Jelani Day Cause of Death The disclosure of Jelani Day’s body in the Illinois River 11 days after his vanishing just brought up more issues. Jelani Day with his mom, Carmen Bolden Day. Photograph given by the group of Jelani Day. The consistent unsentimental female Google voice directs my sibling Jeff and me to a lush region here, “south of the Illinois Valley YMCA and due north of twelfth Street and Westclox Avenue.”

Pulling off Interstate 80, we snake through Peru, drive past the Illinois Valley YMCA, to where police said they recuperated Jelani Day’s four-entryway vehicle on Thursday, Aug. 26, one day after he had been accounted for missing. After nine days, on Saturday, Sept. 4, at 9:47 a.m., searchers discovered a body coasting in the Illinois River close to the Illinois Route 251 Bridge.

The LaSalle County Coroner’s Office official statement at the time didn’t recognize the “decedent” as male or female, dark or white, and gave no clue whether the cadaver discovered drifting even distantly coordinated with Jelani’s 6-foot-one-inch outline.

The secret expanded like the aggravation of a mother’s wrecked heart.

Profoundly. A unimposing, mocha-earthy colored lady whose Dentyne grin reflects her child’s, Day, 49, thought about the likelihood that the dead body could end up being her child kid. She wanted to think not. Asked not. Decided to continue to accept that Jelani would be discovered completely secure — even in the days and weeks that followed with no authoritative word from the experts on the cadaver’s personality.

But, there was no comfort, no replies, to be found in Peru. Not yet. Just inquiries. Waiting inquiries in the midst of an unfurling dreamlike, if not peculiar, case that Day and her family ended up looking with determined fear, and wishing, trusting, that it was just a terrible dream from which they may soon abruptly stir.

The shortfall of answers and progress from the get-go drove Jelani’s mother to squeeze examiners to act with more earnestness and force. She actually asks why they didn’t look through the stream that first week after the disclosure of Jelani’s white 2010 Chrysler 300, which had a place with his granddad who kicked the bucket in October 2014, and whose name Jelani bears as one of his two center names. His mom was pleased that Jelani had as of late repaired his granddad’s vehicle, working and taking care of the expense of fixes.