Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago

College student missing; Mississippi search possible 

By ANNE JUNGEN | ajungen@lacrossetribune.com | Posted: Monday, February 15, 2010 12:15 am

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Craig J. Meyers, a student at Western Technical College studying criminal justice, has been missing since 2 a.m. Sunday when his cousin dropped him off on the 700 block of Market Street, according to La Crosse police.
Meyers spent Saturday night at a wedding reception and drinking at two downtown bars until leaving about 1:50 a.m., said police Capt. Rob Abraham. Meyers believed he was being dropped off at his girlfriend's house, though the woman lives on Sixth Street.

A set of footprints leads from a snow bank between the Marriott Courtyard and the Riverside Center Buildings out onto the ice-crusted river, Abraham said.

Police and the La Crosse Dive Unit will determine whether to search the river.

"It's dangerous because it (the river) is icy, it's cold and there is no access," Abraham said.

Meyers was reported missing by family members about 11:40 a.m. Sunday when he wasn't heard from.

"This isn't like Craig at all," said his father, Ken.

Police canvassed the area where he was last seen and conducted interviews, while a Jackson County Sheriff's Department bloodhound lost Meyers' scent near the same place.

About 15 family members also searched the downtown area, Ken Meyers said.

"We were combing block to block," he said.

The search for Meyers evokes painful memories for a city that has struggled with alcohol-related drownings.

Eight college-age men drowned in area rivers between July 12, 1997, and Sept. 30, 2006, each with blood-alcohol content levels ranging from 0.20 percent to 0.42 percent. An FBI review of the drownings found no foul play or link between the victims.



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Craig Meyers is 5-foot-6, 165 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He was last seen wearing a black leather jacket, light-colored collared long sleeve shirt and dark pants. Anyone with any information is asked to call La Crosse police at (608) 785-5962.


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digsthepack
15 years ago
A LOT of college age men have disappeared on campuses on or near the Mississippi River. Twin Cities, La Crosse, down in Iowa, etc. Seems far too coincidental for me and, sadly, if it were women disappearing, the search for a serial abductor/murderer would already be on....but is is just men.
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Porforis
15 years ago

A LOT of college age men have disappeared on campuses on or near the Mississippi River. Twin Cities, La Crosse, down in Iowa, etc. Seems far too coincidental for me and, sadly, if it were women disappearing, the search for a serial abductor/murderer would already be on....but is is just men.

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Trust me, there's been all sorts of people claiming there's a serial killer on the loose, getting people drunk and shoving them in the river.

Personally, I think that the serial killer is alcohol, with stupidity as an accomplice. Or maybe the other way around.
Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
I used to bandy about the idea that the Mississippi drownings in La Crosse might be the work of a serial killer, but more and more I'm leaning toward the reality that these deaths are probably simply the work of the inexorable force of natural selection. Anyone who has visited La Crosse's downtown will know that our drinking culture is designed to do one thing, and one thing only: get young people as wasted as possible, as quickly as possible. That's why we have $5 all-you-can-drink specials, for example. Our downtown sits right on the edge of the river, so I can see how young men, blacked out after a night of binge drinking, might conceivably wander out onto the water and fall in. On the other hand, if the cousin's story is to be believed, Craig Meyers was dropped off almost three-fourths of a mile away from the river. In each of the previous fatalities, the young men left their friends after bar time, which helped to give some feet to the serial-killer conspiracy theory. In my opinion, it gives more weight to the simple concept of don't leave drunk friends alone until they're safely at home, particularly if they don't handle their liquor well. And let's be honest, everyone knows who those individuals are -- they're the ones everyone laughs and tells crazy stories about on Monday morning.

Still, I don't understand the problems so many college students have with alcohol consumption. I have been drunk to the point of blacking out before, and I've never done anything drunk I wouldn't have done sober; hell, there are many things, like getting laid, that I'm much more likely to do sober than drunk. La Crosse is a tiny town arranged on almost a perfect north-south-east-west grid, with unmistakable east-west markers (the bluffs) visible no matter where you stand; it's virtually impossible to get lost, no matter how intoxicated you are. In my younger and more foolish days, after a night of hard drinking, I used to run the five miles back to my house; I never got lost, even if I was falling-down drunk.

Obviously, we don't know if the footprints in the snow belong to this guy, but if he is later found in the water, I will be forced to suspect suicidal ideations. It would be practically impossible to "accidentally" walk out onto the ice in the area where these footprints were found. You have to climb over a bar fence and down a steep bank of rocks. A very different situation from some of the other deaths, in which the guys apparently fell into the marsh and drifted down to the river. (Incidentally, the area marked by the tape is a fabulous makeout spot.)

I also can't get over my sneaking suspicion that any guy who'd go to a wedding reception so underdressed must have been something of a tool.
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zombieslayer
15 years ago
There are "drinking colleges." Chico (where Aaron Rodgers grew up) is a drinking college. The city is surrounded by rice fields. Unless you're an avid outdoorsman, there's not much else to do.

Which leads to people getting hit by trains when they're drunk. Happens pretty often in Chico.

Over there, it's people falling in the river and not having the ability to swim due to overconsumption of alcohol.

The serial killer theory is interesting, but I'd apply Occam's Razor. However, instead of a young man dying, if a cute girl died, it would be bigger news. I will say that much.
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Porforis
15 years ago

it's virtually impossible to get lost, no matter how intoxicated you are.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



Didn't stop some drunk loser from busting in our parent's front screen door (which I've told them 2000 times isn't worth locking if you leave the door itself unlocked), wandering into our living room at 2:00 in the morning and scaring the shit out of me while I'm trying to play counterstrike in peace. His response when I asked him if he was aware that he does not live here? "Yeah, I probably should get going now".

Alcohol seems to turn people retarded and destroy any sense of direction.
Formo
15 years ago

it's virtually impossible to get lost, no matter how intoxicated you are.

"Porforis" wrote:



Didn't stop some drunk loser from busting in our parent's front screen door (which I've told them 2000 times isn't worth locking if you leave the door itself unlocked), wandering into our living room at 2:00 in the morning and scaring the shit out of me while I'm trying to play counterstrike in peace. His response when I asked him if he was aware that he does not live here? "Yeah, I probably should get going now".

Alcohol seems to turn people retarded and destroy any sense of direction.

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That reminds me of the one and only time I got myself drunk in La Crosse.. During Octoberfest a handful of years ago, I made the trip down there because one of my buddies who I met while living in Menomonie originally came from LAX. I don't remember much, but even as a first timer in La Crosse, and competely smashed, I was able to make my way around downtown for beer, booze, pizza and other forms of entertainment without a hitch.

Anyway, at the end of the night.. we headed back to my friend's brother's apartment. Had no clue where the brother was.. thank goodness he lived on the ground level, we ended up 'breaking' into his apartment through a window. Popped the screen off and was lucky enough to find his window was unlocked. We had to do some jumping to get in, but we got in. I vaguely remember laughing and commenting on how what the neighbors must have thought of us if they saw us 'breaking' in.
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Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
Way to go, Jeremy. I will confess to having broken into my place in just such a fashion many times. I'm surprised I haven't had the cops called on me like that one Harvard professor. 😉
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Formo
15 years ago

Way to go, Jeremy. I will confess to having broken into my place in just such a fashion many times. I'm surprised I haven't had the cops called on me like that one Harvard professor. ;)

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



I'm sure you lived in a nice place and all.. But I doubt it was like anything that professor lives in.. Much less the neighborhood.. 🙂
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Nonstopdrivel
15 years ago
I don't know. While I undeniably live in one of the smallest (and oldest) houses in the neighborhood, a surprising number of the houses on this block are occupied by university professors, some from my own classes. I actually live kitty-corner to my advisor.
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