An architect who left her career as an architect to practise black magic has been found dead with her one-year-old daughter in an apparent murder-suicide. The horrifying killing, which took place in Russia, is believed to have been a ‘ritual killing’.
Elizaveta Tsarevskaya, 32, was found naked with her child and a slain cat in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don. At the disturbing scene, police found pictures of Tsarevskaya’s former lover with pierced eyes and smeared with blood.
“After opening the apartment, even hardened law enforcement officers were shocked,” a police source said.
According to reports, “bloody things, objects of magic ritual were scattered everywhere.” The woman’s body was on top of her dead daughter and the mother was naked.
Local media have reported the woman as being a practising “witch” – all victims had stab wounds, believed to have been inflicted by Tsarevskaya in the apparent murder-suicide ritual slaying. After stabbing her baby daughter and cat, the mother is believed to have taken her own life in a form of demonic occult sacrifice.
Media reported that the woman had quit her high-flying architecture career when she became obsessed with the occult and became pregnant by a lover named Anton, who was also involved in black magic. Her former lover’s photo was found beside her body.
Tsarevskaya’s husband Artur Rusin, 26, said she had graduated with top honours as a talented architecture student, and was also a gifted clothes designer. However, she became obsessed with the occult and fixated with trying to communicate with the dead.
When her husband travelled for work, she fell pregnant by her lover Anton and gave birth to her lover’s child who her husband initially raised as his own, according to reports.
The doors of her apartment, where the bodies were found, were locked from the inside according to law enforcement who eventually managed to force their way in, stumbling across the grim scene.
Her lover, who is wanted by authorities, has not been found as the investigation continues.
The shocking killing comes as similar incidents have been reported worldwide. African media recently reported that witch killings are continuing unabated in rural South Africa. Press reports point to about 70 violent incidents linked to the occult since 2000 in the region, with about 100 people murdered, often gruesomely.