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William Kennedy

Michigan man found dead ‘standing’ in pond. Officials declare his cause of death ‘drowning,’ but he had no water in his lungs

In June 2005, 22-year-old Todd Geib vanished after attending a large, late-night keg party in a rural orchard in Casnovia Township, Michigan. Three weeks later, the search concluded tragically when his body was discovered in a small, private body of water known as Open Hall Lake in Muskegon County.

The official ruling that followed—an “undetermined drowning”—failed to reconcile the numerous forensic anomalies and suspicious circumstances surrounding Geib’s death, causing decades of debate over whether his passing was accidental or a homicide.

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