Jesse Ross, 20yr old student - Chicago missing 11/21/2006
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20-Year-Old College Student Missing in Chicago
CHICAGO — Police in Chicago are seeking help from the public to find a 20-year-old college student who went missing this week.
Jesse Ross was last seen at the Sheraton Hotel on Water Street in Chicago in the early morning hours of Nov. 21. He was registered at the Sheraton Hotel on Rush Street, but never returned for his scheduled departure with fellow students.
Ross is a senior at the University of Missouri in Kansas City. He and others from his school were in town for a mock United Nations conference, reported CBS 2 Chicago.
There were a number of parties in the hotel after Monday's seminar, and police spoke to a number of people who say Ross was most likely drinking, according to CBS 2. Police think Ross disappeared around 2 a.m.
Anyone with information should call (312) 744-8266.
Jacqueline:
Police Have No Leads On Missing College Student
Jesse Ross Has Not Been Seen Since Last Tuesday
Mike Parker
Reporting
(CBS) CHICAGO Chicago Police have no leads this morning on the disappearance of a 20-year-old college student from Missouri, who has been missing since last Tuesday.
As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, Jesse Ross was last seen at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, at 630 N. Rush St. Sometime early Tuesday, he dropped out of sight.
A surveillance photo of Ross was taken at the Four Points Sheraton just before 1 a.m. Tuesday. What happened after that is a mystery.
Ross was in town with a group of college students attending a mock United Nations convention at another hotel, the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, at 301 E. North Water St. near Columbus Drive and the Chicago River.
Police divers have been working the Chicago River near that hotel since Ross was reported missing.
"The Marine Unit's been out every day since Wednesday," said police Detective Tony Rizzo. "They've done both dives, surface searches, cadaver dogs. The physical area around both hotels has been searched."
Police reported earlier they were having a hard time finding students who may have been with him that night, and there has been no activity suggesting that someone else has his personal property.
"The cell phone's been checked," Rizzo said. "There's been no activity whatsoever since the time he was reported msising. No activity on the credit card."
"If anybody knows anything, please call the Chicago Police and keep us in your prayers," said Jesse Ross' mother, Donna Ross.
"Jesse's very, like we said, Jesse's very friendly. Any number of kids from different schools and stuff could have been with him," said his father, Donald Ross.
Ross worked at a radio station while attending University of Missouri Kansas City.
"He was the funny guy. He had a following, a lot of people liked him," said one co-worker.
Ross is 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighs 140 pounds, and has red hair and freckles. He may be wearing a green warm-up jacket, a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
This case comes almost a year after a 31-year-old Massachusetts man visiting Chicago on business disappeared in the same general area. The body of that man, Matthew Soumakis, was found floating in the Chicago River near Goose Island two weeks later.
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Chicago_510:
The distance between the two hotels is about half a mile so he could have tried walking back to the other hotel. The area between the two hotels is pretty "touristy" so I would expect that there were other people on the street at that time.
There are several routes he could have taken. I suppose he could have gotten lost, but I would suspect that he wouldn't have headed south because the hotel he was last spotted at is just north of the Chicago River. He should have remembered if he crossed the river or not on his way to the hotel. The route between the hotels would not have crossed the river.
And Lake Michigan is not too far East of that hotel. Once he saw the lake, he should know to turn around and head the other way.
All of this is assuming that he got lost. I suppose he could have accidentally fallen into the river or Lake Michigan.
Chicago_510:
One more thing... For anyone who hasn't been to Chicago, most of the streets in Chicago are really one story above the river level. Its not like you can walk right down to the water. There's usually railings, so even if you were drunk it would be pretty hard to fall into the river.
There are a lot of double-decker streets near the river. There's Upper Wacker Drive and Lower Wacker drive, one on top of the other. The entrances to buildings are on the "upper" streets.
Jacqueline:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/16111739.htm
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