Disappearance of Joshua Guimond

Joshua Guimond (born June 18, 1982) is an American man who disappeared on the night of November 9, 2002, after leaving a party hosted in a dormitory of the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota.

He was a 20-year-old junior student at Saint John's who was partying with friends in the campus' Metten Court dormitory building, and had left the party around 11:45 p.m. without saying anything.

The students at the party assumed that he had gone to sleep elsewhere.

The walk to his dormitory, St. Maur, would have taken three minutes.

He was last seen on a bridge near a lake, Stumpf Lake, located in between the buildings.

Investigators from the Stearns County Sheriff's Office discovered his scent by the lake using a bloodhound, and theorized he had fallen or was pushed into the lake during his walk.

Divers searched the lake multiple times and found no body.

Investigators now believe he was kidnapped or picked up via a car from the bridge.

The disappearance's possible connection to others in the area led to media attention.

Joshua Guimond was born on June 18, 1982.

His parents were Brian Guimond and Lisa Cheney.

When he was four, he moved from Redwood Falls, Minnesota to Maple Lake, where he grew up.

He had been a valedictorian and class president of the Maple Lake High School class of 2000.

Starting in 2001, he was a student at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, a Catholic school commonly known as Saint John's University, in Collegeville, Minnesota.

Saint John's is notably surrounded by 2,500 acres of woods and lakes.

Guimond was an honor student who was majoring in political science, and had planned to be a lawyer or a politician.

He also debated in the school's Pre-Law Society, and played the baritone in their Wind Ensemble.

In November 2002, he was a 20-year old junior, and was living in a room in the St. Maur dormitory building.

He was around 6 feet tall, weighed 176 pounds, and had blonde hair and blue eyes.

There had been a recent series of attacks, attempted abductions, and stalkings of male college students in the area.

On the night of November 9, 2002, Guimond had been writing a paper in his room at St. Maur.

At 11:06 p.m., he left and walked north with his friends to go to a party at an apartment in the Metten Court dormitory building.

He did not have his wallet, glasses, and other important items with him, but one of the friends said nothing seemed wrong with him.

He went to a party in a Metten Court apartment.

He had been drinking and playing poker there, with 8 to 10 other students.

He had between 7 and 12 beers, but did not seem to get intoxicated.

The other students at the party said he got up and left the apartment around 11:45 p.m., without saying anything.

However, he had implied beforehand that he had somewhere else to be.

Different sources say his friends assumed he walked south back to St. Maur, or went down the hall to use the bathroom.

Many at the party did not realize he left.

When he did not return, they assumed he went to sleep.

He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray Saint John's sweatshirt, which was not appropriate clothing for spending a long amount of time in the snow.

The walk between Metten Court and St. Maur would have been about 3 minutes long.

Between the two buildings was Stumpf Lake (also spelled Stump ), and the easiest path to travel between the two would include a bridge near the lake.

Two witnesses saw Guimond walking on the bridge around 12:15 to 12:30 a.m. It is unknown if Guimond returned to St. Maur.

There was no activity on his credit card after he left.

Between 11:52 p.m. and 12:32 a.m, music had been playing on the computer in his bedroom.

Some songs had been skipped, implying the computer was being physically operated at that time.

Fifteen minutes after he left, Guimond's friends attempted to call him at his dorm's phone, but received no answer.

They called his mom at some point during the night, and the next morning, when they couldn't find him, they called other classmates.