday, Dartmouth College spokesperson Diana Lawrence declined to comment on the college’s role in Cai’s care: “Dartmouth does not disclose student health information publicly.”

Dartmouth Health spokesperson Audra Burns also declined to comment: “For the protection of our patients’ privacy, Dartmouth Health does not comment on the care a patient receives or care protocols.”

The last time Droste saw Cai was when he visited her at Dick’s House on May 13, he said.

“It was clear she was still in a crisis and needed time and space to heal,” he said.

Droste said he later learned that Cai had been transferred to DHMC, but when he went to the medical center on Friday to check on her, he was informed that Cai had been discharged “a couple days earlier.”

Droste said that when he went to Cai’s apartment in West Lebanon later on Friday police were already there.

On Monday, colleagues and friends of Cai’s gathered on campus to organize a search, according to Sixtine Fleury, a graduate student in the Psychology and Brain Science Department who joined the effort.

Fleury said 30 to 40 volunteers divided themselves into four groups with each group entering at one of four “access points” into the 436-acre Boston Lot Conservation Area. Fleury’s group met in the parking area across from the Wilder Dam.

As Fleury spoke, search teams in boats were observed on the river both above and below Wilder Dam, including one of which was equipped with sonar equipment.

Although Fleury said she knew of Cai only through mutual friends, the effort to band together and launch a search was not unusual for the department’s students and colleagues.

“We’re a small, tight-knit community,” Fleury said of the Psychology and Brain Sciences program. “We all empathize with each other and if one of the members of our community are in some danger we are there for them.”

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The Lebanon Police Department is looking for public assistance in locating Kexin Cai, 26, from West Lebanon, N.H. She was last seen in the area of Drake Lane in West Lebanon on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 15, 2024. (Courtesy Lebanon Police) —

New Hampshire Fish and Game Conservation Officers, from left, Rob McDermott, Matt Holmes, and Lt. James Kneeland scan the bottom of the Connecticut River during a search for missing Dartmouth College graduate student Kexin Cai above the Wilder Dam in West Lebanon, N.H., on Monday, May 20, 2024. Cai, a graduate student in Dartmouth College’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was last seen on Wednesday, May 15, near her Drake Lane residence in West Lebanon and may have been riding a silver and white e-bike. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson

Information about missing West Lebanon resident Kexin Cai, 26, is posted on a kiosk at the entrance to the Boston Lot near Wilder Dam in West Leabnon, N.H., on Monday, May 20, 2024. Cai, a graduate student in Dartmouth College’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, was last seen on Wednesday, May 15, near her Drake Lane home and may have been riding a silver and white e-bike. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson

Lebanon Police Officer Eric Hunter returns to his vehicle after assisting a Dartmouth Hitchcock Advanced Response Team helicopter search from the ground for missing West Lebanon resident Kexin Cai, 26, at the Boston Lot on Monday, May 20, 2024. Fellow members of Cai's graduate program in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College were also searching the conservation area on foot on Monday. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to [email protected]. James M. Patterson

WEST LEBANON — Police retrieved a body they identified as that of a missing Dartmouth College graduate student from the Connecticut River in Windsor on Monday evening.

Authorities found the body of Kexin Cai, 26, of West Lebanon, a graduate student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, after a fisherman alerted them to a sighting along the river, according to a police news release.

Cai had been last seen near Drake Lane in West Lebanon on Wednesday, May 15, according to police. Initially it was unclear in which direction she traveled on her e-bike, but video footage from local businesses in the area showed she traveled south on Route 10.

Police also got a report on Monday that her bike had been seen on Thursday or Friday at the Boston Lot, according to the news release. As a result of that information, the search focused on the area of the Boston Lot and adjoining Wilder Dam.

The woman’s friends and colleagues also organized a volunteer search effort.

On Monday evening, Jon Kull, dean of the Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, sent out an email alerting the community to the discovery of Cai’s body. He said that she was a Chinese national who was in her second year in a doctoral program. She had a special interest in communication challenges in autism.

“According to her advisor, Kexin was an exceptionally gifted and humble researcher with a genuinely sweet personality,” Kull wrote. “She loved cats so much she would sneak images of them into every poster or presentation. Kexin loved the Upper Valley. Here, she discovered the joys of hiking, skiing and road trips.”

Kull said a remembrance gathering would be scheduled at a later date.

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On Monday, Lebanon Police Chief Phil Roberts said that the search efforts included ground searches, boats on the Connecticut River near the Wilder Dam and airborne searches by a DHART helicopter that was pressed into service.

Lebanon Police also deployed drones, but as of Monday evening, there still had been no evidence of Cai’s whereabouts, Roberts said. Police do not have any indication that Cai’s disappearance is the result of foul play.

In an interview on Monday evening, her friend and coworker Kristian Droste said that Cai had been experiencing a “mental health crisis” and had sought care earlier last week. She was admitted to Dick’s House, Dartmouth’s on-campus medical facility, where she spent at least one night before being transferred to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, Droste said.

The last time he saw Cai was when he visited her at Dick’s House on May 13, Droste said.

“It was clear she was still in a crisis and needed time and space to heal,” he said.

Soon thereafter Droste said Cai stopped replying to texts and as well as those from other mutual acquaintances.

Droste said he later learned that Cai, who friends said is from China, had been transferred to DHMC, but when he went to the medical center on Friday to check on her, he was informed that Cai had been discharged “a couple days earlier.”

Droste said Monday that when he later went to Cai’s apartment at Sachem Village in West Lebanon police were already there. He said it appeared police had been notified by Cai’s health care providers, who became worried when Cai was not responding to their messages.

A Slack channel that has been set up to share information and updates about Cai’s disappearance for Dartmouth community members had reached about 100 people, according to Droste.

On Monday, colleagues and friends of Cai’s gathered on campus to organize a search, according to Sixtine Fleury, a graduate student in the Psychology and Brain Science Department who joined the effort.

Fleury said 30 to 40 volunteers divided themselves into four groups with each group entering at one four “access points” into the 436-acre Boston Lot Conservation Area, which is near Cai’s apartment Sachem Village. Fleury’s group met in the parking area across from the Wilder Dam on Route 10.

She said search efforts were being focused on the Boston Lot because the last pings from Cai’s cellphone were last registered within a radius that covers the conservation area but also extended across the Connecticut River to Hartford.

As Fleury spoke, search teams in boats were observed on the river both above and below Wilder Dam, including one of which was equipped with sonar equipment.

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27-year-old Orlagh Anderson had been missing since yesterday evening but has since been located

A missing University of York student has been found “safe and well” after a police search this morning.

Orlagh Anderson had been missing since last night, with police saying that her friends and family had been unable “unable to contact her” and officers were becoming “increasingly concerned”.

Following a public appeal, North Yorkshire Police have said that the 27-year-old has now been located unharmed, Daily Mail reports .

Currently working in collaboration with CHAIN Biotechnology, investigating the metabolic potential of the anaerobic gut bacterium Clostridium butyricum, Orlagh has worked as a PhD researcher at York for the last four years.

She also received a first class degree in biology from the University of Durham in 2019, before she began studying in York.

Having not been seen by friends of family since last night, Wednesday 6th March, police issued a statement to ask the public for help to find her. They said: “Our officers are currently searching for 27-year-old Orlagh who has been missing since last night.

“Her family and friends have bene unable to contact her ever since and we’re growing increasingly concerned for her welfare.

“Extensive enquiries are ongoing to locate Orlagh and as part of our enquiries, we’re asking for anyone who may have seen her, or who has information about her whereabouts, to contact us immediately.”

This morning, police released an updated statement explaining that she had been located “safe and well”. They said: “We’re pleased to update that the 27-year-old woman missing from York has been located safe and well.

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PhD student missing for 8 days, peers hint at involvement of a man

The police have found the scooter of a 27-year-old phd student, who went missing on the outskirts of mangaluru, 8 days ago.

The police have found the scooter of a 27-year-old PhD student, who went missing Deralkatte, on the outskirts of Mangaluru, eight days ago.

Police said, Chaitra, who was pursuing her PhD in food security from a private institution, was last seen leaving her paying guest accommodation near Kotekaru Madur on February 17. The discovery of her Activa scooter near Pumpwell on Sunday has intensified the search efforts.

The case took a concerning turn when some peers revealed that a Muslim man from Puttur was frequently visiting the PG, where Chaitra resided, said police.

Alerted by the local residents, some Bajrang Dal members filed a police complaint, suspecting the involvement of the man in a potential interfaith relationship. Police said, some people have also claimed that the man was a drug peddler.

Those familiar with the development said, the man was earlier arrested in a drug-peddling case. He allegedly made a drug addict by supplying her drugs.

Expressing concern over the situation, Bajrang Dal Ullal chief organiser Arjun Madur said, “It is possible that this young man kidnapped her. He should be arrested immediately.” He issued a stern warning, threatening massive protest if Chaitra is not traced within the next three days.

In response to the escalating tensions, Chaitra’s father, Prakash Hebbar, filed a missing person’s complaint at Ullal police station, highlighting the suspicious circumstances surrounding her disappearance.

“We have registered a missing person’s case at Ullal police station,’’ said Mangaluru city police commissioner Anupam Agarwal.

“We have definite clues about the location of the missing woman and will find her soon, ‘’ he added.

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Robotic ship searches waters off Michigan's U.P. for clues into plane's 1968 disappearance

Shortly after noon on Oct. 23, 1968, a National Center for Atmospheric Research airplane made its final radio call before disappearing along the southern shores of Lake Superior. 

The Beechcraft Queen Air had taken off from Madison with two pilots and one passenger, a graduate student from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. All three were involved in the research, on their way to measure temperatures across Lake Superior to see how large lakes heat the atmosphere.

Over the past half century, pieces of the wreck have come ashore along Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Exactly where the plane went down, though, has been elusive. 

Now, a robot may help solve that mystery. 

On Monday, a team of researchers deployed a robotic ship on a week-long mission to try to find the remains of the research airplane.

Even more than 50 years later, finding the wreckage can help answer what went wrong that day, said Wayne Lusardi, Michigan’s state maritime archaeologist. But Lusardi said it will be a difficult challenge.

Pieces of the plane – some of which may only be the size of a sheet of paper – are likely scattered for miles along the lake bottom, covered with sand at depths up to 400 feet deep. 

But the September mission and new technology offer a glimmer of hope.

So, what do we know about the plane crash? Why hasn’t it been found? How do family members feel? 

We answer six questions. 

What do we know about the plane crash?

Two pilots, Robert Carew and Gordon Jones, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a Boulder, Colorado-based research organization, were on board the flight as well as Velayudh Krishna, the graduate student. 

According to an archived Milwaukee Sentinel story from Oct. 26, 1968, the weather bureau reported winds up to 20 miles an hour, but gusts reaching 80 miles per hour late in the afternoon. It was a routine research flight so the pilots did not file a flight plan.

The wreckage of the research airplane is believed to be off the shores of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between Ontonagon and Freda, a distance of roughly 30 miles. The location is based on historical records, personal accounts and where fragments of the wreck have come ashore. 

The U.S. Coast Guard began searching 16 hours after the plane last made radio contact, Lusardi said. The coast guard found two blue, upholstered seats and pieces of aluminum that washed up on shore 12 miles west of Hancock, Michigan, according to the same Milwaukee Sentinel story.

Nothing else turned up during the search.

A year later, another pilot from the research organization initiated a month-long sonar survey to search for the plane, but was unsuccessful, Lusardi said.  

Because the wreckage has never been found, federal agencies can’t make a determination about how the plane crash happened. 

Now, with technology that is a half-century more advanced, “so we have an infinitely better chance of finding debris from this aircraft than they did back in the day,” Lusardi said. 

More: Scientists just discovered cold, dark sinkholes in Lake Michigan. What's living in them?

Why is the wreckage so hard to find?

When a small airplane hits the water it often breaks into fragments immediately, which is why it can be much harder to find than shipwrecks. 

Some freighters are 600 feet long, Lusardi said, so it’s a bigger target, and shipwrecks have features – like masts – that stand out on sonar. 

The research plane was roughly 35 feet long with only a 50-foot wingspan. Small pieces are likely scattered across a wide area, and covered with sand and sediment.

The nearshore area of Lake Superior also drops off very quickly, Lusardi said fragments can be anywhere from near the shoreline to 400 feet deep.

What will the robotic ship look for?

The mission is being led by the Smart Ships Coalition , an organization of industry, government and academic partners interested in advancing technology in the Great Lakes region. 

The coalition plans on Monday to launch the Armada 8 , a robotic ship made by Ocean Infinity, a marine robotics company based in Texas. The robotic ship is about 26 feet long and weighs 10,000 pounds. 

Over the course of a week, it will scan a 20-square-mile area of Lake Superior using multi-beam sonar. 

The robot will paint a picture of the bottom of the lake, hoping to pick up clues that something might be there, said Travis White, a research engineer with the Great Lakes Research Center at Michigan Technical University. The university is a partner on the project.  

If the team does see an anomaly, scuba divers will take a closer look. 

According to White, the team is prioritizing caution and sensitivity, given that if they do find the plane wreck, there may still be human remains present. 

More: We know more about the surface of Mars than about the floor of Lake Michigan. But what we do know is remarkable.

Are the victims’ families involved in the search?

Members of the victims’ families are supportive of the mission to find the wreck, and were given the opportunity to participate, according to both White and Lusardi. Lusardi said they will be given updates along the way.  

“Hopefully we can bring answers to some of the family members, whatever that may be,” Lusardi said. 

What is the likelihood they will find anything?

It will be extremely challenging to find pieces of the plane, especially at depths where it’s completely dark. 

But the coalition is hopeful it can at least get closer to finding answers.  

“We’re utilizing such incredibly advanced technology, so we are hopeful we will at least find bigger fragments,” Lusardi said. 

What doors will this mission open?

The mission may help open doors to finding out more about what’s hiding at the bottom of the Great Lakes. 

Only 15% of the lake beds have been mapped in high resolution, which has led scientists to say they know more about the surface of Mars than they do about the bottom of the largest fresh surface water system on earth.

The Lakebed 2030 Initiative is hoping to change that. The initiative, led by the Great Lakes Observing System, is an effort to map and fully explore the lake bottoms by 2030. The observing system is also a partner in this attempt to find the 1968 research plane wreck. 

Technology, like the robotic ship, “will be an important tool to meet that timeline,” White said. 

Lusardi said more affordable and available technology is helping to better understand the history hidden on the bottom of the lakes. 

Two decades ago, there were only a handful of sonar devices in the Great Lakes, Lusardi said. Now the average fish finder can do more than what those devices could.

Beyond history, White said baseline maps are needed to better understand how climate change is impacting the Great Lakes. 

But for now, we have to wait to see if a robot will be the next to solve one of the Great Lakes' many mysteries.

Caitlin Looby is a Report for America corps member who writes about the environment and the Great Lakes. Reach her at [email protected] or follow her on X @caitlooby .

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