This is the shocking moment a nun drags a sister’s body packed in a suitcase, sparking a murder investigation that ended with a tragic revelation.
Footage shows the nun, 80, walking down a posh residential street as she struggled to pull the huge suitcase behind her.
Dressed in the blue and black robe of her religious order, the woman, whose name has not been identified, passed by a house where she was registered in its security system.
Local reports in Chile say a horrified passerby later found the body of the second nun, 58, in the case on April 8 and called the police.
The CCTV footage emerged after police began a large-scale murder hunt for what they initially believed was a drug cartel murder in Santiago.
A nun carries a suitcase in Nunoa, Chile, on Monday, April 8, 2024. The suitcase is alleged to have contained the remains of another nun.
Security cameras captured the nun carrying away the suitcase, which was wrapped in cellophane.
Dressed in the blue and black robes of her religious order, she quickly passed by a house where she was registered in their security system.
At first, investigators believed the body came from a mafia execution.
And only after trawling local security cameras for evidence did police discover he had been abandoned by a nun.
It was later learned that the case contained the body of a 58-year-old fellow nun who had apparently died of natural causes a year ago.
His sister told police that the couple had made a pact to care for each other beyond death.
Officer Juan Fonseca said the dead nun had been kept in a case as an act of “affection and loyalty.”
The situation only changed when the nun’s 80-year-old daughter visited her and decided that the woman should be buried, investigators concluded.
An autopsy showed no signs of deliberate murder, police said.
Local media report that the 80-year-old nun was not arrested but could be charged with health code violations.
It was later learned that both women did not belong to a formal religious order, but were “consecrated lay women” who lived a cloistered life in habits and robes.
A police investigation is ongoing.