November 10, 2025
Remains Found Near Bike Trail Identified as Missing College Student
Nearly a Decade After He Vanished, Remains Found Near a New Jersey Bike Trail Identified as Missing College Student — Bringing His Family Long-Awaited Closure For nearly ten years, the family of John Paul Fernandez lived in painful uncertainty — a slow, quiet ache marked by birthdays uncelebrated, holidays half-lived, and prayers that somehow, someday, they would learn what happened to their son. That day has finally come, and though it arrived with heartbreak, it also brought something his mother, Ninia Fernandez, calls “the first real peace we’ve known in years.” Authorities in Monmouth County, New Jersey, confirmed that human
