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.
