Woman whose body was found 35 years ago in a suitcase in a Georgia dumpster is identified

NBC News ^ | Oct. 24, 2023, 9:26 AM CDT | Staff

[Red Badger]

Carrion Luggage Ping!...................

[moovova]

Samsonite?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

It's good for the family to finally get closure. I hope they find the killer.

The NBC News "staff reporter" is in a quandary. He or she wrote...

"Kim died from asphyxiation...she was wrapped with plastic and duct tape, naked inside a brown canvas suitcase that had been placed in a trash bin."

But staff writer also wrote...

"...it’s unclear whether someone killed her"

Mr. or Ms. Staff Writer is one sharp cookie.

However, there IS a possibility it was a suicide. As they say, "anything is possible."

[Clutch Martin]

I had a friend years ago whose demented roommate came up behind and stabbed him in the kidney killing him. Wrapped him up in a piece of carpet that he cut out from the wall to wall carpeting in the townhouse, and dumped him in a dumpster. The next morning a CAN COLLECTOR found the body wrapped in the carpet in the dumpster.

Interesting coincidence.

[Red Badger]

They have to have a ‘CYA’ sentence in there just in case.................😉🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[fidelis]

May she rest in peace.

One would hope that, using the same technique used to identify her, maybe they could also pick up some DNA from the killer and bring him or her to justice.

[AppyPappy]

Those Ancestory DNA tests come in handy

[Red Badger]

I used to be a can collector at one point in my life. I found all sorts of weird things, but never a body.............However I did run across other can collectors inside dumpsters!.............

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They sure got “just in case” covered, didn’t they? LOL.

[Red Badger]

🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️👍.......................

[alexander_busek]

The body must have already been in a highly decomposed state if police couldn't even say that she was "Asian" in appearance - assuming that she had (Asian) relatives in the vicinity who reported her missing.

I'm assuming that no one reported her as missing; I mean: How else could the police manage to not "put 2 and 2 together" and at least narrow down the list of possible identities to, at most, five or six persons.

Now that her identity has been established, it should be possible reconstruct at least some aspects of the crime, no?

Something is missing here.

Regards,

[RideForever]

The GBI - (spit)

(Georgia Bureau of Investigation) - politicized corruption at its zenith among states.

[RasterMaster]

Ever intern for "Morning Joe"?

[hoosierham]

What are odds she was trapped into prostitution and killed to keep her quiet?

[Red Badger]

My guess, and it’s just a guess, is that she was alone here in the US, having come here from South Korea with an Army soldier. They had a quarrel and he killed her, then he wrapped her up and drove her body 70 miles away and dumped her in a rural town dumpster. No one ever knew what happened to her and, if asked, he would just say she went back to Korea.......................

[fidelis]

I was also thinking something along those lines. Sad to consider, but entirely plausible.

[jerod]

If the killer or killers are still alive... They’re worried. If they’re dead... They’ve gotten away with it.

[Midwesterner53]

South Korean women were sometimes eager to marry soldiers and get back to the states only to strike out on their own once here. I saw it several times in my career when it happened to my soldiers back from Korea. The women either ended up working at the PX or in bars along the strip outside the gate or worse in the sexy industry.

[Red Badger]

Yes, they just wanted that pass..................