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

Police in Texas have identified human remains found in Brushy Creek in June as those of Rana Nofal Soluri, a flight attendant who went missing last year. The 47-year-old’s roommate and alleged murderer, Dennis William Day, was arrested shortly after her disappearance and confessed to strangling Soluri before dumping her body off a bridge. Joni Thomas, another friend of Day’s, faces charges for allegedly assisting in the disposal of Soluri’s body.

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In June 2025, Rana Nofal Soluri, a 47-year-old flight attendant from Fort Worth, Texas, was reported missing after taking a leave of absence due to minor surgery. She had not returned to her job at Envoy Air, a regional carrier under American Airlines, by the end of March as expected. Her coworkers reported her missing in June when she failed to return and could not be reached.

In June 2026, nearly a year later, a fisherman discovered Soluri’s body on the bank of Brushy Creek near a bridge in Montague County, approximately 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth. DNA testing at the University of North Texas confirmed it was her remains two weeks after the discovery.

Soluri's former roommate and longtime friend, Dennis William Day, 67, had been arrested in June 2025 and charged with murder following his alleged confession to strangling Soluri to death in March 2025. Police said he then drove her body about 65 miles northwest before dumping it off a bridge near Bowie.

Her daughter, Lulu, helped arrange for American Airlines to fly the remains to Seattle for burial on September 29. A GoFundMe page was set up to cover Soluri’s funeral expenses and support Lulu during court proceedings in Texas.

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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. asserted

police → recover → attendant

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. asserted

Telegram → discover → testing

The 47 year-old’s Fort Worth roommate Dennis William Day, 67, was arrested last year and charged with murder. asserted

roommate → arrest → 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. uncertain

he → admit → Telegram

Day remains in Tarrant County Jail and his bond is set at $200,000. asserted

bond → remain → 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. uncertain

him → allege → 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. asserted

she → work → 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. asserted

he → become → 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. asserted

she → emerge → 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. uncertain

what → share → 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. uncertain

it → say → 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. uncertain

body → follow → murder

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. uncertain

he → direct → what

“But as far as the investigation, at least we have some of those answers for them.” asserted

we → have → 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. asserted

body → set → expenses

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

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