A Missouri man has pleaded guilty to a gruesome killing that shocked authorities across multiple states — the brutal murder of his girlfriend, the disposal of her body in a pink suitcase, and the kidnapping of her three young children before fleeing the country.
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri, 43-year-old Mahamud Tooxoow Mahamed, a permanent U.S. resident originally from Somalia, admitted to kidnapping resulting in death in connection with the 2019 slaying of 25-year-old Jessica McCormick.
The case began on July 16, 2019, when McCormick called 911 from the couple’s apartment in Noel, Missouri. In the call, she said Mahamed had held a knife to her throat and tried to force her into sex. She also warned dispatchers that he might harm her children, one of whom he fathered. Moments later, McCormick was heard yelling, “Tito, stop, please don’t! He’s going upstairs to the kids now, come on!” Police rushed to the scene, but Mahamed fled before they arrived.
McCormick and her three children — then just 4, 2, and 6 months old — were reported missing the next day. Nearly two weeks later, on July 29, 2019, a horrifying discovery was made: a passerby spotted a pink suitcase on Missouri Highway 59, with human feet sticking out. Authorities later confirmed it contained McCormick’s decomposing body.
Around the same time, Mahamed contacted his cousin in Minnesota, saying he was bringing the three children to her because “something bad had happened.” After arriving on Aug. 1, he briefly stayed in hotels and eventually left the children with a friend in Des Moines, Iowa. On Aug. 8, 2019, police recovered the kids unharmed, but Mahamed had vanished, leaving behind a note saying he “could not care for the children.”
For months, Mahamed misled friends and authorities, claiming he didn’t know where McCormick or the children were. Investigators later discovered clothing stained with McCormick’s blood in the couple’s car and confirmed Mahamed had purchased the pink suitcase used to hide her body.
Mahamed fled the United States sometime before September 2019 and was tracked down in Guatemala. After being detained there, he was extradited back to the U.S. in July 2021 and has remained in federal custody ever since.
He now faces a potential life sentence, with his official sentencing date yet to be determined.
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