Body found in suitcase in Utah linked to missing Vegas woman
Source: AP
By MARTIN GRIFFITH
Police in Utah and Nevada are trying to determine whether a body found in a large suitcase along a freeway near Salt Lake City is that of a missing Las Vegas woman.
There are signs the body found Thursday in a ravine along Interstate 80 is that of Susana Villalvazo, but investigators are awaiting test results before making a final determination, Lt. Justin Hoyal of Utah's Unified Police Department said Saturday.
His department was contacted by Las Vegas police after the body was described as that of a middle-aged woman who had a mastectomy and a wrist tattoo of a pink breast cancer ribbon, Hoyal said. When the 46-year-old Villalvazo went missing last November, Las Vegas police said she was missing a breast and had a pink-ribbon tattoo on a wrist.
"Obviously, there are close similarities between the two. But we'll have to wait until we get lab testing results for 100 percent certainty," Hoyal told The Associated Press. "We're hoping within the next several weeks to have that finalized."
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