Authorities in San Francisco are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found inside a duffle bag at Golden Gate Park on Sunday.
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00:00 This is 37-year-old Kelly Koike, the woman found dead in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park on Sunday night.
00:07 Her mother described the conversation she had Monday with the coroner.
00:11 Yesterday, they find your daughter in duffel bag. A dog walker find her.
00:24 Roya Koike tells us her daughter was living on the streets of San Francisco.
00:28 I'm Kelly, we're homeless.
00:30 Suffered from a mental illness, saying she had a lifelong passion for makeup and design,
00:36 even changing her eye color to all white at one point.
00:40 I know deep, deep, deep down in her, without this part here.
00:52 She has a messed up hair. But she got killed.
01:05 Police will only say this is a suspicious death.
01:09 Investigators worked late into the night Sunday at Golden Gate Park, but so far no arrests have been made.
01:16 Very hard, very hard.
01:18 Roya says she remembers the good times, when they would go to Benihana as a family.
01:23 She says Kelly, who you see here in pictures, graduated from culinary school and then worked as a concierge in San Francisco.
01:31 But the mental challenges that started in her teens eventually overtook everything else.
01:37 Roya says she feared for her daughter's safety in San Francisco,
01:41 but was also fearful for her own safety when her daughter was home and not on her medication.
01:48 Being homeless in the city, I knew something bad would happen.
01:56 Roya wishes that Kelly would have been more open to receiving treatment that may have helped get her off the streets.
02:03 Very sad. It's so sad. Beautiful. She was, I know I'm the mother, but I show you pictures.
02:14 She was not that gorgeous. I mean, she was beautiful. Was, I can't believe it, was.
02:24 She's still in a bit of shock over this and hopeful for answers on what happened in the park.
02:31 J. R. Stone, ABC 7 News.