A body found in a suitcase discarded along a rural highway in Wisconsin may be that of a missing Oregon woman.
Police in Cottage Grove, Oregon, are looking into whether the body belongs to Jenny Gamez, who disappeared in 2012.
Cottage Grove police Cpl. Conrad Gagner tells KEZI-TV his department is working with Wisconsin authorities to obtain Gamez's dental records.
A former Wisconsin police officer was arrested last week and charged with hiding a corpse after two bodies were found in suitcases in Walworth County, Wisconsin. A criminal complaint says 52-year-old Steven Zelich met the women online, killed them and hid their bodies for months.
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Police identified one woman as Laura Simonson, 37, of Farmington, Minnesota. Simonson was found naked with a rope around her neck and a ball gag strapped in her mouth with a collar, according to the criminal complaint filed in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
The other woman's hands were bound behind her back.
A Walworth County prosecutor says he expects homicide charges to be filed where the women were killed.
A judge set a $1 million cash bond during a hearing Friday for Zelich, agreeing with prosecutors that it was needed to protect the public.
