DNA confirms body found in Texas creek is missing flight attendant

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.

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.Rana Nofal Soluri.via KXASThe 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.Police took Day into custody two months after the 47-year-old flight attendant went missing around March 19, 2025.For SubscribersFOR SUBSCRIBERSDOJ moves to revoke U.S.

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