Model who called Putin 'psychopath' found dead in suitcase as boyfriend confesses
15.03.2022 - 14:09
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
The body of a Russian model who criticised Vladimir Putin has been discovered stashed in a suitcase more than a year after she went missing.
Gretta Vedler was murdered one month after she posted on social media calling Putin a “psychopath” and predicting his drive to “enhance the integrity of Russia “ would end in tears.
Her “jealous” former partner Dmitry Korovin, 23, has confessed more than one year later to strangling her to death after a row over cash in Moscow, unrelated to her political views and analysis of Putin’s mind and motives.
The killer told detectives that he slept in a hotel room for three nights with her corpse which he put in a newly-bought suitcase.
Then he drove the 23-year-old's body 300 miles to the Lipetsk region of Russia and left it in the boot of a car for more than one year.
He kept posting pictures and messages on the model’s social media, to make friends believe she was still alive, he told detectives, report Mirror Online.
A male friend called Evgeniy Foster - a blogger in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian city blitzed by Russian forces - became suspicious found a friend in Moscow to file a missing person case, triggering a search which eventually located her body.
A video from Russia’s Investigative Committee shows Korovin allegedly demonstrating how he killed the model, and making a full confession.
Her prescient postings on Putin in January 2021, a month before she was murdered, are not seen as connected to her death but are chilling in the light of subsequent events.
She was concerned over his crackdown on protests and what she saw as a desire to forge a bigger Russia.
“Given the fact that Putin went through a lot of humiliation in childhood, he could not stand up for himself due to his [slight]