They Say He Drowned but Evidence Suggests Otherwise… the Death of Jelani Day (Revisited)
True Crime with Kendall Rae
Mile Higher Media & Audioboom Studios
4.6 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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The Jelani Day Foundation: https://www.thejelanidayfoundation.org/
T-shirts: https://jelanidayfoundation.creator-s...
All White Remembrance Dinner Tickets and information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jelani-d...
GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/find-jelan...
Sign the Petition: https://www.change.org/p/sign-this-pe...
Jelani Day Foundation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thejelanida...
Justice for Jelani Day Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
Justice for Jelani Day Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justiceforj...
The public can submit tips anonymously via 1-800-CALL-FBI. The FBI is offering up to $10,000 for “substantial information” and the family is offering up to $25,000 in reward money.
People to contact: Governor - JB Pritzker https://twitter.com/JBPritzker 312-814-2121
Attorney General - Kwane Raoul https://twitter.com/ILAttyGeneral 312-814-3000
Mayor - Mboka Mwilambwe 309-530-7664
City Manager - Tim Gleason 309-434-2210
Bloomington PD: https://twitter.com/cityblmPD (309) 820-8888
[email protected]
Peru PD: (815) 223-2151 [email protected]
Council Member Ward 1 - Jamie Mathy 309-306-1230
Council Member Ward 2 - Donna Boelen 309-386-0212
Council Member Ward 3 - Sheila Montney 309-205-0279
Council Member Ward 4 - Julie Emig 309-846-3605
Council Member Ward 5 - Nick Becker 309-830-7467
Council Member Ward 6 - De Urban 309-846-6105
Council Member Ward 7 - Mary “Mollie” Ward 309-205-9132
Council Member Ward 8 - Jeff Crabill 309-660-4025
Council Member Ward 9 - Tom Crumpler 309-205-0370
Sample of what to say: I am calling on behalf of Jelani Day. We demand that the Jelani Day joint task force thoroughly investigate the disappearance and death of Jelani Day. We demand a public apology from the chief of police from Bloomington, Peru, and La Salle city for not effectively working together in finding key elements in the disappearance and death of Jelani Day. Jelani Day was a 25-year-old man with limitless potential. Our world lost an incredible person, and we demand justice. Take accountability for the actions that you did not take to help find what happened to Jelani Day.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone and welcome back. I'm so happy to have you here today to discuss yet another case actually today |
| 0:13.3 | we're going to be revisiting a case that I covered back in 2021 and if you are new then welcome |
| 0:19.6 | glad to have you and be sure to subscribe. Today we're going to be talking about and revisiting |
| 0:25.2 | the Jalani day case except for this time I had the opportunity to fly out Carmen his mother |
| 0:31.4 | and his brother save a to help tell his story we did their interviews in person in my office so |
| 0:37.4 | the quality is really good and you're going to see those interview clips today. I also wanted to |
| 0:41.6 | mention we did a almost four hour episode of mile higher with them and I will have that link |
| 0:47.2 | below if you didn't catch it and you want to hear even more detail than we will be going over |
| 0:52.1 | and much more of their thoughts and opinions as well and it was so helpful to have them involved in |
| 0:57.6 | this process to go over the case because there has been a huge amount of information and also |
| 1:04.5 | lack of reporting since the beginning really but especially since interest in his case has |
| 1:11.4 | started to dwindle over the years when it comes to the media and it's really important that we |
| 1:17.0 | continue to fight for justice for Jalani there is still no justice really no answers for this |
| 1:22.8 | family and what it is put them through is horrific seeing their pain in person listening to them was |
| 1:31.7 | I mean listening to any family is just overwhelmingly difficult but hearing how much this has changed |
| 1:40.0 | and affected their lives just was heartbreaking and I really hope you guys take the time today to |
| 1:47.1 | listen to their story before we get into things there are many ways that you can help support |
| 1:52.4 | this family and we'll go over all of that but one thing I specifically wanted to shout out before |
| 1:57.0 | we get started is we have created Jalani Day Foundation merchandise in collaboration with their |
| 2:02.8 | family and all the profit from that collection will go to the Jalani Day Foundation which I think is |
| 2:08.9 | so admirable that in their time of pain and need they decided to do something in Jalani's honor to help |
| 2:16.0 | others and that just says so much about them the Jalani Day Foundation was created to provide vital |
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