The Daily Populous Sunday August 11st, 2024 night edition
Authored by apnews.com and submitted by Big-Heron4763

CHICAGO (AP) — The dead woman who was found entangled in a baggage conveyor belt at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport died by suicide, authorities said Friday.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office concluded following an autopsy that the 57-year-old woman died by asphyxiation from hanging.

Firefighters responding to a 911 call found the woman’s body entangled in the belt around 7:45 a.m. Thursday in a baggage room near a terminal that serves international flights.

According to police, surveillance footage shows the woman entering the area around 2:27 a.m. Thursday, but it doesn’t show what happened to her. The room where the woman was found is off limits to the public.

Police declined to comment further on the matter pending the outcome of an investigation.

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Niceromancer on August 10th, 2024 at 14:42 UTC »

Suicide or not that's a horrible way to go, it's basically an escalator on crack.

If you have never seen the results of someone falling into the machinery of an escalator do not look it up. It's horrifying.

You can barely recognize the corpse was a human.

thats_hella_cool on August 10th, 2024 at 14:32 UTC »

This is a great example of an article that leaves way more questions than gives answers to.

SEA2COLA on August 10th, 2024 at 14:18 UTC »

Never has it ever crossed my mind to commit suicide by baggage machinery. I guess I always assumed there were safety guards to prevent you from being injured. TIL