Suitcase body find in Cyprus serial killer hunt

Cypriot investigators hunting for victims of a suspected serial killer have retrieved a suitcase containing the remains of a woman from the bottom of a man-made lake.

The body is believed to be that of one of the victims of a Cypriot military officer who has confessed to killing seven foreign women and girls.

The suit case was weighed down by a concrete block, the chief of Cyprus’s Criminal Investigation Department said. Tests will be carried out to identify the body.

Authorities focused their search on the lake about 20 miles west of the capital, Nicosia, after the suspect – a 35-year-old army captain – told investigators that he put the bodies of three of his victims into suitcases and threw them into the toxic lake, part of a now-defunct copper mine.