Earlier this week, a 36-year-old Bronx woman admitted to stuffing her dead 73-year-old roommate in a suitcase and leaving him in front of an abandoned house in Williamsbridge. Monica Exum claimed she had nothing to do with his death, and did this because she was scared. But it's now been revealed that things weren't even that clear-cut: Exum allegedly cashed longtime boyfriend Johnny Davis's Social Security checks and bank funds for three months after he died. more ›

A Bronx woman has admitted to stuffing her dead 73-year-old roommate, whose death she claims to have nothing to do with, in a suitcase because she was scared. Either Monica Exum isn't telling the truth, or she must have some pretty lousy friends: "My friend told me if someone dies in your apartment you go to jail, so I got really afraid. I didn't know what to do," Exum told cops. more ›

A black suitcase found in a business class lounge at JFK Airport prompted the Port Authority to bring in the bomb squad and canine units—and even evacuate part of Terminal 8, resulting in a 2.5 hour shut down, this morning. And, according to WCBS 2, it seems that the suitcase may have simply been forgotten there. more ›

Last week, a woman's body was found stuffed into a suitcase on East 114th Street in Harlem. Now, police have charged a 55-year-old East Harlem man with murder. And the Daily News reports that sources say Hassan Malik confessed to killing 28-year-old Betty Williams. more ›

Police released another video showing a man believed to be connected to the murder of a woman whose body was found in a suitcase. The first video showed a man dragging a suitcase down East 114th Street, near where the body was found. In the new video, the Daily News says, "The man in the new video - who appears to be paying in cash inside an area supermarket then picking up a bag of groceries - wears the same black winter coat and wool hat as the individual seen with the luggage." The Post reports the man is buying beer in the video—and even smiles right at the camera. Anyone with information should call Crimestoppers. more ›

After the horrifying discovery of a woman's body stuffed into a suitcase left on East 114th Street across from Thomas Jefferson Park (a passer-by noticed a foot sticking out early yesterday morning), surveillance video has emerged of a man dragging a suitcase down the very same street. The video (below) shows a man walking down the street, pulling the suitcase, but then pauses a few times as people walk by or to wipe his face. The person who provided the video told the Post, "He's got a body in his suitcase and he's just standing there like nothing's going on. I freaked out when I saw that... It's f--ked up. [He's] just standing there." more ›

Police are currently investigating a Harlem neighborhood after a passerby found a dead woman stuffed into a suitcase near Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem. Around 12:15 a.m. the witness saw a leg sticking out of the bag, and police said she looks to be black and in her 20s or 30s. She was also found to have head trauma, but a medical examiner will determine the official cause of death. Police have yet to release the woman's identity. more ›

There have been some strange things confiscated in New York City airports, but Bangkok International airport just discovered the most precious of cargos. According to the AP, authorities there found a baby tiger cub drugged and hidden in a 31-year-old Thai woman's suitcase, who was flying from Thailand to Iran. In what seems like an effort to disguise the real one, the tiger was amongst stuffed tigers. more ›

Well, when they are in a "red suitcase hidden in the rear of a park where both pro-government and anti-war rallies are regularly held," they are! Rockland police blew up the suitcase, found in Nanuet, because, the Journal News reports an X-ray "revealed three cylindrical canisters and something that looked like tools and wires." But it turned out to be two cans of tuna fish and one can of corn—the tools were pliers and a manual can opener. A police officer said, "More than likely, some homeless guy lost his dinner." Better safe than sorry, right? more ›

Hey did you lose a suitcase containing $78,383 or are you very good at guessing what items you have never seen look like? If so, Craigslist is your winning ticket! This week a poster said he found just such a suitcase filled with money right on the Lower East Side (full ad after the jump). more ›

In the tradition of Harold Pinter and Edward Albee, Melissa James Gibson's plays incisively isolate the idiosyncrasies of colloquial speech, reveling in their often overlooked weirdness, and marveling at what these words reveal about the speaker. Her play Suitcase—Or, Those That Resemble Flies From A Distance, staged at Soho Rep in 2004, concerns two female grad students agonizing over their thesis in cluttered rooms high above the stage, while their neglected boyfriends plead desperately through the ground floor intercom. For a play in which "nothing much happens" in the conventional sense, it was a mesmerizing journey into the minds of four unstable urbanites. more ›

Police descended on Walworth Street (between Flushing and Park) in Brooklyn, after two suitcases full of body parts was discovered on the sidewalk. According to the Daily News, a homeless man found the suitcases in plastic bags but then screamed, "Call the cops! There's a chopped-up person in the bags!" more ›

Last 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." more ›