A woman taxi driver was brutally murdered on the Perm-Ekaterinburg highway.
The body of a murdered female taxi driver was found in a abandoned car on the Perm - Yekaterinburg highway. The body of 38-year-old taxi driver Ekaterina was discovered last Saturday, July 19, at the 318th kilometer of the Perm - Yekaterinburg route, in Revda District, reports E1.RU.
A 26-year-old previously convicted Yekaterinburg resident, Andrey Martyushev, has been detained on suspicion of murder. According to investigators, Ekaterina met Martyushev on social media on the day of her death, July 18. She arrived at the designated meeting place in her car. Martyushev sat in the back seat, and when they had driven a short distance and stopped, he stabbed her with a folding knife.
It is reported that the man was intoxicated. When asked about his motive, the detainee replied that "it simply came into his mind to kill a person." According to the sister, Ekaterina’s body had 82 stab wounds.
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