John Fiocco was a 19-year-old freshman at The College of New Jersey, studying graphic arts. On March 25, 2006, John Fiocco attended an off-campus party with his friends and returned to crash in a female friend's dorm room with two other students. He was last seen at around 3am, when a friend passing by peered through the door and saw him sleeping. When the students awoke in the morning, Fiocco's shoes remained, but Fiocco was not in the room.
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On March 28, Fioccos blood - a lot of blood - a voluminous amount of blood - was found in and around that same dumpster, and investigation focused on a trash chute that led down to the compactor. Investigators even ran a camera down the chute, but refused to comment on what they did or did not find. The idea, of course, was what Fiocco either voluntarily or involuntarily was stuffed down the chute. People strongly questioned whether a human body would fit down the chute; one student described the door as "spring-loaded" and leading into a "two-foot-by-two-foot space." It was all in vain; no blood was found in the garbage chute. There was no evidence Fiocco was ever there.
But even more tantalizing was another clue found in the dumpster: a necklace that belonged to John.
After a few months, word was spread that investigators were searching for anyone who had information on a late-night game of hide-and-seek.
The search for John Fiocco shifted from Wolfe Hall to two landfills in nearby Bucks County, Pennsylvania. On April 25, his body was found in a landfill in Tullytown, PA, badly decomposed.
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The hide-and-seek game turned out to be false lead; no such game had ever happened. So if John didn't go down the garbage chute and wasn't playing hide-and-seek, how did he wind up in the dumpster?
Did he willingly climb in the dumpster? If so, why?
The trash compactor - and this fact was not released publicly for some time - was motion-activated; once something passed the sensor, it would automatically be crushed.
Or - perhaps more reasonably, but something no one wanted to consider - was he not alive when he climbed in the dumpster? And if that were the case... who was the killer?
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Then, in 2011, Fiocco's parents dropped a bombshell in court: they claimed that a TCNJ graduate took advantage of the school's lax security measures to sneak onto campus, pull John out of bed, and kill him.
The graduate, who was only named as "John Doe" in court documents, had confessed to at least two people, one of whom went to police with their concerns.
John Doe was sadly afflicted with some psychiatric issues, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and had previously been committed to a mental health facility. On the weekend when Fiocco disappeared, Doe was not taking his medication, and was acting "manic and bizarre," according to his family members. Two days after Fiocco disappeared, Doe was involuntarily committed to a psychiatric facility again.
Most damning of all:
During an interview with attorneys for the Fiocco family, John Does mother allegedly said her son routinely left the house at all hours of the night and was regularly on the TCNJ campus, according to OHearn. The woman said that when she heard about Fioccos disappearance and learned that blood was found in the garbage bin she wondered where her son had been that night. (Source)
Doe was on campus when Fiocco disappeared and does not have an alibi for that time period, the lawsuit alleges. Police admit that John Doe was one of hundreds of people interviewed during their investigation, but would not, of course, discuss the nature of the interview. The Mercer County Prosecutors Office would not comment on the John Doe allegations.
In 2012, the Fioccos and TCNJ reached a settlement with a payout of $425,000. As a result, the case would not be going to trial.
John Fiocco's case remains open.
, yeah I can't see how he fell out of that window, I used to live on the 6th floor of Frederick hall and you couldn't get that window completely open screen and all unless you really tried.