Re: Student found dead in SUV
Welfare check + everything locked = doubtful natural causes.
Another Student Death at ISU
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Re: Student found dead in SUV
I don't see what's so alarming. There's roughly 30,000 students and how many have died in the past, say, 5 years? How many were due to foul play?
You only lock the doors if you're going to harm yourself? I'd take the welfare check to be due to friends and/or family not having heard from him for some amount of time.
I don't see what's so alarming. There's roughly 30,000 students and how many have died in the past, say, 5 years? How many were due to foul play?
You only lock the doors if you're going to harm yourself? I'd take the welfare check to be due to friends and/or family not having heard from him for some amount of time.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
There was another thread about this about an hour ago that mentioned he had a pending trial coming up on July 26.
EDIT:
Link to earlier thread:
http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/general-discussion/96467-another-student-death-isu.html
There was another thread about this about an hour ago that mentioned he had a pending trial coming up on July 26.
EDIT:
Link to earlier thread:
http://www.cyclonefanatic.com/forum/general-discussion/96467-another-student-death-isu.html
Federal Courts website says the case referenced above is on three charges including Receipt of Child Pornography, and Possession of Child Pornography from August 2009.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
^This.
ISU Police do welfare checks all the time. Usually parents aren't able to get a hold of the students for a long period of time so they contact the ISU PD to check to see if everything is okay. Doesn't at all imply anything other than the person has been out of contact and someone is concerned.
Could be anything to cell phone dying, to something more problematic.
^This.
ISU Police do welfare checks all the time. Usually parents aren't able to get a hold of the students for a long period of time so they contact the ISU PD to check to see if everything is okay. Doesn't at all imply anything other than the person has been out of contact and someone is concerned.
Could be anything to cell phone dying, to something more problematic.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
Agreed. Seems like everyone on this board WANTS to believe things that are unconfirmed or just entirely untrue.
People still discuss how "wasted" John Lacina was, even though there was no evidence or testimony to suggest it.
Let's just wait and see.
Agreed. Seems like everyone on this board WANTS to believe things that are unconfirmed or just entirely untrue.
People still discuss how "wasted" John Lacina was, even though there was no evidence or testimony to suggest it.
Let's just wait and see.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
Well to be fair to those posters, the toxicology (granted it probably wouldnt have done much because of the time span) was never released along with other details of the autopsy.
Well to be fair to those posters, the toxicology (granted it probably wouldnt have done much because of the time span) was never released along with other details of the autopsy.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
Oops, didn't see there was already a thread about it when I started this one.
Oops, didn't see there was already a thread about it when I started this one.
Re: Student found dead in SUV
we are still in the u.s. where innocent until proven guilty applies?
A) I don't know how the police keep saying "No Foul Play" when at least 3 students all male all around the same age have died this year alone...not to mention the last few years.
B) ***Warning this is only what I have read*** but I heard the kid was facing child porn charges for some email that accidentally got forwarded with a 20 second child porn video in it and they were charging him for like 240 images of child porn because a 20 second clip is made up of that many individual pictures. Trying to make an "example" out of him or something. I just read this on the responses to the Des Moines Register news release. I have no idea if any of it is true.
Poor kid, it makes me sad that if it is a suicide or something that he felt so desperate that he had no way out other than to kill himself :-(. The dying needs to stop on this campus. Seriously.
B) ***Warning this is only what I have read*** but I heard the kid was facing child porn charges for some email that accidentally got forwarded with a 20 second child porn video in it and they were charging him for like 240 images of child porn because a 20 second clip is made up of that many individual pictures. Trying to make an "example" out of him or something. I just read this on the responses to the Des Moines Register news release. I have no idea if any of it is true.
Poor kid, it makes me sad that if it is a suicide or something that he felt so desperate that he had no way out other than to kill himself :-(. The dying needs to stop on this campus. Seriously.
It's sad that another life had to end. However, in regards to the bolded, in a city of 55-60 thousand, where about half of that population is the university, where the age population is 18-23 year olds. It's not surprising that this demographic sticks out. In my opinion, it's not unusual that these deaths appear to be in the 18-23 year old age range in the Ames area.
Again, it's sad that another life ended.
Part B of your post answers the question posed in Part A. Based on what information is out there, the odds of this being a suicide seem high.
That said, this is very tragic.
Dead ISU Student Was Facing Trial
for child pornography
Iowa State University student set for trial is found dead | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
for child pornography
Iowa State University student set for trial is found dead | desmoinesregister.com | The Des Moines Register
Re: Student found dead in SUV
Welfare Check. Facing trial in federal court next week. Locked apartment. I don't think it is a huge stretch.
Welfare Check. Facing trial in federal court next week. Locked apartment. I don't think it is a huge stretch.
I feel sorry for his parents. It's too bad the guy couldn't see beyond what he was facing in court and think of them and their love and concern for their son.
I grew up in a chicago suburb with a far higher population than Ames and never saw this much death and the majority of the population there was high school age. It was a town people left once they graduated so you would expect to see a lot of deaths in the ages between 14-18 according to that logic and there wasn't. Also, there is more women than men here and yet the statistics are all male in the last few years aside from Raven. I'm not saying all the deaths are "related" or suspicious but I think it's weird they always say that when at least 3 of them are very similar and very fishy. And I'm not some crazy suggesting some stupid smiley face killers or anything like that... just I think there is something weird about it. Plus, our death rate is much higher than other Universities for some reason. I mean just look within our own state. Iowa doesn't have anything close to the amount of deaths we have...
Just weird. I don't know if it's murder, odd circumstances, etc. I just think weird and something more than your average death patterns.