A 53-year-old man has been charged in connection with the discovery of a woman’s body in a suitcase in the Roseland neighborhood just after Christmas.
Arthur Cain, of the 300 block of West 116th Street in the West Pullman neighborhood, was ordered held on $1 million bond on Sunday.
The remains were found in the 300 block of West 115th Street on Dec. 27, according to police.
The woman later was identified as Dominique Shavonne Ferguson, 21. The cause and manner of Ferguson’s death have not been determined, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said Sunday.
Cain is charged with concealment of a death and is accused of having moved Ferguson’s body. Moving the body of someone who died of something other than a homicide is a Class 4 felony, according to Illinois statute.
Cain is on parole for murder, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
No details of those crimes immediately were available, but records show he was sentenced to 70 years in prison for the murder charge back in 1981 and was paroled in May 2015.
He was scheduled to be discharged from his parole in 2018.