PICTURED: Missionary mom-of-two, Virginia Vinton, 57, who killed herself in O’Hare airport baggage conveyor belt as chilling new details of gruesome scene are revealed

The airport worker who found a woman’s body in a baggage claim area at Chicago O’Hare Airport told police he couldn’t immediately comprehend the gruesome scene he was presented with when he started his shift on Aug. 8.

Missionary Virginia Vinton was found dead around 7:30 a.m. last Thursday. Initial reports said she had become “entangled” in one of the airport’s baggage claim areas.

DailyMail.com can now exclusively reveal the chilling truth behind the 57-year-old mother of two’s bizarre death and why authorities in Cook County, Illinois, ruled it a suicide.

According to the Chicago police incident report, obtained by DailyMail.com, Vinton was encountered by a Delta Airlines baggage handler when he arrived to load luggage from a recently arrived flight at Carousel 11.

Vinton’s death in the carousel area of ​​O’Hare Airport was ruled a suicide by the Cook County coroner’s office

The report detailed the sinister scene: “He started the assembly line by scanning his airport ID and using his fingerprint to initiate the operations.”

As the belt began to move and the small overhead door opened, the employee noticed a woman at the entrance to the conveyor belt.

The worker, whose name was omitted from the report, stated: ‘He thought to himself, ‘Why is there a woman standing in the gutter watching me, maybe she is observing me while I am doing my work.’

He then asked the woman, “Would you like me to turn off the conveyor belt?”

As he continued to place bags on the belt, he told officers he had a “funny feeling” and called out to her, “Hey, are you okay?”

It was only when he got closer that he noticed she was unresponsive and that there was an electrical cord around her neck.

Chicago Fire Department responded and managed to bring Vinton down. They performed life-saving measures, the report said, “to no avail,” and she was pronounced dead by a doctor at the scene at 7:55 a.m.

Vinton worked for Wycliffe Ministries in Waxhaw, North Carolina, where she lived with her husband Jim, 59, and daughters Abby, 23, and Emily, 21.

It’s not known why she was in Chicago, but the couple told a website that they enjoyed visiting friends in the Midwest every summer.

Information on the Wycliffe Ministries website states that the couple lived in Mozambique, East Africa, for 12 years, where they worked as missionaries, translating Bibles into local languages.

A police report obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com details the airport worker’s gruesome discovery, revealing he found her “unresponsive” with an electrical cord wrapped around her neck, suggesting possible strangulation.

The area of ​​the O’Hare airport terminals where Vinton’s body was found is considered safe, but not “highly safe”

In 2011, Jim became a Bible translation consultant, performing final checks on translated Bible texts before they were printed. He was recently promoted to CEO of Seed Company, an organization that translates Bibles with the goal, as the company’s website states, of changing lives.

What is known is that Vinton was detained early Thursday morning at Customs House B in Terminal 5 at O’Hare.

Chicago police surveillance footage shows she “left her seat, walked to carousel 11 and got on the slide at 2:26 a.m..”

It was not until five hours later, when the baggage handler made his gruesome discovery, that she was seen again.

The Chicago Fire Department initially believed Vinton’s death was the result of an industrial accident.

But as the picture emerged and it was concluded that Vinton had wrapped the umbilical cord around her own throat, the Cook County coroner ruled her death a suicide by asphyxiation.

Her husband Jim was unavailable for comment.

Authorities said the area of ​​the airport where the woman entered is employee-only and is considered safe, but not a high-security area, ABC 7 reported.