TARRANT COUNTY, Texas (KFDX/KJTL) — Authorities in Fort Worth have reported that a local resident has admitted to the murder and disposal of a flight attendant’s body near Bowie. The attendant has been unaccounted for since March 2025.
According to police, Dennis William Day, 66, was captured on surveillance footage pulling what looked like an inert body out of his residence. Subsequently, he allegedly confessed to the strangulation of Rana Nofal Soluri, 47, an American Airlines flight attendant who had resided with him for about a year.
Police records indicate that Soluri was declared missing by a colleague on June 11. Concerns arose when attempts to contact Soluri failed, noting that their last conversation via text ceased unexpectedly on March 19.
Soluri had been on a leave of absence for a minor surgery, but was expected to return to work on March 31. She never returned.
Police documents stated that on May 8, officers were dispatched to Day’s residence to tow Rana’s vehicle that had been parked in front of the house. They later found that the car had been purchased just one week before Rana went missing. Officers were again dispatched to Day’s home on June 10, this time on a welfare check.
Police found that the last time anyone was able to verify Rana was alive was on March 21.
On June 23, police said they searched Day’s home after he consented and found the video clip of Day dragging what appeared to be a lifeless body.
Day initially denied any involvement, but then admitted that he “snapped” after Rana was videoing him and threatened to call the police, according to police documents. Day allegedly strangled Rana on the kitchen floor, then dragged her body into the backyard, where he realized the security cameras were recording him. Then he said he disconnected the surveillance equipment, loaded her body into a trash bin and drove the body near Bowie where he dumped her over a bridge, the documents stated.
While Rana’s body has not been found, her cellphone did ping in the area, according to investigators.
Day was arrested and charged with murder.
As of the publication of this story, Day was in the Tarrant County Jail on a $200,000 bond.
