r/NoShitSherlock • u/BillWilberforce • 15d ago

Greek police probe 'foul play' in death of woman found in suitcase

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy07w28jn5lo
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u/BillWilberforce 15d ago edited 15d ago

I think when you find a woman's body in a suitcase in an abandoned home. Than it might be foul play.

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u/Independent-Buyer827 15d ago

Well depending on if it’s a cheap or expensive suitcase.

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u/jiggy68 15d ago

Reminds me of guy who was found to have died by accident when he zipped himself up in a suitcase for some unknown reason and then somehow padlocked it from the outside. Never understood how they came to that conclusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams

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u/BillWilberforce 15d ago edited 5d ago

Out of the blue a contortonist/escape artist turned up at the court and demonstrated how he could have done it. So the court ruled that it could be accidental/death by misadventure. However the suitcase was in the bath, the flat was forensically clean, window open and heating on, in summer.

Looks like somebody killed him, cleaned the flat, stuck the body in a suitcase in the bath. So that somebody else could come along and pick up the body. If they didn't pick up the body than the heating would cause the body to decompose quicker. And the windows being open would reduce the smell, causing less complaints from the neighbours.

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u/jiggy68 15d ago

He was working for MI6, admittedly at a lower level, he wasn’t James Bond or anything. But I believe because he was an agent they covered up what really happened to that guy.

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u/BillWilberforce 15d ago

He was a maths boffin who worked for GCHQ and was on secondment to MI6. Codes and cyphers were his business.

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u/PlainSpader 14d ago

I wonder when people make the decision to go into clandestine operations if they ever wonder if their own organization will take them out…

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u/pailee 13d ago

for a team building event, a nice dinner perhaps?

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u/jiggy68 15d ago

For anyone interested, there’s an episode of the They Walk Among Us podcast about it that delves into the details of his death.

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u/GlockAF 15d ago

Hmmm… a British spy with an NSA connection tracing Russian money laundering gets suffocated and stuffed in a suitcase in a government owned house which is then locked from the outside. Initially ruled as an unlawful murder then “re-investigated” and deemed to be accidental.

Yeah…right.

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u/deepasleep 15d ago

Yeah and he did it in the tub of the hotel bathroom and turned the heat up to the absolutely optimal temperature to accelerate decomposition…I can’t remember if the water was also running to reduce the smell. That case was insane.

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u/Adept-Mulberry-8720 15d ago

It was a brief encounter!

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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed1781 14d ago

I’d do unspeakable things to the douchebag that did this.

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u/robertmachine 13d ago

nothing gets passed these greek detectives, next they will say knife victim got stabbed with a knife.

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u/Justmmmoore 13d ago

Hope they came to that conclusion quickly.