i don't know if this has been posted but:
this is the same woman who was missing since 9-18-07

Body identified as Nailah Franklin

Tribune staff report

1:05 PM CDT, September 28, 2007
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Dental records today identified the badly decomposed body of a woman found early Thursday in south suburban Calumet City as Nailah Franklin, the 28-year-old pharmaceutical representative reported missing more than a week ago, Chicago police said.

A woman's body was discovered naked and partially buried in a densely wooded area behind a vacant store about 4:45 a.m. Thursday by two Calumet City police officers on routine patrol, according to police and a law enforcement source.

An autopsy was performed today on the badly decomposed body. Police, who are now conducting a death investigation, said the cause of death is "inconclusive."

The body was discovered after police officers noticed something unusual in the parking lot of the building and decided to investigate, said Calumet City Police Chief Russell Larson.

Larson would not say what it was that piqued the officers' interest. "They paid attention to a very minute detail that most people would have walked past," Larson said.

A law-enforcement source said it was ear buds from a portable music device.

Police had been combing the Calumet City area where the body was found since Saturday morning, when Franklin's company vehicle, a Chevrolet Impala, was found in nearby Hammond. "Personal items" of hers then were discovered near an abandoned building not far from where the body eventually was found. On Wednesday, police used FBI equipment to go back over the area but didn't find anything.

Franklin, who worked for Eli Lilly & Co. and lived near the University of Illinois at Chicago campus, was reported missing after she didn't show up for a work meeting Sept. 19. Text messages from her phone on Sept. 18 said she was going to dinner and would call her family and boss back, but they never heard from her.

Police said Franklin told them a week prior to being reported missing that a man she briefly dated had been threatening her life, and she filed a police report. Police have talked to the man, who a law enforcement source said came to the meeting with an attorney. But they have not named him as a suspect in her disappearance.
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Damn how sad I hope they catch the bastard that did this

I heard that a couple fo hours ago. it breaks my heart.

Lothan said:

they have her picture posted every where around where i live. i was hoping for the best

It's scary too because it was probably a regular situation that led to her death. Not sure how threatened she was by this guy or how serious it was with him, although it sounds serious if she reported his threats but she was probably just minding her own business when the worst happened

from what i previousley read about her she was a very sweet outgoing and intelligent woman who had a lot going for her. i don't know what has to be done but something has to be done about these crazy ass men that don't understand when the relationship is over, its fuckin over

So sad,I was hoping they would find her

disturbing...you gotta wonder why people do the shit they do...


so sad...

why? why , why?????

sad, why?

Something fishy about this. Her personal laptop and her work computer is missing.....and the cops don't have either.