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A lifelike sex doll found stuffed inside a suitcase in rural Australia was briefly mistaken for a murder victim, prompting a homicide investigation before police realised the “remains” were not human, authorities said on Monday.
Two men driving through the Australian countryside on Sunday stumbled across an abandoned suitcase seemingly packed with human remains, which caused a strike force of homicide detectives and forensic experts to be assembled.
But tests soon showed the suitcase was actually stuffed with a lifelike sex doll, public broadcaster ABC reported.
“They were mistaken for a human originally,” New South Wales Police Superintendent Linda Bradbury told reporters.
“They are very realistic in terms of looking like human remains.”
Police said forensic examinations had shown it was a “lifelike doll“, replete with clothes, hair and a nose piercing.
Further muddying the waters was the fact the doll “also had markings that resembled bruises and grazes”, police said in a statement.
“Investigations have concluded,” police added.
