A MISSING woman has been found dead in Chicago, cops confirmed.
Charisma Ehresman was reported missing on January 23, said Forest View Police. The 20-year-old was reported missing “based on suspicious circumstances.”
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She had left her home on the day she was reported missing and did not show up for work or contact family, which was out of the ordinary, police said.
Ehresman was a first-year nursing student, a choice that wasn’t a surprise to people who knew her.
“That’s who she is – she wants to help people,” said the woman’s father, Jeffery Ehresman Sunday. “It’s all she ever wanted to do was help people.”
The young woman had recently enrolled herself at Triton College in River Grove but was keeping it as a surprise until the first day of classes.
“She wanted to be able to tell everybody ‘I did this myself,’” said her father.
She was found dead inside a vehicle at the 5900 block of West Iowa Street in the suburb of Austin, said Chicago Police.
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Ehresman’s death has been ruled a homicide by the Cook County Medical Examiner. It appears that she was strangled and smothered.
“We’re all just in shock, in complete and utter shock,” said Mr. Ehresman. “We knew the second she went missing something was wrong because she doesn’t go missing.
“This isn’t the girl that runs away when she’s upset or spends days at a guy’s house and doesn’t tell anybody. At 20-years-old, she texts her mom, ‘Mom, going to so and so’s house, be back in a couple hours.’”
The news of Ehresman’s death has resulted in a flood of tributes and kind messages on social media.
“She brightened people’s days,” said her father. “I don’t think anybody outside of this house has ever seen my daughter without a smile. And her could just – it lights up the whole room.”
A GoFundMe has been set up by the family to help pay for funeral expenses. So far it was raised over $14,000.
“Thank you to everyone who donated their money, time and prayers to help us bring our baby girl home,” wrote Ehresman’s grandmother, Kathy.
“We are truly blessed to have such an amazing outpouring of love and support. As we prepare to celebrate her life, which ended way too soon, we are reaching out once more to those who would like to help us give Charisma the beautiful memorial she deserves.”
Jeffery Ehresman hopes his daughter will be remembered as a beautiful soul, “because that’s what she was.”
“She’s a pretty girl on the outside [and] inside. There’s nobody that can match that I’ve never met anyone in my life,” he said.
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