Charisma Ehresman missing latest – Forest View nursing student, 20, found dead in car after being ‘strangled’ in Chicago

A MISSING woman has been found dead in Chicago, cops confirmed.

Charisma Ehresman was reported missing on January 23, said Forest View Police. The 20-year-old was reported missing “based on suspicious circumstances.”

She had left her home on the day she was reported missing and did not show up for work or contact family, which was out of the ordinary, police said. 

Ehresman was a first-year nursing student, a choice that wasn’t a surprise to people who knew her.

“That’s who she is - she wants to help people,” said the woman’s father, Jeffery Ehresman Sunday. “It’s all she ever wanted to do was help people.”

The young woman had recently enrolled herself at Triton College in River Grove but was keeping it as a surprise until the first day of classes.

“She wanted to be able to tell everybody ‘I did this myself,'” said her father.

She was found dead inside a vehicle at the 5900 block of West Iowa Street in the suburb of Austin, said Chicago Police.

Ehresman’s death has been ruled a homicide by the Cook County Medical Examiner. It appears that she was strangled and smothered.

“We’re all just in shock, in complete and utter shock,” said Mr. Ehresman. “We knew the second she went missing something was wrong because she doesn’t go missing.