Family Frantically Searching For Son Who Went Missing During Study Abroad In France
12.12.2022 - 22:51
/ perezhilton.com
An American college student has been missing in France since late last month, and his family is desperate for answers.
Kenneth DeLand Jr. was studying abroad in the Grenoble area when he boarded a train to the southeastern town of Valence on November 27. Up until that point, he had been in regular communication with his family back home via WhatsApp text messaging. However, after he boarded that train, they never heard from him again — and they’re frantically trying to figure out what happened.
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The 22-year-old known to family and friends as Kenny is a student at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York. He had been spending the fall semester studying French at Université Grenoble Alpes as part of a study abroad program. The plan was for him to finish out the semester and return home on December 17. His French visa expires early next year, according to DeLand’s family.
Now the family is asking for more focus on Kenny’s disappearance. They have started a website with pictures and information about their son. And in a new interview with GMA, they spoke about the difficulty of going through this situation.
They told the daytime TV news outlet on Monday morning:
According to the outlet, Grenoble’s public prosecutor first opened an investigation into DeLand’s disappearance back on November 29. It came about after a report “by [other] students of the disturbing disappearance of a 21-year-old [sic] American student who had come to Grenoble to study French.”
Interestingly, surveillance cameras captured DeLand entering a sporting goods store in the city of Montelimar on December 3 (as pictured, above). That was about a week after his
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