A body believed to be that of missing 25-year-old Erika Whaley is removed Sunday afternoon from a house at 2822 Ocoee St. in Chattanooga.
Investigators with the Chattanooga Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit are seeking help in locating 25 year-old Erika Whaley. She is 4’11” tall, 115 lbs, and is missing from the local Chattanooga area. Erika has been missing since August, 2011 and was last seen getting into a red truck at a shelter for battered women. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Erika Whaley are asked to call the Chattanooga Police Department at 423-698-2525.The human remains found inside a Chattanooga home have been identified as the body of 25-year-old Erika Whaley, according to the Hamilton County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The medical examiner will not be releasing a cause or manner of death until toxicology and tissue samples are completed, but the office did confirm Wednesday the remains belonged to Whaley – who has been missing since September, family members say.
She was last seen Sept. 15 getting into a red pickup truck at a domestic violence shelter. Her family did not report her missing to Chattanooga police until Dec. 18.
Whaley’s body was found inside a vacant, boarded up home that belonged to Whaley’s late grandfather.
After information on Whaley was released, police acted on a tip through the Crime Stoppers hotline in which someone said they dropped Whaley off at her grandfather’s residence.