Been arrested on charges of murdering
Woman Reportedly Kills Look-Alike, Sells Victim’s Apartment in Moneymaking Scheme
MOSCOW — Killings over real estate are not unusual in Russia, but this one may have been a first: A woman has been arrested on charges of murdering a look-alike she met on the Internet and selling the victim's apartment in a grisly moneymaking scheme, Channel One television reported Thursday.
The woman's killer made one crucial mistake, the report said: Leaving her dismembered body on the balcony.
Investigators say the 46-year-old suspect struck up an Internet friendship with her victim, who looked like her and was roughly the same age, by commiserating about being abandoned by men, state-controlled Channel One reported. They believe she came to the victim's apartment in a Moscow suburb, poisoned her and used her identification documents to sell the apartment...
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