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TikTok Prank Leads Cops to River Filled with Dismembered Bodies
In 2020, a group of teenagers filming a TikTok video discovered suitcases containing the dismembered remains of a young couple, Jessica Lewis and Austin Wenner, at a Seattle beach. The subsequent investigation centered on the victims' landlord, Michael Dudley, whose home showed evidence of a violent struggle including bullet holes and bloodstains. Although Dudley attempted to deflect blame toward criminal gangs and the victims' own lifestyles, his phone records placed him at the disposal site shortly before the discovery. Detectives determined that the couple was likely murdered following a…
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