Murder? Suicide? Accident? | The Inexplicable Death of Jelani Day

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🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Join us for the next episode of the True Crime Society podcast where we talk about the disappearance and death of Jelani Day.

TW - We discuss graphic autopsy results in this episode.

Jelani Day was a 25 y/o man who went missing in August this year from Bloomington, IL. He was last seen on CCTV on August 24.

His car was found abandoned in an unusual spot on August 26 - the keys were missing and the car's license plates had been removed.

A body was pulled from the Illinois River in early September, and it was identified later that month as Jelani.

Since Jelani has been recovered, multiple autopsies have been conducted. The Chicago Sun-Times released an article that contained graphic details:

- Jelani's jawbone had allegedly been 'sawed' out.
- His liver, spleen and brain were unaccounted for.
- His genitalia was said to be 'flayed'.

Jelani's cause of death has literally just been confirmed - the LaSalle County Coroner has said that he drowned. His family dispute that this was suicide or an accident.

We discuss Jelani's disappearance, death and the investigation following in this episode.

We have mixed it up and our case updates are now at the end of the episode, so stay tuned after Jelani's story.

This week's updates:
- We are sick of the Brian/ Gabby conspiracy theories and click bait. We discuss all of our thoughts on the latest in the Gabby Petito case. (48:40)
- Aussie toddler Cleo Smith is still missing. Could this really be a stranger abduction? We may do a whole episode on her. Stay tuned! (1:02:35)
- The odd COD for the Chung-Gerrish family has been released and it's Olivia's hill to die on. (1:05:45)
- Missing executive Jake Cefolia's remains have been found. (1:12:14)
- A brief chat about the abandoned children in Houston, TX (1:15:00)

Thank you as always for listening!

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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up guys, welcome to another episode of the True Crime Society podcast with Stephanie
0:22.0	and Olivia.
0:24.2	Like we said last time, we are going to try switching up the format a little bit this
0:29.2	episode just to see how you guys like it.
0:32.1	So we're going to go straight into the main story, which today we are talking about the
0:36.2	highly requested Jolani Day and Daniel Robinson.
0:41.0	There's been a lot of chat about those cases, a lot of controversy, conspiracy almost, very
0:47.4	mysterious.
0:48.4	So we're going to get into all that.
0:49.6	And then at the end, we're going to talk about case update, some new cases, more chit chat.
0:55.9	So if you like hearing us bullshit, obviously, listen to the main episode like you normally
1:01.4	would and then stay tuned because we will continue to bullshit after that and have our casual
1:07.7	chat.
1:08.7	And as always from now, and make sure you check the show notes if you want to go to a certain
1:12.2	part in the podcast, we've put them up in for the last few weeks religiously, so we
1:16.9	will keep doing that.
1:19.3	And let us know how you guys like this layout.
1:21.4	If you like it a little better, people who don't want to hear a shout or if you hate it,
1:26.8	let us know.
1:27.8	We're just testing the waters right now, they will express.
1:31.6	So right now it is Thursday, October 21st.
1:35.6	We also talked about we might do a recording.
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