检察官试图对被指控杀害空乘人员拉纳·诺法尔·索鲁里并将她的尸体扔下桥的德克萨斯州男子定罪，他们拥有一项强有力的新证据--受害者的尸体。沃斯堡警察局发言人周日告诉NBC新闻，索鲁里的遗体于6月13日被发现，但直到最近才“通过DNA测试确认是她”。警方告诉《沃斯堡明星电讯报》，一名渔民在蒙塔古县一条小溪岸边的一座桥下发现了她的尸体，蒙塔古县位于沃斯堡市中心西北约70英里处。
Prosecutors seeking to convict the Texas man charged with killing flight attendant Rana Nofal Soluri and throwing her body off a bridge have a powerful new piece of evidence — the victim’s body. Soluri’s remains were found on June 13 but only recently have been “confirmed to be her through DNA testing,” a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Police Department told NBC News on Sunday. Her body was found by a fisherman trolling beneath a bridge on the bank of a creek in Montague County, which is about 70 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth, police told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
尸体随后被送往北德克萨斯大学人类身份识别中心。据代表她建立的GoFundMe页面称，该视频已被释放给她的女儿露露·索鲁里（Lulu Soluri）。美国航空公司将尸体空运到西雅图，参加于9月11日举行的穆斯林葬礼。29日，GoFundMe的更新宣布。索鲁里曾在美国航空旗下的一家支线航空公司工作。案件突破一年多前，索鲁里的前室友、67岁的丹尼斯·戴（Dennis Day）于2025年6月被捕并被指控谋杀。
The body was then taken to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification. It has since been released to her daughter, Lulu Soluri, according to a GoFundMe page set up on her behalf. American Airlines flew the body to Seattle for a Muslim burial that took place on Sept. 29, an update on the GoFundMe announced. Soluri worked for a regional carrier owned by American Airlines. The break in the case came more than a year after Soluri’s former roommate, 67-year-old Dennis Day, was arrested in June 2025 and charged with murder.
这名47岁的空乘人员于2025年3月19日左右失踪两个月后，警方将戴伊拘留。警方称，不久后，现年63岁的乔尼·托马斯（Joni Thomas）被指控帮助他倾倒索鲁里的尸体。她被指控篡改证据意图损害人类尸体。警方称，索鲁里与戴住了大约一年。她因一次小手术请了一段时间假，原定于2025年3月31日重返工作岗位。警方称，当她没有这样做时，一名同事于2025年6月11日报告她失踪。
Police took Day into custody two months after the 47-year-old flight attendant went missing around March 19, 2025. A short time later, Joni Thomas, now 63 and also known as Joanne Walters, was accused of helping him dump Soluri’s body, police said. She was charged with tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse. Soluri had lived with Day for approximately a year, police said. She had taken some time off for a minor operation and was supposed to return to work on March 31st, 2025. When she didn’t, a co-worker reported her missing on June 11, 2025, police said.
戴的逮捕令称，怀疑很快就浮出水面，戴后来向警方承认，他在与索鲁里发生争执时“崩溃”，然后“开始徒手勒死她”。
Suspicion quickly fell on Day, who later admitted to police that he “snapped” during a dispute with Soluri before he “began to strangle her with his bare hands,” his arrest warrant said.
据法庭文件显示，谋杀案发生后，戴将索鲁里的尸体“头朝下”装进一个大型黑色垃圾桶，并将其运到70英里外的蒙塔古县鲍伊镇，在那里他将遗体倾倒在一座桥上。警方说，戴伊可能是在运送受害者尸体时无意中录下了自己和托马斯的照片。调查人员在9月份透露，他们在托马斯的手机上发现了一个“无意的电话”和信息，可以听到一个恐慌的日子要求她帮助移动Soluri。
After the slaying, Day loaded Soluri’s body “head first, into a large black trash bin and transported” it 70 miles away to Bowie, a town in Montague County, where he dumped the remains over a bridge, according to the court document. Day, police said, may have implicated himself and Thomas by accidentally recording themselves while transporting the victim’s body. Investigators in September revealed they found an “inadvertent call” and message on Thomas’ phone on which a panicked Day can be heard asking for her help to move Soluri. “This report is consistent with how Dennis Day stated that he moved [Soluri’s] body into a trash can and into the bed of a truck at his house,” Day’s arrest warrant said. “This report also confirms the fact that not only did [Thomas] travel to [Day’s] house and allowed [Day] to use her truck to transport [Soluri’s] body, but that she actually helped load [Soluri’s] body into the truck.”
“这份报告与丹尼斯·戴所说的他将[Soluri的]尸体搬进垃圾桶和他家卡车的床上是一致的，”戴的逮捕令说。“这份报告也证实了这样一个事实，即[托马斯]不仅前往[天的]房子，并允许[天]使用她的卡车运输[索鲁里]的尸体，但她实际上帮助加载[索鲁里]的尸体到卡车上。警方说，调查人员还发现了戴家的家庭安全录像，显示他在3月21日将“一具似乎没有生命的尸体从家里拖到后院”。目前还不清楚戴被关押在哪里。他被列为塔兰特县惩教中心的囚犯。但周一在搜索监狱的在线登记处时并没有出现他的名字。
Investigators also found home security video from Day’s home, showing him dragging “what appears to be a lifeless body from the home into the backyard,” on March 21, police said. It was not immediately clear where Day was being held. He had been listed as a prisoner at the Tarrant County Corrections Center. But his name did not come up Monday in a search of the prison’s online registry.