Former officer charged in bodies in suitcases case

A former police officer has been charged with hiding a corpse after the bodies of two women were found stuffed in suitcases deposited along a rural road in Wisconsin.Fifty-two-year-old Steven Zelich was charged Thursday in Walworth County, which is southwest of Milwaukee.He was arrested Wednesday, when detectives wearing hazmat suits removed large, brown bags of evidence and a refrigerator from his apartment in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis.Police in Minnesota say Zelich is a suspect in the death of a 37-year-old Farmington, Minnesota, woman whose remains were in the suitcase.He has not been charged in her death, however.Investigators have not yet identified the second woman whose remains were in the suitcases.

A former police officer has been charged with hiding a corpse after the bodies of two women were found stuffed in suitcases deposited along a rural road in Wisconsin.

Fifty-two-year-old Steven Zelich was charged Thursday in Walworth County, which is southwest of Milwaukee.


He was arrested Wednesday, when detectives wearing hazmat suits removed large, brown bags of evidence and a refrigerator from his apartment in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis.

Police in Minnesota say Zelich is a suspect in the death of a 37-year-old Farmington, Minnesota, woman whose remains were in the suitcase.

He has not been charged in her death, however.

Investigators have not yet identified the second woman whose remains were in the suitcases.