Chicago is grappling with a gruesome discovery after police found human remains stuffed in a suitcase in South Lawndale, an event that launched a death investigation. As reported by NBC Chicago, authorities were summoned to the 3300 block of South Kedzie Avenue, close to the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, on Friday morning shortly before noon, where they uncovered a green suitcase containing the “badly decomposed” body of an unidentified male.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office is pending autopsy reports while Area 4 detectives spearhead the investigation, canvassing the neighborhood for any prospective video evidence that could unravel the circumstances surrounding this morbid finding. This investigation into the urban sprawl of the city has yet to establish both the identity of the deceased and the cause of death, leaving community members in a limbo of concern and unease.
Simultaneously, the Chicago Sun-Times corroborated these events, noting the involvement of Area 4 detectives in a thorough probe of the vicinity. Their efforts to collect and piece together fragments of evidence through any available video surveillance are a testament to the puzzle they must solve, a puzzle that involves human life, loss, and questions that yearn for immediate answers…