Jackie Jones is a beauty queen. The tragic fates of dead beauty queens (51 photos)
Miss USA is the most prestigious beauty pageant in the United States, the winner of which represents the country at the international Miss Universe pageant, which, in turn, belongs to the owners of the Miss USA pageant. This easily explains that American women take first place in the number of victories at Miss Universe; they won the competition 7 times (they share first place in the number of victories with American women).
The idea for the Miss USA pageant came about by chance. Since the 20s of the last century, the main competition in the United States has been the Miss America pageant. Yolande Fox, Miss America 1951, raised in a convent school, refused to pose in a swimsuit after winning the pageant, which angered the pageant's sponsor, the swimsuit company Catalina, which withdrew from the sponsors of the Miss America pageant and, together with other companies, created the new national competition "Miss USA" and the international competition "Miss Universe", where the winner of "Miss USA" went (this is the difference between "Miss USA" and "Miss America", the winners of which did not take part in international beauty pageants). Miss USA and Miss Universe were first held in 1952. The site already has a selection where they are presented, and now we will talk about the winners of the Miss USA contest of the 20th century.
Miss USA 1956 and Miss Universe 1956 - CarolMorris. Height 170 cm, measurements 92-64-92.
Miss USA 1957 was originally won by Mary Leona Gage. She represented the country at Miss Universe, but during the competition it turned out that she hid her true age, indicating 21 years old instead of 18, moreover, she was married a second time and was the mother of two children. Unmarried girls without children were eligible to take part in the Miss USA competition, so Mary Leona Gage was stripped of her title and disqualified from Miss Universe, where she had already made it to the top 15 by that time.
The title of Miss USA 1957 was given to another girl - Charlotte Sheffield. Because It was already too late for her to enter the Miss Universe contest; she took part in Miss World 1957, which is very unusual for the winner of the Miss USA contest, which is closely associated with Miss Universe.
Miss USA 1958 - Eurlyne Howell
Miss USA 1959 - Terry Lynn Huntingdon
Miss USA 1960 and Miss Universe 1960 - Linda Bement
Miss USA 1961 - Sharon Brown. Height 170 cm, measurements 92-58-92.
Miss USA 1962 - Macel Wilson. She represented the state of Hawaii and became the first Asian American to win the Miss USA pageant.
Miss USA 1963 - Marite Ozers. She is originally from Latvia and became the first winner of the competition not born in the United States.
Miss USA 1964 - Barbara "Bobbi" Johnson
Miss USA 1965 - Sue Ann Downey
Miss USA 1967 and Miss Universe 1967 - Sylvia Hitchcock
Beginning in 1967, if an American woman won Miss Universe, the title of Miss USA was given to the Miss USA runner-up. However, runner-up Susan Ellen Bradley relinquished the title and it was given to Miss USA third runner-up Cheryl Patton.
Miss USA 1968 - Dorothy Anstett
Miss USA 1969 - Wendy Dascomb
Miss USA 1970 - Deborah "Debbie" Shelton
Miss USA 1971 - Michele McDonald
Miss USA 1972 - Tanya Wilson
Miss USA 1973 - Amanda Jones
Miss USA 1974 - Karen Morrison
Miss USA 1975 - Summer Bartholomew
Miss USA 1976 - Barbara Peterson. Height 173 cm, measurements 89-61-89.
Miss USA 1977 - Kimberly Tomes
Miss USA 1978 - Judi Andersen
Miss USA 1980 and Miss Universe 1980 - Shawn Weatherly. Height 173 cm, measurements 89-64-89.
After Shawn Weatherly won Miss Universe, the title of Miss USA 1980 was given to Jineane Ford.
Miss USA 1981 - Kim Seelbrede
Miss USA 1982 - Terri Utley
Miss USA 1984 - Mai Shanley
Miss USA 1985 - Laura Martinez-Herring. A native of Mexico with Austrian roots, she became the first Latina to win the Miss USA pageant. Later, she changed her last name to Harring, which is more understandable to Americans, and began acting in films (best known for the 2001 film Mulholland Drive directed by David Lynch).
Miss USA 1986 - Christiane "Christy" Fichtner
Miss USA 1987 - Michelle Royer
Miss USA 1988 - Courtney Gibbs
Miss USA 1989 - Gretchen Polhemus
Miss USA 1990 - Carole Gist. The first African American to become Miss USA.
Miss USA 1991 - Kelli McCarty
Miss USA 1992 - Shannon Marketic
Miss USA 1993 - Kenya Moore
Miss USA 1994 - Lu Parker
Miss USA 1995 and Miss Universe 1995 - Chelsi Smith.
After Chelsi Smith won the Miss Universe title, Shanna Moakler received the title of Miss USA 1995.
Miss USA 1996 - Ali Landry
Miss USA 1997 and Miss Universe 1997 - Brook Lee.
After Brook Lee's victory at Miss Universe, the title of Miss USA 1997 was given to Brandi Sherwood, who has so far become the only winner of the adult and youth versions of the Miss USA contest, because 1989 Brandi Sherwood won the Miss Teen USA competition.
Miss USA 1998 - Shawnae Jebbia
Miss USA 1999 - Kimberly Pressler
Incredibly sad turns in the lives of the girls who won the title of the most beautiful women. Next, we want to tell you moments from the lives of 12 beauty queens who left this world too early.
Alexandra Petrova (1980-2000). Russian model, winner of the Miss Russia 1996 contest and other beauty contests.
In 1997, she took part in numerous television shows, show programs, presentations, and worked seriously as a fashion model. Over the course of the year, Alexandra visited many countries around the world and took part in three international competitions.
She also received a gold medal at the World Arts Championship in the “model” category and a job offer in Hollywood. In July 1997, Alexandra was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition "Miss Model International", in which representatives of 53 countries took part.
The girl did not accept any of the invitations and lived in her native Chuvashia.
On September 16, 2000, Alexandra was killed in Cheboksary with one shot in the head, two days short of her 20th birthday and not having time to accept a prestigious offer from the international modeling agency Ford Model.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, the girl became a victim of a showdown between local crime bosses, one of whom was her boyfriend, over spheres of influence. The girl was wounded by a ricochet, but died on the way to the hospital.
Monica Speer (1984-2014). The girl was crowned the most beautiful woman in Venezuela in 2004, and the following year she represented the country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
By that time, the model was divorced, but maintained a close relationship with Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old British man, the father of her 5-year-old daughter. The couple moved to the United States, but regularly came to Venezuela for holidays and vacations.
They went there for the New Year holidays in 2014. Immediately two tires of their car burst, the family called the police and began to wait for help.
An expensive car on the side of the road attracted the attention of local robbers, who got to the scene faster than the police and shot Monica and Thomas.
Their daughter miraculously survived. The police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. The President of Venezuela then called this tragedy “the loss of the decade” and personally supervised the investigation.
Agnieszka Kotlarska (1972-1996). In 1990, the girl was recognized as the most beautiful girl in Poland, and it was then that a secret admirer and stalker named Jerzy appeared in her life.
He sent threats to the model mixed with declarations of love, but never made direct contact, so the girl did not pay attention to the stalker.
Agnieszka won the title of Miss International 1991 and got married. Later in court, Jerzy said that by doing so, “she ruined his life” and he had to take revenge.
In 1996, Agnieszka and her husband left the house and headed to their car. Jerzy jumped out of 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 killer, enraged by the failure, turned 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, and he was sentenced to 14 years for murder.
Maria José Alvarado (1995-2014). The 19-year-old Miss Honduras 2014 celebrated the birthday of her sister Sofia's boyfriend, after which neither of them returned home.
Plutarco Ruiz, whose birthday they were celebrating, reported the loss. The young man’s increased interest in the search alerted the police and Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
Unexpectedly, the young man confessed to the double murder. The girls' bodies were found buried on the river bank. Ruiz quarreled with Sofia because she was flirting with his friend and, losing his temper, shot her.
Maria witnessed a terrible crime and tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot.
While the criminal was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was supposed to fly to London to participate in the Miss World competition. Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition out of respect for the girl's memory.
Svetlana Kotova (1977-1997). The fashion model and beauty queen “Miss World”-96 was a friend of Alexander Solonik, a criminal who had the fame of “killer No. 1” in Russia.
On New Year's holidays, the girl received an offer from her partner to visit his villa in Greece. A day before her death, she called her mother and said that she had found herself in real heaven.
The next day, armed men burst into the villa. On February 2, 1997, the body of a strangled bandit was discovered. The killer's model's body was dismembered. The suitcase with Sveta’s remains was found only three months later in the forest.
Later it will become known that the Orekhovskaya criminal group settled scores with Solonik.
Eva Ekvall (1983-2011). In 2000, Eva received the title of Miss Venezuela and competed in the Miss Universe pageant the following year. Later she worked as a TV presenter and wrote books.
In February 2010, Eva was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer and underwent an 8-month course of treatment.
Ekvall bravely 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 (Texas, USA).
Laina Keza (1983-2013). The 29-year-old Miss Africa title was stabbed to death in August 2013.
The culprit of the tragedy was 38-year-old club promoter David Kikawa, the father of a 3-year-old daughter of a model and her partner.
A few days before the murder, Laina, who was tired of scandals based on jealousy, finally broke up with David. Then the couple's neighbors confirmed that David was constantly causing scenes, insults and screams were heard from the house.
Early in the morning, it was the neighbors who called the police, reporting that something terrible had happened in the house, since the loud screams suddenly stopped and they suspected something terrible.
The squad arrived and found David with a knife in his hand at the threshold of the bathroom. Laina's body was lying in the bathtub.
Melody Gershbach (1985-2010). A year after winning the Miss International 2009 title, the Filipino model tragically died in a traffic accident.
The bus driver surrendered to local police, claiming that the vehicle went out of control due to a technical fault.
Genesis Carmona (1991-2014). "Miss Tourism 2013" from Venezuela became a victim of murder.
Genesis, who was outraged by the current situation in the country, took part in a street rally for the resignation of Nicolas Maduro and his government.
A sudden shot hit her in the head.
The girl was quickly taken to the hospital, the city was engulfed in riots, which killed several more people.
It is still not known for certain who exactly shot the beauty queen: the authorities insist that the shot was fired by the opposition, and the latter blame the police.
Michaela McAreavey (1983-2011). In January 2011, the Irish beauty queen married John McAreavey and went with him on a honeymoon to Mauritius.
The couple enjoyed their honeymoon. On the fateful day, the newlyweds were having dinner at the restaurant of the Legends Hotel, where they were staying, when in the middle of the evening Michaela needed something in her room.
When she got up, she found two hotel employees in the room, who allegedly entered the room for the purpose of robbery.
Frightened, they dragged Michaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect sufficient evidence, and the jury acquitted both suspects.
Leslie Mazzara (1978-2004). In 2004, Miss South Carolina and her friends Adriana and Lauren celebrated Halloween, went to bed quite late and fell asleep soundly.
Lauren woke up, realized there was a burglar in the house, slipped out the back door and called the police. The patrol arrived and found Leslie and Adriana dead in the house.
The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects failed to identify the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward yielded no results.
Once again looking through photographs from the crime scene, Lauren noticed a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. These were the cigarettes that Adriana’s friend’s fiance smoked.
Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA testing confirmed the samples were a match, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he didn’t remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but why he killed two girls remains unknown.
Incredibly sad turns in the lives of the girls who won the title of the most beautiful women. Next, we want to tell you moments from the lives of 12 beauty queens who left this world too early.
Alexandra Petrova (1980-2000).
Russian model, winner of the Miss Russia 1996 contest and other beauty contests.
In 1997, she took part in numerous television shows, show programs, presentations, and worked seriously as a fashion model. Over the course of the year, Alexandra visited many countries around the world and took part in three international competitions.
She also received a gold medal at the World Arts Championship in the “model” category and a job offer in Hollywood. In July 1997, Alexandra was recognized as the best at the international modeling competition "Miss Model International", in which representatives of 53 countries took part.
The girl did not accept any of the invitations and lived in her native Chuvashia.
On September 16, 2000, Alexandra was killed in Cheboksary with one shot in the head, two days short of her 20th birthday and not having time to accept a prestigious offer from the international modeling agency Ford Model.
According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic, the girl became a victim of a showdown between local crime bosses, one of whom was her boyfriend, over spheres of influence. The girl was wounded by a ricochet, but died on the way to the hospital.
Monica Speer (1984-2014).
The girl was crowned the most beautiful woman in Venezuela in 2004, and the following year she represented the country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant.
By that time, the model was divorced, but maintained a close relationship with Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old British man, the father of her 5-year-old daughter. The couple moved to the United States, but regularly came to Venezuela for holidays and vacations.
They went there for the New Year holidays in 2014. Immediately two tires of their car burst, the family called the police and began to wait for help.
An expensive car on the side of the road attracted the attention of local robbers, who got to the scene faster than the police and shot Monica and Thomas.
Their daughter miraculously survived. The police arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. The President of Venezuela then called this tragedy “the loss of the decade” and personally supervised the investigation.
Agnieszka Kotlarska (1972-1996).
In 1990, the girl was recognized as the most beautiful girl in Poland, and it was then that a secret admirer and stalker named Jerzy appeared in her life.
He sent threats to the model mixed with declarations of love, but never made direct contact, so the girl did not pay attention to the stalker.
Agnieszka won the title of Miss International 1991 and got married. Later in court, Jerzy said that by doing so, “she ruined his life” and he had to take revenge.
In 1996, Agnieszka and her husband left the house and headed to their car. Jerzy jumped out of 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 killer, enraged by the failure, turned 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, and he was sentenced to 14 years for murder.
Maria José Alvarado (1995-2014).
19-year-old Miss Honduras 2014 celebrated the birthday of her sister Sofia's boyfriend, after which neither of them returned home
Plutarco Ruiz, whose birthday they were celebrating, reported the loss. The young man’s increased interest in the search alerted the police and Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping.
Unexpectedly, the young man confessed to the double murder. The girls' bodies were found buried on the river bank. Ruiz quarreled with Sofia because she was flirting with his friend and, losing his temper, shot her.
Maria witnessed a terrible crime and tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot.
While the criminal was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was supposed to fly to London to participate in the Miss World competition. Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition out of respect for the girl's memory.
Svetlana Kotova (1977-1997).
The fashion model and beauty queen “Miss World”-96 was a friend of Alexander Solonik, a criminal who had the fame of “killer No. 1” in Russia.
On New Year's holidays, the girl received an offer from her partner to visit his villa in Greece. A day before her death, she called her mother and said that she had found herself in real heaven.
The next day, armed men burst into the villa. On February 2, 1997, the body of a strangled bandit was discovered. The killer's model's body was dismembered. The suitcase with Sveta’s remains was found only three months later in the forest.
Later it will become known that the Orekhovskaya criminal group settled scores with Solonik.
Eva Ekvall (1983-2011).
In 2000, Eva received the title of Miss Venezuela and competed in the Miss Universe pageant the following year. Later she worked as a TV presenter and wrote books.
In February 2010, Eva was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer and underwent an 8-month course of treatment.
Ekvall bravely 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 (Texas, USA).
Laina Keza (1983-2013).
The 29-year-old Miss Africa title was stabbed to death in August 2013.
The culprit of the tragedy was 38-year-old club promoter David Kikawa, the father of a 3-year-old daughter of a model and her partner.
A few days before the murder, Laina, who was tired of scandals based on jealousy, finally broke up with David. Then the couple's neighbors confirmed that David was constantly causing scenes, insults and screams were heard from the house.
Early in the morning, it was the neighbors who called the police, reporting that something terrible had happened in the house, since the loud screams suddenly stopped and they suspected something terrible.
The squad arrived and found David with a knife in his hand at the threshold of the bathroom. Laina's body was lying in the bathtub.
Melody Gershbach (1985-2010)
A year after winning the Miss International 2009 title, the Filipino model tragically died in a traffic accident.
On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl’s minivan at full speed.
The bus driver surrendered to local police, claiming that the vehicle went out of control due to a technical fault.
Genesis Carmona (1991-2014). "Miss Tourism 2013" from Venezuela became a victim of murder.
Genesis, who was outraged by the current situation in the country, took part in a street rally for the resignation of Nicolas Maduro and his government.
A sudden shot hit her in the head.
The girl was quickly taken to the hospital, the city was engulfed in riots, which killed several more people.
In the Russian Federation, the nineties are considered a period when society plunged into the abyss of wild capitalism after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Various things appeared like mushrooms. Being a crime boss, in the opinion of many young people, was then considered prestigious. This article is dedicated to businessman and crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin and his famous partner 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 crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin is quite controversial, as is his personality. There is quite a bit of information about him.
It is known that Chuvilin was a legalized criminal figure and had a trading business in the city markets. He was brought to the police for hooliganism and fighting, but he had no criminal record or prison sentences. In addition to running a big business in the Cheboksary market, according to some sources, Konstantin owned city gas stations. He was part of the Chapaev gang, the most powerful in the city. Chuvilin became famous when he was killed in the early 2000s together with Alexandra Petrova (Miss Russia), whom he had been dating since the end of 1998.
Criminal business
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, which happened in December 1991, criminal groups began to form in democratic Russia, which were engaged in racketeering and other serious crimes. Konstantin Chuvilin was one of the representatives of the criminal world. He ran the criminal business of Cheboksary.
The criminals who controlled all big business and commerce in the 90s were sometimes associated with government and police forces.
Some believe that such organized groups of bandits were created spontaneously and chaotically. In reality, during the formation of a new capitalist order in the Russian Federation, criminality played a certain role. At that time, the privatization of state property was in full swing, and in a large redistribution, illegal representatives in the form of gangster groups were needed to fight for the legacy of Soviet industry.
The nineties were created and financed because they were necessary for people close to power. After the market was divided and everything stabilized, gradually “reputable businessmen” began to either go into legitimate business, or they were arrested and imprisoned, and some were liquidated as unnecessary.
Roman Chuvilina
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 never managed to meet true love. The capital's men seemed to her hypocritical and too calculating, at least she came across only such ones.
In Cheboksary, Petrova tried to fight off annoying suitors, once she even had to contact the police. Alexandra found stability in her relationship only with the appearance of 35-year-old Konstantin Chuvilin in her life, whom no one dared to cross.
Petrova had received signs of attention from this influential authority before; 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 townspeople were surprised by 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 with a trail of notoriety. Friends and relatives who knew Alexandra well said that she would not date 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 affection, and also provided assistance to her mother and sister in material and everyday matters.
Modeling business and crime
Usually the lovers of crime bosses, and simply bandits of the nineties, were various kinds of “misses” of something. Simply put, beauties with long legs who were hungry for money. We won’t say, maybe there was a place for true love there. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the criminal business figures themselves. Sometimes and at the same time with their other halves. The Cheboksary beauty is an example of this. Her love relationship with Konstantin Chuvilin, a crime boss and wealthy businessman, led to a tragic ending.
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 competition, was killed.
Queen of beauty
The list of the most beautiful and famous women throughout the country of the 90s was supplemented by the beautiful Alexandra Petrova - “Miss Russia” 1996. She died at the age of 20 from a shot by a hired killer. Even if her tragic fate had not attracted the attention of Moscow journalists and had not become the subject of a large number of documentaries and programs, many people would still remember this beautiful woman. Petrova's beauty was completely natural.
Petrova's career
In 1996, the Miss Russia national competition was broadcast live on TV channels on December 13. 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 took part in a large number of television programs, various talk shows, presentations, and worked professionally as a fashion model. Over the course of two years, Petrova visited many countries and took part in three international beauty contests. She added a World Arts Championship medal in the “model” category to the title of “Miss Russia” and received an offer to work professionally in Hollywood, but she rejected these wonderful opportunities because she was not yet eighteen years old.
In July 1997, Alexandra Petrova was recognized as the most attractive at the international modeling competition “Miss Model International”, in which women from fifty-three countries took part. At the end of 1997, the “Person of the Year” competition was held in Chuvashia, Petrova’s homeland. The Chuvash beauty won here too.
In 1999, Petrova represented Russia at the world's main beauty contest, Miss Universe. The Cheboksary beauty received a lucrative offer from the famous Russian modeling agency Ford Model, but on the condition that she lose a little extra weight, study English and get a short haircut.
Murder of Chuvilin and Petrova
On Saturday evening, at about seven o'clock, Deputy General Director Radik Akhmetov, 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 and went up to the third floor, where they saw a masked man 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 escape, 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 and was seriously wounded. The criminal, without haste, went out into the street and disappeared.
Consequence
Within fifteen minutes, police officers called by the residents of the house arrived at the crime scene. However, the killer was never caught. This crime has been unsolved for seventeen years. According to eyewitnesses, the criminal left in a red car; some witnesses said it was a jeep, while others said it was an ordinary Lada. A child playing in the yard told investigators that a suspicious car appeared at the house as early as one o'clock in the afternoon, which may indicate that the murder was carefully prepared and planned in advance.
Chuvilin's mortally wounded girl was immediately hospitalized in the city hospital, however, despite all the doctors' actions, Alexandra Petrova died from severe blood loss. A killer hired by her fiancé's competitors came to "deal" with the crime boss and his friend, and Petrova turned out to be an unwanted witness. The brutal murder of the former Russian podium queen became the topic of news on central television channels, including the Vremya program.
Possible version of murder
As a result of the dispute over the division of spheres of influence, a conflict arose. Presumably, a rival criminal group ordered Chuvilin or Akhmetov. Most likely, business in the Cheboksary city market was the main subject of the conflict. According to the investigative team, one of the business competitors of Chuvilin and Akhmetov 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 was, in fact, accidentally killed in a criminal showdown between two criminal gangs. A representative of the Chapaev group, according to the police, was Chuvilin’s deceased friend, Radik Akhmetov, the owner of the main city bazaar. Investigative authorities believe that this contracted brutal triple murder is connected specifically with commercial activity.
Petrova's tragic death before her twentieth birthday
Alexandra's life was cut short in 2000. The girl was hit by a ricochet bullet, but died on the way to the hospital. This day was her twentieth birthday, which she wanted to celebrate at home in a narrow circle of friends and family. 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 is that Alexandra’s mother predicted the tragic death of her daughter and was very afraid for her. She later said in an interview that she knew this would happen. Mother read fortunes by hand and was considered a palm reader. In Sasha’s palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of intellect by the age of twenty, and at the intersection there was a dot. Hit to the head at 20 years old. True, she didn’t tell her anything. This is a huge tragedy for everyone. Thus the life of the first beauty of Chuvashia was cut short.
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 Petrov with kind words, because the girl died very young, without having time to live. Who could have predicted that in Russia beauty could be deadly dangerous?
Charming Monica was crowned the most beautiful woman in Venezuela in 2004, and in 2005 she represented the country at the Miss Universe beauty pageant. By that time, the beauty was divorced, but maintained a close relationship with Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old British man who was the father of her 5-year-old daughter. The couple moved to the United States, but regularly came to Venezuela for holidays and vacations. This happened on New Year's holidays in 2014. Their car ran over something sharp and two tires burst at once. The incident itself did not result in injuries; the family called the police and waited for help. Unfortunately, local robbers got to the scene earlier. An expensive car on the side of the road attracted their attention, and they shot Monica and Thomas. Their daughter miraculously survived. The police arrived literally a few minutes later and arrested the killers, but this was little consolation. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called the tragedy “the loss of the decade” and personally supervised the investigation.
2. Maria Jose Alvarado, “Miss Honduras 2014”
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19-year-old Maria Jose Alvarado celebrated the birthday of her sister Sofia's boyfriend, after which neither of them returned home. The missing person was reported by the birthday boy, Plutarco Ruiz, who provided all possible assistance to the investigation and supported the grief-stricken parents when they filled out papers about the disappearance of their daughters at the police station. However, the young man’s interest in the search alerted the police; Ruiz was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, but he suddenly gave evidence in which he admitted to the double murder. The girls' bodies were found buried on the river bank. Ruiz said that at the festival he had a serious quarrel with Sofia, because at the party, 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 had witnessed the murder. Maria tried to run away, but the killer caught up with her and shot her on the spot. A tragic coincidence: at the moment when Ruiz was burying the bodies of the victims, Maria was just about to fly to London to participate in the Miss World competition. As a sign of respect for the family of the victims, Honduras refused to replace Maria and skipped the competition.
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3. Agnieszka Kotlarska, “Miss International 1991”
Back in 1990, when Agnieszka was recognized as the most beautiful girl in Poland, a certain Jerzy appeared in her life, a secret admirer and stalker 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 the stalker, not suspecting that six years later he would take her life. The turning point was Agnieszka's marriage. In court, Jerzy said that by doing so, “she ruined 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, as the family headed to their car, Jerzy jumped out of ambush with a huge knife and rushed at Agnieszka's husband, Jaroslaw. He wounded the man in the leg. Agnieszka rushed to help her husband, but the killer, enraged by the failure, turned 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, and he was sentenced to 14 years for murder.
4. Alexandra Petrova, “Miss Russia - 1996”
Alexandra's life was cut short in 2000. The girl was accidentally shot dead in a gang fight between two criminal groups. Since the mid-90s, Alexandra has been in a relationship with crime boss Konstantin Chuvilin, who was the deputy director of the market. As a result of the redistribution of spheres of influence, a conflict arose between him and a rival criminal group, and Chuvilin, as they say, was “ordered.” The killer decided to fulfill the order at the moment when Alexandra and her friend were together. The girl was wounded by a ricochet, but died on the way to the hospital.
5. Svetlana Kotova, “Miss Russia - 1996”
No, this is not a mistake. Both national beauty pageant winners were killed. But in the case of Svetlana, everything looks much more sinister. After participating in the competition, Svetlana linked her fate with the legendary killer Alexander Solonik. For the New Year holidays, he invited her to his villa in Greece. Svetlana was fascinated: a huge garden with sculptures and fountains, the highest level of service. A day before her death, she called her mother and said that she had found herself in real heaven. These words turned out to be prophetic: the next day armed people burst into the villa (later it turned out that the Orekhovskaya criminal group settled scores with Solonik). On February 2, 1997, the body of the strangled bandit was discovered. The investigation found the suitcase with the remains of 22-year-old Sveta only three months later: the killers dismembered the victim’s body and took it to the forest.
6. Laina Keza, Miss Africa 2010
The 29-year-old black model, winner of the Miss Africa title, was stabbed to death in August 2013. The culprit of the tragedy was 38-year-old club promoter David Kikawa, the father of a 3-year-old daughter of a model and her partner. A few days before the murder, Laina finally broke up with David, saying that he had tormented her with jealousy and scandals. The couple's neighbors confirmed that David was constantly causing scenes, and insults and screams were heard from the house. Early in the morning, it was the neighbors who called the police, saying that something terrible was happening in the house, loud screams suddenly stopped and they suspected something terrible. The suspicions were justified: the arriving squad found David with a knife in his hand at the threshold of the bathroom. Laina's body was lying in the bathtub.
7. Melody Gershbach, Miss International 2009
Just a year after receiving the crown, Filipino beauty Melody tragically died in a traffic accident. On August 21, 2010, a passenger bus crashed into the girl’s minivan at full speed. The driver immediately surrendered to the local police; according to him, the vehicle was out of control due to a technical malfunction. Melody was only 24 years old.
8. Genesis Carmona, Miss Tourism 2013, Venezuela
Just a month after the shocking murder of Monica Spear, another Venezuelan beauty became the victim. Genesis Carmona took part in a street rally for the resignation of Nicolas Maduro and his government. Carmona was outraged by the high crime rate and low standard of living, and she joined student protesters on the streets of Valencia. Suddenly a shot rang out and the girl fell: a bullet hit her in the head. She was quickly taken to the hospital, and the city was gripped by riots, which killed several more people. However, it is still unknown who shot the beauty queen: the authorities insist that the shot was fired by the opposition, and the latter blame the police.
9. Michaela McAreavey, Irish beauty queen
In January 2011, Michaela married John McAreavey and went with him on a honeymoon to Mauritius. The couple had a great time, took souvenir photos, went on excursions and enjoyed life. On the fateful day, the newlyweds had dinner at the restaurant of the Legend Hotel (later renamed), where they lived, and in the middle of the meal, Michaela needed something in the room. When she got up, she found two hotel employees in the room, who allegedly entered the room for the purpose of robbery. Frightened, they dragged Michaela into the bathroom and strangled her, as the investigation suggests. However, it was not possible to collect enough evidence, and the jury acquitted both hotel employees.
10. Leslie Mazzara, Miss South Carolina
In 2004, three friends - Leslie Mazzara, Adriana Insogna and Lauren Mianza - celebrated Halloween. Together with local children, they went around houses, begging for candy, singing songs and inventing pranks. All three went to bed quite late and slept soundly. Lauren woke up from strange sounds: she realized that there was a burglar in the house, and slipped out the back door, grabbing her phone. Having called the police, the girl did not dare to return to the house, which saved her life. The patrol arrived and found Leslie and Adriana dead. The investigation stalled as DNA samples taken from 218 suspects failed to identify the perpetrator, and even a $100,000 reward yielded no results. Surprisingly, the culprit was identified by... Lauren. Once again reviewing photographs from the crime scene, she noticed a detail that experienced detectives had missed: a cigarette butt from a rather rare cigarette brand. These were the cigarettes that Adriana’s friend’s fiance smoked. Eric Kopple was arrested, DNA testing confirmed the samples were a match, but despite the obviousness of the evidence, he continued to insist that he was so drunk that night that he didn’t remember anything at all. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, but the motive for which he killed two girls remained unsolved.