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Jelani Day's Mom Sets Record Straight After Reports Autopsy Showed Organs Were Missing
Day, an Illinois State University grad student, disappeared on Aug. 24 and was reported missing soon after by his family and a professor. His car was found two days later in a wooded area near where his body was ultimately discovered in the Illinois River under what police have said were "unusual circumstances."
The latest update from Day's family includes a statement from his mother, Carmen Bolden Day, who said "some things need and have to be clarified."
"No organs were missing. I do not want to stray off from the facts," the statement read. "There were contradicting facts from the first preliminary autopsy compared to the second independent autopsy, but this is not a case of organ harvesting, however, my son did not put himself in a river."
Reports had surfaced in recent days indicating Day's body was missing several organs when an independent autopsy was ordered by the family.
LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch told NBC 5 in a statement "some were severely decomposed due to the body being in the water," but he noted that no organs were missing.
Day's mother did not comment further on the "contradicting facts" she cited between the autopsies, but continued her cry for answers.
"My son was murdered and my goal and purpose are to find out what happened and hold those responsible accountable!!!” she wrote.
Little information has been released since Day's body was identified weeks after it was found in September in the Illinois River near Peru, a far southwest Chicago suburb. The location was miles from where Day was last seen, but not far from where his car had been discovered days earlier.
The mystery of the death of a son of Danville, Jelani Day
Jelani Day's Mom Sets Record Straight After Reports Autopsy Showed Organs Were Missing
Day, an Illinois State University grad student, disappeared on Aug. 24 and was reported missing soon after by his family and a professor. His car was found two days later in a wooded area near where his body was ultimately discovered in the Illinois River under what police have said were "unusual circumstances."
The latest update from Day's family includes a statement from his mother, Carmen Bolden Day, who said "some things need and have to be clarified."
"No organs were missing. I do not want to stray off from the facts," the statement read. "There were contradicting facts from the first preliminary autopsy compared to the second independent autopsy, but this is not a case of organ harvesting, however, my son did not put himself in a river."
Reports had surfaced in recent days indicating Day's body was missing several organs when an independent autopsy was ordered by the family.
LaSalle County Coroner Richard Ploch told NBC 5 in a statement "some were severely decomposed due to the body being in the water," but he noted that no organs were missing.
Day's mother did not comment further on the "contradicting facts" she cited between the autopsies, but continued her cry for answers.
"My son was murdered and my goal and purpose are to find out what happened and hold those responsible accountable!!!” she wrote.
Little information has been released since Day's body was identified weeks after it was found in September in the Illinois River near Peru, a far southwest Chicago suburb. The location was miles from where Day was last seen, but not far from where his car had been discovered days earlier.
The mystery of the death of a son of Danville, Jelani Day
