The family of a woman who went missing during what was said to be a routine shopping trip has been found dead after more than a week.
Jayna Lang, 46, had vanished on November 24, and Colorado cops on Monday confirmed to DailyMail.com she committed suicide. Due to the nature of the case, officials declined to say more.
The ‘sad update’ – as a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office public information officer put it – came just hours after Lang’s relatives took to Facebook to issue their own announcement, revealing they had received news about Lang’s whereabouts, and that it was ‘not good.’
Sister-in-law Stacy Laigo-Horvat, 45, was the one to make the admission – only hours after her husband, Lang’s brother Eric Horvat, thanked onlookers for their well-wishes.
Horvat, 44, had been one of the last to speak to Lang before she vanished – communicating via text the day she disappeared.
Lang had told him she had been headed to a shopping center in Summit County a few miles from the home she shared with her husband in Littleton. She never made it back.
The following day – in the wake of Laigo-Horvat’s cryptic post – a source described only as a ‘family member’ told FOX31 that Lang was found dead Sunday night from an apparent suicide.
No other details were provided, nor were any reasons as to why she would have taken her life. Her failure to show up to work is what sparked the search, called days before Thanksgiving.
Jayna Lang, 46, had vanished on November 24, and Colorado cops on Monday confirmed to DailyMail.com she committed suicide. Due to the nature of the case, officials would not say more
The ‘sad update’ – as a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office public information officer put it – came just hours after Lang’s relatives took to Facebook to issue their own announcement, revealing they had received news. Lang is seen here with her husband and two dogs
Photos on her social media suggest she lost her mother last year, as well as her two dogs, one of which she had to put down in June.
DailyMail.com has reached out to both her brother and sister-in-law for comment.
Hours before cops made the grim discovery, brother Eric Horvat laid out the details surrounding Lang’s disappearance to Denver7.
‘She was supposed to be going to Silverthorne to look at the factory shops on Sunday,’ he said.
‘Her job called us and said she didn’t show up on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and now nobody has heard from her, talked to her or anything.’
He called the news not only uncharacteristic, but concerning, and enough to call the search.
‘My aunt and her talk every single day,’ he told the station at the time, not long before it gained confirmation from cops that the search had come to an unceremonious close.
Lang was described by her brother as athletic and outdoorsy. Lang works at a dog grooming business
‘Me and her, every couple days,’ he added. ‘So… not to hear from her, it’s very, very suspicious.’
Horvat went on to bill his older sister as outdoorsy and athletic. He further revealed how she had worked at a dog grooming business – further demonstrating her love of the four-legged animals.
This is a developing story; please check back for updates.
