Officials have identified the 57-year-old woman who was found died Thursday at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office on Friday identified the woman as Virginia Christine Vinton of Waxhaw, North Carolina.
The death was ruled a suicide, with the cause of death being suffocation due to hanging, according to a spokesperson for the medical examiner’s office. Their investigation into the cause and manner of death has been definitively concluded.
The woman was not an airport worker, according to Scott Allen, a spokesman for the U.S. Department of Labor, who added that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration does not have jurisdiction in the investigation.
On Thursday, Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford told the Tribune that firefighters found Vinton entangled in the baggage conveyor belt at Terminal 5 after being called to the scene at 7:45 a.m. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.
Airport surveillance footage captured Vinton entering an unmanned area of the airport shortly before 2:30 a.m., five hours before her body was found, according to Chicago police.
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