{"id":9992,"date":"2025-10-29T20:41:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9992"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:41:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:41:22","slug":"missing-student-lia-smith-21-found-dead-on-farm-autopsy-report-reveals-tragic-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9992","title":{"rendered":"Missing student Lia Smith, 21, found dead on farm \u2013 autopsy report reveals tragic details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"150\"><strong data-start=\"95\" data-end=\"150\">Middlebury College Student Lia Smith Confirmed Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"152\" data-end=\"439\">Lia Smith, a 21-year-old Middlebury College student missing since October 17, has been confirmed dead. Her father reported her missing on October 19, and after a large-scale search involving multiple agencies, a body was found near The Knoll, the college\u2019s organic farm, on October 23.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"441\" data-end=\"606\">The Vermont Police Department confirmed the body was Smith\u2019s and said the medical examiner determined she died by suicide. Authorities found no signs of foul play.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"798\">Middlebury President Ian Baucom expressed heartbreak, saying, \u201cThis is a profound loss that nobody should have to endure.\u201d He praised staff for their support of Smith\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"800\" data-end=\"1040\">Smith, a diver on the Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving team and member of the Chess and Japanese clubs, was a double major in computer science and statistics. She was also an advocate for transgender rights and was set to graduate in May 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlebury College Student Lia Smith Confirmed Dead Lia Smith, a 21-year-old Middlebury College student missing since October 17, has been confirmed dead. Her father reported her missing on October 19, and after a large-scale search involving multiple agencies, a body was found near The Knoll, the college\u2019s organic farm, on October 23. The Vermont Police&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=9992\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Missing student Lia Smith, 21, found dead on farm \u2013 autopsy report reveals tragic details&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9994,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions\/9994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}