
Autopsy reveals Wisconsin grad school student’s cause of death after she disappeared walking home from bar
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Eliotte Heinz, a 22-year-old Viterbo University student, accidentally drowned in the Mississippi River after vanishing during a walk home from a bar in July.
A photo taken by the marina bar owner's daughter shows first responders docked near the location Eliotte Heinz's body was found on Wednesday, July 23, 2025. A photo taken by the marina bar owner's daughter shows authorities discovering Eliotte Heinz's body in the Mississippi River on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
The 22-year-old Viterbo University student vanished around 2:30 a.m. on July 20 while walking home from Broncos Bar in La Crosse, Wisconsin, after a night out with friends.
Her body was found three days later, just before 10:30 a.m. on July 23, by a fisherman in the river near Brownsville, Minnesota — more than a dozen miles from where she was last seen, authorities said.













