The body of a woman found in an abandoned car in Gary, Ind., has been identified as belonging to Decarol Deloney-Cain, 54, a longtime flight attendant for United Airlines.
The soon-to-be-divorced mother of three was identified by the serial numbers on her breast implants, the Lake County Deputy Coroner George Deliopoulos revealed.
She was often gone for days at a time because of her job, so family members thought nothing of her absence, the Chicago-Sun Times reported Wednesday.
Police responding to a call about a car left on a gravel road found Deloney-Cain’s decomposing body in the trunk on Monday.
There were numerous stab wounds and blunt force trauma to the head.
Her body was found Monday wrapped in material in the trunk of her car in a wooded area in Gary, 12 miles north of Crown Point.
Her brother Todd Deloney said no one had heard from his sister since July 3, but no one suspected anything because the 27-year veteran often flew international flights for United from her base at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
An airline employee phoned the woman’s son when she failed to show up for a flight.
“She was a very vivacious woman,” Deloney said. “She had a quest for traveling. She was very devoted to her children and her immediate family. When you met the girl you were never a stranger.”
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