Florida cops on Sunday were working to identify a woman whose remains were found in three suitcases along the intracoastal waterway in Delray Beach.
The first gruesome discovery came at about 4 p.m. Friday, when someone phoned 911 to tell the Delray Beach police there was a “suspicious item” in the water.
“When officers arrived, they found a suitcase with human remains inside,” police said in a statement. “A short time later, two other suitcases were found also containing human remains at nearby locations along the intracoastal.”
The remains are with the medical examiner for autopsy and identification, police said, noting that they appeared to be of an adult female.
On Saturday, police said the person was a 5-foot-4, middle-aged white or Hispanic woman with brown hair and possibly tattooed eyebrows, the Palm Beach Post reported. She was clad in a floral tank top, black undershirt and mid-thigh-length black shorts.
Cops continued to search on Saturday, with a diver, two assistants and two Delray Beach Police boats near the George Bush Boulevard Bridge, the Palm Beach Post reported. They closed the bridge temporarily to conduct a search among the rocks and mangroves lining the waterway and appealed to the public for help and information.