3 Women Missing; 1 Found Dead

DETROIT - Police said the disappearance of three women in the past week and the gruesome discovery of a woman's body inside of a Dumpster on Detroit's west side are not related.

However, there are still many questions that remain unanswered.

"We have to go piece by piece in the investigation," said Detroit Deputy Police Chief James Tolbert.

An unidentified woman's body was found Tuesday inside of a burning Dumpster in an alley.

She was identified as a white woman in her 40s.

Shanita Brown, 28, of Detroit went missing Monday. A woman, who did not want her identity revealed on camera told Local 4 that she was out with Brown and two other men Monday at Club Celebrity at Plymouth and Mark Twain streets.

Brown's friend said she met one of the men at Lou's Deli in Southfield, where she worked as a cashier.

The friend said the other guy Brown had met for the first time that night.

“The guy she was talking to seemed nice. I saw him a couple times at our work place. He seemed nice, the other one he seemed crazy,” the friend said

After the bar, the friend was dropped off at home at about 2 a.m.

Brown, a recent Wayne State graduate, and the two men drove away.

None of them have been seen since.

In the meantime, members of Brown's family are worried.

“She didn’t show up for work, she didn’t call off, she hasn’t been to her house. This is not like her. I just want her home with us,” Brown’s sister, Salina, said.

Brown was a passenger in a vehicle that is described as an older model silver minivan. She is about 5 feet 3 inches tall, 160 pounds, has a medium skin tone, brown eyes and black medium-length straight hair.

Police are one step closer to solving the mystery of a missing 20-year-old mother from Detroit.

Regina McDaniel has been missing since last Tuesday but eight days later, on Wednesday, the car she was last seen in was found charred at a southwest Detroit scrap yard.

Regina McDaniel's mother, also named Regina McDaniel, told police that her daughter borrowed her 2004 silver Mercury last Tuesday to go out with some friends. The elder Regina McDaniel said that before her daughter left their home on the 200 block of Merton Road at about 10 p.m., she told her she would be back in a few hours. She has not been seen or heard from since.

The elder Regina McDaniel said she is distraught and she believes something terrible happened to her daughter because she would never leave her 2-year-old son for that long.

"Never, ever has she ever disappeared without calling us or calling the baby so he could hear her voice," said a distraught Regina McDaniel about her daughter.

GPS tracking inside of the Mercury located it at Boulevard and Trumball towing located at Dix Road and Central Avenue.

The owner said the car was dropped off Tuesday afternoon, but he would not allow Regina McDaniel's family to see it because police needed to examine the vehicle for evidence first.

"I have been praying for her. For whatever ordeals she has come across, to just survive it. Just survive it baby and come home to your mama," said the elder Regina McDaniel.

Investigators said they talked to younger Regina's friends, but they all said they have not received a phone call or a text message from her since last Tuesday.

The younger Regina McDaniel is black, about 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 135 and has brown eyes and straight long brown hair.

She was last seen wearing a pink jacket, blue jeans, and leopard print boots. Her family described her as being in good mental and physical health.

Twenty-eight-year-old Chrissita Cage has been missing since Oct. 26 and suffers from bipolar disorder.

Officials said they found her vehicle on Belle Isle with all of her personal items in it.

Tolbert said in each case, they are covering the bases, and paying close attention to the people who last saw the missing women.

"Where they say they were going, if they made it there, and these are all things we're in the process of doing right now," said Tolbert.

Tolbert said that in each missing case, police have a solid lead.

Anyone with information in any of the cases is asked to call Detroit police.

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