Ksenia Petrova is the sister of Alexandra Petrova. The tragic fate of the dead beauty queens (51 photos)

Alexandra Petrova was born on September 18, 1980 in the city of Cheboksary. She grew up in a simple family and many residents of the city are still proud of their countrywoman, they characterize her only with positive side. Shurochka (as her relatives called her) was an ordinary girl, but with very outstanding external data. Mom recalled that because of her bright appearance, Sasha often had to deal with envy. Classmates openly envied, and some teachers disliked.

Sasha Petrova dreamed of a career as a doctor, studied well enough at school. On the advice of relatives, she studied at the Cheboksary school of models "Miss Volga". The girl was noticed even then and prophesied for her a great future in modeling career. Alexandra at the age of 15 won the Miss Cheboksary contest, and then Miss Chuvashia.

Sasha Petrova was remembered by everyone not only for her bright appearance, but also for her modesty and integrity. Her mother told how, at one of the city competitions, the girls were offered to walk along the catwalk in fur coats worn over underwear. At some point, they were supposed to open their fur coats, but Sasha did not. She paraded dressed and no longer hoped to win. It was very surprising that Petrova won that competition.

In 1996, Alexandra took part in the Miss Russia contest. It took place in Veliky Novgorod and was broadcast on federal channels. Of the 40 beauties, Sasha Petrova was recognized as the best. This victory brought her worldwide fame and glory. The beauty of the girl was admired by foreign owners of agencies, directors. In 1996, she was invited to Hollywood, but Alexandra refused, because at that time she was only 16 years old and she did not want to leave her native country.

Model career

After winning the Miss Russia contest, Alexandra Petrova actively worked as a fashion model and appeared on the catwalks. She has visited many countries of the world. In 1997, Sasha took part in several international competitions. She won the final of the world championship in the arts in the nomination "model".

Russian beauty took part in competitions:

• "Miss Model International" (1997);
• "Man of the Year" (1997, Chuvashia);
• "Miss Universe" (1999).

She failed to win the title of the most beautiful girl in the universe, but in other competitions she won a landslide victory. Sasha wanted to build a career in Moscow, worked hard, but was disappointed with the way the modeling business works in Russia. At that time there were few good offers. The girls were promised little money for shooting, which was difficult to live on.

Alexandra Petrova began to think about moving abroad, but her age did not allow her to do this, as there were many approvals to be made. When Sasha turned 18, one of the foreign agencies invited the girl to her place. At that time, she had luxurious long hair. But the leadership of the agency needed a slightly different type. They put forward a condition for Petrova. She had to lose weight, cut her hair and learn English. Alexandra's relatives recall that Alexandra always loved to eat and did not want to torture herself with various diets. For this reason, she reacted rather coolly to the proposal.

In Moscow, Alexandra Petrova was unlucky in her personal life. She complained that all the men paid attention to her status. Petrova was interesting to them as the winner of a prestigious competition, and not as a person. Failures on some fronts forced Sasha to return to his hometown. She wanted to start her own business and thought about moving abroad. Sasha entered college at the faculty foreign languages cut off her long hair. But all plans were not destined to come true. In September 2000, Alexandra was shot dead. She did not live only 2 days before her twentieth birthday.

Personal life and fatal love

Alexandra did not start a serious relationship with young people until she met Konstantin Chuvilin. This man had his own business in Cheboksary. Opinions about him are conflicting. Some people who knew him closely characterize Konstantin as a talented businessman, a fair person, while others pointed to Chuvilin's belonging to the criminal world and talked about his cruel character.

Relations with Konstantin developed rapidly. Alexandra's mother and sister assure that she was truly in love with him. Detractors said that Sasha needed money, but those closest to him had a different opinion on this matter. Petrova just wanted personal happiness. She is a little tired of fame and the need to earn money on her own. She wanted to be needed by someone and feel support and support in the person of such a serious person. Young people lived together for several months and wanted to get married.

Director modeling agency recalled that shortly before her death, she and Alexandra discussed the possibility of opening her own business and there were several options.

• modeling agency;
• studio shop;
• fashion boutique.

Konstantin promised to help her in these endeavors. But on the fateful day of September 16, 2000, Deputy CEO the central market of Cheboksary Radik Akhmetov, the authority of Konstantin Chuvilin and Alexandra Petrova entered the entrance of the house, where the killer was already waiting for them. Chuvilin was killed first, and Sasha and Radik tried to escape, but the gangster's bullet still overtook them. The crime has not yet been solved, but it is obvious to everyone that Sasha became an accidental victim in it.

Usually girlfriends crime bosses, and just the criminals of those years became all sorts of "miss" something. Simply put, long-legged beauties, hungry for money. We will not argue - maybe there was a place for sincere love. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the bandits themselves. And sometimes at the same time.

Corpse in a suitcase

Perhaps the loudest story on our topic is the terrible murder of a killer Alexandra Solonik and his mistresses Svetlana Kotova.

Sasha Solonik, aka Macedonian (he got this nickname thanks to his ability to shoot in Macedonian - with two hands), belonged to the Kurgan organized criminal group. In 1987 he was sentenced to eight years in prison. strict regime for rape. Then he ran away.

In the 90s, the killer completed the first order for the murder - he shot the head of the Ishim group - Nicholas Prichinich.

Solonik was detained on October 6, 1994 at the Petrovsky-Razumovsky market of the capital. At the police station, while trying to escape, Solonik wounded three police officers and was wounded in the kidney. From the hospital, Makedonsky was taken to Matrosskaya Tishina for investigation. But eight months after his arrest, Solonik escaped from the pre-trial detention center. By the way, in the entire history of the famous prison, he became the only person who succeeded.

Under the new name, Solonik settled in Greece, where his people from the Kurgan OPG were already located. In Langonisi, not far from Athens, the bandits rented three luxurious mansions.

Macedonian, according to neighbors, was greedy for women and every week brought a new lady into the house. But Solonik's romance with a fashion model turned out to be the longest. Sveta Kotova. And for her, it's also fatal.

The girl worked with the well-known Moscow agency Red Stars, participated in the final of the Miss Russia-96 contest. On January 25, 1997, Kotova performed at the international exhibition Consumexpo. After that, Svetlana asked her superiors for a vacation and left for Athens.

As it turned out later, she went to Solonik, who had previously invited the model to Greece more than once. They say that Alexander even came secretly to Moscow under the guise of a Greek showman. Vladimir Kesov to convince Sveta to leave with him.

From Athens, Svetlana was going to go to a beauty contest in Italy. The girl spoke about this to her mother on the phone. Kotova called home every day until January 30th. After this date, the model disappeared.

On February 2, 1997, in the Varibobi forest, near Athens, operatives discovered the body of Solonik. He was strangled with a nylon cord. There were no documents with the killer.

The search for Kotova continued for another three months. The police found that Svetlana did not cross the borders of Greece - she was eliminated as a witness to the murder of her boyfriend.

In May, residents of the resort town of Saronides stumbled upon a suitcase lying under an olive tree. Inside, the dismembered body of a woman lay in plastic bags. The identity of the 21-year-old Kotova was established, since the decomposition process did not have time to begin in full.

There are many versions of who committed both murders. From involvement Italian mafia and up to the fact that Solonik is generally alive. However, the investigation agreed that Makedonsky and Kotova were killed by members of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group.

Mother predicted her daughter's death

On the evening of September 16, 2000, a resident of one of the Cheboksary "Stalins" heard a strange noise in the entrance. She opened the door, but they immediately put a gun to her forehead and pushed her back into the apartment. When everything was quiet in the stairwell, the husband of the frightened woman decided to go out.

Two men and a beautiful girl lay in pools of blood. 20 year old Alexandra Petrova She was still breathing, but the doctors could not save her. Sasha died on the way to the hospital. In two days she had planned a noisy holiday - her birthday.

At the age of 16, Sasha Petrova went from Cheboksary to Novgorod to conquer the Miss Russia contest, which for the first time “left” the capital. A childhood dream came true - in 1996 Alexandra became the new beauty queen.

Work began to boil, offers from various agencies rained down. Even Hollywood was invited to act, but my mother opposed. Sasha completed two courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and dropped out of the institute. Her civil husband - Konstantin Chuvilin- wanted to see the girl next to him, and not behind the books.

Kostya was not an easy guy. And 18-year-old Sasha liked "bad boys", especially with "grandmothers", because in her childhood and adolescence she lived modestly. Chuvilin was listed as unemployed, but in fact he was a member of the Chapaev organized criminal group - the most influential in Cheboksary. This easily explained the availability of money for a luxurious renovation in an apartment on Kirov Street and a Lada of the latest brand.

A close friend and "colleague" of Kostya was the director of the central market - Radik Akhmetov. It was because of the market that the conflict arose between Anatoly Doronitsin, who previously owned a trading company, and the local mayor's office. According to investigators, Doronitsin hired a hitman to eliminate Akhmetov, who had sat him down.

The killer overtook Radik in the company of Petrova and Chuvilin. At the entrance of an elite house, a mercenary shot all three at point-blank range from a machine gun. The perpetrator could not be found, which is not surprising for that time.

Here is what a certain person writes about Petrova on one forum Katya Katya: “She really stood out. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I got mixed up with this common-law husband. She began to wander around restaurants, abandoned her studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.

The worst thing is that Sasha's mother predicted the tragic fate of her daughter and was terribly afraid for her life.

I knew this would happen. I read on the hand: in Shura's palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of the mind by the age of twenty, and at the intersection - a point. A blow to the head at twenty. In fact, I didn't say anything to her. There is also a sign: if you see a cockroach, it’s not good. And then they just began to fall off the wall, and no matter how they were stained, they continued to fall ... It's unnatural - the way they fell. And after what happened - everything, not a single cockroach, - Tatyana Nikolaevna recalled with horror.

Innocent victim of war

In the dashing 90s, the city of Togliatti was compared with the American Chicago. It so happened because for ten years there was a bloody criminal war in pursuit of control over AvtoVAZ. According to some estimates, more than 400 people were killed in Togliatti during that period.

The beginning of the war was facilitated by the conflict between the largest Volgovskaya organized crime group and the gang Vladimira Agiya and Alexander Voronetsky. By the way, during perestroika, Volgovskaya was one of the first to start selling stolen parts from AvtoVAZ.

In the 2000s, Togliatti was mired in the third "great racketeering war." At the head of the Volgovskaya organized criminal group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev. Another leader of the group was considered a cruel, frostbitten bandit Scoop - Evgeniy Sovkov. By that time, he was on the wanted list and lived in Moscow on a "left" passport in the name Pavel Lizunov together with a 28-year-old bride from Togliatti - Lyudmila Matytsina.

Sovkov often went to the Krasnopresnensky baths - a favorite place for reputable criminals. On December 26, 2000, Scoop went to the “arrow” to these very baths, taking Lyudmila with him. The meeting took place in Stolyarny Lane. Let's jump ahead and say that a few steps from this place in the 94th hitman Lesha Soldier authority was shot Otari Kvantrishvili.

... The conversation between the Scoop and a certain man in black did not last long. When Yevgeny turned around and went back to the car, shots rang out. Matytsina jumped out of the car in horror and immediately received a bullet in the forehead.

The killer turned out to be a longtime foe Scoop - Andrey Milovanov aka Green.

Sovkov, with a severe wound, managed to get into the driver's seat, but four hours later he died in the hospital. On Lyudmila, the killer fired a control shot in the head before leaving.

Green was generally famous for the fact that he could absolutely calmly kill a woman in the most cruel way. He also shot the widow of the general director of the Togliatti fish factory Oksana Labintseva.

And here is another dead queen. Today marks exactly ten days since Miss Russia Sasha Petrova was shot in Cheboksary. And exactly a week since her funeral took place. They say the city has never seen anything like it. Thousands of people accompanied her on her last journey.
She did not live to be twenty in just two days. Her mother Tatyana Nikolaevna was away. But I was going to come for my 20th birthday. And I had to go to the funeral.
When in 1996 a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl from Cheboksary, Sasha Petrova, was recognized as the "best" in all of Russia, Tatyana Nikolaevna said: "But in our family everyone is like that. A lot of blood is mixed, there is even a gypsy." Both her grandmother and stepfather doted on her soul. In 1997, she was chosen "Person of the Year" in Chuvashia ...
On that fateful evening, at about eight o'clock, Sasha was returning home with her friend Konstantin Chuvilin, as well as his friend, the deputy director of the Central market, Radik Akhmetov.
They were going up to the third floor when a man with a gun suddenly appeared on the way. The killer methodically put several bullets into each of them. Eight for three. Everyone also received a control shot. Chuvilin died on the spot, Sasha - in the ambulance, Akhmetov - in intensive care.
Then everyone discussed why the neighbors did not hear the shots. Firstly, because the gun was silenced, and secondly, the tenant opposite that evening was noisily "washing" another purchase. Only the neighbor's dog, boxer Raja, reacted to suspicious fuss on the stairs. When her mistress opened the door, the first thing she saw was the muzzle of a pistol aimed straight at her face. But the killer did not shoot at the dumbfounded woman, but rushed out. And that opened a terrible picture: three bloody bodies were lying on the landing. The girl was in death throes.
When the neighbor came to her senses, she remembered what the killer looked like: height 175 centimeters, round face, wide, bulging eyes, dressed in a short dark jacket. The grannies near the entrance later recalled that a suspicious green passenger car had been standing at the entrance for a long time the day before. Marks do not know.
Immediately after the murder, the investigation considered it necessary to develop as many as ten versions. True, one dominated: another criminal showdown took place. After all, both companions of A. Petrova are well-known people among local authorities, both are involved in dubious business. And in the Central market, the struggle for spheres of influence has never stopped. Petrova, most likely, turned out to be an accidental witness to a contract killing and paid for it with her life.
Meanwhile, Sasha Petrova, after receiving the title of "Miss Russia-96" was the idol of many girls. An ordinary schoolgirl from a simple family, Cinderella, received a real glass slipper. Specialists from the Cheboksary House of Models pinned a lot of hopes on her: she looked very impressive in national costumes.
Shura moved to Moscow. She settled in a hostel, however, quite comfortable. Catwalks, commercials, parties... Who doesn't get dizzy? Victory in another competition, again everyone's attention.
But as it happens with athletes and movie stars, suddenly something "stuck", there were small life problems. And then back in 1998, when mysterious circumstances her manager, Bulgarian Vasil Papazov, died. It didn't work out with the preparation for the Miss Eurasia and Miss Universe contests...
Compatriots increasingly began to see her in their hometown. A year and a half ago, she returned to Cheboksary for good. She entered the linguistic faculty of the Pedagogical University and moved further and further away from modeling business. I even gained weight. But from the billboards in the city, she still beamed a charming smile.
When she had a life partner - a 37-year-old prosperous, as it seemed to her, businessman Konstantin Chuvilin, she hardly clearly imagined his "occupations". Could only guess. But, of course, no one expected such a tragic ending.
As the Cheboksary police department told us, impressive forces are involved in solving this crime. The killer of "Miss Russia" will be searched no matter what: the policemen also loved Shurochka...

AT Russian Federation the nineties are considered the period when society plunged into the abyss of wild capitalism after the collapse Soviet Union. Like mushrooms, various ones were born. To be a crime boss, according to many young people, was then considered prestigious. This article is dedicated to businessman and crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin and his famous cohabitant Alexandra Petrova, who were killed in 2000.

Biography of Chuvilin

Konstantin was born in the city of Cheboksary, Russian Federation) in 1967. The biography of the crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin is rather controversial, as is his personality. There is very little information about him.

It is known that Chuvilin was a legalized criminal figure, he had a business in the field of trade in the markets of the city. He had been brought to the police for hooliganism and fights, but he had no previous convictions or prison terms. In addition to maintaining big business in the Cheboksary market, according to some sources, Konstantin owned the city's petrol stations. He was a member of the Chapaev gang, the strongest in the city. Chuvilin became famous when in the early 2000s he was killed along with Alexandra Petrova ("Miss Russia"), he had met with her since the end of 1998.

Criminal business

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, which happened in December 1991, already in democratic Russia criminal groups began to form, which were engaged in racketeering and other serious crimes. Konstantin Chuvilin was one of the representatives of the criminal world. He kept the Cheboksary criminal business.

The criminals who ran all big business and commerce in the 1990s were sometimes associated with state power and police structures.

Some believe that such organized formations of bandits were created spontaneously and chaotically. In reality, during the formation of the new capitalist order in the Russian Federation, criminals played a certain role. At that time, the privatization of state property was being carried out with might and main, and illegal representatives in the form of bandit groups were needed in a big redistribution to fight for the legacy of Soviet industry.

The nineties were created and financed because they were needed by people close to power. After the market was divided and everything stabilized, gradually "authoritative businessmen" either began to go into legal business, or they were arrested and imprisoned, and some were liquidated as useless.

Roman Chuvilin

Before meeting with Chuvilin, it was not possible to build a long-term relationship. The financial well-being of her fans did not play a primary role for her. In the capital, for a year and a half of her life, Alexandra did not manage to meet true love. The capital's men seemed to her hypocritical and too prudent, at least she came across only such.

In Cheboksary, Petrova tried to fight off annoying suitors, once she even had to go to the police. Alexander found stability in relations only with the appearance in her fate of 35-year-old Konstantin Chuvilin, whom no one dared to cross the road.

Petrova's signs of attention were earlier from this influential authority, a year later she agreed to meet and live with him, in the year 2000 the couple was already planning a wedding and the birth of children. Cheboksary ordinary citizens were surprised at the incomprehensible choice of the first beauty of the city Petrova. Chuvilin was not a model of external male attractiveness, but he was a wealthy businessman who had a trail of notoriety. Friends and relatives who knew Alexandra well said that she would not meet with a rude and uncultured man. An influential businessman from Cheboksary, Konstantin Chuvilin, was not only a tough entrepreneur, but also a man in love. He treated his beloved with care and kindness, and also assisted her mother and sister in material and domestic matters.

Model business and criminality

Usually the lovers of crime bosses, and just gangsters of the nineties, were various kinds of "miss" something. Simply put, long-legged beauties who craved money. We will not confirm, maybe true love there was a place. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the criminal business themselves. Sometimes and at the same time with their second halves. The Cheboksary beauty is an example of this. Her love relationship with Konstantin Chuvilin, a crime boss and a wealthy businessman, led to a tragic denouement.

By the way, she is not the only victim of contract killings of crime bosses and their girlfriends. In 1999, along with the most famous killer in Russia, his girlfriend, Moscow model Svetlana Kotova, who, together with Petrova, participated in the Miss Russia contest, was killed.

Queen of beauty

The list of the most beautiful and famous women of the 90s throughout the country was replenished by the beautiful Alexandra Petrova - Miss Russia 1996. She died at the age of 20 from a hit by a hitman. Even if her tragic fate had not attracted the attention of Moscow journalists, would not have become a plot a large number documentaries and programs, all the same, many people would remember this beautiful woman. Petrova's beauty was completely natural.

Petrova's career

In 1996, the national contest "Miss Russia" was broadcast on TV channels in live December 13th. The first time the competition was held in Veliky Novgorod. Of the forty participants - winners of regional competitions, 16-year-old Alexandra Petrova from Chuvashia was recognized as the best.

In 1997, she was a participant in a large number of TV shows, various talk shows, presentations, and worked professionally as a fashion model. For two years, Petrova visited many countries, took part in three international beauty contests. To the title of "Miss Russia" she added a medal of the World Championship in the Arts in the category "model", received an offer for professional activity in Hollywood, but she turned down these wonderful opportunities because she was not even eighteen at the time.

In July 1997, Alexandra Petrova was recognized as the most attractive at the international competition of models "Miss Model International", in which women from fifty-three countries took part. At the end of 1997, in Chuvashia, in the homeland of Petrova, the competition "Person of the Year" was held. The Chuvash beauty won here too.

In 1999, Petrova represented Russia at the main world beauty contest "Miss Universe". The Cheboksary beauty received a lucrative offer from the well-known Russian modeling agency Ford Model, but on the condition that she lose a little excess weight, will English language and get a short haircut.

Murder of Chuvilin and Petrova

On Saturday evening, at about seven o'clock, the deputy general director Radik Akhmetov, the authority Konstantin Chuvilin and Alexandra Petrova in a VAZ car drove up to one of the houses on Kirova Street in the Chapaevsky village (Cheboksary). Having parked at the entrance, they went inside, went up to the third floor, where they saw a man in a mask with a Makarov pistol in his hands. First, the criminal killed Chuvilin. As the examination later established, three bullets were found in his body. Chuvilin died on the spot. Akhmetov and Alexandra ran downstairs to save themselves, but on the first floor the killer caught up with them and shot them in cold blood. The killer hit Radik three times in the head. It is possible that, most likely, he was the main target of the killer. Alexandra became an unwanted witness, she was seriously injured. The offender, without hurrying, went out into the street and disappeared.

Consequence

Fifteen minutes later, police officers called by the residents of the house arrived at the crime scene. However, the killer was never caught. For seventeen years this crime has been unsolved. According to eyewitnesses, the criminal left in a red car, one of the witnesses said that it was a jeep, and someone claimed that it was an ordinary Lada. The children playing in the yard told the investigators that a suspicious car appeared at the house as early as one in the afternoon, and this may indicate that the murder was carefully prepared and planned in advance.

The mortally wounded girl Chuvilin was immediately hospitalized in the city hospital, however, despite all the actions of the doctors, Alexandra Petrova died from a large loss of blood. The killer hired by her fiancé's competitors came to "crack down" on the crime boss and his friend, and Petrova turned out to be an unwanted witness. Brutal murder of an ex Russian queen podium became the topic of the news of the central TV channels, including the program "Vremya".

Possible version of the murder

As a result of the dispute, a conflict arose in the division of spheres of influence. Presumably, a rival criminal group ordered either Chuvilin or Akhmetov. Most likely, business in the city market of Cheboksary was the main subject of the conflict. According to the investigation team, one of Chuvilin and Akhmetov's business competitors could have been involved in the contract killing.

The killer decided to carry out the murder at the moment when Alexandra and her were together. The young model, in fact, was accidentally killed in a criminal showdown between two criminal gangs. The representative of the Chapaev group, according to the police, was Chuvilin's deceased friend, Radik Akhmetov, the owner of the main city bazaar. AT investigating authorities believe that this custom-made cruel triple murder is connected precisely with commercial activity.

The tragic death of Petrova before her twentieth birthday

Alexandra's life ended in 2000. The girl was hit by a ricochet bullet, but she died on the way to the hospital. This day fell on her twentieth birthday, which she wanted to celebrate at home in a narrow circle of friends and relatives. By a tragic coincidence, on September 16, her life was cut short by a shot on the landing next to her lover's apartment.

The worst thing that Alexandra's mother predicted tragic death daughter and was very afraid for her. She later said in an interview that she knew this would happen. Mother guessed by the hand, was considered a palmist. On Sasha's palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of intelligence by the age of twenty, and at the intersection - a point. Hit in the head at 20. In fact, she didn't say anything to her. This is a huge tragedy for everyone. Thus ended the life of the first beauty of Chuvashia.

Farewell to Alexandra and Konstantin

Almost the entire city of Cheboksary came to the funeral, which took place at the end of September 2000. They remembered Alexandra Petrova with a kind word, because the girl died very young, before she had time to live. Who could have predicted that beauty in Russia could be deadly dangerous?

A well-known proverb says: "Do not be born beautiful, but be born happy." And the fates of the first beauties of the world confirm this wisdom. Their beauty has become an obstacle to happy life and they all died tragically.

Monica Speer, Miss Venezuela 2004

In 2004, Monica Speer won the Miss Venezuela contest representing the state of Guarico. In 2005, the girl represented her country at the Miss Universe pageant in Bangkok. The winner then was Natalie Glebova, a Russian immigrant from Canada. Monica Speer became the fourth runner-up.

After the end of the contract with the organizers of the competition, Monica studied theater arts at the University of Central Florida. Her efforts were not in vain - in 2010 the girl was given leading role in the TV series Flor Salvaje. Last years life the girl lived with her husband and daughter in the United States.

On the evening of January 6, 2014, when the family went on New Year's holidays to Venezuela, misfortune happened. Their car ran into something sharp, two tires burst at once. The incident itself did not lead to injuries, the family called the police and waited for help. But local robbers got to the scene earlier. An expensive car on the side of the road caught their attention and they shot Monica and Henry. Their 5-year-old daughter miraculously survived. Arriving just a few minutes later, the police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called the tragedy "the loss of a decade" and personally supervised the progress of the investigation.

Genesis Carmona, Miss Tourism 2013, Venezuela

The girl who received the title of "Miss Tourism 2013" died in the same year as her compatriot Monica Spear. Genesis participated in the rally, the participants of which demanded the resignation of Nicolas Manduro and his government. A peaceful action ceased to be such after the first shots were fired.

The bullet hit the girl's forehead. The beauty died in the hospital. It is still unknown who killed Genesis. The government blames opposition political forces for this, while the opposition shifts all the blame onto the police.

Maria José Alvarado, Miss Honduras 2014

In April 2014, the 19-year-old beauty Maria Jose Alvarado received the title of Miss Honduras 2014. In December, the girl was supposed to be in London to represent the country at the Miss World contest, but this, unfortunately, did not happen.

On November 13, 19-year-old Maria and her 23-year-old sister Sofia disappeared. Then they attended a party in honor of the birthday of their friend Plutaro Ruiz, but did not return home. Ruiz himself went to the police, saying that the girls had disappeared right from his birthday.

The sisters' bodies were found buried on the banks of the river. The police found out that Ruiz himself killed the beauties. He admitted that at the holiday he had a serious argument with Sophia, because, in his opinion, she flirted with his friend, showed him signs of attention and too often agreed to dance with him. Enraged, Ruiz shot Sofia and suddenly saw that Maria was a witness to the murder. Maria tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot. At the moment when Ruiz was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was just supposed to fly to London to prepare for the Miss World contest. In deference to the family of the victims, Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition.

Agnieszka Kotlarska, Miss International 1991

Agnieszka Kotlyarskaya - Polish fashion model, winner of the Miss International 1991 contest. After winning the competition, Agnieszka continued her modeling career in New York, and later returned to Poland, where she settled in the city of Wroclaw.

Even when Agnieszka was recognized as the most beautiful girl Poland, a secret admirer and pursuer of Jerzy appeared in her life, who bombarded the model with threats and declarations of love at the same time. Since he never made direct contact, the girl did not pay attention to him, not suspecting that in six years he would take her life.

The turning point was the marriage of Agnieszka. In a court Jerzy said that thereby "she broke his life" and he had to take revenge. He spent hours wandering around the house where Agnieszka's family lived, studying their schedule and habits. In 1996, when the family was heading to their car, Jerzy jumped out of the ambush with a huge knife and rushed at Agnieszka's husband, Yaroslav. He wounded the man in the leg, Agnieszka rushed to help her husband, but the murderer, enraged by the failure, unleashed all his anger on her and stabbed her in the chest four times. The police arrested the 36-year-old programmer on the same day, for the murder he was sentenced to 14 years.

Alexandra Petrova, Miss Russia 1996

In 1996, the final of the national contest "Miss Russia" was broadcast on the channel "Russia" on December 14 live. For the first time the competition was held outside the capital - in Veliky Novgorod. Of the 40 participants-winners of regional tours, 16-year-old Alexandra Petrova from the city of Cheboksary was recognized as the best.

In 1997, Alexandra took part in numerous TV shows, show programs, presentations, and seriously worked as a fashion model. During the year, Alexandra visited many countries of the world, took part in three international competitions. She also received gold medal world championship in the arts in the nomination "model" and a job offer in Hollywood. But she did not accept any of the invitations from foreign agencies.

In July 1997, Alexandra Petrova was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition"Miss Model International", which was attended by representatives of 53 countries. At the end of 1997, in Chuvashia, Alexandra Petrova won the "Person of the Year" contest. In 1999, she participated in the Miss Universe pageant.

On September 16, 2000, Alexandra was killed in Cheboksary with one shot to the head, two days before her 20th birthday. Two entrepreneurs were shot with her: Konstantin Chuvilin, the young man of the girl, and his friend Radik Akhmetov (director of the central market). They were shot at the entrance of Konstantin Chuvilin, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the girl became a victim of a showdown between local criminal authorities for spheres of influence.

Svetlana Kotova, finalist of the Miss Russia 1996 contest

On May 10, 1997, about three kilometers from Athens, Greece, in the town of Saronida, a suitcase with the dismembered corpse of 21-year-old Svetlana Kotova was found under an olive tree in a shallow grave. A Red Stars agency model and Miss Russia 1996 finalist was allegedly murdered on January 30, 1997.

The girl connected her fate with Alexander Solonik (Sasha of Macedon), the star of the criminal world. They met at a nightclub in Moscow on New Year's Eve, and on January 25, 1997, Svetlana flew to Greece at the invitation of a new acquaintance.

At the gangway of the plane, she was met with armfuls of flowers, and the driver in a chic Mercedes took the girl to a luxurious villa, the rent of which cost $ 90,000 a year. Starting from January 26, she called her mother every day and never tired of admiring the miracle that happened to her. In Greece, Solonik was hiding from the Russian authorities and from personal enemies.

The investigation established that on January 30, the crime was committed by Orekhov bandits Alexei Gusev, Alexander Sharapov and Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha-Soldat) on the orders of Sergei Butorin (Osya). On February 2, 1997, the body of the strangled Solonik was found in a villa in Baribobi. Kotova became a witness to the crime, for which she paid with her life.

Layna Keza, Miss Africa 2010

"Miss Africa 2010" was killed three years after receiving the crown. The dark-skinned beauty was killed by her common-law husband and part-time father of the model's daughter. The man was terribly jealous of his beloved and did not let her live in peace. When Laina decided to end the relationship, her husband did not forgive her for this and three days after the breakup, he stabbed his wife to death.

Melody Gershbach, Miss International 2009

A year after receiving the title of "Miss International 2009" Filipino model tragically died in an accident. On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl's minivan at full speed. The bus driver reported that vehicle got out of control due to a technical problem. Melody was only 24 years old.

Mikaela McAreavey, Ireland's beauty queen

In January 2011, Ireland's beauty queen married John McAreavey and traveled with him to honeymoon trip to Mauritius. The couple enjoyed their honeymoon. On the fateful day, the newlyweds dined at the restaurant of the Legend Hotel, where they lived, when in the middle of the evening Michaela needed something in the room. Rising, she found in the room two employees of the hotel, presumably, entered the room with the purpose of robbery. Frightened, they dragged Mikaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect enough evidence, and the jury acquitted both suspects.

Leslie Mazzara, Miss South Carolina

In 2004, three friends - Leslie Mazzara, Adriana Insonia and Lauren Mianza - celebrated Halloween. Together with the local children, they went around the houses, begging for sweets, singing songs and inventing practical jokes. All three went to bed quite late and fell asleep soundly. Lauren woke up to strange sounds: she realized that there was a robber in the house, and slipped out the back door, taking her phone. Calling the police, the girl did not dare to return to the house, which saved her life.

The arriving patrol found Leslie and Adriana dead. The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects did not lead to the identification of the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward did not lead to any results. Surprisingly, the criminal was figured out by... Lauren. Once again reviewing the photos from the crime scene, she drew attention to a detail that experienced detectives missed: a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. It was these cigarettes that Adriana's friend's fiancé smoked. Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA examination confirmed the match of the samples, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he did not remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the motive for which he killed two girls remained unsolved.

Eva Equall, Miss Venezuela 2002

Eva was crowned Miss Venezuela in 2000 and competed in the Miss Universe pageant the following year. Later she worked as a TV presenter, wrote books. In February 2010, Eva was diagnosed with an advanced stage of breast cancer, the girl underwent an 8-month course of treatment. Ekwall courageously fought the disease and encouraged other women to take care of their health. The treatment did not help Eva, and after a year and 10 months of fighting the disease, on December 17, 2011, the 28-year-old model died in Houston.