Remains found in Texas river identified as missing flight attendant murdered in 2025

Remains found in Texas river identified as missing flight attendant murdered in 2025 Body recovered from creek in June now identified by DNA testing as Rana Nofal Soluri, who disappeared last year. Her roommate, Dennis William Day, has been charged with her killing - Bookmark Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Already a member? Log in A body recovered from a river in Montague County, Texas, has been identified as a flight attendant who went missing a year ago, police have said. Rana Nofal Soluri’s remains were discovered by a local fisherman in Brushy Creek in June and taken to the University of North Texas for DNA testing, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported. The 47 year-old’s Fort Worth roommate Dennis William Day, 67, was arrested last year and charged with murder. Day admitted he had “snapped” and strangled Soluri on the kitchen floor, telling cops he threw her body off a bridge in a black trash bag, according to an affidavit seen by the Star-Telegram. Day remains in Tarrant County Jail and his bond is set at $200,000. Police further allege Joni Thomas, a friend of Day’s, helped him dump the body and have charged her with tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, according to NBC News. Soluri – who worked for Envoy Air, a regional carrier for American Airlines – was last seen alive on March 21, 2025 and was reported missing by a co-worker on June 11, more than two months after she had been expected back from a planned leave of absence for minor surgery. Day quickly became a person of interest and an arrest affidavit records that officers were concerned when he did not “express knowledge or concern” about Soluri, despite living with her for around a year before her disappearance, and had already moved her possessions into storage. It emerged that the missing woman had bought a car, a 2023 Mazda, two weeks prior before she was last seen, leading police to conclude she was unlikely to have left voluntarily without it, turning the case over to a homicide unit. A search of Day and Soluri’s shared home on June 23 then uncovered surveillance footage from the night of March 21, in which the former could be seen dragging “what appears to be a lifeless body from the home into the backyard,” according to the affidavit. Day is said to have admitted to detectives he killed Soluri when she threatened him after an argument – the substance of which remains unclear – and that he disconnected the surveillance camera after he realized it had filmed his actions. A court filing from the following July alleged that Day had bragged to fellow inmates that he could not be convicted of Soluri’s murder if her body were never found. He had directed investigators to several bridges in Bowie but, until June 13, the body was never found. Fort Worth Police Department Homicide Unit Detective Tom O’Brien suggested the remains may have been covered by mud when his team first visited the site from which it was recovered as, on that occasion, they failed to spot it. Fort Worth Police Public Information Officer Daniel Segura told Fox 4 the identification of the body brings the victim’s family one step closer towards closure. “I can only imagine what they are going through,” he said. “But as far as the investigation, at least we have some of those answers for them.” A GoFundMe account set up on behalf of Soluri’s daughter Lulu by a family friend that her body is being flown to Seattle for burial and has raised almost $7,000 towards the cost of the funeral expenses.