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Former Child Star Matthew Mindler Dies By Suicide
Oxygen ^ | AUGUST 30, 2021, 6:03 PM ET | JAX MILLER

Posted on 08/31/2021 11:25:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The death of a former child star whose body was found near his university campus has been ruled a suicide, according to local reports.

Matthew Mindler, 19, disappeared on Tuesday near the Millersville University campus, according to Lancaster Online. Search teams located his body in a wooded area on Saturday morning.

Mindler co-starred in the 2011 film ‘Our Idiot Brother’ alongside Paul Rudd, according to his acting profile on IMDB. Other acting credits included a role in the soap opera ‘As The World Turns’ and a 2016 TV movie titled ‘Chad: An American Boy.’

Mindler was reported missing to campus police on Tuesday when he didn’t come back to his room or return his family’s phone calls, according to an earlier statement from Millersville University. The school released a photo showing Mindler in the hallway shortly before his disappearance.

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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: childactor; hollywood; matthewmindler; mindler; suicide
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1 posted on 08/31/2021 11:25:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

“Commits Suicide” would use fewer letters.


2 posted on 08/31/2021 11:27:36 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: BenLurkin

Who?


3 posted on 08/31/2021 11:27:40 AM PDT by sauropod (Bidet was no prize before he put the “d” in “dementia.” - Schlichter)
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To: BenLurkin

Why any parent allows their child to go to Hollywood is beyond me.


4 posted on 08/31/2021 11:28:19 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: BenLurkin

I wonder if he got in with the same type of Hollywood people as Corey Feldman and Corey Haim did.


5 posted on 08/31/2021 11:29:03 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: sauropod

It should say child actor, not star.
I’ve never heard of him, and I watch a lot of movies.


6 posted on 08/31/2021 11:29:08 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: fruser1

Oops, words, that is.


7 posted on 08/31/2021 11:29:21 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: BenLurkin

The word “Star” has as part of its meaning some level of fame. People few have heard of are not “Stars”.

That said it’ll turn out being the usual situation. Some actor runs into trouble, foolishly sees a therapist, gets on drugs and then offs himself.


8 posted on 08/31/2021 11:30:20 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: sauropod

I’ve never heard of him either.


9 posted on 08/31/2021 11:31:09 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: BenLurkin

Very young, very sad.


10 posted on 08/31/2021 11:32:11 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: BenLurkin

Nineteen years old.

I have grey hairs older’n that.

Damn shame.


11 posted on 08/31/2021 11:36:22 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: rdl6989

I couldn’t even find a Wikipedia article for him.


12 posted on 08/31/2021 11:39:10 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: EEGator
It should say child actor, not star.

I had never heard of him either and looked him up on IMDb.

It looks like he had minor rolls in a couple of movies as a child. Still sad, but not any more newsworthy than any other college student who commits suicide.

13 posted on 08/31/2021 11:40:39 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
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To: sauropod

Yeah.....”child star” and “porn star” are way over-used.


14 posted on 08/31/2021 11:40:57 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: fruser1

True, but more letters. The same if the space is counted as a letter. But you have a point. He probably committed suicide, while Epstein died by “suicide”.


15 posted on 08/31/2021 11:43:18 AM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021)
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To: BenLurkin

He was an actor, not a star


16 posted on 08/31/2021 11:43:50 AM PDT by bobrlbob
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To: gundog

Sadly yes in both cases.


17 posted on 08/31/2021 11:53:58 AM PDT by wally_bert (I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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To: BenLurkin

Don’t know him, I detest Hollywood, but I’m going to throw it into auto-mourn anyway.


18 posted on 08/31/2021 11:56:17 AM PDT by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: BenLurkin

Thing about suicides is they nearly always leave someone else to deal with finding the body and cleaning up the mess. A friend of my mom’s found her ‘boyfriend’s’ body in her car in the garage. CO poising is relatively un messy, but imagine finding someone you love, dead by suicide in you car.

Another friend’s ex murdered his new wife and shot himself—all on his oldest daughter’s birthday. I don’t know that she’ll ever get over it.


19 posted on 08/31/2021 12:05:08 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: EEGator

Spielberg and others raped and sodomized that blonde girl from those Poltergeist movies


20 posted on 08/31/2021 12:07:35 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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