Police Continue Probe into Stamford Man's Death

Stamford Police are continuing their efforts to determine how Jorge Simon died.

The 26-year-old Stamford resident was reported missing on Feb. 16. Relatives had told police that Simon was out with friends and was last seen in the area of Stillwater Avenue and Finney Lane about 12:15 a.m. on Feb. 14. Stamford Police say they have had difficulty reconstructing and tracing the events that led to the Guatemalan immigrant’s disappearance and how his body was found nearly four miles from where he was last seen.

An autopsy didn’t yield a cause of death for the man who lived in Stamford for seven years. “The cause of death was undetermined. Mr. Simon had no noticeable trauma — no stab wounds or gunshot wounds,” said Capt. Richard Conklin.

“The thing that’s got us puzzled is that he was left in the snow on Stillwater Avenue. His friends left to get a car to bring him home because he was so heavily intoxicated,” Conklin told Stamford Patch. “In the 20 minutes or half-hour it took for them to get a car, he disappeared. We’re still trying to ascertain how he got to that place.”

That place is a private beach on Rogers Road in the city’s Shippan neighborhood. That’s a distance that Conklin estimated to be about four miles from where Simon’s friends last saw him. Simon’s body was found March 30.

“From all accounts, he was in such a heavily intoxicated state, he couldn’t have walked there,” Conklin said.

Among the theories investigators are pursuing is whether Simon collapsed in the snow and given the spate of storms since Simon’s disappearance, “we’re even investigating the snowplowing routes of the city and private contractors. Could they have picked up the body with a large piece of equipment and dumped into a truck? Trucks were dumping snow by the water,” Conklin said. With the storms and heavy tidal action, investigators are trying to determine where the victim entered the water and how he was found on that private beach on Rogers Road, Conklin added.

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Photo: Jorge Simon. Credit: Stamford Police.