Families of Seattle couple whose dismembered bodies were found stuffed in a suitcase by teens making a TikTok video vow to find killer, create REWARD fund to help find their murderer
Families of young couple whose dismembered bodies were found last month stuffed in a suitcase, by teens making a TikTok video, offer reward money help find their murderer
Video posted in June shows a group of young people opening a suitcase they came across at Duwamish Head in Seattle, Washington
The teens hoping to discover valuables in the suitcase, called police after a horrible stench wafted from the luggage once opened
Suitcase was found to contain dismembered remains of Jessica Lewis, 35, and her boyfriend of eight years, 27-year-old Austin ‘Cash’ Wenner
King County Medical Examiner determined both victims were shot dead on June 16, three days before TikTok users found their remains
Gina Jaschke has launched GoFundMe to raise money toward $10,000 reward for information leading to arrest person who killed her niece and the boyfriend
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Human remains found by TikTok users in Seattle in June, have been identified as belonging to mother-of-four Jessica Lewis, [left], and her boyfriend, Austin ‘Cash’ Wenner, 27 [right]
Two dismembered bodies found stuffed inside a suitcase in Seattle by teenagers making a TikTok video last month, have been identified as a mother-of-four and her boyfriend.
Now their families are raising money to offer as a reward for information leading to the arrest of their killer[s].
The decomposing remains of Jessica Lewis, 35, and Austin ‘Cash’ Wenner, 27, were discovered group of youngsters making a TikTok video on Seattle’s Alki Beach on June 19.
The video shows two teenage girls discovering a suitcase containing body parts on a Seattle beach, and police later confirmed that the body parts inside were the remains of Lewis and Wenner, who also lived in Washington State. The teens used the Randonautica app, which randomly sent them to the location.
The TikTok users who found the suitcases containing the victims’ dismembered bodies alerted the authorities and posted video online.
The King County Medical Examiner has since determined that both Lewis and Wenner had been shot on June 16, three days before their remains were found, reported KIRO7.
‘Something traumatic happened that changed my life,’ TikTok user UghHenry wrote in the caption of the video.
The discovery was near Luna Park on June 19, according to the Seattle Police Department. The social media user used the hashtags ‘crime’ and ‘murder’.
‘We found this black suitcase. We were joking that maybe the suitcase would have money…[But] the smell was overwhelming,’ the video captions explain.
In the clip the amateur videographer is heard tell one girl: ‘Open it! It stinks, yo.’
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‘Open it! It stinks, yo’: A TikTok video posted last month shows a group of youths opening a suitcase at Duwamish Head in Seattle, Washington. Hoping the find contained cash, the youths had no idea they’d discovered human remains
The caption states they felt a ‘little scared’ and ‘nervous’.
The clip then cuts to another girl calling 911 and authorities arriving at the scene on the 1100 block of Alki Avenue.
The King County Medical Examiner determined that both Lewis and Wenner had been shot days before their remains were found.
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‘They know who they are’ said Jessica’s aunt, Gina Jaschke [left], who is seeking justice for her niece [right]. She has pledged “I want somebody to pay for what they’ve done,” she said, “And if it brings any kind of solace to my family, I’ll do it. Because they’re just devastated.”
The dead woman’s aunt Gina Jaschke questioned by a reporter, would not talk about any of the specifics of the case, saying the family did not want to harm the investigation.
She called her niece Jessica a “ray of sunshine” who worked as a caregiver for developmentally disabled people.
According to the description of a GoFundMe campaign that Lewis’ aunt, Gina Jaschke, launched this week, her niece was shot multiple times, while her long-time boyfriend, Wenner, died from a single gunshot wound to the torso on June 16.
‘Jessica & Cash were good -hearted people,’ Jaschke wrote. ‘She leaves behind 4 beautiful children. Their parents and family are heartbroken beyond words. Along with countless friends and loved ones.’
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Family members described Lewis [left], as a kind-hearted mother-of-four who worked with developmentally disabled adults. She and boyfriend Austin Wenner [right], had been together for eight years
Jaschke started the online fundraiser on Monday in hopes of raising $10,000 for a reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who killed Lewis and Wenner.
So far, the campaign has drawn just a couple dozen donations totaling $730.
‘She was like the most caring person,’ Jaschke told the station of her slain niece, who worked with developmentally disabled adults.
Jaschke said that Lewis and Wenner were a fun-loving couple who had been together for eight years. The 35-year-old woman leaves behind four children.
‘They were just nice normal people,’ she said. ‘Nobody deserves what happened to them.’
Seattle police told KING5 News the case remains under ‘very active investigation,’ but no arrests have been announced as of Wednesday afternoon.
The suitcase finders: These TikTok users said they were sent to the area by an app that comes up with random coordinates. Then they spotted the suitcase
The young people were hoping their find would contain valuables, instead they had found human remains. One member of the group is seen prodding it with sticks [right] as they tried to figure contents of the luggage
The youngsters sensed something was wrong from the stench of the luggage. They called 911 and felt ‘nervous’ and ‘scared’
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Gina Jaschke started a GoFundMe page to raise reward money to find the person[s] who killed Jessica Lewis and Austin Wenner
The app encourages people to explore areas around them by using a random number generator to come up with a set of coordinates, according to Wired.
Users are told to set an intention before embarking on the trip and then report back later on whether they experienced any coincidences that suggest the universe fulfilled the intention.
‘There are two main parts to randonauting,’ Joshua Lengfelder, who founded the randonauting movement, told Wired. ‘Exploring blindspots or places nearby that are outside of your conscious awareness, and experimenting with mind-machine interaction; the hypothesis that consciousness can influence the distribution of random numbers.’
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