Overview

• Municipal workers traced a strong odor to a suitcase under a small bridge in a brook in the Bonlanden district and alerted police.
• The body inside was described by authorities as strongly decomposed to partly skeletal, indicating it had been there for an extended period.
• Forensics searched nearby trash bins and secured several items, including an object with a wooden handle that police have not publicly identified.
• Experts from the state criminal office examined the area, a drone surveyed the site, and police set up a 44-member special commission dubbed "Trolley."
• Officers are reviewing recent missing-person cases and plan an autopsy to establish the victim’s sex, age, cause, and time of death while appealing for witnesses.