Instagram Influencer Found Murdered in Her Own Apartment: Reports

Instagram Influencer Found Murdered in Her Own Apartment: Reports
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Jack Phillips
7/30/2019
Updated:
7/30/2019

An Instagram influencer who had tens of thousands of followers was found dead and was stuffed into a suitcase in her own apartment in Moscow, Russia.

Ekaterina Karaglanova, 24, was found dead last week after family members contacted her landlord. They hadn’t heard from her in several days, the Daily Mail reported.

Karaglanova’s ex-boyfriend is suspected in her murder, the news outlet reported.

Karaglanova was also described as a doctor-in-training and travel blogger in the tabloid report.

Her father, who is also a doctor, reportedly needed medical treatment after finding his daughter’s body in her apartment. She was found dead with knife wounds and inside a suitcase.

Russian officials are investigating CCTV footage of a man entering and later leaving her apartment. The man is seen carrying a plastic bag and is wearing a T-shirt with “Let’s Get Lost” written in English as well as a baseball cap.

The man is also wearing gloves. Detectives also said the crime scene was spotless with no traces of blood, the Mail reported.

There were claims that she was involved in a relationship with a 52-year-old man and had broken up with her ex-boyfriend, 32, and she called him a “wolf” as an insult.

Russian news outlet MK reported that the ex-boyfriend, who was not named, had left the country.

“Recently I noticed that she had changed a lot. There was information that somebody did not like her. She posted, ‘Someone is badly interested in my private life,’” Marina Nikitina, a friend, was quoted by the Mail as saying.

In her last post on July 22, she wrote about how she likes to “travel often, but in each country, I spend no more than 3-5 days. The longest trip in my life was to Israel with my family.”

“But the impressions of such short trips remain the brightest,” she also wrote, according to a translation. “I remember in detail every trip, all beautiful places, funny stories.”

A number of people commented on her death in the post, writing “RIP” and other remarks.

Karaglanova regularly posted photos of herself on Instagram. Her followers had likened her appearance to Audrey Hepburn, the BBC reported.
Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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