New details surfaced in a murder case involving a model, drug use, and a stabbing incident in Petah Tikva. The probe started a week and a half ago when authorities discovered a man's body near a building where the model lives. The model had previously testified as a witness against a modeling agent in a sex offenses case.
Authorities transported the body to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute with preliminary evaluations indicating suicide. Officials confirmed the man's identity at the institute as the son of a life prisoner convicted of murdering his wife. An additional finding at the institute showed stab marks on the man's body. Based on this discovery, investigators launched a criminal inquiry under a publication ban. Authorities arrested the model and three men during the probe.
The probe shows the model invited three men to her apartment where they used drugs. The victim came to the apartment afterward. Based on the suspicion, an argument broke out in the apartment during which the victim was stabbed, fell from the apartment window onto a fence and died. During questioning, the model and the men maintained the man jumped from the window and died that way, but investigators suspect he was pushed or fell after being stabbed. Authorities extended the arrests of the model and the men until Thursday, when investigators will seek their arraignment.
Sources close to the model stated, "She is not connected to the case. She was in the apartment but didn't do anything. She is in total shock from the arrest." Attorney Shay Roda, representing one of the men, noted, "My client denies the suspicions attributed to him, and claims that although he was in the apartment at the time of the murder, he was not involved in the murder itself."
