A body was stuffed into a suitcase just steps away from Philadelphia International Airport. Police are trying to figure out who the victim is and what happened to him. NBC10’s George Spencer reports from Tinicum Township.
UPDATE: Police have identified the victim. NEW DETAILS HERE
A dog walker made a grisly discovery in Delaware County Thursday afternoon.
The person was walking in the area of the old Westinghouse plant near 2nd Street in Tinicum, Pennsylvania -- not far from Philadelphia International Airport -- when he saw the suitcase, said the Delaware County District Attorney’s Office.
The man called police who came out and unzipped the suitcase to discover the man’s body stuffed inside the large brown case. The man appeared to be in his 20s, said investigators.
Jim Martin -- who walks his dog in the area called "Back Road" that sits just below flights paths -- said that he saw the case in the weeds a few days back and he noticed something strange about it.
"I smelled a smell -- you mentally think something, then you're like pause, pause it's my imagination," said Martin.
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It wasn't and it's possible the suitcase had been there for weeks. The investigation into the case continued late Thursday.
