One-Way Trip

Another corpse has been found in a suitcase by the side of the road.

This following similar discoveries in 2004 and 2007; it appears as though it might be a requirement every three years. Can't Hong Kong's murderers come up with more inventive ways to dispose of a body? It's not as simple as it might seem: there isn't a lot of empty space except in country parks, but hauling a stiff deep into the hills would be too much work. Would you want to carry 180 pounds of dead weight up a steep path for an hour or two? It might seem easier to get a boat and dump the body in the sea, but that doesn't always go smoothly; corpses have a tendency to float after a while and often end up washing ashore.

On the other hand, perhaps the suitcase was intended to send a message, in which case the killer has succeeded, because in the Big Lychee, the grislier the murder, the more likely that everyone will hear about it.

Either way, the police must now figure out who the man was and why someone wanted to leave his body cooking inside a travel bag in high Summer.

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