Florida woman found dead in trunk in Madison WI

[mssheila]

Hopefully her family can have some peace, now that she's been found.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/loca...=71563&ntpid=3

A body found in the trunk of a car at a Madison storage company was identified Sunday as the remains of a missing Florida woman who police say was murdered.


Police did not release the cause of death for Joann Gray, 46, of Vero Beach, Fla., but said an autopsy performed in Madison showed she was murdered. Her body was found Saturday in the trunk of a maroon 1986 Jaguar parked in a storage locker at Affordable Self Storage, 4402 Remington Road.

Gray's boyfriend, Louis Dangelo, 43, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., led investigators to the far East Side locker after he was tracked to Beaver Dam and interviewed by agents from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, the FBI, and Indian River County, Fla., Sheriff's Office.

http://nbc15.madison.com/home/headlines/2260221.html

She was last seen with 42-year-old Louis Dangelo, who led police to the car and is now charged with mutilating or hiding a corpse and possession of stolen property.

[mssheila]

This is so close to my home... it's scary. It's also very odd... You dont hear about this stuff happening too much around here... It sounds like neither she nor her murderer had connections to this state, either... Very strange.

[mysteriew]

He put the car in storage with the body still in it? That is odd.

[mssheila]

You know whats even stranger yet? I'll put a link to Mapquest...

The address is 4402 Remington Rd Madison WI

www.mapquest.com

Okay... As you will see, this storage facility is in a very high traffic area. Highway 51 is one of the most traveled highways in this city, and the storage facility is right on a frontage road facing that major highway. The storage area is also very brightly lit up at night time. I have driven by there thousands of times, and I always wonder why it's so bright over there, and I can remember thinking.... Hmmm they sure have a lot of lights for just a storage place... Wonder if they've been broken into a lot. It's lit up like a christmas tree.

He was arrested on MUTILATING and hiding a corpse charges...

[angrymom]

Do you know if the car was inside a storage area itself, or just parked in the lot?

I put some things in storage when I moved out of my house and oddly enough one of the provisions I had to agree to was not to store any dead bodies in my storage unit. I didn't realize it was happening enough to warrant a provision in the contract

[Michelle Read]

Originally Posted by mssheila

He was arrested on MUTILATING and hiding a corpse charges...

There is another thread on this in missing/located forum. What I find
reprehensible is that she apparently just met this man on vacation several days before she went missing.

[mssheila]

Just thought I'd mention here too, that I went by the actual storage facility yesterday. It isn't the one I thought it was, this one is further back from the highway, and not well lit at all. It's on a street with a bunch of icky houses and junk cars. I guess it wouldn't be as hard to hide a body there as I originally thought.

And I still dont know if she was inside the storage locker, in the trunk, or if the car was parked outside.

Udated info

http://nbc15.madison.com/news/headlines/2266991.html

[Belinda]

Louis Dangelo

Housed: Wakulla Annex
Initial Receipt Date: 11/13/2008

Offense: 2nd Degree Murder
Sentence: Life

Offense: Grand Theft/300 Less Thank 5000
Sentence: 5 years

Offense: Grand Theft Auto
Sentence: 5 years

Current Release Date: Sentenced to Life