Un-ID’d woman found in suitcases in Fla. was 5’4, brunette

The human remains from three suitcases recently found on a Florida waterway belonged to a middle-age, brown-haired woman wearing a flowery top and black shorts, officials revealed on Monday. 

The unidentified woman’s remains were found Friday stuffed in three suitcases recovered from different areas of the Intracoastal Waterway in Delray Beach, according to police. 

Investigators are still probing how the woman died, but have said she was white or Hispanic and 5 feet 4 inches tall.

She was believed to have had eyebrows possibly tattooed onto her face and was also wearing a black undershirt when her body was found, police said late Sunday.

The Delray Beach Police Department made the gruesome discovery Friday afternoon after receiving a report about “something strange” in the waterway near the 1000 block of Palm Trail, officials said.

Police later received two more reports of suitcases, also carrying remains, found at Southeast 7th Avenue and Casuarina Road, officials said. Investigators have determined the remains appeared to belong to a single person. 

The medical examiner’s office is investigating the woman’s death. 

One day earlier on Thursday, Texas sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a suspicious bag found on a property outside San Antonio and discovered human remains inside a duffel bag, Sheriff Javier Salazar said. 

“The first inclination, of course, is to assume that it’s a homicide scene,” he told reporters. “At this point, all we really know is that we’ve got partial human remains out here.”

Investigators are still working to determine more about the victim and their death, including whether they were killed on the property or moved there after their death.