Police are combing the sex-escort
world of Aosta after a 32-year-old Romanian woman was found with
her throat cut in a flat in the northern city at the weekend.
Friends and associates of Elena Serban Raluca are being
questioned, judicial sources said.
All of Raluca's electronic devices including her phone and
tablet were removed from the flat after her murder, probably
because they held evidence of her killer, police said Monday.
Also missing from the flat was the murder weapon, probably a
kitchen knife, police said.
The victim's sister told police she had come to Val d'Aosta from
Tuscany for work reasons, and police said they could not confirm
she was in the sex-work sector.
An autopsy has yet to be ordered.
Raluca was found in her bathroom with a deep cut to the throat
shortly after dawn on Sunday.
A medical examiner put the time of death as Saturday
afternoon-evening.
Police initially said they were examining the local prostitution
world.
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