Funeral Set For Chelsea Bruck Whose Skeletal Remains Were Found After 6-Month Disappearance
MAYBEE, Mich. (WWJ/AP) - A funeral is planned Saturday for a 22-year-old Southeast Michigan woman whose skeletal remains were found in April.
Visitation for Bruck Bruck will be held from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday at the Rupp Funeral Home at 2345 S. Custer Rd in Monroe.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Divine Grace Parish at the St Joseph Church at 2996 W. Labo Rd. in Carleton, about 35 miles southwest of Detroit.
The Maybee, Michigan, woman was wearing a Halloween costume when she disappeared in the early morning hours of Oct. 26 after she apparently walked away from a party at a rural farmhouse on Post Road in Frenchtown Township.
Her body was found April 24 at a home construction site in Monroe County's Ash Township, southwest of Detroit.
Monroe County Sheriff Dale Malone tells the Monroe News the official cause of death isn't being released; but Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office spokesman Ryan Bridges told the Detroit Free Press that — although Bruck's remains have been released to her family — a forensic anthropologist is continuing to work to determine a cause of death.
"We're still awaiting the results and for those results to be formalized and put into an autopsy report," Bridges told the Free Press. Results of an autopsy conducted in April was ruled inconclusive.
Bruck's disappearance prompted searches in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. A $30,000 cash reward had been offered for tips leading to her location.
Malone said the investigation is ongoing and the case is "still very active."
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. Patrick's School, Divine Grace Parish, Carleton or University of Michigan C. S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor. Online condolences can posted at this link.
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