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Woman's body in suitcase leads to arrest
Associated Press
Published May 30, 2005
FORT PIERCE - A 72-year-old man was charged Sunday with murdering his girlfriend, whose badly decomposed body was found inside a suitcase snagged by a fisherman, officials said.
Francis Shevlin of Fort Pierce was arrested and charged with homicide, said Mark Weinberg, spokesman for the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office. Shevlin was being held without bail at the St. Lucie County jail.
Shevlin was charged with killing his 45-year-old girlfriend, Joanne Banks of Port St. Lucie. He stuffed her into her own suitcase and threw it into a nearby canal, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Her body was found Saturday by a fisherman in a canal west of Fort Pierce.
Kenneth Snow, 36, saw a suitcase floating, unzipped it and found the remains, said St. Lucie County Sheriff Ken Mascara.
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