MOSCOW, February 3 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow Region
police have arrested a woman suspected of seeking out her
"doppelgangers" on a popular social networking website and then
killing them for their property, Russian media said on Tuesday.
The woman, 46-year-old Yuliya Pechenyeva, made the
acquaintance of and killed at least three single women whose
appearance was strikingly similar to her own, the life.ru news
website reported. The "two-legged predator" is said to have met
the women on Russia's odnoklassniki.ru.
After killing the women, Pechenyeva stole their documents,
and then applied for and received bank loans in their names.
Her "career" in the real-estate business came to an end
after she sold a flat to a young couple in the Moscow Region
town of Odintsovo and the new tenants moved in before she had
had a chance to dispose of the remains of the owner. The couple
subsequently discovered the decomposing body parts of Svetlana
Sokolova on the balcony.
"That was a real mystery," a police source told the paper.
"We determined that the victim was the owner of the flat.
However, the new residents were absolutely sure that she was
the smiling and kind women they had literally just bought the
flat from!"
Police eventually located and arrested Pechenyeva after
discovering that she was already on the federal wanted list for
two similar murders in Russia's second largest city of St.
Petersburg.
Investigators say the cold-blooded killer would do
everything possible to strike up a friendship with her future
victims, even buying a dog of the same breed as the one owned
by Sokolova.
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