The family of Eliotte Heinz, the 22-year-old student found dead in Mississippi River, thanked the community for their support during the search.

A 22-year-old graduate student who disappeared after leaving a Wisconsin bar early Sunday morning has been found dead in the Mississippi River, according to the La Crosse Police Department.

Authorities recover the body of 22-year-old Viterbo University graduate student Eliotte Heinz from the Mississippi River after she vanished while walking home from a bar in La Crosse.

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Eliotte’s walk home is finished. Unfortunately, our family’s walk down this new hard path is just beginning,” her family said.

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Search and rescue teams began looking for the men Tuesday evening after they were reported missing near a boat ramp.

The long-standing mystery of a body recovered from the banks of the Mississippi River has been solved after 31 years, Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak reported. Benny Leo Olson, originally from Edwardsville,