Mystery as body of 22-year-old graduate student is found in the river after she vanished walking home from the bar

The body of Eliotte Heinz, 22, was found in the Mississippi River after a days-long search for the graduate student - (La Crosse Police)

A 22-year-old student’s body has been found in the Mississippi River days after she was last seen walking home from a Wisconsin bar, police say.

Police, her family and the local community had been searching for Eliotte Heinz, a Viterbo University graduate student, since July 20. Heinz was last seen at 3.20 a.m. that morning in La Crosse, Wisconsin, which borders Minnesota.