Crime & Safety
Body Of Missing Stanford Nurse Found In Fremont
A neurological nurse in the intensive care unit, he vanished in the middle of a shift Tuesday. His body was recovered on Thursday.
FREMONT, CA — Authorities found the body of Michael Odell in Fremont on Thursday. He was a travel nurse at Stanford Hospital who mysteriously left in the middle of a shift on Tuesday and never returned.
The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau announced that a body recovered in Fremont at 2:15 p.m. on Thursday was Odell. No details were provided about the cause or manner of death.
Odell, 27, "left work abruptly" to head to his car around 4:30 a.m. and "never came back," his roommate, Joshua Paredes, told NBC Bay Area.
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Odell's car was found Tuesday by the Dumbarton Bridge Toll Plaza in Fremont, but there was no sign of him. Odell worked as a neurological nurse in the intensive care unit, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
The CHP Hayward and Coast Guard were helping in the search on Wednesday, the Chronicle reported.
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A public Facebook page was set up by volunteers organizing a search for Odell.
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