Anastasia Hamilton’s mother’s pain intensified by not knowing what led to her daughter’s final hours

CLEVELAND — Name it a mom’s instinct or a intestine feeling, however no matter you name it, Anastasia Hamilton’s mother knew early Sunday morning that one thing wasn’t proper.

“I can inform you, I knew one thing dangerous occurred to her. I knew one thing dangerous occurred to her as a result of she would by no means not reply to me,” mentioned Melissa Romanello.

Romanello’s intestine feeling, tragically, was proper. Romanello ended up going to the police station on Sunday and submitting a lacking individuals report for her eldest baby, 25-year-old Anastasia Hamilton.

Cleveland police pulled surveillance footage from Terminal Tower’s parking storage on Saturday, Might 21, and located Anastasia strolling out of the storage with an unidentified man. It will be the final time she was seen alive.

Her physique was discovered Wednesday afternoon at a vacant dwelling in Slavic Village. Cleveland police famous that there have been cuts and bruises on her physique, however the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has but to launch an official reason for loss of life.

“There are murder detectives which can be nonetheless working the case and so they’re nonetheless in search of that individual of curiosity,” mentioned Romanello. “This has been extraordinarily heartbreaking for our household and probably the most tough factor I’ve ever gone via in my total life.”

Romanello mentioned her daughter labored at Ok&D Properties in Terminal Tower, and suspects she parked her automobile there on Saturday night time for the free parking, since she was an worker. She mentioned she talked to her daughter Saturday night time, by way of textual content, and nothing appeared out of the traditional.

She has since discovered that her daughter despatched texts to buddies early Sunday, round 1:00 a.m., that mentioned “she didn’t really feel effectively, her head was pounding, she was hungry and wished to go dwelling.” The messages carry with them much more questions for Romanello. The principle one: What occurred in her daughter’s closing hours?

“The place’s her purse? The place her telephone? The place’s the shirt that she walked in on with? There are simply so many questions. Why would somebody dump my stunning daughter on this horrible dwelling? I do not know. Nothing is smart,” she mentioned.

Romanello is grateful for the group’s help, however mentioned now it’s time to let the police do their job and examine her daughter’s loss of life.

“There’s a number of hypothesis and a number of rumors,” she mentioned. “I do know that we will not carry her again, however proper now we simply should let the police do what they should do.”

She wished individuals to know that Anastasia was a loving and beneficiant daughter, sister and pal. She had goals of going again to high school, changing into an actual property agent and was thriving at her job at Ok&D Properties.

“Her father handed away a couple of years in the past, and it was extraordinarily tough on Anastasia, however I’ll inform you that this previous 12 months she was residing her very, easiest life,” she mentioned. “One in every of her coworkers texted me this morning and simply wished to inform me that Anastasia was stunning in and out and he or she was actually good at her job and that she had a smile that poured into everybody.”

Cleveland police mentioned, presently, there isn’t a replace within the case however that the investigation is ongoing.

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