Woman who went missing while holiday shopping found dead
A woman who vanished after telling her family she was going holiday shopping just before Thanksgiving has been discovered dead a week later.
Jayna Lang, 46, texted her brother that she was going to the Outlets at Silverthorne in Colorado on the morning of November 24.
‘That was the last communication we had,’ her brother, Eric Horvat, told Denver 7.
‘My aunt and her talk every single day. Me and her, every couple days. So, for my aunt not to hear from her, it’s very, very suspicious.’
Lang also spoke with her sister that day, he said.
‘She was supposed to be going to Silverthorne to look at the factory shops on Sunday, and 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,’ Horvat said.
Lang was last seen in Littleton, heading to Summit County, stated the Park County Sheriff’s Office on Facebook. She would often go to the Indian Mountain subdivision of Park County.
Her sister-in law, Stacy Laigo-Horvat, on Sunday shared a disheartening update on Facebook without elaborating.
‘Sending this with broken hearts & tears!!! We were notified tonight with the not good news regarding my sister-in-law Jayna,’ she wrote.
‘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! Thank you & God Bless!!’
On Monday morning, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Karlyn Tilley told Denver 7 that Lang’s body was found and it was determined that she died by suicide. Not additional details were immediately disclosed on where and how she was discovered.
Her family had wanted her home for the holidays.
Lang’s loved ones had posted on social media for help looking for her and her missing 2016 white Toyota 4Runner SUV with the Colorado license plate JAYNA.
Littleton is about 10 miles south of Denver.
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