An avid Disney fan was found dead by suicide Tuesday at Walt Disney World hours after she vanished from her Illinois home, according to police and a report.<\/p>\n
Summer Equitz, 31, died at the Contemporary Resort, one of more than 25 hotels on the sprawling Florida property,\u00a0the Daily Mail reported.<\/a><\/p>\n A missing persons page was created on a Reddit thread for Disney fans, apparently by a relative of Equitz, before her death, urging people to call the cops if they saw Equitz at the resort.\u00a0<\/p>\n A Disney World guest died in an apparent suicide by the monorail Tuesday, police said. Ron Buskirk\/imageBROKER\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n Equitz \u2014 who reportedly honeymooned at the theme park during happier times and announced she was pregnant late last year \u2014\u00a0left her home in Naperville and booked a flight to Orlando without telling anyone, the now-deleted thread said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cShe booked a flight there without telling us, unfortunately,\u201d the relative wrote.<\/p>\n Summer Equitz, 31, died at the Contemporary Resort Hotel, one of more than 25 hotels on the sprawling property \u2014\u00a0just hours after she vanished from her Illinois home. facebook\/summer.equitz<\/p>\n The Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office told\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that the death was \u201can apparent suicide\u201d but did not identify Equitz by name.<\/p>\n But the local medical examiner\u2019s office identified Equitz, adding she died by suicide from multiple blunt impact injuries.<\/p>\n On social media, Equitz had shared photos of herself at Disney parks \u2014 even one of her meeting the company\u2019s CEO Bob Iger in April 2021.<\/p>\n \u201cMy life has peaked,\u201d she reportedly wrote under the image.<\/p>\n Original social media reports suggested a person died after being struck by the resort\u2019s monorail, which runs right into the center of the Contemporary, connecting it to Disney World\u2019s Magic Kingdom park and several other hotels, but officials denied that narrative.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to one of her relatives, Equitz booked a flight to Disney World on the day of her death without telling anyone. facebook\/summer.equitz<\/p>\n \u201c[The guest] was NOT struck by the monorail, so that is erroneous information,\u201d the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n Police on Wedsday declined to release further information, citing a \u201csuicide case.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t immediately clear where exactly Equitz\u2019s body was found, and Disney didn\u2019t return an inquiry from The Post.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The sad incident comes roughly a week after\u00a0a woman in her 60s died after riding the Haunted Mansion attraction<\/a>\u00a0at the entertainment behemoth\u2019s only other US resort, Disneyland in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n She suffered an unknown medical episode \u2014 possibly a heart attack \u2014 while on the spooky attraction.<\/p>\n On social media, Equitz had shared photos of herself at Disney parks \u2014 even one of her meeting the company\u2019s CEO Bob Iger in April 2021. facebook\/summer.equitz<\/p>\n In September,\u00a0Kevin Rodriguez Zavala,<\/a>\u00a032, also died after riding the Stardust Racers roller coaster at the Universal Epic Universe theme park, which is also in Orlando but not owned by Disney.\u00a0<\/p>\n In another theme park mishap, a toddler was discovered on a\u00a0Hersheypark monorail track\u00a0<\/a>nearly 100 feet above ground in Pennsylvania in August.<\/p>\n