Authorities in Chicago found the missing man in mid-December last year. Petko Yankov. The 27-year-old Bulgarian has been missing since December 16, 2021, when his mother discovered the apartment where he lived empty and his personal belongings and telephone on the kitchen table.
The young man’s body was not found until Monday night – almost three months after his disappearance. It seems that Petko ended his life by hanging himself.
Petko’s search continued for days in Catherine Chevalier Woods Park, where the young man is believed to have left after leaving them.
Petko, 27, was last seen by his mother on Thursday morning when she went to work in their apartment, which is meters from the park. When she returns in the afternoon, her son is gone.
“She returns from work and sees that the door is locked with only one lock and is suspicious. During this time he calls on the phone, he does not answer. When he enters the apartment, he finds the phone on the table, looks for it in the apartment – he is gone. He started looking at other things, all his documents were left – ID, driver’s license, credit cards, everything we carry in our wallet, “said then father Nedelcho Yankov.
The parents suspect that he has locked himself in and decided to go to the nearby Catherine Chevalier Woods Park, which he knew well.
“He came at the age of 9, we went to the park almost every day – to walk, play football, go fishing,” says Nedelcho Yankov. The boy lived with his mother in the apartment on W Summerdale Avenue – just a few meters from the park.
The father of the deceased Petko
Petko Yankov, as well as his parents, are from Stara Zagora. The family came to Chicago in 2003.
“What I fear is that he has gone to a better world,” Father Nedelcho Yankov told BG VOICE at the time. My father’s premonition turned out to be true.
Days before his disappearance, Petko successfully completed his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology, a specialty that combines kinesitherapy and nutrition with the University of Illinois in Chicago.
Source: bg-voice.com
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