A 43-year-old man killed his girlfriend in Missouri and stuffed her body in a pink suitcase before kidnapping her three children and taking them some 400 miles to Iowa, where he abandoned them to flee the country, authorities say.

Mahamud Tooxoow Mahamed, a permanent resident from Somalia, pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping resulting in death for the slaying of 25-year-old Jessica McCormick, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri announced .

Mahamed came onto police radar on July 16, 2019, when McCormick called 911 to say he held a knife to her throat and tried to force her to have sex with him at their apartment in Noel, which is in the Ozarks, according to a plea agreement . McCormick also expressed concern that Mahamed would harm her children, one of whom he

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