Bodies in a suitcase
TRUE-LIFE On a hot and sunny afternoon, a group of teenagers explored Alki Beach, in Seattle, Washington. It was 19 June 2020. The teens were having fun with an online trend called ‘randonauting’. Using a phone app, they'd generated random map coordinates, which had directed them to the beach. As part of the game, they were supposed to film a video at their random location. Spotting a suitcase perched on rocks at the shoreline, they went to take a closer look. Joking that the suitcase might contain money or even treasure, they started filming. But what started off as innocent fun, soon took a much darker turn. They later uploaded the footage to TikTok… The video showed a girl scrambling across the rocks. Inching closer to the suitcase, she used…