Mystery after patient is found dead on the roof of a Chicago hospital in freezing cold
Mystery after patient is found dead on the roof of a Chicago hospital in freezing cold
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‘My sister didn’t deserve this. She was young and changing her life around to be an amazing person to travel the world through real estate,’ her brother said. Days after a patient was checked into an Illinois hospital, she was found unresponsive on the roof, leaving loved ones and police wondering how she wound up there.
![[Paul Adolphus poses with his sister Chelsea Adolphus, who was pronounced dead after being found on top of the roof of a Waukegan hospital days after she was admitted]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2025/01/26/19/474621517_3316420421826405_3023299857100790319_n.jpg)
She had been admitted to the hospital earlier in the week, the Lake County Coroner’s Office told the outlet. It’s not immediately clear how she ended up on the roof or for how long she had been there in the bitter cold. Waukegan’s temperatures were below freezing all last week.
The coroner’s office notified the Waukegan police about the strange circumstances of her death. An investigation into her death is now underway, CBS News reported. An autopsy was completed on Friday, but her cause of death has not been released, the outlet reported.
Her relatives are now demanding “answers.”. “I’m hurt. I’m sad,” her mother, Yolanda Adolphus, told ABC7. “I want answers. Answers to know what happened to my daughter.”. Her daughter was sweet and friendly, she said: “You could ask her anything. She was a kind person.”.
The 28-year-old’s family and friends gathered at her family’s home Friday, ABC7 reported. “Somebody need to give me what happened to my baby Chelsea,” Yolanda Adolphus pleaded. “It’s sad, and I will never get back my daughter.”. Paul Adolphus wrote on Facebook: “Come on god that was my only sister. I will never be the same again. Rip to my sister Chelsea.”.
