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Dead Man's Autopsy Finds 50 Heroin Packets

2008_10_heroinpkt.jpgLast week, a man's body was found in a suitcase, at a park in Yonkers (the dead man's leg fell out of the suitcase when a park worker went to inspect). Now an autopsy has found that the man had 50 heroin packets in his body. Police think he died when one or two broke open. Westchester County police said that the street value of the drugs was about $100,000. They do not think the man was killed by drug dealers, since the dealers would "have cut his body open for drugs." A police spokesman said, "How he got to the park with the drugs still inside him is still piece of the puzzle." [Photo of liquid heroin, as found in puppy drug mules]

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  • nohateparade

    like eating food.

  • ides_of_march

    "Dead Man's Autopsy Finds..."

    As opposed to those autopsies preformed on a live man?

  • dbc

    Was his leg severed or still attached?

  • nohateparade

    @Nyctini11

    When the bag broke, he probably got so high and wanted to crawl into a safe, comfy place. But then he kind of died.

  • UnrepentantFenian

    It's like a puzzle, wrapped in an enigma, stuffed inside a suitcase.

  • Nyctini11

    "How he got to the park with the drugs still inside him is still piece of the puzzle."

    Ummmmm, how about how he stuffed himself inside a suitcase???

  • NannyState

    Did the Westchester County police have a receipt for that unclaimed luggage?

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