"Body believed to be BC student" by Brian R. Ballou | Globe Staff, April 11, 2012
NEWTON - With Franco Garcia’s disbelieving family and friends waiting on the banks of the Chestnut Hill Reservoir, police divers recovered a body Wednesday that is thought to be that of the Boston College student who mysteriously disappeared on his way home from a Brighton bar seven weeks ago....
The recovery of the body offered no immediate clues as to how a seemingly happy, promising 21-year-old student ended up in the water.
Garcia’s disappearance on Feb. 22, after hanging out with classmates at Mary Ann’s bar on Beacon Street in Cleveland Circle, has baffled investigators and relatives. He left the bar around 12:15 a.m., apparently heading back to campus where his car was parked, a walk that would take him past the reservoir. Friends at the bar said that Garcia had been drinking that night, but not to excess and that he did not appear drunk.
A surveillance camera at a Citizens Bank ATM in Cleveland Circle captured an image of him striding past at 12:18 a.m. Feb. 22, seemingly unharmed and unworried.
His family organized a search effort and hired a private investigator. Authorities searched the reservoir for four days, using a dive team and a boat equipped with sonar. But none of those efforts turned up any clues to Garcia’s whereabouts.
Then, on Wednesday, just before 8 a.m., a jogger noticed a body in the reservoir, according to authorities....
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