WHAT HAPPENED TO WADE SAMUEL STEFFEY?


 

On January 13th, 2007, Wade Steffey seemed to vanish into thin air. He was a freshmen attending Purdue University the year he went missing. After the designated three-day weekend, honoring the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., he was nowhere to be found. His friends realized that they could not find him within the hall of 700 other students, and quickly became alarmed concerning the whereabouts of their friend.

They reported him missing and the search began to find Wade, who had seemed to disappear without a second thought nor a trace left behind. Searches with teams and dogs were conducted to try and find Wade. But no evidence turned up.



His family and friends were alarmed, as Wade was thought to have no reason to run away. Wade was last seen leaving a fraternity party at the north side of campus. His last phone call was a call to his friends, asking to pick up his jacket. The runaway, or kidnapping, seemed abrupt, especially since no one seemed to know anything about his disappearance. The 19-year-old young man was nowhere to be found. And the searches seemed hopeless, especially with a lack of evidence pushing the case forward. 

The leading theory was that Wade was maliciously murdered or kidnapped while leaving the party on campus, and his body had been hidden away. But no true evidence pinpointed any specific leads or suspects they could investigate further into. It seemed useless. Wade seemed so gone that there was no possible way they could find him. That is until a strange pinging noise was heard in a high voltage utility closet two months after Wade Steffey was reported missing.

The unnamed maintenance worker went to check the room and to her surprise, she found much more than simple chords and flashing lights. There, in the utility closet of the Owen Hall, she found Wade Steffey's body, one that had been hidden away for more than two months before being found. Wade's body was described as being slumped over the machinery in the utility closet. He was surrounded by dangerous high voltage equipment that had not been investigated during the search due to the risk imposed by the machinery.



The room and Wade went untouched until the maintenance worker found him. According to the interview that Fox News did with Wade's father, Dale Steffey, "The way the coroner described it to us, "he would have been groping around behind one of those transformers, looking for a light switch, once he got locked inside the room," Dale Steffey said. Somehow, he managed to get his finger into the one spot where he created an arcbetween the wire and the transformer. It would have been instantaneous.

Now that the case was settled, Wade's parents were allowed their time to grieve with the confirmation that Wade Steffey was dead.

Wade's case is now finally closed, though many still question how he entered the room through two locked doors security measures, and why. It may forever remain a mystery.


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