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Doug Schantz, Houston Energy Company Executive, is Missing in New Orleans
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 5:07 pm
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UPDATE: It looks like foul play can be ruled out in the death of Doug Schantz. Police believe the hammered oil exec wandered to the Mississippi River after a night of drinking, then fell and hit his head. See update after the jump...
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| Doug Schantz (pictured with family) was apparently hammered in the wee hours of Friday morning on Bourbon Street when he vanished |
Surveillance cameras show him leaving a Bourbon Street bar around 2 a.m. Other cameras show him near the Mississippi River around 2:40 a.m., apparently hammered and disoriented. Police believe he may have fallen into the river, but no body has been found.
Neither his hotel room key, cell phone or his credit cards have been used since he vanished. His son has posted fliers around the French Quarter, but no one's apparently seen him. He wasn't reported missing until he missed a flight home to Houston the next morning.
UPDATE: Police identify body floating in the river as that of Doug Schantz.
They believe he accidentally fell in and drown in the small hours of Friday morning. Tragically, he had just attended a reception at Tulane University, where he'd given the school his daughter attends a $25,000 donation.
As of the moment, there appears to be no sign of foul play.
UPDATE II: It looks like foul play can be ruled out in the death of Doug Schantz.
Detectives say Schantz left a Bourbon Street bar and walked five blocks to where the Steamboat Natchez is moored on the Mississippi. He was caught on surveillance tape scaling a slim ledge near the boat, then was seen walking toward the boat's gang plank.
Police believe he fell and hit his head, then dropped into the river where he drown. His body was discovered by sonar, but he still had his wallet, credit cards and jewelry, so detectives doubt he was a robbery victim.
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