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Son of Packers' coach found dead

21 years old, lost after 2am Sunday morning, I think its pretty obvious what happened here.

We've had unseasonably warm weather for the last week, and most of the Fox River is open water.

It's usually frozen this time of year, isn't it?

Yes and no. the more open parts are frozen, but the river channel is either open, or very weakly frozen.

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Was there any report from the friends that were with him earlier?Was he drinking with them?I haven't heard anything from the police investigation so I guess their keeping it close to the vest until the toxicology tests come back.

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Philbin disappeared after a night out with friends near the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh campus about 50 miles south of Green Bay. Greuel said no foul play is suspected and investigators were still working to determine if alcohol was a factor. An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday in Madison but toxicology results weren't expected to be available for at least a month, police spokesman Joseph Nichols said.

Investigators believe Philbin traveled the 20 miles from his home in Ripon to Oshkosh to visit friends. The group went out on Saturday night in the campus area but somehow Philbin got separated from them. Greuel declined to release any details during his news conference, saying only that Philbin and his friends visited various places during the night and the group mixed with other friends they encountered along the way.

A little after 2 a.m. Sunday, one of Philbin's friends got a cellphone call from him. The call came from an area near the river but Philbin didn't sound like he was any sort of distress, police said.

About half-an-hour later a security guard at a business along the river called police to report he saw a man in the river near a section of thin ice about 30 yards from shore, calling for help. Philbin never returned for his car or contacted anyone on Sunday, prompting his friends to call police that evening and report him missing.

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