FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) The body of the young woman found in a trash can in Fort Wayne has been identified as 19-year-old Zhanelle Link. Her foster family is pleading with the public to help police find out how she died.
She left here saying she was going to a friends house and we never heard from her again the teens aunt, Starr Kage said. Zhanelle went missing on Monday, December 29 of 2014. She was a senior, on break from New Haven High School and when she didnt return home her foster family took to social media to find her. Friends said they knew nothing. Police said they could do little because Zhanelle was 19 and an adult, though she suffered from developmental delays as a result of fetal alcohol syndrome. No one who knew her can imagine anyone would want to hurt her.