Woman Stranded Over Christmas Hanged Herself

24 year old Bela Fabriani was discovered on Christmas day, hanging in the rental residence where she and her family had been living for most of the year.

She had posted online the previous day that she was depressed because her husband and young child had gone ahead of her to another country while she was finishing some finals for her school classes. When she tried to join them a few days later, it was determined that there was an error in her immigration paperwork so she was unable to leave the country to join her family. Because her plane ticket was non-refundable, she was also out a substantial sum of money and unable to fix the problem, which was compounded by the fact that she was required to leave her current residence by the end of the week.

The day following her posting on social media, a friend from her school grew concerned when she wasn't answering the phone after making the posts about depression. When she arrived, indeed the young woman was found hanging in the rental home, estimated to be dead less than 5 hours.

According to the scene report, she had used a nylon rope that was originally part of her child's swingset. It was green and roughly 8 meters in length. She stood on a red plastic chair and kicked it out from under her, with the noose secured to an upper ceiling beam.

Her body, which was hanging in partial suspension with her feet on the floor but knees still elevated, bore no signs of violence aside from the ligature mark. She was barefoot and wearing her pajamas.

No complete autopsy was performed, but the visual examination by forensics determined that she had bitten her tongue while strangling. The report also noted that she had both pissed and shit herself in the throes of asphyxiation and that urine was all over the floor around her. No signs of a break-in or struggle were found and she had no signs of violence on her body aside from injuries associated with the hanging. Between these factors and the circumstances going on in her life at the time, the death was ruled a suicide by hanging.