Missing / Found Drowned (April 2013)

The following young males were missing / found drowned in the month of April 2013. Read May 2013's list here. Bookmark these posts if you are tracking and investigating the Drowning Men phenomenon too, and use the comment sections to send notice of any cases that have inadvertently been omitted:

Trevor James O'Brien, 28, went missing from Michigan in February. He was found drowned on April 23rd.
 

Ryhene Jamel Thomas, 25, went missing from Wisconsin in December 2012. He was found drowned on April 21st.

Charlie Geurts, 26, went missing from Wisconsin in January. He was found drowned on April 17th.

Sarath Kumar Potharaju, 35, went missing from Washington DC on Easter Sunday. He was was found drowned on April 11th.

Carl Austin Travis, 22, went missing from Ohio in February. He was found drowned on April 12th.

Nick Wilcox, 24, went missing from Wisconsin on New Year's day. A body was found floating in the Milwaukee body on March 29th and identified as his on April 1st.
 

Ryan Johnson, 28, went missing from Maine on April 17th and was found drowned the next day.

Jeffrey Woodruff, 25, went missing from Michigan on April 27th and was found drowned on April 30th.

Charles River drownings: On April 4th a cadaver was found on the banks of Boston's Charles River and identified only as a 22-year-old male. On April 26th another man's body was spotted floating near the Esplanade and ID'd via a wallet, although the victim's age and name has also not been disclosed.  This estruary has been the site of numerous cold weather drownings of male students and professionals over the past few years, the most suspicious by far being that of grad student Jonathan Dailey whose corpse was discovered by a rowing coach in October 2012 bound with chains and cinderblocks. The entire city of Boston itself is now a hot zone for missing/drowned young men and appears to have a new policy of not publicizing their disappearances anymore nor the identities of victims when finally located. Likewise, metro police are not following through with investigations either, even in dubious deaths such as 23-year-old Jon Dailey's and 21-year-old Franco Garcia's in February 2012. Therefore Killing Killers is urging all men between 17 and 30 to excercise extreme caution when visiting this metropolitan area and its numerous pubs, and to do so whether alone or with friends.

 

INVESTIGATE MISSING/DROWNED MAY 2013 CASE FILES HERE

 

*R.I.P. to Sunil Tripathi, 22, from Rhode Island who ran away from his family in mid March this year, leaving behind a cryptic suicide note. The despondent young man had dropped out of college a year earlier and was battling chronic depression for some time. His loved ones said if he did take his life that, based on previous discussions with him about this, they figured he would choose death by drowning and that is exactly what he did ... on April 24th a body was found floating in the Providence River and on April 25th it was positively identified as his. Thus brings a sad close to the search for him. 

(Note that the Killing Killers crime site does not cover disappearances and drownings by suicide, accident or hazing, but in the initial days the Tripathi case was presented by his family as a mysterious vanishing which closely resembled the bona fide ones regularly featured here. Use the comment section below to submit only suspicious disappearances and drownings, or use the contact feature on the side panel to e-mail me a tip.)

 

EPONYMOUS ROX

 

Eric Yoon "Not" Missing

New Jersey police claim that 20-year-old Eric Yoon, a sophomore at Rutgers University who disappeared from the campus in December 2012, "wants to be missing."

 

Accordingly, they've long ago ceased looking for him, although the strange case is still technically considered to be ongoing.

"He voluntarily decided not to return home," stated Englewood Deputy Chief Lawrence Suffern in March of this year.

Suffern declined to further elaborate. 

 

If the deputy's assertion is correct, then Yoon's been doing a rather awesome Houdini because no one has seen the young man ever since he *volunteered* to vanish in thin air.

 

Which probably explains why the unaccounted for youth continues to remain listed on most national missing-person databases as well...

 

No comment from law enforcement. No comment from officials of Rutgers University.

 

However, a fellow Rutgers student by the name of Michael Wexler (whoever that is) did hasten to assure the press that Eric Yoon likely hadn't met up with any foul play and is still alive and well *someplace*.

 

His proof? Wexler forwarded comments he collected from an anonymous online discussion concerning his absent classmate, half of which were purely speculative in nature, the others posted solely as a result of mistaken identity.

 

Evidently the name Eric Yoon is not uncommon for males of Asian ancestry. And neither are intermeddlers.

 

So, chucking all the chatter and hearsay aside for a moment, is this particular Eric Yoon missing or isn't he?

 

Well, by now it definitely appears to be the case. And since a number of other young males have also similarly gone missing within this same timeframe, to be eventually found drowned several days, weeks or months later, it's probably best to keep an eye on the Yoon disappearance, too.

 

Eric Yoon is approximately five-foot-eight, 170 pounds, with dark hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information about his current whereabouts is urged to call the Englewood police at 201-568-2700. 

 

Eponymous Rox