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Judi Lynn

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Thu Jun 26, 2014, 05:25 PM Jun 2014

Complaint: Ex-cop hid women's bodies in vehicle [View all]

Source: Associated Press

Two men charged with using bat, machete to kill teen in national forest
By Samantha Ehlinger | June 26, 2014 | Updated: June 26, 2014 12:29pm

WEST ALLIS, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a former police officer charged with stuffing the remains of two women in suitcases he left along a Wisconsin road met his victims online, bound and killed them and carried their bodies around in his vehicle for months.

That's according to police and a criminal complaint filed Thursday in Wisconsin. It charges 52-year-old Steven Zelich, of West Allis, with two counts of hiding a corpse.

The complaint says Zelich killed one woman in Wisconsin in late 2012 or early 2013 and the other in Minnesota last November. It says he hid the first body in his home, then later stored it with the second body in his vehicle.

Both women were found bound, and their bodies had started to decompose. One had a ball gag in her mouth


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Man-connected-to-bodies-in-suitcases-arrested-5581001.php

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