Corpse driven 1,300 miles in suitcase, authorities say

PRAIRIE COUNTY, Arkansas — Deputies didn’t start investigating the man’s death until somebody unzipped a blue suitcase and found his corpse, said Rick Hickman, sheriff of Prairie County, Arkansas. Investigators said a woman and man drove the suitcase containing the body 1,300 miles from Johnstown, a small town in upstate New York, to central Arkansas — but they don’t know why. The man has not been publicly identified, but authorities say he was in his 80s and comes