DNA testing has confirmed that remains found in a Texas creek belong to Rana Nofal Soluri, an American Airlines flight attendant who went missing in early 2025. The body was discovered by a fisherman near a bridge in Montague County and later released to her daughter for burial. Dennis Day, Soluri’s former roommate, admitted to police that he strangled her before dumping her body into a creek. Joni Thomas faces charges of tampering with evidence related to assisting Day with disposing of the body.
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Rana Nofal Soluri, a 47-year-old Envoy Air flight attendant (a regional carrier under American Airlines), was found dead more than a year after she went missing in Texas. In March 2025, Soluri took leave from work to recover from minor surgery but never returned as expected by the end of the month. Concerned colleagues reported her missing in June 2025 due to her uncharacteristic silence and absence.
Dennis William Day, 67 (Soluri's friend and roommate), was arrested last year and allegedly confessed to strangling Soluri to death at their home in Fort Worth, Texas. He then drove her body approximately 65 miles northwest and dumped it off a bridge near Bowie. Despite searches conducted by investigators following Day’s confession, no trace of Soluri was found initially due to rain and flooding potentially moving her remains downstream.
In June 2026, a fisherman discovered the body on the bank of Brushy Creek below a bridge in Montague County, about 70 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth. DNA testing confirmed it belonged to Soluri two weeks ago. American Airlines assisted in flying her remains to Seattle for burial.
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Prosecutors seeking to convict the Texas man charged with killing flight attendant Rana Nofal Soluri and throwing her body off a bridge have a powerful new piece of evidence — the victim’s body.
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Soluri’s remains were found on June 13 but only recently have been “confirmed to be her through DNA testing,” a spokesperson for the Fort Worth Police Department told NBC News on Sunday.
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Her body was found by a fisherman trolling beneath a bridge on the bank of a creek in Montague County, which is about 70 miles northwest of downtown Fort Worth, police told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
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The body was then taken to the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification.
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It has since been released to her daughter, Lulu Soluri, according to a GoFundMe page set up on her behalf.
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American Airlines flew the body to Seattle for a Muslim burial that took place on Sept. 29, an update on the GoFundMe announced.
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Soluri worked for a regional carrier owned by American Airlines.
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The break in the case came more than a year after Soluri’s former roommate, 67-year-old Dennis Day, was arrested in June 2025 and charged with murder.
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Police took Day into custody two months after the 47-year-old flight attendant went missing around March 19, 2025.
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A short time later, Joni Thomas, now 63 and also known as Joanne Walters, was accused of helping him dump Soluri’s body, police said.
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She was charged with tampering with evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.
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Soluri had lived with Day for approximately a year, police said.
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She had taken some time off for a minor operation and was supposed to return to work on March 31st, 2025.
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When she didn’t, a co-worker reported her missing on June 11, 2025, police said.
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Suspicion quickly fell on Day, who later admitted to police that he “snapped” during a dispute with Soluri before he “began to strangle her with his bare hands,” his arrest warrant said.
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After the slaying, Day loaded Soluri’s body “head first, into a large black trash bin and transported” it 70 miles away to Bowie, a town in Montague County, where he dumped the remains over a bridge, according to the court document.
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Day, police said, may have implicated himself and Thomas by accidentally recording themselves while transporting the victim’s body.
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Investigators in September revealed they found an “inadvertent call” and message on Thomas’ phone on which a panicked Day can be heard asking for her help to move Soluri.
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“This report is consistent with how Dennis Day stated that he moved [Soluri’s] body into a trash can and into the bed of a truck at his house,” Day’s arrest warrant said.
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“This report also confirms the fact that not only did [Thomas] travel to [Day’s] house and allowed [Day] to use her truck to transport [Soluri’s] body, but that she actually helped load [Soluri’s] body into the truck.”
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Investigators also found home security video from Day’s home, showing him dragging “what appears to be a lifeless body from the home into the backyard,” on March 21, police said.
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It was not immediately clear where Day was being held.
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He had been listed as a prisoner at the Tarrant County Corrections Center.
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But his name did not come up Monday in a search of the prison’s online registry.
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