Missing Northwestern Grad Student Found Dead In Diversey Harbor

CHICAGO, IL — A missing Northwestern University graduate student was found dead Tuesday in Diversey Harbor nearly three days after he disappeared, according to reports.

Peter Salvino, 25, went missing after leaving a party over the weekend in Lincoln Park, Chicago Police said. His last known contact was via FaceTime around 12:15 a.m. Sunday, according to police.

Emergency personnel pulled a male body from the harbor in the 2400 block of North Cannon Drive shortly after 5 p.m. Tuesday while responding to a follow-up investigation of a missing person in the area, law enforcement said. Police noted that Salvino had been located but couldn’t confirm the body in the harbor was his, pending identification by a medical examiner and family. Several news outlets reported the body was Salvino’s.

Salvino was a doctoral candidate studying neuroscience at Northwestern, according to his social media accounts. He was also a regular at The Wieners Circle and stopped there not long before he disappeared, the restaurant tweeted Monday, including an image of Salvino at the eatery taken the night he went missing.

Before he disappeared, Salvino told a friend on the phone that he was on his way home, but camera footage verified he was traveling in the opposite direction, according to WLS, which reported Salvino's cellphone pinged near the harbor about 12:30 a.m. Sunday. Salvino’s phone received multiple text messages until 9:30 a.m. that morning, but after that, texts became undeliverable, WLS reported.