A shocking nun, 80, drives the dead body of a fellow sister, 58, stuffed into a suitcase, sparking a police murder investigation… before the tragic truth was revealed
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This is the shocking moment a nun runs over the dead body of a fellow sister stuffed in a suitcase, sparking a murder investigation that ended in a tragic revelation.
Footage shows the nun, 80, walking along a smart residential road as she struggled to drag the huge suitcase behind her.
Dressed in the blue and black robes of her religious order, the woman, who has not been named, walked past a home where she was recorded on their security system.
Local reports in Chile say a horrified passerby later found the body of the second nun, 58, in the case on April 8 and called police.
The CCTV video emerged after police began a full-scale manhunt for what they first believed to be a drug cartel killing in Santiago.
A nun carries a suitcase in Nunoa, Chile, Monday, April 8, 2024. It is claimed that the suitcase contained the remains of another nun
CCTV caught the nun rolling away the suitcase, which was wrapped in cellophane
Dressed in the blue and black robes of her religious order, she quickly passed a home where she was recorded on their security system
Investigators initially believed the body came from a gangland execution.
And only after trawling local CCTV for evidence did police discover it had been abandoned by a nun.
It later emerged that the case had contained the body of a 58-year-old colleague who had apparently died of natural causes a year ago.
Her fellow sister told police the couple had made a pact to care for each other beyond death.
Deputy Governor Juan Fonseca said the dead nun had been detained in a case as an act of ‘love and loyalty’.
The situation only changed when the 80-year-old nun’s daughter visited and decided that the woman should be buried, the investigators concluded.
An autopsy showed no signs of intentional homicide, the police said.
Local media reports that the 80-year-old nun was not arrested, but could be charged with violating the health law.
Later it emerged that both women did not belong to a formal religious order, but were ‘consecrated lay women’ who lived a cloistered life in habits and clothes.
A police investigation is underway.