London, UK - A farm worker in Milton Common made a gruesome discovery when he opened a suspicious suitcase on his farm field. He found stuffed into the suitcase a charred body from an old woman, which authorities have identified as the body of 94-year-old, Holocaust survivor, Mrs Thea Zaudy, from Notting Hill Gate.
Now Thames Valley Police are saying that a a 23-year-old man, from London, was arrested on suspicion of her murder. also are they holding in custody two women, aged 19 and 41, and a 38-year-old man, also from London.
Police were refusing to comment on a motive for the killing but detectives are investigating the possibility Mrs Zaudy was the victim of a robbery.
Police suspect that the suitecase was use to transport her body before she was burned, and witnesses had reported seeing a fire in the fields at night before she was found.
Mrs Zaudy, who was a British citizen, had lived alone since the death of her husband in the 1960s. The couple did not have any children.
A friend, Lisl Wertheim, 83, who played bridge with Mrs Zaudy twice a week raised the alarm after the pensioner failed to turn up for their game, she said when she went to her friend's £800,000 home, it looked as though somebody had given it a "thorough" clean. "I was really worried and called the police." [the london paper]
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