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Leonard Jonathan Spollen (born 1983) disappeared on 3 February 2012 while working as a journalist for the International Herald Tribune newspaper; he was formerly Assistant Foreign Editor of The National in Abu Dhabi. He went missing from the northern Indian tourist attraction of Rishikesh, sparking an international campaign to locate him, which included his local TD, Eoghan Murphy, raising the issue in the Irish Parliament. It is believed by several analysts that he may have joined a cloistered and extreme Hindu religious cult. [1] [2] [3] Others speculate that Spollen died in 2012, either as a result of drowning in the River Ganges [4], or after having been attacked by a wild animal.[5]