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Police find body of college student who was visiting MSU
msm ^ | 1/21/2020 | staff

Posted on 01/21/2022 1:15:41 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

AST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A nearly three-month search for a missing college student who was visiting Michigan State University ended Friday with the discovery of a body in the Red Cedar River, police said.

Authorities believe the body is Brendan Santo, 18, who was last seen leaving a residence hall late on Oct. 29.

“The Santo family has been informed and we are providing them with as much information and support as possible during this difficult time,” campus police said. “We are deeply saddened by this tragic loss. ... We still have no reason to believe foul play is involved or that Brendan intended to harm himself."

Santo, a student at Grand Valley State University, was from Rochester Hills, a Detroit suburb. He disappeared during Halloween weekend on the eve of a big football game between MSU and Michigan.

Police said the body was found 1 1/2 miles from where Santo was last seen. The river flows through campus.

His disappearance was highly publicized, including announcements on the scoreboard during subsequent football games, and searchers repeatedly checked the river and surrounding areas.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: brendansanto; michiganstate; missing
This story had a lot of students completely freaked out.

Found 1 1/2 miles away from where last seen in a river that runs through campus.

Have to wait for ME report, but at least LE will know what camera footage to review.

1 posted on 01/21/2022 1:15:41 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

We don’ take kindly to you Grand Valley State University folks in these parts. Nope.


2 posted on 01/21/2022 1:17:48 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Lol.. need to get better at hiding the bodies.


3 posted on 01/21/2022 1:23:55 PM PST by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

“...and searchers repeatedly checked the river and surrounding areas.”

hmmm


4 posted on 01/21/2022 1:24:18 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I forget where it was, but there had been stories of quite a few young people sporadically ending up in rivers. There was a theory that someone would hide in the bushes and then run out and shove people (who may have been drunk/incapacitated) into some river. These would, of course, be murders but they would look like accidents or suicides.


5 posted on 01/21/2022 1:25:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy ("If you see something, say something?" I see people dying from vaccines.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Instead of demanding we wear masks, why not kevlar vests?

Like the poor young woman Briana Kupfer working in the Croft House store who was suddenly stabbed to death by a stranger and the NY Burger King employee Kristal Bayron-Nieves Jan.14th trying to unlock the 2nd cash drawer who was shot to death anyway.


6 posted on 01/21/2022 1:28:02 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

SFK.


7 posted on 01/21/2022 1:57:20 PM PST by Theoria
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To: ClearCase_guy

I remember hearing about that too, there were 5 or 6 college guys found in rivers or on river banks after they’d been out at clubs or parties. Someone investigating found a bunch more, going back to 1999 or so. Not sure if they were all in the same area, & can’t remember all the details either. I think they were called the Smiley Face killings??


8 posted on 01/21/2022 2:04:20 PM PST by twyn1
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To: ClearCase_guy

Was it this?

https://thoughtcatalog.com/jim-goad/2015/03/the-grisly-smiley-face-killer-theory-that-connects-40-college-students-deaths/


9 posted on 01/21/2022 2:05:27 PM PST by Valpal1
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Anyone check the area for those Smiley faces that were turning up in such cases a few years back?


10 posted on 01/21/2022 2:10:54 PM PST by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

So sad. At least his family can have some kind of closure now.


11 posted on 01/21/2022 2:41:39 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: ClearCase_guy

Not to mention the completely possible blind blackout drunk kids stumbling into the river themselves.

Not as sexy as “Smiley Face” or some other serial killer - just more plausible.


12 posted on 01/21/2022 2:43:07 PM PST by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: frank ballenger

Google the videos of David Paulides. He has been on the trail of weird deaths for a couple of decades and recently did a series of video interviews discussing the strasnge deaths of college aged men, supposedly drowned in inches of water or turning up along the banks of rivers with conflicting evidence showing they were not in the water for the entire time they went missing and were found at or in a river or creek.


13 posted on 01/21/2022 2:52:05 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Had a girl who worked with me. Evidently very drunk at a bar.
went missing

Found body 2 years later under a dock in the bay. Always thought she was pushed. Or raped and pushed.


14 posted on 01/21/2022 2:53:36 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: frank ballenger

https://intothefrayradio.com/Episodes/itf-04-david-paulides/ click on the link to a radio interview, and beginnning around minute ten Paulides addresses these deaths and the circumstances. He is a criminal investigator.


15 posted on 01/21/2022 3:07:25 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: twyn1

Isn’t the simplest explanation that blind drunks think they’ll have a swim or topple in all by themselves?


16 posted on 01/21/2022 4:22:31 PM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: Chewbarkah

Yep - that is the simplest explanation — also perhaps an extremely clever way of killing without drawing attention. Could some/most of these be drunk guys falling (jumping?) off an embankment or bridge? Sure. But could there be actual serial killings intertwined?

I think some circumstances occurred where there was a question of why the “victim” left his group or got separated out somehow, friends saying it was totally against character. Was it just deciding to head home on his own, did he get lured off, did he meet someone?


17 posted on 01/21/2022 6:23:19 PM PST by twyn1
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To: Chewbarkah

No that is not the simplest explanation since several tested well below intoxication level in the autopsies. You have spouted off in ignorance. Why not listen to the links and learn something about this mystery?


18 posted on 01/21/2022 6:53:29 PM PST by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It might be crazier than that.

First, nobody really knows what is going on in this country. There is a very big organization rolling under the radar that regular people know nothing about, and its whole focus seems to be controlling who gets to be ultra-successful. From what I see it is in just about every community, kind of like the Stasi, and just about everybody gets assessed and gets a file, starting in grade school. It is bigger than anybody would imagine possible.

Second, I have run into a guy who had a family member possibly run into whoever is behind these things, and supposedly there may be survivors, and not everybody who survives reports it.

It may be the organization putting out crews of young people to lure in successful young men, or just identifying when they are vulnerable and moving in. Some end up dead, but some just end up drugged, waking up in ditches undressed, with signs they were sexually abused, probably on video, and they just don’t report it.

The serial killer thing may just be a cover for what is a larger, more organized and purposeful operation.


19 posted on 01/22/2022 12:38:51 AM PST by AnonymousConservative (DO NOT send me sensitive information, I am under domestic surv coverage, and they will see it too.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I should add, it is probably one wing of what I track here:

http://www.anonymousconservative.com/blog/surveillance


20 posted on 01/22/2022 12:40:56 AM PST by AnonymousConservative (DO NOT send me sensitive information, I am under domestic surv coverage, and they will see it too.)
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