The Woman in the Suitcase
On April 25, 1972, two fishermen found the body of a young woman in a suitcase floating in the North Edisto River near Rowesville. It was investigated by the Orangeburg County Sheriff’s Department. The body of the woman was sent to the Medical University of South Carolina for an autopsy. This autopsy determined that the woman was actually of Asian/Oriental descent and was around 20 years old and was 5ft 4inches tall. She also had two distinguishing tattoos. One tattoo was of the name “Judy” on the upper under part of her left arm. The other tattoo was a rabbit’s head with a bowtie at the base, possibly a Playboy Bunny. From the autopsy, they were able to obtain fingerprints from the body, which were sent to the FBI for analysis. They also sent the fingerprints to the Korean and Japanese governments, due to her determined ethnicity. The initial reports printed in the newspaper articles stated that the woman had been in the water for 15-20 days and she had died due to