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.
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.
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.
*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.)
Sadly now Nick Wilcox
ReplyDeleteAdded. (Per your suggestion, I double checked and although Wilcox's body was found on the 29th of March it was so badly decomposed that an ID couldn't be made until the beginning of April.)
DeleteThank you for visiting today and taking the time to comment!
E.R.
two unnamed bodies found drowned in Boston this month. One a 22 year old male, the other no info released.
ReplyDelete115 South 9th Street La Crosse, WI
ReplyDeleteAre all these from 2013?
ReplyDeleteYes.
Delete(And there's more, but too often now the name of "a young male found drowned" is not released, and the matter never mentioned again.)
There are to many oddities for all the disappearances and drownings to all be coincidence. Any one can look at individual details and make a different claim. There are hundreds of oddities. oddities where I would have to spend a entire day to mention them all and that is probably not going to happen unless I decide to write a book some day. Sequence of letters oddities- Nathan Edberg goes missing and not long after David (Britt Sar)gent. The star Tribune does the story on the Edberg disappearance. I am hardly going to tell you all of every instance of similar oddities with letter sequences. There is the bar names in the sequence of letters in the victims name. There are similarities in people missing the same day. There is someone working for Kenneth Cole company and right after a body found at the Humphrey Coal mine and his middle name was Bogart. I could go on and on and on with these oddities which individually could be a coincidence but taken as a whole it just is not possible. There were 3 disappearances in a short time frame in the same area of the country. All the city names ended in a y. Of course that could be coincidence but coincidences happening over and over again in much the same ways to the extent they have happened is not possible. T
ReplyDeleteWould someone really make a cryptic suicide note? I doubt it but a killer might
ReplyDeleteNever heard Michael Barbiere mentioned. This is one all too typical. Leaves in one direction found dead in the other. Going to me someone-in this case a girl.
ReplyDeleteHe was also seen drinking water the last 2 hours at the bar .here is part of an article
"This throws us for a loop," said Bob Barbiere, 46, the brother of the man who had been missing since he left Cecilia's Martini Bar early Feb. 8. "We were searching for him on the opposite end of town because when he left Cecilia's he was headed north. He ended up south."
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This is also one of those cases I have not mentione yet.
As I said there are hundreds of oddities .. Who do you think of when you think of Barbie? Look at the city this happened in-Breckenridge.
Also similar to other cases an item is found separate from the body.
it was supposed to say meet someone. guess I have to make sure I hit these keys hard
DeleteHey, my friend, I hadn't heard of this case -- thanks -- looking at it now!
Delete(Also, what is your website again for readers here who might be curious?)
E.R.
I am the mother of Jeffrey Woodruff that you have listed above. He went missing April 27, 2013 and he was found in a river a block away from the bar he was last seen at on April 30, 2013 (his brother's birthday). It feels like I am reading the details of Jeffrey's last night out over and over again. It is haunting to know that this is acceptable and deserves no further investigating. :(
ReplyDeleteAbove I stated that "It is haunting to know that this is acceptable and deserves no further investigating." I hope I wasn't misunderstood I was referring to our local state police where Jeffrey was found in Saugatuck, MI stating no foul play suspected and a handful of local members of the community that are outraged that a Mother can't let it go. I would like to say that my heart goes out to the other friends & family that lost a loved one so tragically. Eponymous Rox I also thank you for your amazing work. When I came across your site there was a sense of relief that someone understands why I can't let it go that he just went out, got drunk, & drowned! I would like to share the facts of Jeffrey's case and I pray that you are able to somehow help. Thank you again, Becky Woodruff
DeleteHello, Ms. Woodruff [Becky], and thank you for coming by today and for commenting.
ReplyDeletePlease accept my condolences for the loss of your son and rest assured that I do not find such disappearances and drownings 'acceptable' by any means. Nor do those who visit this site regularly in hopes of solving the Case of the Drowning Men.
Next time, be sure to read the interviews with other families who have had similar experiences (in the Voices for the Dead section - click on my name in this comment to go there or else the menu tab itself). Then feel free to contact me at EponymousRox @ gmail.com if you wish to begin to discuss and publicize the facts of your own son's case.
Note also that I freelance for different media agencies, including now Yahoo, so I can give these matters the coverage they deserve whereas mainstream reporters aren't as inclined to.
Again, I want you to know that I feel terrible for your loss. If I can help out, believe me I will.
Peace to you and yours --
E.R.
I was unable to contact you at EponymousRox@gmail.com I would like to discuss my son Jeffrey Woodruff's case with you. Please contact me at justiceforjeffreywoodruff@gmail.com Thank you, Becky Woodruff
DeleteThank you, Becky, and will do ASAP. I have a few preliminary questions first, so get your docs and data organized in the interim.
DeleteIf we can complete the entire interview in time it will be featured in the upcoming issue of Hunting Smiley (print edition). Click on my name in this post to check out the 'Voices for the Dead' section now -- that's more or less the format and types of Q&A we'll be doing too, plus the kind of photo evidence I'll expect, if you have it. (Highlights of Jeffrey's case will also appear on that page, as well as in a separate Killing Killers blog post, and any other news venues appropriate and available at press time.)
Together we will try our best to get to the bottom of this case, whether or not they want us to!
E.R.