CLEVELAND, Ohio — On a cold February day in 1998, four teenagers wandering through the woods in Tuscarawas County stumbled onto a gruesome scene: a suitcase containing a trash bag filled with dismembered human remains — a pelvis and part of a leg.
Five days later, investigators made a second discovery about 21 miles away along the Interstate 77 corridor. Another suitcase, tossed along the roadside, held a torso. A head and hands were never found.
For nearly three decades, the case stumped authorities. But last year, through genealogical DNA testing, authorities identified the remains as Lawrence Drotleff, a retired General Electric truck driver from Euclid…