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True Crime with Kendall Rae

Grad Student Jelani Day: Mysteriously Found in Illinois River? What Really Happened?

True Crime with Kendall Rae

Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.65K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Jelani Day was a graduate student studying speech pathology at Illinois State University when he went missing. About two weeks after his disappearance, his body was found in the Illinois River, where his cause of death was ruled to be drowning. But his family is convinced that he did not commit suicide.

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0:00.0

Hi guys and welcome back to my channel.

0:08.6

Happy to have you here for another video.

0:11.1

If you are new, welcome.

0:12.6

Today we are going to be talking about a case that is definitely still developing and

0:17.6

that makes covering it a lot harder.

0:20.8

Today I'm going to be covering Jolani Day and this case has been very challenging to

0:26.0

pull together.

0:27.0

It was one of the videos that I held in October because there was incorrect information being

0:33.0

reported and I only want to help in these situations.

0:37.0

I don't have direct contact with Jolani's family so I can only use what's being put out

0:41.7

there by the media.

0:43.0

Luckily the media coverage around this case has really kind of picked up in the last month

0:48.4

and a half or so but at first when Jolani was missing it was very, very minimal and it

0:54.3

was hard to figure out what was going on since then his mom has had a lot more interviews

0:58.8

and I've been able to clarify some of the questions that I had and I just want to put

1:02.2

this out there you know to anyone in Jolani's family if they happen to see this video that

1:07.0

I am here to help you guys in any way that I can whether that's fundraising or being

1:11.1

a platform for you.

1:12.6

I have a link to a victim's advocate Google form below and if you fill that out I'll be

1:17.6

able to get in touch with you and we can talk about ways that I can help.

1:21.8

I'm so happy to see Jolani's case getting more coverage but like I said at first it was

1:26.5

extremely minimal which was very unfortunate at that time because that's when Jolani was

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