DNA testing confirms body of flight attendant who was killed and thrown from bridge

Authorities announced that DNA testing identified a body found in a Texas creek as a missing flight attendant whose roommate has been charged with killing her and dumping her remains off a bridge.Rana Nofal Soluri, 47, was found on June 13 by a fisherman on the bank of Brushy Creek under a bridge in Montague County, about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth, according to police and local reports.The remains were taken to the University of North Texas Health’s Center for Human Identification, where DNA testing recently confirmed the identity as Soluri, a Fort Worth Police Department spokesperson told NBC News.Soluri worked for Envoy Air, a regional carrier owned by American Airlines, and had been missing since March 2025.

She had taken time off for a minor operation and was expected to return to work on March 31, 2025, but a co-worker reported her missing months later, on June 11, 2025, after she failed to return and could not be reached, police said.TERROR CELLS INSIDE FOREIGN AIRLINES 'CERTAINLY A POSSIBILITY,' RETIRED PILOT WARNSRana Nofal Soluri, 47, was murdered in March 2025 and reported missing in June 2025, before being discovered by a fisherman a year later and her remains finally confirmed her identity last month.(GoFundMe)Dennis Day, 67, Soluri’s former roommate and longtime friend, was arrested in June 2025 and charged with murder.

Police said Day admitted he "snapped" during a dispute with Soluri before he "began to strangle her with his bare hands," according to an arrest warrant cited by reports.Day allegedly told investigators he strangled Soluri on the kitchen floor, dragged her body into the backyard, loaded her "head first" into a large black trash bin and transported her body roughly 70 miles away before dumping it over a bridge, according to court documents.Investigators said home surveillance video from Day’s Fort Worth house showed him dragging "what appears to be a lifeless body from the home into the backyard" on March 21, 2025.Police a...