BROOKLYN, NEW YORK: The father of a doctor who was discovered dead in Brooklyn Creek called for answers as he highlighted eerie similarities between his son's case and that of John Castic whose body was discovered in the same body of water, earlier this week. The body of 27-year-old Castic, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, was pulled from the waters of Newtown Creek on Tuesday, August 1, just three days after he mysteriously went missing.
Castic body was located after a bystander noticed a bloated, shirtless person floating face down in the English Kills, a tributary of the East River, close to 1100 Grand St Police sources revealed that the body had no trauma signs, apart from drowning. Castic's cause of death has not been revealed as officials are still investigating the case. Castic was discovered dead just three days after he went missing on July 29 when he was last seen leaving a concert at The Brooklyn Mirage near the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn. He apparently told his friends that he was getting an Uber back to his Manhattan apartment but he never returned home.
Who is Karl Clemente?
Castic death came less than two months after 27-year-old Karl Clemente was found dead in an eerily similar manner. Clemente was a psychologist, who was turned away from The Brooklyn Mirage concert venue on June 11 because he was too drunk, according to his father, Alexander Clemente. He reportedly departed the venue and made his way to a nearby gas station, where people frequently wait to order beverages and snacks before contacting Uber or Lyft to take him home. But, he suspiciously disappeared from the gas station and was never contacted by his friends.
Nearly five days later, deputies found Clemente floating face-down in the same English Kills, where Castic was found later. The circumstances surrounding the two men’s deaths are uncannily alike. They were both 27-year-old white-collar employees, who had presumably bright futures. They disappeared after leaving the same location - The Brooklyn Mirage on Stewart Ave in East Williamsburg and were found a few streets later in the same watery grave. Reflecting on the similarities, Clemente’s father claimed to NY Post that Castic would have never died if his son’s death has seized enough attention at the time. “If they gave my son the same media attention as this John Castic, Castic could still be alive today,” he said.
'But what caused it?'
Alexander further continued by asking why did it take another man’s life for authorities to notice the case. “Why did you have to wait for a second person to die? When you lose one person in such circumstances, it’s too much. If you lose a second person, it’s unbearable,” he asked. Now, all that is left for the grieving father are the never-ending questions that weigh down the heartbroken. “I will accept that it was an accidental death — OK, he fell in the water. But what caused it? Why was he running? It’s like a movie. There’s no such thing as a movie where it’s the beginning and the end. You have to see the whole movie,” the father continued.
