Body Found in North Texas Identified as Missing Flight Attendant
· Telemundo McAllen (KTLM)
Fort Worth police and the sister of a flight attendant from American Airlines, who was murdered in the spring of 2025, have finally identified her through DNA testing. On March 31, 2025, she was scheduled to return to work after a brief medical absence but never showed up. It wasn't until June 11 that a colleague reported Rana Nofal Soluri, 47, a Fort Worth resident, missing. She worked as a flight attendant for American Airlines and, despite extensive searches, there was no word on her until days later when a fisherman found her body in a river in Bowie, Montague County, about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth. 'Rana Soluri never remained silent in the face of injustice. She was a woman who fiercely advocated for those who had no one else to do so: the so-called 'dispossessed' that society too often overlooks. She tirelessly fought for women, whose voices are often silenced, and for animals that cannot speak for themselves. She passionately and resolutely defended every cause she believed in, always refusing to look the other way. Rana was deeply committed to her Arab community; she raised her voice to create awareness about the suffering of the Palestinian people and spoke out against genocide and oppression. She was both a loving and a fighting woman: she loved humanity, truth, and justice, and fought against silence, cruelty, and indifference,' her family stated in a release. Days later, Fort Worth police detectives arrested Dennis Day, Nofal's housemate, who, according to police records, confessed to killing Nofal at their home. The suspect told investigators that Nofal was recording him and had threatened to call the police when he 'lost control' and began to strangle her. According to documents, Day stated that he then dragged Nofal's body to the backyard and disconnected his surveillance equipment upon realizing he was being recorded. He later told police that he loaded the body into a trash container and used a friend's truck to take Nofal near Bowie, where he disposed of the body in a river from a bridge.
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