Tokyo authorities discover woman's decaying, month-old corpse in a suitcase at train station

Tokyo Police
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When officials at Tokyo Station found a suitcase abandoned in a locker in April, they naturally decided not to look inside. Big mistake! Turns out there was a woman's corpse folded up inside:

"There was an abnormal odor when we opened the suitcase. Then we saw hair," an unnamed employee told reporters. [BBC]

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