Missing 411- A Sobering Coincidence Paperback – August 29, 2015

AWESOME BOOK. OVERPRICED ON SOME WEBSITES. ALL BOOKS FROM THE AUTHOR ARE UNDER $30.

Excellent read. All of Paulides books are carefully researched, fact-based and thought-provoking. The biggest issue he raises is, "Why are our National Parks and governmental agencies hiding the fact that so many people are going missing in the American wilderness?" A read of the biases Wikipedia slander piece on this brave man reveals that those in power are afraid of the issues he rightfully raises.

EXCEPTIONAL!!!! This book really puts in perspective what is going on and these aren't just accidental drownings. Almost every story is the same!! This is one of the best and most comprehensive books I've read on this subject. I appreciate it after reading some others by different authors where the grammar and spelling was so bad, it was hard to finish ..but not this. Thank goodness he is taking the time to investigate these a d bring them to light, otherwise we may have never known about them.

Really great series. His best book yet! Book 7 of 10. David talks about numerous cases, all true about young missing college age males. These males are all young, healthy and athletic. They go out with friends and vanish, only to be found days, weeks even months later in a body of water with astonishing high alcohol levels. All of these cases are in cities or towns, not wilderness. All college age males should be given this book to read. Please DO NOT BUY these books from Amazon. Way over priced. Please go to David's website.

I live 10 miles from where two of the university students, whose tragic deaths are included in this book, were found deceased within fourteen months and 40 feet of each other at the bottom of a limestone quarry in the city of Whitewater, Wisconsin. They both attended the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater and from all accounts they were both promising young students and happy in life. These two young men were both found dead, one in 2011 and the other in 2012, after supposedly having jumped or fell over the quarry wall at the northeast corner, 70 feet to the bottom. The young men couldn't have been looking to go for a swim. The water is always pumped out of the quarry according to the owners.I have read all of David Paulides' Missing 411 books and been very disturbed about people's loved ones going missing mysteriously under a certain set of circumstances. You will have to read his books to understand the full scope of these deaths. Living in Wisconsin, I also know well of the 8 students who "supposedly" drowned near the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse in the past few years. Now, after having read Mr. Paulides' newest book, "Missing 411 A Sobering Coincidence", my friend and I felt that we must have a look around the local quarry where the two UW-Whitewater students died.Also very compelling to us was that the Whitewater quarry owner, in an interview after the students' deaths, said that in order for the young men to have gotten through the heavy, dense brush surrounding the northside of the quarry and over the wall where they supposedly fell in, they would have had to have gotten on their hands and knees and backed through the brush in order to get through and not have had their faces torn off. The quarry owner also said that the quarry was very isolated and a mile to a mile and a half out of town. He couldn't understand how or why they would choose to do this. He has since erected a barbed wire fence around the quarry and an earthen berm. I have no doubt that he feels guilt in connection with these deaths.Not long ago on a Sunday afternoon when no one would be around the quarry, my friend and I visited the Hawks Nest Bar in the city of Whitewater where UW-Whitewater student, Benjamin Fuder, was last seen. We drove around the town of Whitewater and then out to the quarry. We saw for ourselves that the road leading to the quarry (Franklin Street) from the city was very dark with no street lights, lined with trees and woods, marshes and cornfields and isolated with no homes nearby. The quarry was 1 mile to 1.5 miles from where the young men were last seen. Both young men were on their way home and only lived a couple of blocks from where they were last seen. Mark Wegner was at a house party a couple of blocks from his home and Benjamin Fuder was at the Hawks Nest a couple of blocks from his home also. Why would both young men head home but then decide to walk instead out of town 1 to 1.5 miles down this dark, deserted road to the quarry? Their families insist they were happy and well adjusted. The sheriff's department calls their deaths an accident. But Benjamin Fuder's family felt that he was targeted by someone somehow.My friend and I found that just before the students reached the quarry, they had to pass over a small creek with extremely heavy trees and growth on the east side and swamp, marsh, woods and then cornfields on the west side. Finding the service road they supposedly walked to get back to the north side of the quarry from the northwest side was difficult even in the daylight. We finally spotted some gravel overgrown with grass and what looked like tire tracks from the electric company service trucks. We discovered that there was no way for these young men to have entered the quarry from the opposite side which was the northeast side because from that direction it would be a long and nearly impossible trek through heavy, dense brush, trees, vines, bushes and tall tangled grasses.Upon reaching the north side of the quarry on the service road, we were very surprised to find extremely heavy brush, trees, overgrowth, vines and long grasses and just no way to enter the quarry unless, like the owner noted, they got on their hands and knees and backed through the tangled overgrowth so as not to get their faces ripped off.Going further east along the north side of the quarry to the northeast corner where both students were found was completely impossible unless you had a machete to hack your way through. The density of the brush was like a 4 foot wall preventing any further travel along the north side. I took at least 30 pictures for proof because I was so disturbed at what the Walworth County Sheriff's Department wants to have you believe about these cases, that they were accidental.Of note also, is that Benjamin Fuder's brother said in an interview, that he is searching for answers about what happened to Ben: "He wouldn't have stumbled a mile past his house, he wouldn't, you know, he wouldn't have gone down a gravel maintenance road, through some shrubs and over the edge of a cliff," said Shane Fuder, Ben's brother. "Sounds like way too much work for a drunk kid that just wants to go home."Keep in mind also as you read this book, that in a town hall meeting regarding the deaths of 8 students in the waters around the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, when the police department continued to ask the families and the public to believe that these 8 drownings were a result of young people drinking and falling or jumping to their deaths that the police were booed out of the building by the crowd in attendance. So many people in LaCrosse know something bad besides accidents is happening and they want answers. Don't buy into the drowning stories because as David points out, some of the young people in this book were missing for many days, and the waters and surrounding areas searched many times with no results and then the bodies suddenly appear. According to coroner's reports, some of these students were missing far longer than they were in the water. Where were they and what is going on? Everyone needs to be aware of these clusters of missing college age people around the Great Lakes area. Decide then where you want to send your loved ones to school. These cases need to be reopened with a fresh look and just maybe, with these books and the Missing 411 documentary coming out next year, more eyes will open to the facts. Also, ask yourself why the police departments in these cases want to have you believe that these are just drunk students stupidly falling or jumping to their deaths. Would it be because if they have murder cases on their hands and we become aware of this, how many of us would allow our loved ones to attend school in their town?

I've read 4 of David Paulides' books and this one is my favorite. The urban disappearances are very frightening and creepy. What college-age young person hasn't gone out to the bars/pubs with friends late at night? These people are upstanding young men, predominately white (a few people of color have unfortunately met the same fate, but for some unknown reason this frightening occurrence seems to mostly affect white men), good students, committed to their families, reliable, responsible. So why are so many of them found dead (some never are found) after a few hours of drinking while they walk home? When I was in college, I never heard of any students this happened to; being found dead in a river or pond happened to drug addicts, criminals or the homeless---people who lived risky lives, not hard-studying young college students. And not with the frequency it has been happening. There's the autopsies that show the person was dead for 28 hrs but the person was missing for 6 days or even many weeks. Or he was found in a body of water but no water was found in the lungs. Or the one or two who were found with their blood drained and no wounds found to explain this. These are people who weren't stabbed, shot, strangled---these are people who go missing and if the body is found, no signs of violence are found on the body. Very strange.Note: if you're hoping for a resolution at the end of the book, there isn't one. And that is the big mystery---what happening and why??Also, I purchased the book directly from the author's website for $24.95; the markup on Amazon is currently ridiculous, although I just saw a reseller quoting $26.00.