Possible Victims: Illinois

[NicoleFelicity]

JELANI DAY

• 25 year-old graduate student at Illinois State University studying speech-language pathology
• Lived in Bloomington, IL
• Last seen August 24, 2021
• Car found abandoned two days later in a wooded area about an hour north of Bloomington
• The clothes Jelani had been last seen wearing were found inside the vehicle
• The license plate had been removed
• Nine days after his car had been found, Jelani's body was recovered from the Illinois River
• Police say that Jelani went missing "in unexplained suspicious circumstances"
• Police were able to track Jelani to a dispensary in Bloomington at 9:12 AM on August 24, but then lose the trail of electronic data
• Jelani's license plate and cell phone are still missing
• Coroner has reported drowning as Jelani's cause of death because of no evidence of injury to his body
• Jelani's family had hired a third-party to perform a second autopsy, but have not publicly revealed the outcome
• Jelani's mom is adamant that there has been foul play and that Jelani is a victim of homicide. She notes that Jelani had no known connections in the city of Peru (where his car was discovered) and that Jelani knew how to swim.