{
  "id": "2020-01-21-university-of-notre-dame-annrose-jerry-missing-student",
  "slug": "university-of-notre-dame-annrose-jerry-missing-student-2020-01-21",
  "institution": {
    "name": "University of Notre Dame",
    "shortName": "Notre Dame",
    "state": "IN",
    "type": "private-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "ND Alert",
    "enrollment": 12700
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2020-01-21",
    "endDate": "2020-01-24",
    "type": "missing-person",
    "cleryCategory": "missing-student",
    "headline": "Missing-student notification for a senior; her body was later found in a campus lake",
    "headlinePublic": "Missing-student notification for a senior; her body was later found in a campus lake",
    "summary": "On Tuesday, January 21, 2020, [University of Notre Dame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame) senior [Annrose Jerry, 21](https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/annrose-jerry/), was last seen at 8:45 PM EST at Coleman-Morse Hall on the South Bend, Indiana campus. Notre Dame Police sent a [campus-wide email](https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-seeks-whereabouts-of-student/) around 7:00 PM EST Thursday, January 23, and [Indiana State Police issued a Silver Alert](https://abcnews.go.com/US/silver-alert-issued-notre-dame-student-believed-extreme/story?id=68504068) later that evening. Her body was found in St. Mary's Lake on campus around 11:15 AM EST Friday, January 24.",
    "outcome": "Body recovered from St. Mary's Lake on campus on January 24, 2020. St. Joseph County Coroner found no apparent signs of trauma; foul play was not suspected.",
    "resolution": "fatality",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 1,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Evening of Thursday, January 23, 2020, around 7:00 PM EST, about 46 hours after Jerry was last seen",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "The Notre Dame Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in establishing the whereabouts of Annrose Jerry, a senior at the University of Notre Dame. Ms. Jerry is 5-feet-5-inches tall, with dark hair, and the university established earlier today that Ms. Jerry was last seen at Coleman-Morse Hall on campus at 8:45 Tuesday evening. Anyone who has seen Ms. Jerry since that time, or has information about her whereabouts, is asked to call the Notre Dame Police Department at 574-631-5555.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-seeks-whereabouts-of-student/",
      "sourceDescription": "Verbatim from Notre Dame News official 'Notre Dame seeks whereabouts of student' release",
      "annotations": [
        "From the Notre Dame News official release; the alert was sent campus-wide via email around 7:00 PM EST Thursday, January 23, 2020",
        "The ~46-hour gap between Jerry's last sighting (Tuesday 8:45 PM EST) and the campus alert (Thursday evening) reflects HEOA's 24-hour determination window plus internal NDPD escalation",
        "Jerry was a science-business major and a national merit scholarship finalist who played flute on campus, the alert deliberately omits these biographical details to focus on situational awareness"
      ],
      "characterCount": 497
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "follow-up",
      "timestampApprox": "Friday afternoon, January 24, 2020, after the body recovery",
      "channel": "email",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from Notre Dame News and The Observer coverage of the January 24, 2020 body recovery and Notre Dame's community statement",
      "annotations": []
    }
  ],
  "context": "[Annrose Jerry](https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/annrose-jerry/) was a 21-year-old senior science-business major at the [University of Notre Dame](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Notre_Dame), a [national merit scholarship finalist](https://abcnews.go.com/US/silver-alert-issued-notre-dame-student-believed-extreme/story?id=68504068), flute player, and prospective dental school applicant. She was last seen at Coleman-Morse Hall on the South Bend, Indiana campus at 8:45 PM EST on Tuesday, January 21, 2020. After roughly 46 hours without contact, the [Notre Dame Police Department issued a campus-wide email around 7:00 PM EST Thursday, January 23](https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-seeks-whereabouts-of-student/), under the [Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Education_Opportunity_Act) missing-student notification framework. The Indiana State Police escalated the case with a Silver Alert later that evening. Around 11:15 AM EST Friday, January 24, [Jerry's body was discovered in St. Mary's Lake](https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Body-of-missing-Notre-Dame-student-found--567269801.html), one of two namesake lakes on the Notre Dame campus. St. Joseph County Coroner Michael McGann positively identified her at the scene; no foul play was suspected. The case is unusual within the HEOA archive because the missing-student notification, the Silver Alert escalation, and the recovery all happened on or immediately adjacent to the campus itself, illustrating that on-campus disappearances do not necessarily produce on-campus searches that succeed quickly.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "About 46 hours elapsed between Jerry's last sighting (8:45 PM EST on Tuesday, January 21, 2020) and Notre Dame's campus-wide alert (Thursday evening, around 7:00 PM EST); HEOA's 24-hour notification clock runs from when a student is determined missing, not from the last sighting",
    "The Indiana State Police Silver Alert escalation reflects a multi-jurisdictional HEOA response, university notification plus state-level missing-person classification",
    "Jerry's disappearance, the Silver Alert escalation, and the recovery in St. Mary's Lake all occurred on or immediately adjacent to campus, an unusual profile for a missing-student notification",
    "As a Catholic institution, Notre Dame's response included pastoral care through Campus Ministry alongside its University Counseling Center"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Notre Dame seeks whereabouts of student (Notre Dame News)",
      "url": "https://news.nd.edu/news/notre-dame-seeks-whereabouts-of-student/",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Body of missing Notre Dame student found in lake on campus (ABC News)",
      "url": "https://abcnews.go.com/US/silver-alert-issued-notre-dame-student-believed-extreme/story?id=68504068",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Authorities recover body of missing Notre Dame student after sending campus-wide alert (The Observer)",
      "url": "https://ndsmcobserver.com/2020/01/ndpd-seeks-assistance-in-locating-missing-notre-dame-student/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "Body of missing Notre Dame student found (WNDU)",
      "url": "https://www.wndu.com/content/news/Body-of-missing-Notre-Dame-student-found--567269801.html",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Annrose Jerry: A Tribute to the Notre Dame Student (Heavy)",
      "url": "https://heavy.com/news/2020/01/annrose-jerry/",
      "type": "local-media"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "missing-student",
    "missing-person",
    "heoa",
    "indiana",
    "private-r1",
    "catholic",
    "silver-alert",
    "on-campus",
    "lake"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-05-28",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}