A Texas girl has been accused of serving to her good friend eliminate a flight attendant’s physique after a butt-dial voicemail allegedly captured them plotting the cover-up.
Joni Thomas, 62, has been charged with tampering with proof within the suspected homicide of 47-year-old Rana Nofal Soluri — an Envoy Air flight attendant who was final seen alive in March, in line with an arrest affidavit obtained by NBC DFW.
Thomas is believed to have assisted suspected killer Dennis William Day — who allegedly admitted to investigators of strangling Soluri — with the disposal of her physique.
Investigators declare Day, 66, known as Thomas after murdering Soluri within the kitchen of his Fort Value house following an argument and had her come over in her pickup truck. The pair then allegedly transported the Soluris’ physique to Bowie, about 70 miles away, and dumped her corpse off a bridge.
In the course of the homicide investigation, detectives found what they imagine is a butt dialed voicemail on Thomas’ cellphone that captures her and Day straining to maneuver a heavy object.
A male voice is heard on the recording saying, “Hey … assist me,” “Make certain the lid’s on” and “I’m I obtained you tousled on this,” in line with the affidavit.
Thomas initially denied figuring out something concerning the homicide when questioned by investigators and insisted Day hadn’t pushed or used her truck.
Nevertheless, Thomas allegedly modified her story, telling investigators that Day had used her truck and he or she was with him, and that he had stopped on the bridge to make use of the lavatory. She additionally claimed that she was asleep for a bit of the drive.
Investigators discovered that each Day and Thomas left their telephones behind at his house earlier than driving to Bowie, a calculated effort to stage a false alibi, in line with the warrant.
“It is a clear effort by each [Day] and [Thomas] to deceive legislation enforcement and make it appear as if they by no means left [Day’s] home in Fort Value, Texas, after they had been dumping [Nofal’s] physique in Bowie, TX,” police stated within the warrant.
Thomas was arrested on Aug. 26 and transferred to the Tarrant County Jail, however has since been launched on bond.
Across the time she is believed to have been killed, Soluri was recovering from minor surgical procedure and had been out of labor since late March.
Nevertheless, in June, her Envoy Air coworkers reported her lacking after they grew to become involved when she failed to indicate up for work as scheduled and had been unable to get in touch along with her.
Police rapidly zeroed in on Day as a suspect after Soluri’s co-worker advised investigators that they had been roommates for a couple of 12 months.
Day advised cops that Soluri was a longtime good friend and was residing with him, however had not seen her for 3 months, throughout a welfare verify on June 10.
On June 23, police met with Day at his house once more, the place he denied any involvement in her disappointment and consented to a search of his property.
In the course of the search, investigators obtained video surveillance footage from the night time of March 21 displaying Day dragging “what seems to be a dull physique from the house into the yard.”
Day then allegedly admitted that he and Soluri had fought after she had filmed him appearing irate, and when she threatened to name 911, he panicked and strangled her along with his naked palms.
Cops say he confessed to stuffing her physique right into a black trash bin and dumping it off a bridge in Bowie. He additionally allegedly ditched her cellphone in a close-by river — however led investigators to Soluri’s gun, which has since been discovered.
Regardless of searches at a number of Bowie bridges, Soluri’s physique has not been recovered. Officers worry flooding could have pushed her stays downstream.
Soluri’s sister, Nez, advised NBCDFW that her household has been shattered over the ache of shedding her.
“It’s been torture,” Nez stated. “Each different day, I preserve dreaming or wishing… perhaps she bumped her head, had amnesia – one thing.”
Day is at present being held within the Tarrant County Jail on a $200,000 bond, charged with homicide.
