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Missing Teen Found Murdered, Stuffed Inside Duffel Bag

October 18, 2011 at 3:08 pm by Morbid

BETHANY, Oklahoma – Police confirmed on Monday that the body found stuffed inside a duffel bag last week was 19-year-old Carina Saunders, who was reported missing earlier this month.

According to police, an animal rescue group found Saunder’s body while searching for feral cats in a wooded area behind a Homeland and called 911. Yesterday Police Chief Phil Cole would reveal the body, which had been there for two to three days, belonged to Saunders after dental records were matched.

The medical examiner has not released an official cause of death, stating the autopsy has not been completed, but has ruled the teen’s death as a homicide.

According to her friends and family, Saunders was last seen on Sept 28 getting into a Chevy Blazer driven by a white man about 40 years-old, with gray hair. Cole said that there were reports of Saunders being spotted at an apartment complex on October 8 or 9, adding this wouldn’t be unusual as she had friends there and frequented the area.

The FBI are now involved and police said they have several leads but no motivation for the killing. If you have any information in the case, call Bethany police at (405)-789-2323. If you want to keep tabs on this story, you may want to check out the Carina Come Home Facebook page, as they are quick with the information.

Tags: Carina Saunders, Crime, duffel bag, Murder, Oklahoma

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Anonymous

The medical examiner has not released an official cause of death, stating the autopsy has not been completed, but has ruled the teen’s death as a homicide.
Wow, this medical examiner is good.
Being stuffed inside a duffel bag was a pretty clear clue.

And here I was thinking all along it was a suicide.
reapre

She’s rather attractive, RIP.

Idk who murdered her, but why didn’t you choose one of these mothers on here? Like, Murdered her baby in a washing machine woman, or Abuse her daughter to death Momma? Why you gotta kill off productive/attractive members of society? Effing A-hole.
reapre

My first thought would’ve been magic trick gone wrong, something that should’ve happened to David Blaine 10 years ago…I now see your logic that homicide appears as a clear clue. Touché.
http://www.dreamindemon.com Morbid

Could have been a drug overdose or even a suicide. There are multiple cases where people die accidentally and are then hidden or disposed of so people may have inadvertently contributed to the death (drug or alcohol consumption) try to avoid trouble. Ruling her death a homicide means they feel they have enough evidence to prove her death was not an accident, but that she was killed deliberately before being disposed of.
guillotinegirl

I can think of several people who I wish would hide in a duffel bag then hop off into the night, never to be seen again. Alas, that wish has yet to be granted.
Anonymous

She was very pretty. Unfortunately, that is sometimes what causes the problem to start with.
Anonymous

Really? So someone’s looks, which they have no control is the motive for murder?
Anonymous

Poor kid. You get to be a certain age and you think you have the world by the tail, nothing can bring you down, and then you end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. I’d be willing to bet that things got out of control, maybe sex or drugs or a combination of the two, having to do with Mr. 40 year old, and the girl got disposed of in a bag. I really hope the cops are questioning him big time, if they know who he might be.
Anonymous

Well, yes, it certainly can be a motive for murder, although it’s too soon to tell whether that’s the case here (or even if it was murder at all, as Morbid points out).

It’s not a good motive, if such a thing can be said to exist for murder, but it does happen. People have no control over their race either, but nevertheless people have been killed for it. Investigators put a lot of effort into finding what the victims of a suspected serial killer have in common because it helps them identify a suspect, but whether the victims are attractive teenage girls or Latino migrant laborers or over-the-hill prostitutes working the truck stop circuit, the blame is entirely with the killer for committing the murder, not the victims who had the temerity to fit the killer’s victim profile.
reapre

Wow, I tried to come up with a good response, with the same intent for the answer. But I could not amount to that nice work of art, you call a “paragraph”.

Well played.

+4 likes.
Anonymous

How sad.I hope they find the killer /killers that did this to her.RIP Carina.:(
Anonymous

I don’t think I need to bother replying. You summed up my point perfectly.
Anonymous

Wow, I just looked up the guy in question on FB. Kinda scary actually. Can I link it? He has an album titled August 29, and he’s trying to look hard posing with an ax. But since he’s also “missing” and he’s connected in some way (I think he was sending threatening texts to her sister or something while she was missing.) Not pointing any fingers but it doesn’t look exactly wholesome.
Anonymous

Last seen by friends and family over a week before she was possibly seen at an apartment complex, but that’s not considered unusual? So, does she regularly disappear on her friends and family? I’m wondering if drugs are involved here…
Anonymous

I think you misunderstood DKoS. What she meant was that all pretty people deserve to die. Obviously.
http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

I may be confusing the timeline here…But the ammount of time the body was estimated to have been there before the Animal Rescuers found it was two to three days, but she had been missing longer than that..So how long had she actually been dead? Was she alive during some of the time she had vanished?
Anonymous

I was confused on that as well… Lots of holes in this story…
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Hmm … I get your point … however, I would be very suspicious of a suicide where the person was chopped up to fit into a duffel bag,and then dumped in a wooded area.By taking so long to call 911 I am suspicious that the Michael Jackson doctor was out shopping for a large duffel bag,during some of the time he has failed to account for – that and tending to an extensive clean up operation.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

So the one news station that the Mother is extremely upset at … anyone know what the station was saying about Carina’s life choices ? I would like to know so as I can also be upset if they were out of line.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

So a contract has been put on me ? I have long suspected this … fucking haters.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XKMAEMPVJ5T2Y35HKYTNG7I6SY Cedric

Sure .. post the link.The voices in my head are demanding that you do that NOW !!!!
Hekate

sad
Anonymous

We totally do, we’re really fucking assholes. I hope a leave a hot ghost who likes to peek in showers.
Anonymous

If you’re in your 40′s and your “band” hasn’t made it yet… dude, just pack it in a get a real job.
Anonymous

Priceless! I wish I had your quick wit!
Anonymous

Hmm 19 gettin a car with a 40ish guy seems fishy to me maybe she was selling herself on craigslist
Anonymous

Meh I jumped the gun…. It’s the FB of the guy missing along the same day as her. The family can’t release the connection. It’s a young guy that is a hardcore following of Insane Clown Posse. He has the Hatchet Man tatted on him and he’s wielding a hatchet. They found him and released him.

My bad… glad I didn’t link him…. Go me!

Update, still not found. Police saying on the run possibly. They released a different POI.
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http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

Go, civic-minded Cat Ladies!

(Trapping wild cats for neutering, vaccination, and release leads a person to some STRANGE places! Never found a body yet, but I HAVE found some strange shit. Stumbled into a few hidden encampments where I worried about BECOMING that body!)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/OHRORFA3SAT4Y23A7QBJCLA7PE Iolanthe

Really pretty girl in a really poor town? Older dude with money? Hmmm.
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