Tokyo authorities discover woman's decaying, month-old corpse in a suitcase at train station
By
Ryu Spaeth
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(Image credit: YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)
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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