Aug. 28, 2026
Homicide Detectives Investigate Mysterious Death Of Southwest Airlines Flight Attendant On Layover
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RSS Feed Honolulu police have confirmed their homicide division is leading the investigation into the death of 50 year old Jenny Lupton, whose body was found after falling from a 24th floor hotel balcony in Waikiki. Lupton’s family insists the loving mom to a 15 year old son would never take her own life; she had been enjoying her layover with a flight attendant friend and had just gotten a tattoo the day before her death, with plans to color it in once she retuned home to Oklahoma. Police have not determined her cause of death yet and say they plan to “limit the release of certain information” to preserve the integrity of the investigation, while asking the public to refrain from sharing unverified information while they continue their work.
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, August 28th. Is it a crime? There is a woman who has been found dead in Hawaii. A flight attendant on a layover. The family says there ain't no way she did this to herself. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We've seen a couple of these stories every once in a while. There's such mysteries, right? Flight attendants go missing somewhere, end up dead somewhere. And here we go. How did she fall from a 24th floor balcony.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
00:00:34
Speaker 3: And that is the question that her family wants answered. And that, look, it's been really interesting when you start to hear, we'll get into the police response. I am intrigued because they are, they have put, this is according to Honolulu police, they have put their homicide division in charge of the investigation. Now they say that doesn't mean for sure that she was murdered. but they are looking at it through that lens right now. This is a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. She died during a layover in Waikiki, and it was an extended layover. She extended it a bit to have a little fun with another flight attendant, according to her family, but we're talking about 50-year-old Jenny Lupton, and right now there is no cause or manner of death released. Yes, she fell from a 24th floor balcony, but we don't know how she died. And that would implicate that possibly they're considering, could she have been killed before she was thrown over? Was she pushed off? Did she jump? Did she accidentally fall? There are a lot of different scenarios, but her family insists this was not a suicide and they have reasons why they believe that.
00:01:44
Speaker 1: But how is, I guess accidents happen, but do we, do we hear about them that often? People just falling off hotel balconies and dying. Well, Liam down in, where was he?
00:01:56
Speaker 3: That was in Brazil somewhere, I believe. It was in South America. Maybe it was Argentina, but yes. But he was out of his mind, we understand, and was actually kind of in a manic state with the drugs he was on. So it kind of takes something that forceful. It's almost as if you have to be seeing things or hallucinating to actually kind of propel yourself off of a balcony. Yeah.
00:02:20
Speaker 2: It's hard to fall off those things.
00:02:22
Speaker 1: It's hard to do.
00:02:22
Speaker 2: This is a Hilton in Waikiki.
00:02:24
Speaker 3: Look, they obviously have certain standards with their balcony railings so that this sort of thing doesn't happen accidentally. It seems like something forceful, something you would have to have chosen to do or someone would have had to decide to do to you, given how we know these railings are typically constructed.
00:02:45
Speaker 1: Specifically to keep people from going over them.
00:02:47
Speaker 2: Correct. So what happened... I'm.
00:02:49
Speaker 1: Looking at it here. I'm Check it. I mean, it's a big baby. It's hard to just lean over and fall off. Right.
00:02:57
Speaker 2: It really, really, really is.
00:02:59
Speaker 3: So a hotel employee found her body right near this large trash bin and they looked up and they figured out who it was. saw that she somehow had fallen from this 24th floor balcony.
00:03:12
Speaker 2: And here's the official police statement, what you're looking at something right now.
00:03:17
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the pictures, baby. You can't lean, right? If you're just leaning against it, it's high enough that you don't have enough upper body weight that's going to topple you over. It just can't happen. You would have to lift up in some way to get over this thing, and you would have to do that intentionally. You can't accidentally. You just can't unless you're doing something. Robes, accidentally going off. I'm looking at it, right? Robes are some of our railings here. You can't. you have to make an effort. Now I'm seeing the picture for the first time. Now I'm like, what the hell?
00:03:53
Speaker 3: And so maybe it makes sense why this was the official police statement. The HPD, the Honolulu Police Department, homicide detail, is actively investigating the circumstances surrounding her death and is working closely with her family. At this time, no conclusions have been made regarding the manner of death. This is a thorough investigation that will take time. Detectives are conducting investigations Numerous interviews, reviewing and recovering surveillance video, and examining evidence as part of the investigative process.
00:04:24
Speaker 2: She's from Oklahoma.
00:04:25
Speaker 3: The Oklahoma Attorney General also said that they are in contact with Hawaii's Attorney General because they're trying to ensure a proper investigation into Jenny Lupton's death. And what's interesting is you oftentimes hear police departments asking the public for help.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: We need your information. We need to know what's going on. The Honolulu police are saying the opposite.
00:04:45
Speaker 3: They're asking the public to not share unverified information with anyone. They're just worried that Because there's a mystery, because there's a vacuum, conspiracy theories may get into all of this and confuse and frustrate things. So they said the Honolulu police are asking in order to preserve the integrity of the investigation to refrain from sharing information. And they also said they are going to limit the release of certain info while they're investigating. Look, if they thought this was a suicide immediately or they were pretty sure, they would probably... immediately say no foul play is suspected. We've seen that plenty of times. This is interesting because they're actually kind of going out of their way to do the opposite.
00:05:28
Speaker 1: But didn't they say initially no foul play was suspected, right? I thought that was a statement initially. That's why the family was upset.
00:05:34
Speaker 3: Initially, and then they came back and said the homicide detail is now investigating.
00:05:40
Speaker 1: Why did the Attorney General of Oklahoma get involved?
00:05:42
Speaker 2: Exactly.
00:05:43
Speaker 3: So, look, this is why there is a tremendous amount of mystery around this, because this isn't typical.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: But it's an independent agency. It's another state. They're going to handle their things.
00:05:55
Speaker 3: Why are you.
00:05:55
Speaker 1: They put out a statement, you said, right? They did. Is it because this has gotten national attention? Perhaps. I mean, you could do this privately. You don't have to, hey, anything you need here on our end. That's genuinely trying to help solve something. It's almost like they're calling them out. You need to make sure. We're keeping an eye on you and making sure.
00:06:12
Speaker 2: That is what it seemed like.
00:06:13
Speaker 1: Come on.
00:06:14
Speaker 3: It was very interesting. So, and like, look, I'm sure you've seen her photo. And if you haven't, her name is Jenny Lupton. And when you look at her photo, babe, doesn't she just jump? her personality jumps off of the photos, that smile. Yes, I was thinking the same thing. She's got these dimples, she's got this bubbly face and personality, and it's almost as if she has been a flight attendant on a plane we've been on, because it's like we know her.
00:06:40
Speaker 2: You know her beautiful personality.
00:06:43
Speaker 3: And that's exactly how she's been described by her family.
00:06:46
Speaker 2: She was a flight attendant for 29 years.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: And there are a couple of reasons why, and this is really compelling, why they say there is no way Jenny Lupton would ever have ended her life. She's the mom to a 15-year-old son who her family says is her world. She had just been FaceTiming with him, just been talking with him, and he was staying with her sister, who she's super close with, while she was on this work trip. And coupled with the fact, and you pointed this out to me, she just got... a pretty large leg tattoo. In fact, we see the picture cause she sent it to her family of a hibiscus flower and she called her family to show it. And her sister is getting a matching one and they're going to go get it colored in together when she comes back. So someone who has those types of plans, who got a tattoo the day before she ends up at the bottom of this hotel, that doesn't make sense.
00:07:43
Speaker 1: She did this to herself. Somebody did it to her. Or this is just an unfortunate accident. Or the options, right?
00:07:48
Speaker 2: Those are the options.
00:07:50
Speaker 1: This, look, something could have happened. She got some bad news. Who knows? And she could have chosen. But robes? As a guy who doesn't even know the exact count of tattoos that I have right now, I can tell you that is not behavior of someone who is thinking about the end. Tattoos take a lot of planning. Yeah. A lot of coordination, time to heal, all kinds of stuff. It seems weird to point to that, but I'm listening to the family on that one.
00:08:18
Speaker 2: You did.
00:08:19
Speaker 3: And when this story first came, was on our radar, you said, nobody gets a tattoo and then decides. That is such a forward thinking decision.
00:08:30
Speaker 1: It's exciting and the planning that goes into it. Now you're telling me they got appointments back in Oklahoma.
00:08:34
Speaker 3: Yes. And if you see this tattoo, you can see how exactly what she was envisioning, coloring it in. It's a big, beautiful flower, a Hawaiian flower. And that really read to us. Now, We know from her family, because she was in constant contact with them, obviously her sons with her sister. So she's checking in with them. And they all said she was talking about having a great time. But the night before her death, or perhaps even the night of her death, because she was found the next morning, she went out dancing. And that is what her family is concerned about. Did she meet someone? Did she bring someone back to the hotel room? They're concerned about foul play from perhaps what happened that evening.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: They'll have that answer or should be able to get that pretty quickly.
00:09:16
Speaker 3: And that's why when you hear the police say the homicide division is taking over the investigation, they're conducting a number of interviews and looking at surveillance video, that would point to them basically either confirming or being able to check that off that someone came back with her that night.
00:09:34
Speaker 2: That's the big question.
00:09:35
Speaker 1: Videos everywhere. Surveillance videos, still no evidence. There's a camera in that hallway, I assume, right?
00:09:41
Speaker 2: I would think so.
00:09:42
Speaker 1: Certainly one at the elevators down below. Yeah, so what day was it, 20th?
00:09:47
Speaker 2: She was found on August 20th, so last Thursday.
00:09:51
Speaker 1: They got to have those videos in hand by now, don't they?
00:09:53
Speaker 3: Yes, and so when they first came out, now like I believe it was on Monday, they started saying that the homicide division was now leading the investigation. So that makes her family and certainly those of us who understand how these things work question whether or not this really was in fact a freak accident or a suicide. It seems like if she was found on Thursday and by Monday they have the homicide division taking over the lead, and again, they said it doesn't mean a murder took place, but that certainly means they found something, they saw something, they talked to someone where they think it is absolutely a possibility. When we come back, we are going to tell you what her family has been saying and the next steps in this unfortunate, awful situation in Hawaii. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ as police and the Homicide Division are investigating what happened to Jenny Lupton last week in Hawaii while she was on an extended layover as a flight attendant from Southwest Airlines.
00:11:03
Speaker 2: It's so sad.
00:11:04
Speaker 3: Her family is very suspicious that foul play was involved. They want to know if there was an adjoining room. Who was she with? Was anyone in the room with her? But while all of that is being sorted out by police, you know, they have a funeral to plan.
00:11:18
Speaker 2: And I thought this was pretty cool.
00:11:20
Speaker 3: So several family members are flying to Hawaii now to bring her body back home.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: They say when.
00:11:26
Speaker 3: They return to Oklahoma, they already have a plan in place. The tarmac is going to be open. She was a flight attendant. Flying on planes was her life, and she loved being a flight attendant. Her niece is a flight attendant herself and said it was her aunt who inspired her, gave her her wings, and really excitedly told her about this wonderful career she had.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: And she loved being a flight attendant.
00:11:49
Speaker 1: She's been doing it her entire adult life. She had to be 21 then. She's 50 years old and doing this 29 years. She's fresh out. This is her life.
00:11:57
Speaker 2: And she loved it.
00:11:58
Speaker 3: And again, I just encourage anyone to look up this photo of her. They're everywhere. And you can just see a joyful, joyful human being. You can just see it in her face. It jumps off the screen. But when they return to Oklahoma with her body in that plane, they're going to open the tarmac for her family and her friends so that they can be there and greet her body when she arrives back in Oklahoma again.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking.
00:12:24
Speaker 3: And I wanted to just read what her niece said about her because it just, it sums up, look, we can talk about the mystery. We can talk about the death, but it's important to remember her. They said that Jenny cared so deeply about everyone around her and how they felt. And she loved to see joy in people's faces and make them happy. She loved to have fun herself and she loved being a mother more than anything else. I know she would want everyone around her that's grieving her to celebrate her the memories. I just thought that was a beautiful way to honor her.
00:12:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. And do we know when she's going to be back there?
00:12:59
Speaker 3: They said that they were in route. Uh, this was just a few days ago. So this homecoming should be happening shortly.
00:13:05
Speaker 1: It's a, I mean, what a mystery. And I haven't seen anything. You tell me if I'm wrong. It robes, um, that the family, uh, is pointing to or pointing fingers at any, they don't have a reason to believe foul play. They just know she didn't kill herself.
00:13:20
Speaker 3: They just know she didn't kill herself. And they can't imagine the way you are pointing out, looking at the railings. They say, yes, they're leaving space at somehow, some way there could be a freak accident, but it just seems less likely, especially if she was out in an unfamiliar place, dancing and partying. And sure, I guess, but yes, people might think about if you're under the influence of, I just don't.
00:13:43
Speaker 2: See how you fall off of it.
00:13:45
Speaker 1: Probably you can't.
00:13:46
Speaker 2: Exactly. You'd have to throw yourself.
00:13:48
Speaker 1: You'd have to. I'm telling you, you have to.
00:13:50
Speaker 2: And this does not appear to be a woman. And look, we don't know.
00:13:53
Speaker 3: As you point out, there has to be space for that possibility. but it just doesn't seem likely. So we will stay on top of this story.
00:14:00
Speaker 1: Bob Saget, as the first thing I had, it was such a weird story. He was by himself in a hotel room and it ended up hitting his head in some way, right? You remember that? And so I guess freak weird things happen when people are on their own. I mean, does anybody, I mean, how hard of a night did she, how, Robes, I'm telling you, looking at that railing, you see that railing back there behind us, how, what could you do? If you ran full speed into that thing, You still wouldn't flop your body over it.
00:14:26
Speaker 2: No, you'd have to.
00:14:27
Speaker 3: The only way you could go over it unintentionally is if you set up a chair and stood on a chair, maybe.
00:14:32
Speaker 1: You'd have to.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: But why would you do that? Why would you do that?
00:14:34
Speaker 1: You'd have to sit on it, perhaps. Why would you do that? This is awful. Yeah, I hope they get some answers because that's the one thing. You can't have clothes.
00:14:45
Speaker 2: You've got to know what happened. You've got to know what happened.
00:14:47
Speaker 3: And for her 15-year-old son, who they say is just beside himself, Because they had such a close relationship. It is certainly tragic. But we will stay on top of the story and give you any updates that police are able to give us. But they say this may take some time. So we'll be on it. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
00:15:07
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.
Speaker 1: Hey there, folks. It is Friday, August 28th. Is it a crime? There is a woman who has been found dead in Hawaii. A flight attendant on a layover. The family says there ain't no way she did this to herself. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. We've seen a couple of these stories every once in a while. There's such mysteries, right? Flight attendants go missing somewhere, end up dead somewhere. And here we go. How did she fall from a 24th floor balcony.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly.
00:00:34
Speaker 3: And that is the question that her family wants answered. And that, look, it's been really interesting when you start to hear, we'll get into the police response. I am intrigued because they are, they have put, this is according to Honolulu police, they have put their homicide division in charge of the investigation. Now they say that doesn't mean for sure that she was murdered. but they are looking at it through that lens right now. This is a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. She died during a layover in Waikiki, and it was an extended layover. She extended it a bit to have a little fun with another flight attendant, according to her family, but we're talking about 50-year-old Jenny Lupton, and right now there is no cause or manner of death released. Yes, she fell from a 24th floor balcony, but we don't know how she died. And that would implicate that possibly they're considering, could she have been killed before she was thrown over? Was she pushed off? Did she jump? Did she accidentally fall? There are a lot of different scenarios, but her family insists this was not a suicide and they have reasons why they believe that.
00:01:44
Speaker 1: But how is, I guess accidents happen, but do we, do we hear about them that often? People just falling off hotel balconies and dying. Well, Liam down in, where was he?
00:01:56
Speaker 3: That was in Brazil somewhere, I believe. It was in South America. Maybe it was Argentina, but yes. But he was out of his mind, we understand, and was actually kind of in a manic state with the drugs he was on. So it kind of takes something that forceful. It's almost as if you have to be seeing things or hallucinating to actually kind of propel yourself off of a balcony. Yeah.
00:02:20
Speaker 2: It's hard to fall off those things.
00:02:22
Speaker 1: It's hard to do.
00:02:22
Speaker 2: This is a Hilton in Waikiki.
00:02:24
Speaker 3: Look, they obviously have certain standards with their balcony railings so that this sort of thing doesn't happen accidentally. It seems like something forceful, something you would have to have chosen to do or someone would have had to decide to do to you, given how we know these railings are typically constructed.
00:02:45
Speaker 1: Specifically to keep people from going over them.
00:02:47
Speaker 2: Correct. So what happened... I'm.
00:02:49
Speaker 1: Looking at it here. I'm Check it. I mean, it's a big baby. It's hard to just lean over and fall off. Right.
00:02:57
Speaker 2: It really, really, really is.
00:02:59
Speaker 3: So a hotel employee found her body right near this large trash bin and they looked up and they figured out who it was. saw that she somehow had fallen from this 24th floor balcony.
00:03:12
Speaker 2: And here's the official police statement, what you're looking at something right now.
00:03:17
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the pictures, baby. You can't lean, right? If you're just leaning against it, it's high enough that you don't have enough upper body weight that's going to topple you over. It just can't happen. You would have to lift up in some way to get over this thing, and you would have to do that intentionally. You can't accidentally. You just can't unless you're doing something. Robes, accidentally going off. I'm looking at it, right? Robes are some of our railings here. You can't. you have to make an effort. Now I'm seeing the picture for the first time. Now I'm like, what the hell?
00:03:53
Speaker 3: And so maybe it makes sense why this was the official police statement. The HPD, the Honolulu Police Department, homicide detail, is actively investigating the circumstances surrounding her death and is working closely with her family. At this time, no conclusions have been made regarding the manner of death. This is a thorough investigation that will take time. Detectives are conducting investigations Numerous interviews, reviewing and recovering surveillance video, and examining evidence as part of the investigative process.
00:04:24
Speaker 2: She's from Oklahoma.
00:04:25
Speaker 3: The Oklahoma Attorney General also said that they are in contact with Hawaii's Attorney General because they're trying to ensure a proper investigation into Jenny Lupton's death. And what's interesting is you oftentimes hear police departments asking the public for help.
00:04:41
Speaker 2: We need your information. We need to know what's going on. The Honolulu police are saying the opposite.
00:04:45
Speaker 3: They're asking the public to not share unverified information with anyone. They're just worried that Because there's a mystery, because there's a vacuum, conspiracy theories may get into all of this and confuse and frustrate things. So they said the Honolulu police are asking in order to preserve the integrity of the investigation to refrain from sharing information. And they also said they are going to limit the release of certain info while they're investigating. Look, if they thought this was a suicide immediately or they were pretty sure, they would probably... immediately say no foul play is suspected. We've seen that plenty of times. This is interesting because they're actually kind of going out of their way to do the opposite.
00:05:28
Speaker 1: But didn't they say initially no foul play was suspected, right? I thought that was a statement initially. That's why the family was upset.
00:05:34
Speaker 3: Initially, and then they came back and said the homicide detail is now investigating.
00:05:40
Speaker 1: Why did the Attorney General of Oklahoma get involved?
00:05:42
Speaker 2: Exactly.
00:05:43
Speaker 3: So, look, this is why there is a tremendous amount of mystery around this, because this isn't typical.
00:05:49
Speaker 1: But it's an independent agency. It's another state. They're going to handle their things.
00:05:55
Speaker 3: Why are you.
00:05:55
Speaker 1: They put out a statement, you said, right? They did. Is it because this has gotten national attention? Perhaps. I mean, you could do this privately. You don't have to, hey, anything you need here on our end. That's genuinely trying to help solve something. It's almost like they're calling them out. You need to make sure. We're keeping an eye on you and making sure.
00:06:12
Speaker 2: That is what it seemed like.
00:06:13
Speaker 1: Come on.
00:06:14
Speaker 3: It was very interesting. So, and like, look, I'm sure you've seen her photo. And if you haven't, her name is Jenny Lupton. And when you look at her photo, babe, doesn't she just jump? her personality jumps off of the photos, that smile. Yes, I was thinking the same thing. She's got these dimples, she's got this bubbly face and personality, and it's almost as if she has been a flight attendant on a plane we've been on, because it's like we know her.
00:06:40
Speaker 2: You know her beautiful personality.
00:06:43
Speaker 3: And that's exactly how she's been described by her family.
00:06:46
Speaker 2: She was a flight attendant for 29 years.
00:06:49
Speaker 3: And there are a couple of reasons why, and this is really compelling, why they say there is no way Jenny Lupton would ever have ended her life. She's the mom to a 15-year-old son who her family says is her world. She had just been FaceTiming with him, just been talking with him, and he was staying with her sister, who she's super close with, while she was on this work trip. And coupled with the fact, and you pointed this out to me, she just got... a pretty large leg tattoo. In fact, we see the picture cause she sent it to her family of a hibiscus flower and she called her family to show it. And her sister is getting a matching one and they're going to go get it colored in together when she comes back. So someone who has those types of plans, who got a tattoo the day before she ends up at the bottom of this hotel, that doesn't make sense.
00:07:43
Speaker 1: She did this to herself. Somebody did it to her. Or this is just an unfortunate accident. Or the options, right?
00:07:48
Speaker 2: Those are the options.
00:07:50
Speaker 1: This, look, something could have happened. She got some bad news. Who knows? And she could have chosen. But robes? As a guy who doesn't even know the exact count of tattoos that I have right now, I can tell you that is not behavior of someone who is thinking about the end. Tattoos take a lot of planning. Yeah. A lot of coordination, time to heal, all kinds of stuff. It seems weird to point to that, but I'm listening to the family on that one.
00:08:18
Speaker 2: You did.
00:08:19
Speaker 3: And when this story first came, was on our radar, you said, nobody gets a tattoo and then decides. That is such a forward thinking decision.
00:08:30
Speaker 1: It's exciting and the planning that goes into it. Now you're telling me they got appointments back in Oklahoma.
00:08:34
Speaker 3: Yes. And if you see this tattoo, you can see how exactly what she was envisioning, coloring it in. It's a big, beautiful flower, a Hawaiian flower. And that really read to us. Now, We know from her family, because she was in constant contact with them, obviously her sons with her sister. So she's checking in with them. And they all said she was talking about having a great time. But the night before her death, or perhaps even the night of her death, because she was found the next morning, she went out dancing. And that is what her family is concerned about. Did she meet someone? Did she bring someone back to the hotel room? They're concerned about foul play from perhaps what happened that evening.
00:09:13
Speaker 1: They'll have that answer or should be able to get that pretty quickly.
00:09:16
Speaker 3: And that's why when you hear the police say the homicide division is taking over the investigation, they're conducting a number of interviews and looking at surveillance video, that would point to them basically either confirming or being able to check that off that someone came back with her that night.
00:09:34
Speaker 2: That's the big question.
00:09:35
Speaker 1: Videos everywhere. Surveillance videos, still no evidence. There's a camera in that hallway, I assume, right?
00:09:41
Speaker 2: I would think so.
00:09:42
Speaker 1: Certainly one at the elevators down below. Yeah, so what day was it, 20th?
00:09:47
Speaker 2: She was found on August 20th, so last Thursday.
00:09:51
Speaker 1: They got to have those videos in hand by now, don't they?
00:09:53
Speaker 3: Yes, and so when they first came out, now like I believe it was on Monday, they started saying that the homicide division was now leading the investigation. So that makes her family and certainly those of us who understand how these things work question whether or not this really was in fact a freak accident or a suicide. It seems like if she was found on Thursday and by Monday they have the homicide division taking over the lead, and again, they said it doesn't mean a murder took place, but that certainly means they found something, they saw something, they talked to someone where they think it is absolutely a possibility. When we come back, we are going to tell you what her family has been saying and the next steps in this unfortunate, awful situation in Hawaii. Welcome back, everyone, to Amy and TJ as police and the Homicide Division are investigating what happened to Jenny Lupton last week in Hawaii while she was on an extended layover as a flight attendant from Southwest Airlines.
00:11:03
Speaker 2: It's so sad.
00:11:04
Speaker 3: Her family is very suspicious that foul play was involved. They want to know if there was an adjoining room. Who was she with? Was anyone in the room with her? But while all of that is being sorted out by police, you know, they have a funeral to plan.
00:11:18
Speaker 2: And I thought this was pretty cool.
00:11:20
Speaker 3: So several family members are flying to Hawaii now to bring her body back home.
00:11:26
Speaker 2: They say when.
00:11:26
Speaker 3: They return to Oklahoma, they already have a plan in place. The tarmac is going to be open. She was a flight attendant. Flying on planes was her life, and she loved being a flight attendant. Her niece is a flight attendant herself and said it was her aunt who inspired her, gave her her wings, and really excitedly told her about this wonderful career she had.
00:11:47
Speaker 2: And she loved being a flight attendant.
00:11:49
Speaker 1: She's been doing it her entire adult life. She had to be 21 then. She's 50 years old and doing this 29 years. She's fresh out. This is her life.
00:11:57
Speaker 2: And she loved it.
00:11:58
Speaker 3: And again, I just encourage anyone to look up this photo of her. They're everywhere. And you can just see a joyful, joyful human being. You can just see it in her face. It jumps off the screen. But when they return to Oklahoma with her body in that plane, they're going to open the tarmac for her family and her friends so that they can be there and greet her body when she arrives back in Oklahoma again.
00:12:21
Speaker 2: It's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking.
00:12:24
Speaker 3: And I wanted to just read what her niece said about her because it just, it sums up, look, we can talk about the mystery. We can talk about the death, but it's important to remember her. They said that Jenny cared so deeply about everyone around her and how they felt. And she loved to see joy in people's faces and make them happy. She loved to have fun herself and she loved being a mother more than anything else. I know she would want everyone around her that's grieving her to celebrate her the memories. I just thought that was a beautiful way to honor her.
00:12:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. And do we know when she's going to be back there?
00:12:59
Speaker 3: They said that they were in route. Uh, this was just a few days ago. So this homecoming should be happening shortly.
00:13:05
Speaker 1: It's a, I mean, what a mystery. And I haven't seen anything. You tell me if I'm wrong. It robes, um, that the family, uh, is pointing to or pointing fingers at any, they don't have a reason to believe foul play. They just know she didn't kill herself.
00:13:20
Speaker 3: They just know she didn't kill herself. And they can't imagine the way you are pointing out, looking at the railings. They say, yes, they're leaving space at somehow, some way there could be a freak accident, but it just seems less likely, especially if she was out in an unfamiliar place, dancing and partying. And sure, I guess, but yes, people might think about if you're under the influence of, I just don't.
00:13:43
Speaker 2: See how you fall off of it.
00:13:45
Speaker 1: Probably you can't.
00:13:46
Speaker 2: Exactly. You'd have to throw yourself.
00:13:48
Speaker 1: You'd have to. I'm telling you, you have to.
00:13:50
Speaker 2: And this does not appear to be a woman. And look, we don't know.
00:13:53
Speaker 3: As you point out, there has to be space for that possibility. but it just doesn't seem likely. So we will stay on top of this story.
00:14:00
Speaker 1: Bob Saget, as the first thing I had, it was such a weird story. He was by himself in a hotel room and it ended up hitting his head in some way, right? You remember that? And so I guess freak weird things happen when people are on their own. I mean, does anybody, I mean, how hard of a night did she, how, Robes, I'm telling you, looking at that railing, you see that railing back there behind us, how, what could you do? If you ran full speed into that thing, You still wouldn't flop your body over it.
00:14:26
Speaker 2: No, you'd have to.
00:14:27
Speaker 3: The only way you could go over it unintentionally is if you set up a chair and stood on a chair, maybe.
00:14:32
Speaker 1: You'd have to.
00:14:33
Speaker 2: But why would you do that? Why would you do that?
00:14:34
Speaker 1: You'd have to sit on it, perhaps. Why would you do that? This is awful. Yeah, I hope they get some answers because that's the one thing. You can't have clothes.
00:14:45
Speaker 2: You've got to know what happened. You've got to know what happened.
00:14:47
Speaker 3: And for her 15-year-old son, who they say is just beside himself, Because they had such a close relationship. It is certainly tragic. But we will stay on top of the story and give you any updates that police are able to give us. But they say this may take some time. So we'll be on it. We always appreciate you listening to us, everyone.
00:15:04
Speaker 2: I'm Amy Robach alongside TJ Holmes.
00:15:07
Speaker 1: We'll talk soon.