Missing Dartmouth College student Kessin Kai, His body was found in the Connecticut River on Monday, several days after he was last seen.
A fisherman “reported the sighting to authorities” along a river in Windsor, Vermont, around 4 p.m. Monday. Authorities were dispatched to the area and recovered a body from the water, later identified as Tsai.
Police said a preliminary investigation suggested there was no criminal activity.
Lebabon police received a report on May 17 that the 26-year-old Dartmouth doctoral student had been missing since May 15, and authorities issued a missing persons report.
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Kexin Cai was last seen riding an electric bike on May 15th. (Lebanon Police)
Media sources told LPD that Tsai was last seen leaving her home on an electric bicycle in an unknown direction on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 15th.
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“Police immediately dispatched personnel to search the scene. A thorough investigation and search continued over the weekend and into Monday,” LPD said in a press release at the time.
On Monday, a fisherman from Windsor, Vermont, discovered Tsai’s body in the Connecticut River. (Lebanon Police Department)
Two local companies obtained surveillance video footage that showed Kai leaving on his electric bike around 6 p.m. Wednesday and heading south on Route 10 toward West Lebanon. Police said her e-bike was spotted by a “passing motorist” on May 20 at a property reserve in Boston.
Local law enforcement, the Dartmouth Department of Security, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department, and Good Samaritans joined in the intensive search for Kai in the Boston Lot and Wilder Dam areas in the days following his disappearance.
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College Green on the Dartmouth College campus on October 17, 2021 in Hanover, New Hampshire. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg)
Tsai, who is from China, was reportedly suffering from a mental health crisis and had been admitted to a clinic on campus before her disappearance.
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“She is a second-year doctoral student majoring in psychology and brain sciences with a particular interest in communication issues in autism,” John Kull, dean of the Guarini Graduate School of Advanced Studies, said in a statement Monday. said.
“According to her advisors, Kexin was an extraordinarily talented and humble researcher with a truly kind personality. She loved cats so much that she would sneak images of cats into every poster and presentation. Kexin loved the Upper Valley, where she found joy in “hiking, skiing, and road trips,” Cal wrote.
