Woman, 26, is found dead in a creek after a night out partying on Halloween as police work to find out what caused her death
- Vail police sent a missing person alert for Margo Khalili early Thursday afternoon
- Hours later they confirmed her body had been discovered in Gore Creek
- Cause of death is not yet known but police say there were no signs of foul play
- Commander Ryan Kenney speculated she may have died of hypothermia
A 26-year-old woman who went missing while out celebrating Halloween was found dead in a Colorado creek the following morning.
Vail police put out a missing person alert for Margo Khalili on Thursday, and confirmed her body had been discovered in Gore Creek not far from where she lived just hours later.
According to authorities there were no signs of suspicious circumstances or foul play, but no cause of death has been identified.
Margo Khalili, 26, went missing after a Halloween party on Wednesday night and was found dead in a creek in Vail, Colorado, the following morning. Police had put out a missing person alert for Khalili, pictured right in a purple Halloween ensemble, early on Thursday afternoon
Police have said Khalili had left a party in Vail Village around 10.30pm Wednesday night and took the bus home to East Vail.
However, it is still unclear what happened after she got off the bus.
‘We don’t know if she got lost in the dark and ended up falling or not. We are not sure if hypothermia played a role in it, but she did end up in the creek,’ Vail Police Commander Ryan Kenney told ABC7.
‘There was new snow this morning so footprints were covered over and there is not a lot for us to go on right now.’
The investigation is being carried out by Vail police and the Eagle County Coroner’s Office.
The Vail community has been left stunned by Khalili’s death particularly given the sparse amount of details currently known.
‘People are shocked. They don’t know what do do. They don’t know what do think,’ Cornelius Nienaber, whose friends knew Khalili, told ABC7.’You just feel sad, obviously, for her, her family.’
He added: ‘Nobody really knows right now what happened. Everybody is in the dark.’
Gore Creek, where Khalili’s body was discovered, is pictured during a light snowfall Thursday