Cleveland Man Finds Head Inside Of Suitcase While Walking His Dog

Imagine finding this while walking your dog.

On Monday, a Cleveland man who was walking his dog spotted a head inside a suitcase.

After making the horrific discovery, police arrived on the scene and discovered the suitcase had two bodies inside.

News 5 provided a more in-depth report on the horrific finding:

Cleveland Police are investigating after two bodies were found on the city’s East Side.

On Monday, officers were called to the area of East 162nd Street and Midland Avenue after receiving a call about a dead body, police said. Police have confirmed the presence of a second body.

On Monday night, a witness told News 5 that a head was visible in a suitcase, and a city councilman confirmed to News 5 that human remains were in a suitcase.

On Tuesday morning, Cleveland Police Chief Annie Todd reached out to News 5 to say that the claim that a decapitated head was found in a suitcase was “false.” Christopher Harris, the external affairs manager with the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office, said “I wouldn’t go with that.”

A man was walking his dog when he said he saw a human head inside a suitcase.

“It was like a pile of dirt, and she stopped to sniff, and I usually just walk, and she catch up with me and she was taking too long. So I went back and looked, and it was a suitcase that was half buried and I pulled it up and looked in it, and it was a head. Somebody’s head in it,” Phillip Donaldson told News 5’s Scott Noll.

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Watch the witness describe the moment he saw the head in the suitcase:

Authorities did not clarify whether the head was decapitated from the body or if the man just spotted the head and not the full body initially.

Cleveland has long been plagued by violent crimes over the last two decades.

The Hill reported on the murder rate of Cleveland:

Cleveland recorded 30 homicides per 100,000 residents last year, according to federal data. City leaders recorded 46 murders in the first six months of 2025, as reported by the Major Cities Chiefs Association, compared to a total of 64 murders the year prior.

Mayor Justin Bibb (D) has touted a 46 percent drop in the homicide rate since he entered office in 2022, pointing to increasing community trust for police, the creation of a $100 million housing fund, and the redevelopment projects focused on job creation.

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“From losing my cousin to gun violence to watching my mom navigate job insecurity, my leadership is informed by what I’ve lived,” he told BET in an article published last month.

“We’re not just doing police patrols. We’re bringing government to the streets,” he said.

Despite Mayor Bibb “touting” the reduction in murders in Cleveland, 46 murders in just six months in a city the size of Cleveland is still too high.

Mayor Bibb is notably a former intern of Obama: