CHICAGO — The family of a missing Chicago woman said a body found early Thursday is that of their loved one.
Nailah Franklin, 28, a pharmaceutical sales representative for Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly, was last heard from a week ago.
Dwayne Johnson, Franklin's uncle, said authorities confirmed it was his niece's body.
Suburban Chicago officials found a body in a forest preserve near where Franklin's car was found abandoned last Friday, police said.
On Thursday morning, authorities in Calumet City reported that they found a body in the Wentworth Woods Forest Preserve, near where her car was found abandoned.
Her family has been offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to her whereabouts. The pharmaceutical sales representative was reported missing Sept. 19 after she didn't show up for an important work meeting.
Chicago police interviewed a man last week but have not named him a suspect. Franklin filed a police report about threatening phone calls she said she received from the man. The man told FOX Chicago that he was not involved in her disappearance and offered to take a polygraph test.
