Human remains stuffed in a suitcase were found in Lake Merritt Tuesday morning, the Oakland Fire Department has confirmed with KTVU. Fire personnel responded to the area Tuesday around 11 a.m. after volunteers who clean the lake found the suitcase and called 911.
Florida dentist denies plotting brother-in-law’s murder — but concedes ‘joke’ about hiring a hitmanWoman accused of ordering murder of Microsoft exec hubby hires Casey Anthony’s lawyerthat they used small nets to pull in the suitcase they saw on the edge of Oakland’s Lake Merritt around 11 a.m. during a routine Tuesday cleanup.
“So we unzipped it … and that’s what we found,” he said of the gruesome discovery of a man stuffed inside “kind of like in a fetal position.”
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