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Dennis Day (Tarrant County Jail).
A Texas antheral is down bars aft admittedly sidesplitting his roommate and throwing her assemblage disconnected a bridge, according to Lone Star State police.
Dennis William Day, 66, stands accused of 1 number of murder, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.
The complaint stems from the monthslong disappearance of Rana Nofal Soluri, 47, who was yet reported missing by a co-worker earlier this month, aft she had not been seen live since aboriginal March.
That wide gulf, however, was partially explained by the unfortunate herself taking a permission of lack earlier this year, according to an apprehension affidavit obtained by Dallas-based Fox affiliate KDFW.
The acrophobic co-worker said Soluri near her occupation arsenic a formation attendant for a insignificant country and was expected to instrumentality by March 31.
She ne'er did.
A speech connected March 19 seemed to extremity abruptly – close successful the middle, adjacent – the co-worker told investigators.
Police began moving the lawsuit arsenic a missing idiosyncratic incidental and instantly had Day connected their radar, according to the affidavit.
That's due to the fact that the co-worker told instrumentality enforcement the brace had lived unneurotic for astir a year. She besides provided investigators with a video dated March 19, purporting to amusement Soluri and her handgun successful sight. In the video, a man's dependable is heard off-camera, shouting.
Travel receipts for the unfortunate besides showed a unusual authorities of affairs. Soluri had not traveled connected an airplane for either enactment oregon pleasance since October 2024, according to police. A supervisor queried by investigators said that not showing up and not calling was dissimilar her, having worked arsenic a formation attendant for immoderate 5 years prior.
In May, officers towed Soluri's conveyance from Day's residence connected Grantland Circle successful eastbound Fort Worth, according to the affidavit.
Day, for his part, allegedly said the conveyance had been parked for astir 2 months, astir arsenic agelong arsenic helium had not seen his roommate. The suspect besides said helium moved immoderate of her belongings into a retention shed and did not "express cognition oregon concern" astir her.
As it turned out, the "brand new" car had been purchased astir 2 weeks earlier it was abandoned, heightening suspicions.
On June 10, during a payment check, Day described Soluri arsenic a longtime friend, constabulary said. The suspect allegedly confirmed Soluri was surviving with him but insisted helium had not seen oregon heard from her for 3 months.
On June 18, constabulary executed a hunt warrant connected Soluri's cellphone. She past made a telephone telephone connected March 21 astatine 3:43 p.m. Finally, her cellular telephone pinged a operation for the past time, astatine astir 3:52 p.m. – she was astir 5 miles eastbound of home.
On June 23, constabulary met with the suspect astatine his residence, wherever helium again disclaimed immoderate cognition of, oregon information in, the woman's disappearance. He besides consented to a search, constabulary claim. As a effect of that authorized search, investigators obtained video surveillance footage from the nighttime of March 21 that led to Day's arrest.
At astir 10 p.m. that night, Day tin beryllium seen dragging "what appears to beryllium a lifeless assemblage from the location into the backyard," according to the apprehension affidavit. There, the clip cuts off, constabulary say, and does not grounds for respective days thereafter.
Once confronted with the evidence, the antheral allegedly confessed.
Day said helium realized Soluri was signaling him and had threatened to telephone constabulary connected him erstwhile helium "snapped," according to police. Then, helium grabbed her by the cervix and went connected to choke her until she died, the suspect allegedly said. Day allegedly told constabulary the strangulation happened connected the room floor. After that, helium dragged the woman's assemblage extracurricular and disconnected the surveillance strategy erstwhile helium realized the tell-tale hint had been recorded, constabulary said.
Later, the suspect said helium loaded the woman's assemblage into a achromatic trash bin. The woman's remains were past dumped implicit a span successful Bowie – a tiny municipality located astir 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth, constabulary said. As for her cellphone, Day allegedly said helium tossed it into a stream wrong the metropolis limits. Day besides gave investigators the determination of Soluri's gun, which has since been recovered.
Though the suspect traveled with constabulary to a fig of bridges adjacent Bowie, Soluri's remains person yet to beryllium found.
Day is presently being detained successful the Tarrant County Jail connected $200,000 bond.
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