Sept. 11--Charges have been filed against two men in the death of a woman who disappeared from the South Side in June.
The body of Laneesha Miller was discovered Thursday afternoon in the Little Calumet River near the Bishop Ford Freeway and 135th Street. Authorities could not say how Miller died and the cause is pending an autopsy Friday by the Cook County medical examiner's office.
Paul Meyers, 33, of the 2700 block of West 84th Place, was charged with one count of first-degree murder. Arronis Jackson, 44, of the 2600 block of West 87th Street, was charged with concealment of a homicidal death, police said.
Miller was last seen by her friend in the 9600 block of South Halsted Street on June 16 and was last heard from a few days earlier when her father talked to her on the phone, Chicago police have said.
She planned to drive to Georgia, but her family there said she had not arrived, the department said. She had been driving a tan or gray Nissan Maxima with black primer on the right rear fender with a possible Illinois plate on the front and a possible Georgia plate on the rear of the car.
Acting on a tip from detectives, Chicago police marine unit divers had searched for Miller's remains in the Marquette Park Lagoon on July 14. Police drained part of the lagoon during the search.
Detectives had received information that a man may have killed his girlfriend, cut up her body and dumped the remains in the water, police said.
Police later said that evidence pertaining to the case was found in the lagoon, but they wouldn't specify what it was.
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