June 18 , 1934 was a typical day at Brighton Railway Station — except for a fetid smell emanating from an unclaimed bole in the cloakroom . An attendant alerted the law ; when they break it open , they found a woman ’s torso , roll like a macabre package . She was five calendar month significant .
Her legs were found day later in another suitcase — this metre , left at London ’s King ’s Cross Station . Her head , however , never flex up , name the prospect of identifying her nearly unacceptable . Her pregnancy made some suspect she ’d died aftera botched abortion , but it could n’t be proven .
This riddle would have been intriguing enough on its own , but it before long emerged that a mini - epidemic of female bodies glut into luggage was underway in this part of England . A search of the coatroom — as you’re able to see from the below image , it was n’t exactly an orderly lieu — netted the find of another dead trunk : that of a new-sprung baby girl , tucked into a straw hoop . The never - ID’d infant ’s death was apparently unconnected to the pregnant woman ’s .
With these mysteries on the forefront of everyone ’s mind , naturally , thinking turned to suspects . A Brighton woman namedViolet Kayewho’d worked as a dancer and whore was reported escape , and her swain , Toni Mancini , seemed a probable defendant ; the couple was known to have vicious arguments . When his flat was searched , the policefound her remainsstuffed into , yes , a automobile trunk . This was yet another happenstance , since Mancini was found to haveno connectionwith the woman in the train place .
Mancini admitted to putting Kaye into the automobile trunk , but he claim he did n’t kill her . She was already beat when he found her , he take . His apology for concealing her death was that sincehe already had a criminal record , he did n’t recollect anyone would believe that he did n’t do it . That was enough to convince a jury , and he was found not hangdog . Over 40 years later , he confessedin an newsprint article , but by then it was too late for him to look any charges .
As it fall out , neither char pass on to molder in a body that Brighton spring ever found justice . The only clue to the string - post victim ’s indistinguishability was the Son “ President Ford , ” scrawled upon the newspaper that was used to wrap her upper one-half . But nobody could see out what it meant . She was never identified , and her killer was never found .
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