The body of the Northwestern University doctoral student who disappeared after leaving a party in Chicago was found Tuesday night in Lake Michigan.
Peter Salvino, 25, had disappeared early Sunday morning after leaving a property in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood.
Chicago police confirmed around 6 p.m. Tuesday that a body was found in Diversey Harbor, which is located near where Salvino’s phone had last pinged.
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office later confirmed that the body was Salvino’s. An autopsy is pending and authorities have not released a cause of death.
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Pedro Salvino
(Chicago Police Department)
Salvino was last heard from around 12:15 a.m. Sunday morning when he was FaceTiming with a friend while walking to his apartment from the party.
A local Chicago restaurant called The Wieners Circle took to Twitter to say, “Ok #wienersleuths, Peter Salvino is a regular at our store and is very loved, this is very sad. We believe the photo below is of him in our store, not long before he was last heard from on Saturday night. Retweet this and help his family find Peter.”
The Salvino family issued the following statement:
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Chicago police confirmed around 6 p.m. Tuesday that a body was found in Diversey Harbor, which is located near where Salvino’s phone had last pinged.
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Salvino’s family said in a statement that he was FaceTimed with a friend at 11:59 p.m. Saturday night as he was walking home and that the friend called at 12:15 a.m. to make sure he got home from work. safe way. Salvino told the friend at the time that he was still on his way back.
His phone pinged a location near Diversey Harbor at 12:31 a.m. and the friend called back at 12:37 a.m. to confirm he was home, but Salvino did not answer.
Several friends sent him text messages between then and 9:30 a.m., according to the family spokesman. The messages were successfully sent to her phone, but none of the friends received a reply.
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All calls started going straight to voicemail around 9:45am and all texts went undelivered.
