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From www.southcoasttoday.com:
By Curt Brown
Standard-Times staff writer
John Pike |
FAIRHAVEN — After an extensive two-day search, a police dive team Sunday located what is believed to be the body of John Pike, the 23-year-old Hamilton man who disappeared after walking away from a Sconticut Neck house party early Saturday.
The body was found about 4:10 p.m. off Wilbur's Point in about 7 feet of water, 150 to 200 yards from where Mr. Pike's cell phone was found Saturday afternoon, according to Fire Chief Tim Francis.
The chief said the clothing on the body matches what Mr. Pike was wearing when he walked away from the house party.
"It's pretty clear it is him," Chief Francis told the media at a press conference outside the Fairhaven police station. The chief was substituting for Police Chief Gary F. Souza, who was coordinating police activities at Wilbur's Point.
Colleen Stone of Centerville, the victim's aunt, said her nephew is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate of Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications.
"He's the pride and joy of our family," she said.
She said he was a member of a band [Ra Ra Riot], based in New Jersey, and had played at The Living Room, a Providence night club, on Friday night.
She described her nephew as a "cautious" young man, who did not like the water.
She said he was supposed to attend a graduation party at her home at 5 p.m. on Saturday and was excited and looking forward to attending. She said the family became worried sometime later Saturday when he did not attend and did not call.
"He would have called us," she said.
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