Missing Georgia Woman, Mom of Murdered 13-Year-Old, Found Dead Near Atlanta Train Station

A missing Georgia woman was found dead in the back seat of a car at an Atlanta transit station on Friday, nearly two years after the unsolved murder of her 13-year-old son in neighboring DeKalb County.

Chanell Crosby, 35, was reported missing by Atlanta Police Thursday night. Investigators said her family had last seen her on July 13, when she left on a trip, and that they’d gotten a text from her phone the next day saying she was in Macon, WAGA reported.

Details surrounding Crosby’s death have not been released, but Atlanta police said they were leading the investigation.

Crosby’s body was found by a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority police officer, who was flagged to a car in the parking lot of the West End transit station that was emitting a bad smell, WXIA reported. The officer found a body in the back seat.

The car was about nine mile’s from Crosby’s home.

Crosby’s son, 13-year-old Jamiren Crosby, was found shot to death behind a townhome in Lithonia on September 19, 2022, as CrimeOnline reported. A security camera captured footage of the boy and another person walking through a backyard the night before. No one has been charged for the boy’s death.

Chanell Crosby, who has three surviving children, said at the time her son had left earlier in the night with friends.

“It’s no reason why something so senseless, if Jamiren was your friend, what happened?” she said.

Five months earlier, Crosby’s brother, Darrio “Polo” Giles, was found shot to death inside an apartment in southwest Atlanta. No one was ever arrested for that murder either, but police said they believed the motive was robbery — Giles had just won several thousand dollars in a progressive slot machine, and the money was gone when his body was found.