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New details are being told about an dawn when Visconsin’s graduate student Eliote Hanz was discovered in the Mississippi River, as locals clearly recall the chilling moment that a fisherman found his body floating down in water.
A 22 -year -old Vitbo University student disappeared after bars with friends on Sunday morning after one night, Fox News Digital earlier. She was last seen walking with the waterfront of the Mississippi River at around 3:30 pm, and was later headed towards his apartment on surveillance footage, which was less than a mile.
According to officials, his body was found by a fisherman in the river before the brownville, brown near Minnesota, near Minnesota, before 10:30 am on Wednesday.
The owner of a Marina Bar near the place where Hanz’s body was found that Fox News Digital the Young Fisherman found that the body was faced and wrapped in Duckweed. The body could be seen from the edge.
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Officers were making strict discovery for the 22 -year -old missing graduate student Eliot Hanz, who was last seen in early Sunday. Four days after his disappearance, he was found dead. (Photos courtesy of Amber Hez)
The owner of the bar stated that the fisherman was thrown out, initially thought that the body was a log.
The police were called and the people around kept their distance to preserve the scene.
Members of the La Cross Fire Department discovered the Mississippi River on Wednesday, July 23, 2025 in Lacros. The discovery was related to the disappearance of Vito grade students Eliote Hanz, which was last seen on 20 July. (Spread for LB/Fox News Digital)
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It is not clear how the Hanz River ended. The cause of his death is pending the dead body result. However, drowning drunk near La Crass’s downtown region is not uncommon.
The University of Wisconsin River Watch, a campus program to prevent accidental drowning related to alcohol, was launched in 2006, stating that between 1997 and 2006, eight college students drowned in the Mississippi River.
Other media reports estimate that the number of drowning may be close to a dozen by 2017.
22 -year -old Eliotee Hez disappeared on the last night after a late night walk in La Cross, Wisconsin. She was found dead after dead days in the Mississippi River. (Amber Hanz; La Cross Police Department)
Unlike the “Smiley Face” Murder Theory, which broadcast around the city, River Watch confirmed the deaths between 1997 and 2006, which was the result of excessive drinking jointly with the close physical proximity of the Rivaraside park from the Mississippi River border.
The “Smiley Face” theory suggests that the sinking of many youths in midwestern states led to marked killings near the search places by smiley face frescoes. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) allegedly blamed the death of liquor.
Some of the people found in the river included UW-La Crosse students Jeffrey F. Geesey, 20, who got bodies with a .42 blood alcohol material on 22 May, 1999; 21 -year -old Jared Donon, whose body was found on 15 April 2004 with a .27 blood alcohol material; And Luke Homan, 21, whose body was found on October 2, 2006, with a .32 blood alcohol material, a report From Minnesota Star Tribune.
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The owner of a business located a few steps from Hanz, the last time before the tragic discovery on the Mississippi River, stressed that despite the history of the deadly drowning of the region, locals still see the city as a safe and lively community.
“This is definitely a college city, especially the city area on Third Street,” Eric Mora, owner of Mu Calent Taco Broz, told Fox News Digital. “This is very relaxed, as a small crowd to drink. It is never related to anything, in my opinion. We are going to the late night crowd Taco Brose, and we rarely had a problem. For most parts, for the most, it is just a group of drunk college students, just having fun.”
La Crass, Wi, external view of Bronco’s bar in wi, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. The bar is the last place where Eliotee Hanz, a student of late Vitbo grade, was seen alive. (Spread for LB/Fox News Digital)
Mora said that it is more common for young Barhopers to call a rideshare service after one night. However, he said that many college students choose to walk at home.
“Generally, I don’t know if it will be a wise idea to walk alone late at night in any city or city, but since it is a college city, we see that many college students walk even after one night,” he said. “At least from my time in college, it was rare that anyone would ever want to go down to the river … It is at least for me, the first time to hear something like this. It certainly came to us as a shock.”
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The Taco Brose, which opened his downtown location in December, was closed at night when Hez went missing. Had it been open, Mora said that he would have offered help.
“I wish we were open,” he said. ,[Maybe] We would have seen something if she would have come in. ,
Hanz’s family said that they are going on a path for treatment.
“Eliotee is a beautiful person,” the family wrote in a statement to Fox News. “She was smart, funny, careful and loved by us. We don’t know why we were so blessed to get her as a daughter, or why we were unable to keep her. He is amazing and will continue to be amazed. Elioteote’s house is over. Unfortunately, our families are walking on this new difficult path.”
