It was late on Jan. 28 when Valerie Reyes, 24, called her mother in a panic from her nearby apartment in New Rochelle, New York, where she lived alone.

Defensive wounds on a victim found dead in a suitcase told a terrible story of her final moments. “This girl fought for her life,” Det. Anthony Fiscella said.

A young woman's frozen body was found in a suitcase in Connecticut, six days after 24-year-old Valerie Reyes vanished from her home in New Rochelle, New York.

Defensive wounds on a victim found dead in a suitcase told a terrible story of her final moments. “This girl fought for her life,” Det. Anthony Fiscella said.