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Old 04-24-2014, 10:20 PM
 
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A Boston University graduate, Eric Munsell, 24 is the latest victim identified recovered from the Boston Harbor. Some reporters and police believe there is a killer of young white men, who prey on drunken college age males and find a way to drown them. Most of the deaths have occurred in the midwest. Some police officials who are familiar with the ongoing deaths admit, although it's a well known criminal theory that surfaces with each new mysterious drowning, discussing the matter often doesn't do much good because nobody as of yet has found any real proof in spite of several deaths happening each year.


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Old 04-24-2014, 10:44 PM
 
Location: Cambridge, MA
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Plenty of "reporters and police" are also out there believing that the missing Malaysian jetliner is at a hidden airstrip as part of a plot for the "next 9/11."
News flash, the stressful side of college life is worse than ever. Tuitions skyrocket while a job market that's uncertain at best for most majors awaits on the other side. Adolescence is tough enough as it is for a lot of people. Every day a small number of them decide to end it all. And not everyone who decides to end it all jumps from a building like that Harvard student did a couple of weeks ago.
We're supposed to believe a BC grad student has a few at a Cleveland Circle dive, leaves alone, and is caught on a nearby ATM's camera walking down the street by himself only to be suddenly accosted? Strange how there were no signs of foul play when he was fished out of the reservoir across the way.
We're supposed to believe someone at BU who'd studied fun topics like auto-asphyxiation was lured from his apartment by a "Smiley Face Killer" who tied and padlocked a cinderblock around his ankles, with no resistance, and pushed him into the Charles?
Oh...kay...There's no use tryin', 'cause I ain't buyin'. See you in Roswell.
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Old 04-25-2014, 03:28 AM
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A Boston University graduate, Eric Munsell, 24 is the latest victim identified recovered from the Boston Harbor. Some reporters and police believe there is a killer of young white men, who prey on drunken college age males and find a way to drown them. Most of the deaths have occurred in the midwest. Some police officials who are familiar with the ongoing deaths admit, although it's a well known criminal theory that surfaces with each new mysterious drowning, discussing the matter often doesn't do much good because nobody as of yet has found any real proof in spite of several deaths happening each year.


Body found in Boston Harbor identified as missing BU graduate student, Boston police say - Metro - The Boston Globe]
Did you notice at the end of the most recent news article (the one about Munsell) this:
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On Feb. 11, detectives searched for Munsell in the water behind the Marriot Long Wharf Hotel and found another man struggling to climb out of the water. The water in the harbor was recorded at 32 degrees that night, officials said.
It could be that these young college men got stupidly drunk, stumbled as they walked along the water's edge admiring the view and fell into the water all on their own. College students in general tend to booze it up when they are out partying. I think that with the females, they tend to hang out in groups and the guys on the other hand feel comfortable walking around on their own.
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Old 04-25-2014, 04:12 AM
 
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Old 04-25-2014, 01:07 PM
 
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Plenty of "reporters and police" are also out there believing that the missing Malaysian jetliner is at a hidden airstrip as part of a plot for the "next 9/11."

This has nothing to do with hundreds of young white guys that have no issues of depression or suicidal tendencies to end up in the water drowned.

News flash, the stressful side of college life is worse than ever. Tuitions skyrocket while a job market that's uncertain at best for most majors awaits on the other side. Adolescence is tough enough as it is for a lot of people. Every day a small number of them decide to end it all.
News Flash! This guy already graduated. This guy already landed a good job at General Electric as an engineer. 24 years old is not adolescence, he was a grown man. Where did you see mention of any depression or despair? He was celebrating his 24th birthday.
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Old 04-25-2014, 03:11 PM
 
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"Graduate student" is not the same thing as someone who's graduated.
Birthdays are often times of mixed emotions, although "celebrating" is what people do. The scary and sad thing about suicide is that so often the closest survivors never anticipated it. Or, "I'd just talked to him yesterday, and he'd been going through some tough times but seemed really happy."
And accidents do happen, all the time, with the odds of one occurring that much greater when imbibing's been going on.

There's no need to be defensive and confrontational when no one's jumping onto a paranoid conspiracy theory bandwagon. None of us knew the guy. Multiple valid scenarios for his untimely death exist. Accept it but think whatever you like.
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Old 01-09-2016, 07:33 PM
 
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We're supposed to believe someone at BU who'd studied fun topics like auto-asphyxiation was lured from his apartment by a "Smiley Face Killer" who tied and padlocked a cinderblock around his ankles, with no resistance, and pushed him into the Charles?
Oh...kay...There's no use tryin', 'cause I ain't buyin'. See you in Roswell.
Yet, we are to believe he walked six blocks from his apartment carrying a cinder block and chain... unnoticed?
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Old 01-09-2016, 07:36 PM
 
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It could be that these young college men got stupidly drunk, stumbled as they walked along the water's edge admiring the view and fell into the water all on their own.
Not all were intoxicated.
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Old 01-09-2016, 08:16 PM
 
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Why does thread say white males? Other races just as suspicious and not just college students? Such as:

William Hurley, age 24 Navy Veteran.
Oct. 08, 2009 Missing
Circumstance: He called his girlfriend of 2 years, Claire Mahoney, who offered to pick him up after he left a Boston Bruins game, as he was unfamiliar with the area. While on the phone with Mahoney, Hurley asked his exact location and a passerby yelled "99 Nashua Street." Hurley's cell phone battery then went dead. Mahoney said, "I got to 99 Nashua Street a minute or two later and he was nowhere in the area." She said, "I beeped, I yelled, I looked around, I walked around. I drove around for an hour. I was right around the corner but when I got there Will was gone." A search a few days later turned up his smashed cell phone. Oct. 14, 2009, his body found in the Charles River, one week after missing.


Eugene Losik, age 25 Engineer at Raytheon
February 19 , 2010 Missing
Circumstance: Body found, 9 months later, November 8, 2010 , in Boston Harbor. Losik had been missing since February after being last seen at the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel, on the Boston Harbor, where he was staying with friends to celebrate a friend's birthday. He was seen on surveillance leaving his hotel room, in the cold Feb weather, without his coat , and presumably to smoke a cigarette. His belongings were in the hotel room. The video surveillance did not cover the entire parking area so it is not known how he vanished nor how he ended up in the Boston Harbor, especially when he would not go near the water earlier in the day , as he held a fear of water.


Franco Garcia, age 21 Boston College Student
February 22, 2012 Missing
Circumstance: Garcia, a student at the college's night school had walked to the bar with fellow members of Boston College's Symphonic Band after band practice. Garcia lived at home with his parents on Webster Street, 10 minutes away from the bar, but planned to stay overnight at the place of a close female friend. Garcia found a couple friends from high school inside the bar and separated from her and other college friends for parts of the night." At 11:27 p.m., Garcia sent a close friend a text message that read in part, "dont leave w/out me." She saw Garcia in the bar about 30 minutes later, and he knew that she wasn't planning to leave without him. Garcia had some mixed drinks and was considered intoxicated but "not smashed," as patrons reported. He was last seen by friends around 12:15 a.m., but by bar close, no one could find him and he vanished. On April 11, 2012, his body was found in the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Death ruled accidental drowning.

Jonathon Dailey, age 23 graduate student
October 02, 2012 Missing
Circumstance: Left for a walk and never returned to his apartment that he shared with friends. Body found a week later, October 09, 2012 in the Charles River weighted down with a chain and cinder block. Nobody ever came forward to say they saw a young man walking with a cinder block, nor jumping to his death. Death was ruled suicide.

Eric Munsell, age 24
February 8, 2014 Missing
Circumstance: Attended bar with friends celebrating his birthday. Bouncers threw him out later in the eve after they said he offended a group of girls. He was thrown out in 30 degree weather without a coat. Reports stated that Bar bouncers asked "if he had a coat" and he said "no." Witnesses said he was stumbling and fell in snow. Two months later, on April 23, 2014, his body was found in the Boston Harbor near Long Wharf.


Josue Quispe-Almendro, age 18 College Student
October 17, 2015 Missing
Circumstance: The 18-year-old college student, one month shy of his 19th birthday, who lived in Malden, MA (outside Boston) and was reported missing by his parents on October 18, 2015, a day after he didn’t return home from dropping his sibling off and performing other family errands. The next day, his abandoned vehicle was discovered in Quincy, Massachusetts and his mother immediately suspected the worse; publicly expressing fears that someone had done “something bad” to her son. His body washed ashore on Nov. 12, 2015, at Saquish Beach/Plymouth Beach, in MA...over an hour and 15 minutes from his home outside Boston, where last seen. A good student, avid photographer, a runner and a devout mentor and faithful to his religion. Friends said that he was known to encourage other people to think long-term and described him as a "father-like figure" who had the ability to calm people down and who would remind people to be grateful and not take things for granted. The DA stated "No foul play suggested at this time, on Nov. 13, 2015.



Dennis M. Njoroge, age 21 Northeastern University Student
Nov. 29, 2015 Missing
Circumstances: Unknown
Body recovered in Charles River on Dec. 31, 2015 According to media reports, death ruled a suicide. Family and friends reported nothing unusual in his behavior in days leading up to his disappearance.
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Old 01-09-2016, 08:18 PM
 
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Josue's case is most alarming to be concidered "no foul play suspected."
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