More than a year after she went missing, the body of a Russian model was discovered stowed in a bag.
Gretta Vedler, 23, was assassinated one month after labeling President Vladimir Putin a “psychopath” and predicting that his mission to “improve the integrity of Russia” would end in tears on social media.
Dmitry Korovin, her “jealous” ex-boyfriend, admitted to strangling her to death after a money dispute in Moscow more than a year later.
Dmitry admitted to interrogators that he spent three nights in a hotel room with her body, which he placed in a recently purchased bag. He then drove her body 300 kilometres to Lipetsk and left it in the boot of a car for more than a year.
He kept posting pictures and messages on the model’s social media, to make friends believe she was still alive, he told detectives.
A male friend called Evgeniy Foster, a blogger in Kharkiv, the Ukrainian city blitzed by Russian forces, became suspicious and found a friend in Moscow to file a missing person case, triggering a search which eventually located her body.
Back in January 2021, a month before she was murdered, the model blasted Putin 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] physical form, it is not surprising that he left after law school and joined the KGB,” she wrote.
“Such people are timid and fearful from childhood, afraid of noise and darkness, strangers, so traits such as caution, restraint, and lack of communication are developed early in their character.
“I can only assume, in my opinion, a clear psychopathy or sociopathy is seen in him.”
She told her followers: “For psychopaths, it is important to constantly experience a sense of fullness and sharpness of life, so they love risk, intense experiences, intense communication, intense activity – an intense and dynamic life.
“Maybe he really wants to enhance the integrity of Russia and sincerely wishes the good for the Russians.
“But can he really do anything?”
She made clear she had grave doubts.
“I think you know the answer to this question yourself,” she posted.