Posted on 08/16/2024 2:44:04 PM PDT by Libloather
The airport worker who discovered the body of a woman in a luggage carousel chute at Chicago O'Hare Airport told police how he could not immediately make sense of the ghoulish scene that confronted him when he started his August 8 shift.
Missionary Virginia Vinton was found dead shortly before 7:30am on Thursday llast week with initial reports suggesting she had become 'entangled' in one of the airport's luggage belts.
Now, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal the chilling truth of the 57-year-old mother of two's bizarre death and why it was ruled a suicide by authorities in Cook County, Illinois.
According to the Chicago Police Department incident report obtained by DailyMail.com Vinton was found by a Delta Airlines baggage handler when he arrived to begin loading luggage from a recently arrived flight at Carousel 11.
The report details the sinister scene as it unfolded, stating: 'He began starting up the conveyor belt by swiping his airport ID and using his fingerprint to begin operations.'
As the belt began to move and the small overhead door opened, the handler noticed a woman at the entrance of the conveyor belt.'
The worker whose name is redacted in the report stated: 'He thought to himself, 'why is there a lady in the chute looking at me, maybe observing me do my job.'
He then asked the woman, 'Do you want me to turn off the conveyor belt?'
As he continued to place bags on the belt, he told officers he felt an 'eerie feeling' and called out to her, 'Hey, are you ok?'
It was only as he got closer to her he realized she wasn't responding and she had an electrical cord wrapped around her neck.
Chicago Fire Department responded to the scene and managed to cut Vinton down.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Would you expand on that? Vaguely mentioning train engineers, desert search parties and decapitation without the whole story doesn’t cut it.
“Fortunately I didn’t come across any dead women left on a conveyor belt.”
They’re at a premium. The baggage handlers normally get them first.
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That’s all I know. For ten years I worked for a company that sent me from the east to the west coast 2-3 times per year. I don’t fly and it was either executive committee meetings or having to make videos of projects at our other research locations. So I lived on trains quite often. Being stuck out in nowheres land got to be almost a norm. But it wasn’t until that one porter talked about it that I made any connection between these long stops and what was going on outside. He was my only source. I did later read an article about a problem with alcoholism of engineers due to the trauma of being responsible for people’s deaths that were unavoidable due to the short time between seeing them on the tracks and the long stopping time for a train.
The Amtrak Railroad Experience - Joseph Blanchard
https://youtu.be/ry1B2zfKWNU
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