Crime & Safety
DNA Confirms Remains Are Kayaker Missing Since 2009
The remains found in Stratford last year in the Housatonic River have been identified as 22-year-old Michael Krupa of Middletown.
Remains recovered in the Housatonic River in Stratford last year belong to a Middletown kayaker who went missing in Milford in 2009, police announced Monday.
Michael Krupa, 22, went missing three years ago near Charles Island in Milford. While kayaking with a friend around midnight, according to NBC Connecticut, neither man wore a life vest.
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Both kayakers swam toward anchored boats but only the friend was able to swim to Charles Island, where he found a boat and woke up the people on board, the Middletown Press reported in 2009.
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The search for Krupa was suspended after 34 hours.
Two years later, in May 2011, human remains were found in the Housatonic River near the Stratford Army Engine Plant. Examiners at the State Forensic Laboratory determined the remains to be that of Krupa, based on DNA analysis.
Stratford police said they notified Krupa's family on April 28.
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