Suitcase Filled With Human Bones Appears In Cemetery
James Zambroski
WAVE
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Louisville, Kentucky (US):
Louisville metro homicide detectives have a mystery on their hands, but they don't know if it's a prank or a deadly crime, after bones were found in a suitcase dropped off at a city cemetery.
WAVE 3 Investigator James Zambroski reports. A worker doing routine maintenance at Calvary Cemetery in the 1600 block of Newburg Road found the suitcase on a hillside near granite markers.
Officials said they knew the bones were human as soon as they opened the luggage."They were, to me, pretty obvious that they were human remains because we have some jaws," said Javier Fajardo, executive director of Calvary Cemetery, which is owned by the Archdiocese of Louisville.The worker opened the suitcase, then took it to the cemetery office.
Police and the coroner's office were then called.The case is an antique, with a faded sticker on the side.
It was found upright, with a decoration--or perhaps, signal--resting on top. Flowers were placed nearby."There was a hat on the suitcase and the flowers, we don't know if they belonged actually to the suitcase or some other place, we don't know," said Fajardo.LMPD homicide detectives say they are conducting a corpse investigation.
Nov 4, 2005
James Zambroski
WAVE
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Louisville, Kentucky (US):
Louisville metro homicide detectives have a mystery on their hands, but they don't know if it's a prank or a deadly crime, after bones were found in a suitcase dropped off at a city cemetery.
WAVE 3 Investigator James Zambroski reports. A worker doing routine maintenance at Calvary Cemetery in the 1600 block of Newburg Road found the suitcase on a hillside near granite markers.
Officials said they knew the bones were human as soon as they opened the luggage."They were, to me, pretty obvious that they were human remains because we have some jaws," said Javier Fajardo, executive director of Calvary Cemetery, which is owned by the Archdiocese of Louisville.The worker opened the suitcase, then took it to the cemetery office.
Police and the coroner's office were then called.The case is an antique, with a faded sticker on the side.
It was found upright, with a decoration--or perhaps, signal--resting on top. Flowers were placed nearby."There was a hat on the suitcase and the flowers, we don't know if they belonged actually to the suitcase or some other place, we don't know," said Fajardo.LMPD homicide detectives say they are conducting a corpse investigation.
Nov 4, 2005
