{"id":24488,"date":"2022-10-25T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1727266"},"modified":"2022-10-25T09:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T07:41:13","slug":"what-happened-to-josh-guimond-theories-around-unsolved-mysteries-case","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/what-happened-to-josh-guimond-theories-around-unsolved-mysteries-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened to Josh Guimond? Theories around Unsolved Mysteries case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The third volume of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/true-crime\/unsolved-mysteries-season-3-release-date-schedule\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Unsolved Mysteries<\/a> continues on Netflix this week, with three new episodes arriving on the streamer every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>So far this series, the docuseries has looked into the cases of <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/true-crime\/tiffany-valiante-unsolved-mysteries-theories\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Tiffany Vilante<\/a>, a teenager who was killed by a train in 2015, and <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/true-crime\/unsolved-mysteries-david-carter-what-happened\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">David Carter<\/a>, a Michigan-based father murdered in 2018 \u2013 now, one of this week\u2019s episodes is set to look into the disappearance of Josh Guimond.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old went missing in 2002 after walking home from a friend\u2019s dorm. While the journey should have taken just three minutes, Guimond was never seen again.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s everything we know so far about the case, on which the police made new developments just this month.<\/p> <h2><strong>Who is Josh Guimond?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Josh Guimond is a 20-year-old who disappeared from Minnesota\u2019s St John\u2019s University campus in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>The student had been the class president at Maple Lake High School and voted most likely to succeed by his peers, according to the podcast <a href=\"\/\/www.simplyvanished.com\/s1-e1-music-in-the-night&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Simply Vanished<\/a>, with Guimond planning a future in politics and law.<\/p>\n<p>On 9th November 2002, Guimond went to a party at a friend\u2019s dorm to play poker between 11:15pm and 11:30pm before walking home around midnight, a journey that should have taken three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>According to law enforcement, many people at the party didn\u2019t realise that Guimond had left the party and the 20-year-old hasn\u2019t been seen since.<\/p>\n<p>On the Simply Vanished podcast, host Josh Newville reports that some of the people are the party recalled Josh \u201cimplying that he had somewhere to be\u201d before leaving the party, adding that there was \u201csomething about the way that Josh said he needed to go that it strongly suggested he had somewhere to be\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s all we know. And that perception could have been wrong; that perception could have been dead on. Right? We just don\u2019t know,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1350800\/inside-the-most-haunting-cases-covered-in-unsolved-mysteries-season-3&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">E! News<\/a>, Guimond didn\u2019t have his glasses or his car keys and was not dressed warmly enough to spend any length of time in the snow. There was no activity on his credit cards.<\/p>\n<p>His friends realised that something was wrong when Guimond didn\u2019t turn up to the Pre-Law Society\u2019s meeting the next day and reported him missing to campus security.<\/p>\n<p>A search was conducted for Guimond on security campus, while police dogs traced his scent to a bridge over Stumpf Lake, with Newville saying that the dog handler reported that Guimond \u201ceither got in a car here or he went in the water, because they lost the scent\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"&quot;image-handler__container\" image-handler__container--aspect=\"\" style=\"&quot;padding-bottom:\" calc=\"\"> <picture><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" data-srcset=\"&quot;https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/10\/unsolved-mysteries-josh-guimond-019908c.jpg?webp=true&amp;quality=90&amp;resize=299%2C199,\" https:=\"\" type=\"&quot;image\/webp&quot;\"><source media=\"&quot;(max-width:\" 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Theories around his disappearance<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Did Josh Guimond drown?<\/h3>\n<p>Police initially believed that Guimond could have drowned in Stumpf Lake, given that the search dogs lost his scent on a bridge over the water.<\/p>\n<p>However,\u00a0 Josh\u2019s father Brian said in 2017 that he conducted his own searches and hired private divers to search the laker, and nothing was found, according to <a href=\"\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2017\/11\/08\/15-year-search-missing-st-johns-student-yields-frustration-few-answers&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">MPR News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Newville has recently dismissed this theory and revealed that \u201ceven investigators at this point are acknowledging that is unlikely and haven\u2019t been pursuing that direction in a long time\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrankly, there wasn\u2019t really a lot of good evidence for it, other than the fact that there had been some other drownings in both Minnesota and other parts of the country,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd that\u2019s not really great evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Lieutenant Vic Weiss at Stearns County Sheriff\u2019s Office told the <a href=\"\/\/www.startribune.com\/investigators-hope-15th-anniversary-of-st-john-s-student-s-disappearance-sparks-new-tips\/456906643\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Star Tribune<\/a> that the case was still open, adding: \u201cWhether he walked away, whether he was abducted, whether he was killed. We don\u2019t know why he disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Was Josh Guimond abducted?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The theory being explored by Newville and Josh\u2019s father Brian is that Josh was abducted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were a series of attacks, and stalkings, attempted abductions of college men in the area, not just in November of 2002, the same month that Josh went missing, but, really, in the years surrounding that as well,\u201d Newville told <a href=\"\/\/www.mprnews.org\/episode\/2022\/07\/20\/twenty-years-after-josh-guimonds-disappearance-podcast-turns-up-new-leads&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">MPR News<\/a>. \u201cAnd so we are continuing to receive leads related to this theory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Brian Guimond\u2019s lawyer recently said that he thinks \u201cit\u2019s clear Josh was abducted and murdered\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy client is hopeful that\u2019s not the case but I think it\u2019s the only reasonable conclusion. So the question is who is the perpetrator or perpetrators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Simply Vanished, the night before Guimond went missing, a man was jumped by random men around his age in St Joseph, while in the same two-week period, there was another report of a young man being picked up by four men in a car and being driven to a swampy area near campus, where they told him to perform a sexual act on the driver.<\/p>\n<p>While in August 2003, another man was walking to his car in a dark car park and was followed by a vehicle filled with four men.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, it was\u00a0discovered that Josh\u2019s computer was playing music and skipping songs between 11:52pm and 12:32am on the night he disappeared, which suggests that someone was at the computer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom everything that I\u2019ve been able to determine thus far in talking to computer experts, it is highly likely, yes. That someone had to manually press the play button and manually press those skip buttons,\u201d Newville said in his podcast.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the Stearns County Sheriff\u2019s Office asked for the public\u2019s help in <a href=\"\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/minnesota\/news\/id-photo-computer-josh-guimond-missing-person\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">identifying people who appeared in images found on Guimond\u2019s computer<\/a>, in the hopes that they may know something about his disappearance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>New episodes of Unsolved Mysteries are released on <a href=\"\/\/www.netflix.com\/gb\/title\/81026055&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Netflix<\/a> every Tuesday. Volumes 1 and 2 are available to stream now. Read our guides to the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/what-to-watch-tv\/best-tv-shows-netflix\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">best series on Netflix<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/movies\/what-to-watch\/netflix-best-movies\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">best movies on Netflix<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out more of our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/documentaries\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0<a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/tv-listings\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what\u2019s on tonight.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The latest issue of Radio Times is on sale now \u2013\u00a0<a title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/magazine-subscription\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;0&quot;\">subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0to get each issue delivered to your door.\u00a0<\/strong><strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<a class=\"&quot;x_ContentPasted0&quot;\" title=\"&quot;https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/podcasts\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener noopener noreferrer\" noreferrer=\"\" data-auth=\"&quot;NotApplicable&quot;\" data-safelink=\"&quot;true&quot;\" data-linkindex=\"&quot;1&quot;\">Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lauren Morris Published: Tuesday, 25 October 2022 at 12:00 am The third volume of Unsolved Mysteries continues on Netflix this week, with three new episodes arriving on the streamer every Tuesday. 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