Divers found the body of a competitive billiards player inside a suitcase in a pond near Merrillville today after her boyfriend led them to the scene, authorities say.
Dawn Fital, 45, of Pittsfield Township near Ann Arbor in Michigan, had been missing about a week. Lake County sheriff's divers discovered her body behind a Toys R Us store between Hobart and Merrillville, according to Deputy Commander Rob Arnold.
Authorities had arrested her boyfriend on Tueday after he was found acting suspiciously behind a bank in Merrillville. Information from the boyfriend "led to the discovery of the body," Arnold said.
The body was inside a large suitcase, said chief deputy coroner T.J. Adams, who declined to disclose any other details. An autopsy was planned for Saturday so Michigan authorities can attend.
Fital lived with the man and her ex-husband at an apartment complex near Ann Arbor, about 35 miles southwest of Detroit, Pittsfield Township Public Safety Chief Matt Harshberger said.
Police removed boxes, computers and other items from the Pittsfield apartment Wednesday. Fital's former husband told police that he hadn't been in contact with her since Monday.
On Fital's Facebook page, she says, "I know I am a pool playing bum, but that's how I roll." She won at least $600 at an event this month in Las Vegas, according to results posted online by the Valley National 8-Ball League Association.
"She's just below the upper tier" of players, said Nick Leider, managing editor of Billiards Digest, after looking at Fital's results from the past few years. "She hasn't won anything big."
Francine Bowles, 27, a cousin of Fital's ex-husband, recalled playing with Fital's children years ago while their mother sharpened her game.
"It was definitely her passion," said Bowles of Kimberly, Wis. "She'd be in the basement practicing while we were watching a movie. She was just really good at it."
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