Missing American Woman Found Dead in Russia, Suspect Arrested
A 34-year-old American woman who had been missing in Russia since Tuesday has been found dead and a Russian man has been arrested on suspicion of murder, the state Investigative Committee said on Saturday.
Russia's RIA news agency said the
woman, which it named as Catherine Serou, had been studying law at a university
in the Nizhny Novgorod region 420 km (260 miles) east of Moscow since arriving
from California three years ago.
Russia's state Investigative
Committee said it had opened a criminal inquiry case into the disappearance of
"a foreign citizen" and a man in his early 40s with a criminal record
had been arrested over her death.
It did give the names of the
victim or suspect.
The statement by the committee
said she had left home at around 6:30 pm on June 15 and got into a vehicle. Her
whereabouts had been unknown since then.
"Today, as the result of a large-scale search operation, the body of the woman was found," it said.
