Story highlights A woman and man are charged with abuse of a corpse, which is a felonyInvestigators say they believe the man died in New York state(CNN) Deputies didn't start investigating the man's death until somebody unzipped a blue suitcase and found his corpse, said Rick Hickman, sheriff of Prairie County, Arkansas. Investigators said a woman and man drove the suitcase containing the body 1,300 miles from Johnstown, a small town in upstate New York, to central Arkansas -- but they don't know why. The man has not been publicly identified, but authorities say he was in his 80s and comes from Johnstown. Arkansas Online reported that a preliminary autopsy shows he died of natural causes. "One of the patrons of this sale went to the back of the truck and unzipped a larger blue suitcase and saw a body."

Source: CNN March 11, 2017 03:56 UTC