Bodies of mum and her two children may never be found after they jumped off Niagara Falls, police fear

THE bodies of a ma and 2 kids who jumped disconnected Niagara Falls whitethorn ne'er beryllium recovered.

The heartbreaking quality comes aft cops launched a desperate hunt to find the bodies of Chaianti Means, 33, and her kids Roman Rossman, 9, and five-month-old Mecca Means.

Cops said connected Wednesday that aft sweeping the country thoroughly for days that hunt and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.

There has been nary motion of immoderate bodies truthful far, accidental investigators.

It is imaginable that her household whitethorn ne'er beryllium reunited with the bodies of their loved ones, pursuing erstwhile incidents.

Many of those who person jumped to their deaths successful Niagara Falls oregon fallen successful by mishap person ne'er been recovered from the bottommost of the waterfall, implicit which 3,610 tons of h2o rage each second.  

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Means, who was from Niagara Falls, extracurricular Buffalo, New York, scaled the defender rails with her children connected Monday October 28.

Officers went to Goat Island astatine astir 9pm connected Monday nighttime and started to hunt for the mom.

They aboriginal discovered each 3 members of the family were missing and believed they had fallen into the h2o below.

The New York Marine Patrol, Aviation and Underwater Recovery Units are each assisting successful the hunt.

Unmanned Aircraft Systems person besides been deployed by New York State police.

Means went by Diamond Scott online and was progressive connected Facebook, posting lighthearted messages astir emotion and dating conscionable days earlier jumping from the falls.

However, astatine the opening of October, the ma shared now-heartbreaking messages astir death.

Chaianti, a mom-of-three, worked arsenic a home unit counselor, according to her LinkedIn profile.

Tributes person poured successful online pursuing the tragic fall.

One of Chaianti's friends said: "I can’t adjacent bare to constitute a station astir her and stock memories.

"I americium virtually sick to my tummy and I can’t adjacent woody with the emotions I americium feeling.

"Just cognize her and her children are dearly loved by maine and my children."

A 2nd adjacent pal wrote connected Facebook: "You truly ne'er cognize what anybody is going through….RIP."

The U.S. Sun spoke with a person of Means, Amanda Roberts-Conrad, who said the 2 past connected astatine her son's day enactment successful summertime 2023.

Means brought her lad and her nephew to the celebration, and the trio had tons of amusive playing successful a bouncy castle together.

However, successful caller months, Means had been having narration troubles and was struggling, Roberts-Conrad claimed.

The U.S. Sun approached the New York State Police to spot if they were investigating this issue, but they didn't person a comment.

Roberts-Conrad archetypal met Means successful 2012 erstwhile they got large astatine the aforesaid time.

She remembers the ma arsenic a large person who ever had comforting words erstwhile Roberts-Conrad was struggling.

"Diamond was benignant and beautiful. I volition retrieve her arsenic such," Roberts-Conrad said.

The person slammed anyone who has been posting nasty words astir Means alternatively of considering young mothers' intelligence wellness issues.

"It makes maine truthful bittersweet to spot radical overgarment her a benignant of way," she said.

"We request to bring much consciousness to postpartum slump and perchance much information down by the falls.

"This is simply a communal occurrence successful my city. It's gut-wrenching.

"It truly is simply a unspeakable loss."

Last February, a mom died aft falling 90 feet into the Niagara Gorge with her five-year-old son.

The kid miraculously survived the deathly plunge arsenic investigations were launched into what whitethorn person caused the 2 to autumn into the gorge.

Niagara Falls State Park is tally by the New York State Office of Parks and Recreation and unfastened to tourists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

More than 8 cardinal radical sojourn the parkland each year, according to the recreation department.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize is affected by immoderate of the issues raised successful this story, telephone oregon substance the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline astatine 988, chat on 988lifeline.org, oregon substance Crisis Text Line astatine 741741.