Wednesday, July 21, 1999
Man's death being investigated
Police want answer: accident or foul play?
BY TANYA BRICKING
The Cincinnati Enquirer
A bar fight separated Paul Donald Isaacs from his friends Saturday night and he was kicked out of Oscar's, a riverfront nightspot on Pete Rose Way.
When the 19-year-old Lockland man never came home, his friends formed a search party to scour the banks of the Ohio River. His mother filed a missing-person report with police Sunday.
Coal workers spotted Mr. Isaacs' body floating in the river Monday near Cincinnati Bulk Terminals at 895 E. Mehring Way.
The Hamilton County coroner's office is waiting for autopsy results to determine whether the young man, who could not swim, accidentally drowned or was killed.
“I knew when he didn't call me Sunday that something was wrong,” said his mother, Shelby Isaacs.
Known to friends as “Pooter,” Mr. Isaacs was studying to be a diesel mechanic — inspired by his father, a truck driver. He loved simple things, such as race cars and fishing, his mother said.
“A lot of people told me they envied his personality,” she said. “He was very outgoing. Always smiling. He told me he loved me every day.”
He was close to his siblings and sometimes stayed with his brother in Northside or his sister in Price Hill.
But drunk on beer and shots of tequila Saturday night, he got involved in a fight, said Amy Messer, 21, a friend who was with him.
She was on the dance floor when she saw bouncers kick Mr. Isaacs and his brother out of the bar. Mr. Isaacs then kicked a window out of a car in the parking lot, she said. That was the last anyone saw of him.
Cincinnati police consider the death suspect, homicide Sgt. Tony Carter said. Investigators are awaiting autopsy results, he said.
Anyone with information about Mr. Isaacs' disappearance is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 352-3040. Callers may remain anonymous.
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