Peter Salvino Missing The Ph.D. Student Was Found Dead

May 2024 · 2 minute read

Peter Salvino, who had been missing since Sunday, was found dead on Tuesday. 

The body of the doctorate student from Northwestern University who vanished after leaving a party in Chicago was discovered in Lake Michigan on Tuesday night.

After leaving home in Chicago’s Lincoln Park area early on Sunday morning, Peter Salvino vanished.

Around six o’clock on Tuesday, Chicago Police said that a corpse had been discovered close to where Salvino’s phone had last pinged in Diversey Harbor.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office later identified the body as Salvino’s.

Officials have not disclosed the cause of death because an autopsy is still being performed.

When did he go missing?

Salvino was on FaceTime with a friend as he made his way to his apartment from the party at roughly 12:15 a.m. on Sunday morning.

According to a statement from Salvino’s family, he was FaceTimeing a buddy at 11:59 on Saturday night while he was heading home, and the friend called back at 12:15 to check on him. 

At that moment, Salvino informed the friend that he was still traveling home.

At 12:31 in the morning, his phone rang at a place close to Diversey Harbor.

At 12:37 in the morning, the friend called again to make sure Salvino had arrived home, but Salvino did not pick up.

Between then till 9:30 a.m., numerous pals texted him, according to the family representative.

The messages reached his phone successfully, but none of his pals got a reply.

Around 9:45 a.m., all calls began going directly to voicemail, and all texts were not delivered.

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