Body parts found in a garbage container on Chicago’s Southwest Side earlier this month do not belong to a 35-year-old Park Forest woman who has been missing more than a month.
DNA testing confirmed the two legs and an arm discovered Feb. 3 belong to a black female, but not Dana Hayes, a single mother who has not been seen since Jan. 25, police said Thursday.
Hayes disappeared two weeks before her ex-boyfriend, Terrence Coulter, of Dolton, was to go on trial on charges he tried to stab her to death in a Riverdale alley in 2007. The start of the trial has been postponed.
“I’m relieved it’s not her, but this takes us right back to square one,” Hayes’ sister, Anjanette Hayes, said Thursday. “It’s just more questions. We just want her to contact somebody. Just sitting here waiting is killing me.”
Hayes’ family last saw her shortly before noon on Jan. 25, when she dropped off her 16-year-old son at her Park Forest home. Her car, a 2005 Kia Spectra, was found Jan. 28 along 159th Street near the Metra railroad viaduct in Harvey. There were no signs of foul play or forced entry.
Coulter, has been in custody since Feb. 1, when police picked him up for questioning in connection with Hayes’ disappearance. He hasn’t cooperated with authorities and remains jailed on an unrelated felony gun charge.
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