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4 Charged After Body of NY World War II Veteran Is Found in Suitcase on Arkansas Farm

Investigators believe Robert Brooks died of natural causes at his home in upstate New York about a month before his body was found on March 5

Police have arrested two more people after finding the body of an 89-year-old World War II veteran from New York in a suitcase on an Arkansas farm. 

Thirty-four-year-old Leeann Naomi Sager and 25-year-old Aaron Rulison were arrested Tuesday in New York, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Both are charged with concealment of a human corpse. 

Authorities say Sager was a caregiver to Robert Brooks. Investigators believe the veteran died of natural causes at his home in upstate New York about a month before his body was found on March 5. 

Authorities are still investigating why his body was taken to Arkansas. 

Two other caregivers, Michael Stivers and Virginia Colvin, were arrested earlier this month. They're being held in Arkansas on $100,000 bond on charges of abusing a corpse.

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