Ashley Tucker GoFundMe: 'She Didn't Deserve This'

JOLIET, IL - A GoFundMe was set up on Monday to help the grieving family members of Ashley Tucker defray the costs of burying their loved one. The Joliet woman was the victim of a brutal murder in Joliet earlier this month. The GoFundMe seeks to raise $5,000.

As of 11 p.m. Monday, it had raised more than $800 in less than a half day.

This past Friday night, Joliet Police announced that the missing Joliet woman's suspected human remains were found inside a burn barrel at a property in Lockport Township about a half mile north of Old Joliet Prison property.

On Saturday, the Will County Coroner's Office announced that the remains, which had been badly burned, were positively identified as Tucker.

The 25-year-old woman vanished around 11 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13.

The Joliet Police Department has arrested a dangerous sexual predator, Peter Zabala, 42, in connection with her disappearance. He is being held in jail without bail on unrelated charges including being an unregistered sexual offender. Police have said that Tucker was acquainted with Zabala and that he was believed to be the very last person to ever see her alive.

The GoFundMe is seeking to raise $5,000 to give Tucker a proper funeral and burial.

"On October 13th Ashley went missing from the Parkwood area after celebrating with her loved ones. She was attacked by a monstrous pedophile and tried to be disposed of like she was nothing. When in all reality she was everything to us. A beautiful mother, daughter, sister. She didn't deserve this. Nobody does! Help us send my cousin away like the queen she was. Anything helps. Anything remaining will go towards her beautiful daughter. Thank you," the GoFundMe reads.

The link for the GoFund Me page is called Ashley Tucker.

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