Nearly a week after the bodies of two children were discovered in two suitcases in New Zealand, police in South Korea have located a woman who may be related to the children. As South Korean police announced on Monday, she is a Korean-voted New Zealander who has been in South Korea since 2018. Police said she would work with investigators in New Zealand.
The suitcases containing the remains of the two children had apparently been stored in a warehouse in New Zealand for years until an unsuspecting family bought and opened the suitcases last week. According to New Zealand police, the children likely died several years ago. When they died, they were between five and ten years old.
Hours of surveillance camera recordings evaluated
The family, from a suburb of Auckland, had purchased the two suitcases, along with a trailer full of household items, at an auction of stored items whose owners could no longer be traced. The family is not a suspect in the case, as New Zealand police made clear last week.
To clarify the case, the police evaluated hours of surveillance camera recordings. As the children died a long time ago, important passages could have been deleted long ago. The warehouse where the bags were stored and the family home where they were taken after the auction were also scrutinized by forensic investigators.