Authorities in Washington State have charged a suspect with murdering a woman and on suspicion of stuffing her body in a suitcase at a homeless encampment last month.
Shannon Reeder’s body was found inside a suitcase by police clearing a homeless encampment at a junction in Seattle on Sept. 27, Washington State Patrol said in a press release earlier this month.
The 37-year-old disappeared last November, per police, and at the time was living in the area where her body was discovered.
On Wednesday, Oct. 16, 57-year-old Steven Thanh Nguyen was charged with murder in connection with Reeder’s killing, according to the Washington State Patrol, King County prosecutors and charging documents cited by FOX 13, The Seattle Times and KOMO News, respectively.
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Prosecutors allege in charging documents that Nguyen had hit Reeder with an ax or machete, per KOMO News and The Seattle Times. An autopsy …