Police find body of slain mother stuffed in suitcase in Seattle homeless camp

Cops clearing out a homeless camp in Seattle made a grizzly discovery: the body of a missing woman who may have been murdered before being stuffed in a suitcase.Shannon Reeder, 37, a mother who lived in the area, had gone missing in November, 2023, and pals tried to find her but had no luck, according to a close friend.“We tried on Facebook, we tried on her cell phones,” longtime friend Caitlyn Andrews told Fox 13 Seattle.Then, almost a year later, officers were hauling away tents and trash from a cluster of homeless encampments when they uncovered a “large suitcase” containing Reeder’s remains.Police have no idea how Reeder — who Andrews described as a mother and upstanding member of the neighborhood — ended up among the trash and debris of the camp.“Detectives are working with those who knew her to put together a timeline of her movements prior to her death,” the Washington State Patrol said in an Oct.4 statement.Cops decided to raid the encampment after a shooting there a few days prior, according to Fox 12 Oregon.Reeder’s wasn’t the first body authorities have found in the notorious shantytown, located near a public park and Lumen Stadium, where the Seattle Seahawks play.

“We have found overdosed people in their tents… and we have found endless needles and sex toys,” Tim Emerson,  a homeless outreach worker, told Fox 12.But those bodies have presumably been camp dwellers, not ordinary residents like Reeder.Andrews said Reeder grew up in a broken home and lost her own mom as a teenager, but she managed to stay positive and bring joy to those in her life.“Shannon was silly, spontaneous and carefree,” Andrews said.“A new lip gloss, new shoes and she was a happy girl.”Police put out a call for any information on her movements prior to her “untimely death and the calloused disposal of her remains.”...