Eliotte Heinz has been found dead in the Mississippi River, the La Crosse Police Department wrote in a tragic update in the missing college student's case in Wisconsin. The cause of death is not yet clear.

Authorities recover the body of 22-year-old Viterbo University graduate student Eliotte Heinz from the Mississippi River after she vanished while walking home from a bar in La Crosse.

The body of Eliotte Heinz, the graduate student who went missing in La Crosse, Wisconsin in the early hours of July 20, has been recovered from the Mississippi River in Minnesota. The La Crosse Police Department notified the public of the recovery of Heinz’s body in a statement released on July 23, which read: