Body Found In Hodgkins Pond Identified; Man Missing For 25 Years

HODGKINS, IL – The body of a suburban Chicago man who went missing a quarter century ago was found last fall in Hodgkins.

Last September, members of the Chaos Divers group discovered a body in a car in a retention pond next to the Target in Hodgkins, the group said in a social media post this week.

Chaos Divers said the remains were identified as those of John Pisano Jr., a 39-year-old Oak Park man who went missing in 2001.

On Wednesday, Cook County confirmed the body was Pisano's. The cause of death is undetermined.

After the discovery, the family posted an obituary for Pisano, who served in the Army in his younger years.

Had he lived, he would be 63 now.

"He loved music — especially Ozzy Osbourne and KISS — and often joked that he looked like John Travolta," the obituary said. "Whether he was out dancing in his platform shoes and leather jacket or styling his hair just right, John brought energy and individuality everywhere he went."

The obituary also said Pisano suffered lifelong struggles with mental illness.

According to the social media post, Chaos Divers said they had been looking for another person, Hiep Luu.

The 21-year-old Luu disappeared from Berwyn in 2003, when he left to go to work in Woodridge and never arrived there, according to The Charley Project, a group that searches for missing people.

Luu's body was found later in September in Lake Osborne in Naperville, according to an NBC 5 story.