Scripps School of Journalism, said Janssen had 'quite a career in media. Founded in 2000, the OES is a group of urban explorers who visit both well known historic locations and those forgotten with time. 'It's comforting.'Īs a journalist, Janssen's motto in life was 'live a great story,' said college journalism professor Aimee Edmondson, who attended the University of Memphis with Janssen and later worked with him at the Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis.Įdmondson, an associate professor at Ohio University's E.W. 'I've been overwhelmed with the number of comments and messages from people,' she said, choking up. Vukmer said she first heard of her older brother's death through Facebook. why not invite the adventure into your life and allow yourself to fall. His three children are a 22-year-old daughter who is in college and lives on her own, and a 17-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter who live with their mom in the Memphis area. A woman fell to her death late at night while trespassing with two others in an abandoned Minneapolis grain elevator near the University of Minnesota, authorities said. A Guide to Urban Exploration - The Essentials.

Janssen had been living in the South Main Historic Arts District in Memphis and traveled quite a bit for his job, his sister said. Doing this sort of thing (entering abandoned buildings, tunnels, etc) by yourself can lead to: physical injury or death. His companion, fellow climber Aidan Jacobson, 26, fell a shorter distance and survived with.

The Cook County medical examiner's office said he suffered. Brad Gobright, 31, fell around 300m (1,000ft) to his death in El Potrero Chico in northern Mexico. Wacker Drive and landed on a sixth-floor roof around 3:30 p.m., authorities said. They both got the journalism bug from their mother, who was a writer. He fell from the 20th floor of the hotel at 85 E. Urban Exploration Resource: Featuring Urban Exploration stories and a huge database of locations. Vukmer said she holds a broadcast journalism degree from the same school. Janssen graduated from the University of Memphis with a degree in journalism.

Urban explorer falls to death