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Journey’s End

“It’s like a bad Samsonite commercial,” a police spokesman said. Monique Exum, 36, says that a friend “told me if someone dies in your apartment you go to jail,” so she “didn’t know what to do” when her boyfriend, Johnny Davis, 73, died in their Bronx apartment. The New York, N.Y., woman thus naturally stuffed Davis’s body into a suitcase, which she dragged down three flights of stairs and left on the porch of an abandoned house. It took three months for someone to notice the “suspicious package” and call police, who quickly tracked the suitcase back to Exum. She insisted it was all a mistake and did nothing wrong, but she is being held on suspicion of improper body removal — and raiding Davis’s bank accounts. (RC/New York Daily News) ...How much do you want to bet there was a nametag on the suitcase?