How horrific. I walk my dog every day, and if I ever found a child's severed head, I'd be in therapy for life.
I have so many questions (of course!). The NY Post article says, "...a dog-walker stumbled on one of the luggage pieces and spotted a head inside."
But if you watch the video, the man who had been walking his dog says: "I had been walking past that for at least a week, that pile of dirt, for at least a week, before I even just, you know, went across my mind that I would check it."
Interviewer: "Was it buried?"
Man: "Yeah, yeah, it was buried pretty much, uh, you could just see like the very top of it sticking out of the dirt."
The article quotes the Police Chief as saying, "We don't know how long the juveniles had been at this location. It was some time."
Obviously, this case is brand new, so it's not surprising that things are confusing right now... but the article saying the man "stumbled on" the suitcase makes it sound spontaneous, whereas he's on camera saying he's been aware of that mound of dirt for at least a week. If he walks his dog in that area on a regular basis and has been seeing the dirt pile for at least a week, I'm wondering if the dog had been sniffing/pulling towards/showing interest in the dirt pile every day and it was only this particular day that the man "gave in" and unburied the suitcase enough to look inside. Or did the dog not alert to the dirt pile until this particular walk? And if that's so, why?
How did someone manage to bury bodies in these two presumably LARGE suitcases, since the children were estimated to be possibly as old as 13 and 14, without anyone noticing? This doesn't seem like a very isolated area, given that at least one man and his dog walk there on a regular basis. When were the suitcases buried? Did this man only start noticing the dirt pile about a week ago because that's when they were buried, or was it because A) that's when he started walking his dogs there, B) that's when the weather changed enough, or something else changed in the environment to make the dirt pile more noticeable, or C) some other reason? A quick online search shows that a week before the bodies were found, the weather in Cleveland was mid-20s and lightly snowing. It would have been quite difficult for someone to bury two large, heavy suitcases in those conditions. An online search also indicates that Cleveland has had an unusually snowy winter. So I wonder if perhaps the snow just recently melted, causing this dirt pile with the bit of the suitcase sticking out of it to become visible, and maybe the suitcase had been buried at least a couple months ago before the snow came.
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