Mystery as decomposing body of man found stuffed in small suitcase after shock cause of death revealed
The family of a man who was found murdered and stuffed inside a suitcase three years ago is renewing calls to solve the case.
Larry Terry went missing in Indiana in March of 2019. Now, a cause of death has been revealed but the murder remains unsolved.
Terry's aunt, Donna Moore, claims that the man was last seen alive at his home in Indianapolis.
His remains were found stuffed inside a suitcase along Bean Creek over Memorial Day weekend - two months after he disappeared.
Police were called to the scene after the badly decomposing body was discovered in the suitcase.
“There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about my nephew. He came over every day. It was a nonsense murder,” Moore told .
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“We actually didn’t realize he had been murdered until after the second month, then we thought there was foul play."
The family's suspicions were confirmed after Terry's cause of death, determined by the Marion County Coroner’s office, was asphyxia due to strangulation.
“Nobody deserves to be killed like that. Nobody,” said Moore. “I hope he was dead when they mutilated him.”
The Indiana Metropolitan Police Department was investigating Terry's death as a murder, according to FOX59.
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They have said that the investigation is ongoing, but three years later, there has still been no resolution.
While Terry's family thinks he may have been murdered by someone he knew, there has not yet been an arrest in the case.
“It’s been three years and nothing has been done. It feels like it’s been swept under the carpet. It’s devastating. I mean it really is,” said Moore.
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Terry's family is offering $1,000 from their own funds for information leading to a resolution in the case.
Anyone with information relating to the case is urged to call homicide detectives at (317) 327-3475 or call anonymously at (317) 262-TIPS.
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