{"id":161886,"date":"2026-03-12T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161886\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T22:59:08","slug":"body-of-missing-long-island-teen-thomas-medlin-found-in-nyc-bay-two-months-after-he-vanished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161886\/","title":{"rendered":"Body of missing Long Island teen Thomas Medlin found in NYC bay two months after he vanished"},"content":{"rendered":"

The body of a missing Long Island teen was found floating in Brooklyn waters more than two months after he vanished in New York City, police said.<\/p>\n

Thomas Medlin\u2019s body was positively Identified Thursday<\/a>, Suffolk County police announced, after his body was recovered in the waters off of Red Hook on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 15-year-old was last seen on surveillance footage walking across the Manhattan Bridge in early January on the night he went missing, just moments before the cameras caught an ominous splash in the East River \u2014 with the boy never seen in the footage walking off the platform, officials previously said.<\/p>\n

\"SmilingThomas Medlin\u2019s body was found more than two months after he vanished in NYC. Suffolk County Police Department<\/p>\n

Medlin first vanished on the afternoon of Jan. 9 after leaving his prestigious Suffolk County private school unnoticed and catching a train to Grand Central Terminal, where he was first spotted on security cameras, police said.<\/p>\n

Cameras then captured the teen on the pedestrian walkway on the Manhattan Bridge at 7:06 p.m. the same day \u2014 with his last mobile phone activity recorded at 7:09 p.m. as the splash in the water was caught at 7:10 p.m.<\/p>\n

Medlin\u2019s family had previously suspected foul play, and that their child may have fled to the city to meet with a stranger he met on Roblox, sparking a massive citywide search.<\/p>\n

But police later debunked that theory, and have said \u201cthere is no indication of criminal activity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The body of a missing Long Island teen was found floating in Brooklyn waters more than two months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8108,19085,39683,57,7373,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-161886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-east-river","9":"tag-investigations","10":"tag-manhattan-bridge","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-missing-persons","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}