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Authorities in Washington State have charged a suspect with murdering a woman and on suspicion of stuffing her body in a suitcase at a homeless encampment last month. Shannon Reeder’s body was found inside a suitcase by police clearing a homeless encampment at a junction in Seattle on Sept. 27, Washington State Patrol said in a press release earlier this month. The 37-year-old disappeared last November, per police, and at the time was living in the area where her body was discovered. On Wednesday, Oct. 16, 57-year-old Steven Thanh Nguyen was charged with murder in connection with Reeder’s killing, according...

A small dog was found in a traveler’s backpack when going through an X-ray machine at the Dane County Airport on Tuesday. The traveler, unaware of the screening protocol, had not disclosed to the Transportation and Security agents at the Wisconsin airport that she was traveling with her small dog, reported WISN 12 News. After the pet was discovered, an officer informed the passenger of appropriate travel procedures, and she proceeded to her gate, according to the news outlet. The woman, whose identity was not disclosed, reportedly informed the airline she would be traveling with a pet. *************************************************** TSA_GreatLakes @TSA_GreatLakes...

Murdered Queens mother Orsolya Gaal was stabbed more than 60 times on Saturday by a killer who then texted her husband 'your wife sent me to jail some years ago... I'm back,' it has been revealed. Gaal's dismembered body was found less than half a mile from her family home in Forrest Hills, Queens, on Saturday, stuffed inside a hockey-style duffel bag. Police believe the 51-year-old was brutally murdered in the basement of her family's $2million home by an as-yet unidentified killer. No suspects have been named. [cut] Surveillance footage captured someone wheeling the bag containing her remains away from...

<p>A Russian model who had called Vladimir Putin a "psychopath" has reportedly been found dead with her body stuffed inside a suitcase.</p><p>Gretta Vedler, 23, went missing a year ago after an anti-Putin social media rant but they appear to not be connected.</p>

SALEM, Ore. — Police say they found a body stashed inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car in Salem this week. While an autopsy determined there was no foul play in the death, officers arrested a suspect who is accused of tampering with human remains. Officers responded Thursday morning to reports of suspicious activity at a Northeast Salem apartment complex. According to police, a Claxter Court Apartments resident said they saw a stranger come out of another apartment with a large suitcase, which was then placed in the trunk of a car parked in the lot. The witness...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man was found dead, stuffed in a suitcase earlier this month and now his roommate is charged with his murder. Police said the body of Bruce Jeffries, 63, was found in a suitcase that had been left behind a dumpster in Memphis on Dec. 12, WHBQ reported. Police said Jeffries died of blunt force trauma to the head. A witness told the authorities that he saw a person dragging a suitcase in an alley the morning of Dec. 12. The witness said the man tried to lift the suitcase to throw it in the dumpster but...

A BRIT accused of murdering a prostitute in Bangkok before fleeing to Spain is to be extradited to Thailand. Shane Looker, 51, picked up Laxami Manochat, 31, on the second night of his holiday in Thailand and her dismembered body was found in a suitcase. Laxami Manochat's body was found in a suitcaseCredit: ViralPress Shane Looker has been accused of her murderCredit: ViralPress Looker was seen on CCTV with LaxamiCredit: Collect CCTV footage from the Hot Lips bar in the Nana Plaza - a sprawling three-storey complex of bars - allegedly showed him leaving with Laxami, whose nickname was 'Pook'....

It all goes back to a homicide investigation from late December of 2020. It revolved around a dismembered body that was distributed between two suitcases. Now it has culminated in an arrest. Police say they were led to their suspect due to a baggage claim sticker among the suitcases said to have contained the cadaver.

The Bulandshahr police on Tuesday night registered a case against Warisha’s mother and two brothers for wrongfully identifying a body, found on July 27 in a suitcase in Ghaziabad, as that of Warisha. She surfaced alive on August 3, making the police realise that there had been a goof-up. The FIR was filed at Bulandshahr Kotwali on the night of August 4 under IPC Section 195a (threatening any person to give false evidence) on a complaint given by Afsar Ali, the uncle of Warisha’s husband Amir Khan. Khan, his father and mother are already in jail in connection with a...

Police have identified the two murder victims discovered in a suitcase by teenage TikTok users as 35-year-old mum-of-four Jessica Lewis and her boyfriend, 27-year-old Austin 'Cash' Wenner. The families of the two people are fundraising for a $10,000 (£7,974) reward to offer to anyone with information leading to the arrest of their killer. After the group of teenagers made the gruesome discovery of two dismembered bodies in a piece of luggage at Duwamish Head in Seattle on 19 June, medical examiners have determined that both victims were shot dead on 16 June...

Police continue to investigate after the body of a young woman was found bound in a suitcase along an affluent road in Greenwich Tuesday morning. Greenwich highway workers discovered the body along Glenville Road, just north of Stillman Lane, around 8:15 a.m., according to police. Officers responded found what appears to be the body of a woman between 18 and 30 years old around 10- to 15-feet off the road. “The victim was found bound at the hands and at the feet and the victim was found in a suitcase,” Capt. Robert Berry, from the Greenwich Police Detective Division, said....

Indian police are investigating a skeleton smuggling gang after a man was caught with skulls and bones of 50 different people on a train. Government Railway Police arrested the suspected “corpse smuggler” at Chapra railway station in India’s eastern state of Bihar. The arrested man, identified as Sanjay Prasad, was carrying 16 human skulls and 34 skeletal remains in his luggage and was travelling on the Balia-Sealdah Express to Kolkata, from where police said he was heading for the border to Bhutan. Police suspect that the skeletons, which according to the suspect were brought from Balia in Uttar Pradesh, were...

Investigators at Austria’s Graz airport questioned a Moroccan woman who arrived with a bag containing her husband’s entrails. After carefully wrapping the intestines in two containers, she was transporting them in hopes of getting a toxicology test performed. The man died during an operation in Morocco, Austrian media reported. Officials said a proper investigation on the parts could not be performed without the whole body. The woman broke no laws by transporting the entrails, local media reported.

A German professor was arrested after a human skull was found in his suitcase. The man was stopped as he travelled through Rome’s Fiumicino airport on his way to Dusseldorf after the item was discovered by security officials. The middle-aged professor, who was allegedly confused when confronted by officers, then claimed he had purchased the remains from a market stall. According to Italian newspaper Il Messaggero, when asked by police how he had obtained the skull, he said he had purchased it for €50 (£40).

SAN DIEGO-- The body of a young woman was found Wednesday inside a suitcase behind a hotel in downtown San Diego, police said. San Diego police said a man who lives in the area spotted the suitcase near some trash bins in a parking lot behind the Chadwick Hotel around 11 a.m., CBS affiliate KMFB reported. Lt. Ray Valentin told KFMB Wednesday afternoon police had scant information, including the victim's identity or her age. "This is a tragic scene right now, what we've got here, but we're going to do everything in our power to find who conducted or did...

The MI6 spy who was found dead inside a holdall bag in his bathtub in London hacked into secret data held on former U.S. President Bill Clinton, The Sun newspaper has sensationally claimed today. Gareth Williams was 31 years old when he was found naked, dead in his own bathtub in Pimlico, just a few minutes walk away from Britain’s Houses of Parliament. Speculation has been rife ever since his death in September 2010 about the circumstances surrounding his death. A Metropolitan Police investigation revealed predictably, though suspiciously, that Mr Williams’ death was “probably an accident”. This was despite an...

MADRID (Reuters) - A Moroccan man suffocated while being smuggled to Spain in a suitcase stowed in the boot of a car, the Spanish government said on Monday. The 27-year-old man, whose name was not made public, was found dead after the car arrived at the port of Almeria on a ferry from Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa. The car's owner, the dead man's brother, was arrested for murder, a government spokesman in the city said. The brother raised the alarm about the stowaway's condition when the ferry docked in Spain but emergency services could do nothing to...