JERSEY CITY, N.J.—A Virginia man whose toddler daughter’s body was found in a suitcase next to New Jersey railroad tracks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Travis Plummer was convicted in April of unlawful concealment of human remains. The 38-year-old Richmond man was sentenced on June 21.
Travis Plummer was convicted in April of unlawful concealment of human remains. The 38-year-old from Richmond was sentenced Friday.https://t.co/dNWxaBmg4T
— Times-Dispatch (@RTDNEWS) June 24, 2019
Authorities have said Plummer took 23-month-old Te’Myah Layauna Plummer from her mother in Virginia in fall 2017 and traveled to New Jersey with the decomposing body wrapped inside a suitcase.
Richmond man sentenced for concealing toddler daughter’s remains https://t.co/WkTUZfomUr pic.twitter.com/KiyGXoIjtD
— 8News WRIC Richmond (@8NEWS) June 24, 2019
Investigators said they believe Plummer left the suitcase in a friend’s Jersey City garage for months, but after a March 2018 police visit dumped it off a bridge, where it was found near the tracks the following month.
A Virginia man whose toddler daughter’s body was found in a suitcase next to New Jersey railroad tracks has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.https://t.co/N82EcNuJOu
— WTOP (@WTOP) June 24, 2019
The child died of unspecified violence and cocaine intoxication. Plummer hasn’t been charged with killing the girl.