Sex doll ‘mistaken’ for murder victim in Australia

SYDNEY - A lifelike sex doll was briefly “mistaken” for a murder victim after it was found inside a suitcase dumped in rural Australia, police and local media said on Aug 10.Two men were driving through the Australian countryside on Aug 9 when they stumbled across an abandoned suitcase seemingly packed with human remains.A strike force of homicide detectives and forensic experts was set up to solve what police initially treated as a murder.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 actually a “life-like 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.” AFP