A dead woman found stuffed in a suitcase last month still hasn’t been identified and Seattle police are now asking for the public’s assistance.
The portable sarcophagus, which contained the remains of a female in her 50s to 60s, was abandoned on a riverbank just outside city limits and discovered by a passerby on May 27th.
However, because the corpse was so badly decomposed the victim is believed to have been deceased for several weeks before being deposited at the riverside.
As well, whether she died of natural causes or was murdered is also a riddle being deciphered by the coroner’s office, which reports only that the “uninjured” mystery woman was petite, had dark gray-streaked hair, and advanced cirrhosis of the liver.
Albeit properly nourished at the time of death, a set of dentures she must have worn to eat with remains unaccounted for, and she was still wearing an adult diaper and night clothes when someone crammed the disabled Jane Doe -- dead -- into a piece of luggage.
No other clues as to the dead woman’s name and origin were left inside the suitcase, nor on the grounds of her inglorious resting place beside the Green River bridge, south of Seattle Washington.
