"To the Editor of Cosmopolitan: ... Josh went missing from St. John’s University campus the night of Nov. 9 and Nov. 10, 2002, around the midnight hour. Officially I was not notified until around 10 p.m. Nov. 10. At the time Sheriff Kostreba said Josh went into Stump Lake and drowned. Mind you, no evidence of anything, so they did nothing for two days but tell us Josh was in Stump Lake, except they could not find his body. ... On June 5, 2003, I received a letter from SJU stating that the Trident Foundation has cleared all three lakes on SJU campus and now Sheriff Sanner said the campus has been satisfactorily examined. Then on Nov. 18, 2004, I received a letter from Bradley Wenz (soil conservationist at the Stearns County Soil & Water Conservation District) stating that there is no natural soil type that was not already under a foot of water or more that could drown a person and completely cover them up, such as a quicksand-type soil. ... Then on Dec. 5, 2004, in the Star & Tribune newspaper, Sheriff Sanner stated, ''The student probably wandered into a swampy area or fell into a lake.'' No activity has been on his credit cards since he went missing. Everybody that knows Josh says he would not have left on his own, therefore, the only other thing that could have happened is he was abducted. ... Given these facts, Joshua should not have been lumped in with these other young men in the Cosmopolitan July issue story. This does not seem to be very responsible journalism to me. ... Brian Guimond ... "
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