DuPage County Coroner Helps with Identity Search for Woman Hit by Train

The DuPage County Coroner’s office is joining Elmhurst police in the search for the identity of the woman who died Oct. 9 after she was hit by a train.

Anyone with information about who the woman was is asked to call the Elmhurst Police Department at 630-530-3050 or the DuPage County Coroner’s Office at 630-407-2600.

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The woman is described as a white female, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches, 60 to 70 years old, 130 pounds with white or light color hair in a shorter hairstyle, according to police.

She was wearing blue jogging pants, a white night gown with a laced bow, a blue top and size 7 shoes. She had a Lina purse that contained a house key on an orange ring and eyeglasses. She was not wearing jewlery and she didn’t have identification with her.

A phone message was sent to residents, via the city’s Code Red system, Oct. 12 at 5:20 p.m. to ask for tips about the woman and to ask residents to check on elderly neighbors and family members.

Elmhurst police dispelled false rumors Tuesday that the woman was identified. They are looking into the possibility of creating a sketch of what she looked like, but “it is hard for us to do a sketch since we don’t know what the victim looked like before the incident,” the police department wrote on Facebook.

Chief Michael Ruth also wrote that it has been nearly 20 years since there has been a fatality on Elmhurst’s railroad.