Stearns County Sheriff’s Office Still Seeking Answers 24 Years After Joshua Guimond Vanished

(KNSI) – A 20-year-old central Minnesota college student walked out of a party on a November night in 2002 and never made it home.

Monday night marks 24 years since Joshua Guimond vanished from St. John’s University, and the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office says it still wants answers.

Guimond spent the evening of November 9th, 2002, at a party with friends on the north end of the Collegeville campus. According to a missing person bulletin from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, he left around midnight to walk back to his campus apartment in St. Maur House. Somewhere along the way, he disappeared.

His car was still parked on campus. Family and friends said it wasn’t like him to fall out of touch.

In the years since, searchers have combed the woods and lakes surrounding St. John’s, and the case drew a national audience when Netflix’s “Unsolved Mysteries” featured it in October 2022. No trace of Guimond has ever been found.

The sheriff’s office says the case remains an active investigation.

Guimond would be 44 years old today. At the time he disappeared, he stood 5’11” and weighed 160 pounds, with blonde hair, blue eyes and a four-inch vertical scar on his shoulder. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a gray St. John’s sweatshirt.

Anyone with information is asked to contact Investigator Joel Schmidt at 320-257-8962 or Lieutenant Zach Sorenson at 320-259-3732. Tips can also be submitted through the Stearns County Sheriff’s Office website.

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