Sad News to Report on Missing Student

[justjulie]

It saddens me to report that CNN has a story stating that the missing college student has been found in a local landfill. My heart goes out the DISer who knows the parents and especially to the family themselves. The police do not suspect foul play and it may be a case of death by misadventure.

 

[chris1gill]

Is this the male student from New Jersey? How on earth did this happen?

 

[belle_of_the_ball]

my mom teaches the boy's sister

its such a tragic event for the schools. He was an excellent student when he went to High School.

 

[justjulie]

It is indeed. I don't know how to link but ...

Missing student found dead in landfill
Police: No foul play suspected

Wednesday, April 26, 2006; Posted: 12:56 p.m. EDT (16:56 GMT)


John Fiocco, Jr. was last seen in his dormitory on March 25.

EWING, New Jersey (AP) -- A body found in a Pennsylvania landfill is a college student who disappeared more than a month ago, and foul play doesn't appear to have been involved, authorities said Wednesday.

John Fiocco Jr., a freshman at The College of New Jersey, was last seen in his dormitory early March 25 after a party.

His body was found Tuesday in the Pennsylvania landfill where the dorm's trash is dumped and was identified through dental records, state police and prosecutors said Wednesday.

"Our sincere condolences go out to his parents, John and Susan Fiocco, and the entire Fiocco family and to the administration and students of The College of New Jersey," said state police Superintendent Rick Fuentes.

Fuentes said there is no evidence that Fiocco was stabbed or shot. He said the investigation is continuing but Fiocco's death is not classified as a homicide. Investigators contacted 1,000 students and school workers, and interviewed more than 150 of Fiocco's friends and relatives, and don't suspect foul play, he said.

The search for Fiocco started 36 hours after he was last seen, when his roommate reported him missing.

Investigators found blood and blood-soaked material in and around a trash bin behind Fiocco's dorm. After a laboratory confirmed the blood was Fiocco's, investigators started sifting through a 1-acre, 20-foot deep area at the landfill in nearby Tullytown, Pennsylvania.

Authorities have said Fiocco may have slid down a trash chute into the bin, although a camera used to scan the chute found no traces of blood.

The injuries that Fiocco's body had sustained were consistent with being processed by a trash disposal system, authorities said. They would not say whether the injuries had been sustained before or after Fiocco died.

Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph Bocchini Jr. said it is possible authorities will never learn exactly what happened.

 

[azgal81]

I believe they said a autopsy report would be available in a few weeks but I don't even know if that will give us any answers.

I still believe that this was a drunk event that turned tragic. I can't believe that no one in that dorm knows what happened. I think he either died accidently and his friends wanted to dispose of his body or he went down the chute in fun/he passed out and his friends though it would be fun to push him down there and didn't realize there was a compactor at the bottom.

Either way it's really sad and I hope the final report will at least shed some light on what really happened.

To all of you who knew him or his family I'm sorry for your loss.

 

[Tiggeroo]

This is so sad. So many of my children's friends go to TCNJ. I have 18yo sons who are freshman. Boys of that age just do stupid things. You talk to them and they act like they hear but you know they aren't listening. I worry alot about my sons and feel like i'll breath a sigh of relief when they get to 25.
Prayers for this boys family. His uncle was on tv today. It is beyond sad.

 

[disfanatiks]

 

[chris1gill]

That really is just completely awful best wishes to the family