A MISSING woman who vanished on a last-minute Thanksgiving shopping trip has been found dead, police have confirmed.
The body of Jayna Lang, 46, was located a week after she disappeared in Colorado on November 24.
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She texted her brother, Eric Horvat, to say she was going shopping at an outlet mall in Silverthorne, roughly an hour from her home in Littleton.
But when she didn’t show up for work the following week, her boss reached out to her family.
After a week-long search and an appeal from police and loved ones, authorities confirmed the tragic find on Monday.
Jayna was discovered dead on Sunday night, a family member told Denver-based Fox affiliate KDVR.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to The U.S. Sun that her cause of death was suicide, calling it a “sad update.”
JAYNA’S DISAPPEARANCE
Jayna was last heard from at 11:17 am on November 24, when she texted her brother about heading to the mall.
“She was supposed to be going to Silverthorne to look at the factory shops on Sunday,” her brother said while she was missing.
“Her job called us and said she didn’t show up on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and now nobody has heard from her, talked to her or anything.”
Eric said her disappearance was out of character as she usually talked with her aunt every day but hadn’t been in touch.
We were notified tonight with the not good news regarding my sister-in-law Jayna. We want to send all the thanks & appreciation to everyone nationwide for the love & prayers during this horrible time.
Jayna’s sister-in-law
They raised the alarm with police and on November 27, the Park County Sheriff’s Office posted photos of Jayna and her SUV on Facebook, urging the public to call them if they saw her.
The agency and family noted that Jayna loved the outdoors and going out to the mountains.
CAR SPOTTED
At one point, cops got a tip that her SUV was seen driving along nearby Highway 6 driving from Breckenridge to Keystone.
That led her family to worry that she’d broken down or crashed her car and was stranded on the road somewhere.
The search ended in tragedy on December 1, and the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the next day that she’d been found.
Jayna’s family had hinted at the sad news in a post before cops’ statement about her death.
Search for Jayna Lang
Colorado woman Jayna Lang vanished days before Thanksgiving and was found dead a week later. Here is a timelime leading up to when her body was discovered.
- November 24: Jayna texts her family saying she’s headed to an outlet mall in Silverthorne, roughly an hour from her home in Littleton
- November 27: The local sheriff’s office and family members share a missing person bulletin on Facebook urging for help finding Jayna
- December 1: Jayna is found dead
- December 2: The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office confirms she died by suicide
“We were notified tonight with the not good news regarding my sister-in-law Jayna,” Jayna’s sister-in-law, Stacy Laigo-Horvat, wrote on Facebook.
“We want to send all the thanks & appreciation to everyone nationwide for the love & prayers during this horrible time! For all the efforts in finding her & the time this past week!
“Please keep my husband in your thoughts & prayers!”
No further information about Jayna’s death was available.
If you or someone you know is affected by any of the issues raised in this story, call or text the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, or text Crisis Text Line at 741741.