Missing Man: Jesse Ross - IL - 11/21/2006

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Police Seek Help To Find Missing Missouri Student
POSTED: 12:10 pm CST November 25, 2006
UPDATED: 12:50 pm CST November 25, 2006

CHICAGO -- Chicago police are searching for a visiting Missouri student who was visiting the city with a group but disappeared Tuesday.

Jesse Ross, 20, was last seen at the Sheraton Hotel located at 301 E. North Water Street in the early morning hours Tuesday.

Police said he was unfamiliar with the city and may be wearing a green warm-up jacket, white T-shirt, blue jeans and black gym shoes.

Police Seek Help To Find Missing Missouri Student - News - NBC5.com | WMAQ


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Foul Play Not Suspected in Missouri Student's Disappearance

Sunday, November 26, 2006

CHICAGO — Searches of the Chicago River have not yielded any clues in the disappearance of a University of Missouri at Kansas City student, police said.

Jesse Ross, 22, of Belton, Missouri, disappeared early Tuesday on the city's Near North Side.

Ross was last seen at a party for participants in a student United Nations conference at the Sheraton Hotel. He never returned to his room at the Four Points Sheraton.FOXNews.com - Foul Play Not Suspected in Missouri Student's Disappearance - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News

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Police searching for missing Missouri student

CHICAGO - Police resumed their search Monday for a 20-year-old college student from Missouri who was last seen at a downtown hotel near the Chicago River.

Jesse Ross, of Belton, Mo., had traveled to Chicago to participate in a student United Nations conference. He is believed to have disappeared around 2 a.m. Nov. 21 after attending a party at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers.

On Monday, police divers used sonar to search the bottom of the river, which is near the hotel where Ross was last spotted, police spokeswoman Kristina Schuler said.

"That's standard operating procedure," she said.http://www.southernillinoisan.com/articles...l/d8llnffg0.txt

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Deejays Ask For Help Finding Missing UMKC Student
Ross Disappeared In Chicago

POSTED: 2:51 pm CST November 27, 2006
UPDATED: 5:45 pm CST November 27, 2006


KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The deejays at 95.7 The Vibe are asking for the public's help in finding a missing student.

Jesse Ross, 20, who attends the University of Missouri at Kansas City, disappeared Tuesday from a Chicago hotel while taking part in a mock United Nations meeting.

Ross is an on-air intern at The Vibe and goes by the name Opie.
TheKansasCityChannel.com - News

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Search for student continues
 
Chicago police continued to search without success Tuesday for a visiting student from the University of Missouri-Kansas City who has been missing for more than a week.

Jesse Ross, also known as Opie to listeners of Kansas City radio station 95.7 The Vibe, was last seen leaving a downtown Chicago hotel early on the morning of Nov. 21.

Ross, 19, whose parents live in Belton, was in Chicago to participate in an American Model United Nations conference attended by about 1,200 students.

A Chicago police spokeswoman said investigators were continuing to contact and talk with conference attendees in a search for information.
Kansas City Star | 11/29/2006 | Search for student continues

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cbs2chicago.com - Police Continue Search For Missing College Student

Police Continue Search For Missing College Student


CBS) CHICAGO After searching the Chicago River, there is still no sign of a missing student visiting Chicago from Missouri.

Twenty-year-old Jesse Ross disappeared early Tuesday.

As CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports, Chicago Police Marine Unit divers searched the Chicago River near the Sheraton Hotel, as they have every day since Wednesday. The college student had attended a mock United Nations convention there.

Ross stayed at another hotel, the Four Points Sheraton on Rush Street where a surveillance photograph was taken at 12:43 a.m. Tuesday, the last time he was seen.

"Both hotels have been searched. Upper and Lower Columbus and Wacker," said Det. Tony Rizzo with the Chicago Police Department.

Police are having a hard time finding students who may have been with him that night.

"Jesse's very, like we said, Jesse's very friendly. Any number of kids from different schools and stuff could have been with him," said Ross' father, Donald Ross.

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cbs2chicago.com - Police Have No Leads On Missing College Student

Police Have No Leads On Missing College Student


(CBS) CHICAGO Chicago Police have no leads this morning on the disappearance of a 20-year-old college student from Missouri, who has been missing since last Tuesday.

As CBS 2's Mike Parker reports, Jesse Ross was last seen at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, at 630 N. Rush St. Sometime early Tuesday, he dropped out of sight.

A surveillance photo of Ross was taken at the Four Points Sheraton just before 1 a.m. Tuesday. What happened after that is a mystery.

Ross was in town with a group of college students attending a mock United Nations convention at another hotel, the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, at 301 E. North Water St. near Columbus Drive and the Chicago River.

Police divers have been working the Chicago River near that hotel since Ross was reported missing.

"The Marine Unit's been out every day since Wednesday," said police Detective Tony Rizzo. "They've done both dives, surface searches, cadaver dogs. The physical area around both hotels has been searched."

Police reported earlier they were having a hard time finding students who may have been with him that night, and there has been no activity suggesting that someone else has his personal property.

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United Press International - NewsTrack - Search for student comes up empty

Search for student comes up empty

CHICAGO, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A weeklong search for a college student who disappeared during a model United Nations conference in Chicago has failed to turn up any leads, police said.

Police said they have searched the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, where Jesse Ross was last seen at about 3 a.m. Nov. 21, as well as nearby alleys, dumpsters and bodies of water, the Chicago Tribune reported Tuesday.

Sgt. Helen Zemek said Ross was last seen at the hotel, which was host to a mock emergency meeting of the Security Council just prior to when Ross went missing, and police have been unable to find evidence he returned to the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, where he had been staying.

"He just disappeared off the face of the Earth," Zemek said. "It's like poof."

Zemek said students who attended the conference have given police contradictory stories about Ross' last known whereabouts and whether or not he had been drinking.

"We're trying to interview students like crazy," she said. "We've talked to 30 or 40, and there's probably another 50 to go."

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College Students Round Up Reward For Missing Friend - News - NBC5.com | WMAQ

College Students Round Up Reward For Missing Friend
 December 5, 2006


KANSAS CITY -- The classmates of the missing University of Missouri student who disappeared during a trip to Chicago want to offer a reward to anyone who can find him.

Jesse Ross, 19, was last seen two weeks ago while attending a conference at the downtown Sheraton Hotel.

His fraternity is planning to hold a fundraising rally on Thursday night in Kansas City in hopes the money offered up in the reward will help bring their friend home.

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Reward offered for information on missing student

The Kansas City Star

University of Missouri-Kansas City students will offer a reward for information that leads to finding Jesse Ross, a sophomore who has been missing for two weeks.

Ross, also known as “Opie” to listeners of Kansas City radio station 95.7 The Vibe, was last seen leaving a downtown Chicago hotel Nov. 21. He was in visiting the city to participate in an American Model United Nations conference attended by 1,200 other students from around the nation and the Kansas City area.
Kansas City Star | 12/05/2006 | PUBLIC SAFETY | Reward offered for information on missing student

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Search continues for missing college student

By Emma Graves Fitzsimmons
Tribune staff reporter
Published December 9, 2006, 6:32 PM CST

The family of a missing 20-year-old college student passed out fliers with his photograph Saturday at the downtown Chicago hotel where he was last seen Nov. 21.

Jesse Ross, a sophomore at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, disappeared about 2:30 that morning while attending a model United Nations conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, 301 E. North Water St. Police said the investigation was at a standstill after interviewing more than 100 people.Chicago Tribune news | Registration

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Kansas City Star | 12/10/2006 | Work aims to spotlight missing UMKC student Family of missing UMKC student travel to Chicago to ‘keep his face out there.’

Dec. 10, 2006

Work aims to spotlight missing UMKC student Family of missing UMKC student travel to Chicago to ‘keep his face out there.’
Family members go to Chicago to pass fliers and meet with reporters.


Jesse Ross’ family handed out fliers with the missing UMKC student’s photo Saturday in

Chicago and publicized his case through a news conference with reporters there.

The Belton native, 19, was last seen Nov. 21 leaving his downtown hotel. He was visiting Chicago for an American Model United Nations International conference.

Ross’ father, brother and a family friend traveled to Chicago for Saturday’s visit. The goal was to keep Ross’ case in the mind of the public, so that anyone who might know something will call police.

“They want to keep his face out there,” said his mother Donna Ross, who had a cold and had to stay home. “They want to keep his name out there.”

On Thursday, members of Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity organized a rally at the University of Missouri-Kansas City to raise money for a reward fund. Many college students attended, as well as Ross’ old co-workers, people from church, and many others who knew the family, Donna Ross said. It was encouraging, she said, to know so many people were keeping Jesse in their thoughts and prayers.

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Family still hunts for missing student

CHICAGO Family of a missing 20-year-old college student from Missouri have been passing out fliers with his photograph this weekend at the downtown Chicago hotel where he was last seen November 21st.

Jesse Ross, a sophomore at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, disappeared early that morning while attending a model United Nations conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel.://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=5793997&nav=menu83_2

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No Clues in Disappearance of University of Missouri Student Jesse Ross - The Crime library

No Clues in Disappearance of University of Missouri Student Jesse Ross

By David Lohr
December 12, 2006

CHICAGO, Ill.  (Crime Library) —  Authorities in Chicago are mystified over the disappearance of 20-year-old Jesse Ross.  The University of Missouri sophomore who vanished on Nov. 21, after attending a model United Nations conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel, 301 E. North Water St.  The mock conference took place at 2:00 a.m. and was followed by a dance.  Jesse was last seen a half-hour later.  According to friends he was planning to go back to his hotel room at the Four Points Sheraton at 630 N. Rush St.  The two hotels are about a ten-minute walk from one another.  Jesse never made it back to his room and he vanished somewhere along the way.

According to his MySpace profile, Jesse, or "Opie" as friends know him, is an intern at radio station 95.7 The Vibe.  I exchanged messages with one of his co-workers yesterday and was told Jesse was a very likable guy with no enemies.

"We are really tight friends, his internship put him in my studio on day one, just to give him some insight on radio.  From there he went from intern to promotions, to being on the air for our morning show as a side kick, stunt boy, kinda fun guy.  He is hilarious and his humor and his intelligence put him exactly where he wanted to be.

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Pastor: Missing Student's Family Relies On Faith - News

Pastor: Missing Student's Family Relies On Faith
Friends, Family Continue To Hold Out Hope

POSTED: 11:44 am CST December 27, 2006
UPDATED: 12:07 pm CST December 27, 2006

CHICAGO -- In the little over a month that 19-year-old Jesse Ross has been missing, his family has never lost hope.

"They've been amazing, as far as having suffered something like this so close to the holidays," said Ken Albers, a deacon at St. John Frances Regis in Kansas City, the Rosses' parish. "They’ve relied very much on their faith."

The University of Missouri-Kansas City sophomore disappeared on Nov. 21 -- two days before Thanksgiving -- while attending a mock United Nations conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers at 301 E. North Water.
 

The outgoing teen and fraternity member was active with his campus activities council and was completing an internship as an on-air personality at a local pop radio station. He was last seen about 1 a.m. at a dance at the Sheraton Chicago, but never made it back to his Four Points Sheraton Hotel room.

Missing their second child on Christmas Day -- Ross has an older brother -- his family sought the comfort of the church community they've relied on since learning their son would not be returning home with 13 other Missouri students.

"They attended Mass and were surrounded by friends and family helping to support them," Albers, who has known the freckled, red-haired teen since he was 5 years old, said on Tuesday.

Albers traveled with Ross' parents to Chicago a week before Christmas to offer a reward for any information leading to the discovery of their son.

Chicago police, who swept sections of the Chicago River and the Lake Michigan shoreline and interviewed more than 100 of the 1,200 students at the conference, said Tuesday they have no new leads.

Like Ross' parents, University of Missouri officials and members of Ross' fraternity said Tuesday they continue to hope. The fraternity, Lambda Chi Alpha, has held fundraisers to come up with the $1,400 reward Ross' family is offering.

"It's just been a shock," said fellow fraternity member and friend Aaron Welch. "We said, 'What can we do?' We can't, like, go to Chicago to search for him. So we came up with the fund."