80-year-old nun caught wheeling dead sister’s body around in a suitcase
The body is believed to be of a fellow nun.
This is the disturbing moment a nun in her holy habit is caught on camera as she wheels the dead body of a fellow nun crammed into a suitcase through the streets.
The CCTV footage emerged after police began a full-scale manhunt over what they first believed was a drugs cartel killing in Santiago, Chile.
As she walked along a smart residential street the 80-year-old nun, who has not been named, could be seen struggling to pull the huge wheelie suitcase behind her.
Dressed in the blue and black robes of her religious order, she walked quickly past a home where she was recorded on their security system.
Local media reports that a horrified passerby later found the body in the case on 8th April and called police.
Investigators at first believed the body to have come from a gangland execution.
And only after trawling local CCTV for evidence did the Homicide Brigade of the Investigative Police (PDI) discover that it had been abandoned by a nun.
It later emerged that the case had contained the corpse of a fellow 58-year-old nun who had apparently died of natural causes a year ago.
Her fellow sister told police that the pair had made a pact to take care of each other beyond death.
PDI’s Subprefect Juan Fonseca said the dead nun had been kept in a case as an act of ‘affection and loyalty’.
The situation only changed when the 80-year-old nun’s daughter visited and decided the woman should be laid to rest, investigators concluded.
An autopsy showed no signs of deliberate killing, police said.
Local media reports that the 80-year-old nun was not arrested but could be charged with violations of the health code.
It later emerged that both women did not belong to a formal religious order but were ‘consecrated laywomen’ who lived a cloistered life in habits and robes.
A police investigation is ongoing.
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