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Apr 28, 2024 · However, everything turned upside down on the evening of February 13 as he agreed to give Pravin Varughese (then a stranger) a ride home following a college party on West College Street. After all, the latter never made it home – by all accounts, he’d gotten into the former’s black pickup truck of his own free will, just to be discovered bruised and frostbitten to death 5 days later.
Mar 24, 2021 · Pravin Varughese was reported missing in 2014 and was found dead about a week later. The police initially didn’t consider it to be a murder but the family didn’t agree with that judgment. The case and the ensuing legal battle spanned for years and the family never gave up through all that time.
Apr 28, 2024 · Gaege Bethune is a central figure in the tragic case surrounding the death of Pravin Varughese, a Southern Illinois University student. Bethune hails from Jackson County, Illinois, and found himself at the center of a legal battle after being accused of involvement in Varughese's death. Born and raised in the Jackson County area, Bethune's life ...
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- Pravin’s Mom, Lovely Varughese, Has Never Given Up Fight For Justice
- Pravin Varughese’s Death Remembered with Scholarship Award
Pravin’s family and friends refused to believe the results from the first autopsy. They argued that the young student was just not the type to wander drunkenly into woods on a cold night. The family organized a second independent autopsy for April 2014, which determined that the student had suffered a blunt force trauma to the head. Photographs fro...
The cops were understandably unimpressed with Bethune’s differing stories, which led to him facing charges of first-degree and second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealment of homicidal death. But in 2015, the prosecutor decided not to press charges. Bethune was off the hook until 2018 when a special prosecutor’s office took anoth...
Pravin’s mom, Lovely Varughese, has never given up in her fight for justice for her son. After the result of the original autopsy, Lovely decided she needed “to raise hell” to get to the truth. Shepushed hard to get a second autopsy and a special prosecutor onto the case. Lovely also worked hard to dismiss reports that her son had drunkenly stumble...
Lovely and the rest of the family decided to honor Pravin and his wish to join the FBI by creating a scholarship in his name. Scholarships are offered to local Shawnee Community College students who wish to study criminal justice. The family hopes this initiative will stop the same thing from happening again. There is no doubt that Lovely will cont...
Jun 9, 2023 · MAKAYLA HOLDER The Southern Feb 11, 2022 Feb 11, 2022 Updated Jun 9, 2023 CARBONDALE – Eight years following the tragic death of SIU student Pravin Varughese, family and friends recently ...
Jun 2, 2021 · James Jacobi, a forensic pathologist working for the Jackson County Coroner’s Office, found no intoxicants in Varughese’s body and ruled the teen’s cause of death to be “hypothermia and an accident.” In essence, then, the official story was — and has remained — that Pravin Varughese got lost in the woods and froze to death.
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Mar 7, 2022 · The Real Reason Pravin Varughese's Convicted Murderer Was Set Free. Southern Illinois University sophomore Pravin Varughese attended a house party on the evening of February 12th, 2014. It was the last time he was seen alive. A few days later, his body was discovered in a secluded wooded area in Carbondale, Illinois, according to the Chicago ...
