She was raped and murdered, and her friend heard it all on her cell phone

A 31-year-old Australian teacher was raped and murdered while crossing a ascend of Georgia, in Eastern Europe, and her last terrifying moments were overheard by a friend she was talking to on her cell phone.

“Let go of my hands. Please let me go okay let me go” were the last words of Shanae Brooke Edwards, 31, according to a friend she was chatting with. on the phone.

The young teacher, who had been teaching English in the former Soviet Republic for two years, was walking alone last Friday on Mount Mtatsminda, a tourist spot overlooking the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, when she was ambushed and assaulted sexually. Whether this was one or more delinquents is still unknown. The truth is that the corpse of Women He was found the next day.

The 31-year-old was assaulted while walking through a bush.

The 31-year-old was assaulted while walking through a bush.

On Friday afternoon, user Natalia Karikh posted on a Facebook group that she heard “a woman screaming on the trails below Mtatsminda Park”. Another young woman wrote on the same site claiming to witness a strange view of the mountain around the same time Edwards went missing: she recounted seeing a man having ‘aggressive’ sex with a woman , about 50 meters away, as she and her partner walked. Netizens were quick to urge witnesses to report the incident to the police, while several reported separate incidents of harassment by one or more men in the same area previously.

In this way, the local security force began an investigation to find the oceanic. First, thanks to security cameras, it was confirmed that the victim left his apartment at 3:35 p.m. on Friday with his hair tied up, dressed in black hiking clothing and with a green bag. Then her phone was located at Mtatsminda Park. Although initial searches failed, Edwards’ body was found near a mountain trail on Saturday as part of an operation that included agents, rescue dogs, volunteers and friends of her.

Georgia’s interior ministry said it was investigating the murder and considers it a premeditated murder. Portfolio manager Vakhtang Gomelauri told local media that the alleged perpetrator was a Georgian citizen, although he had not yet been identified and they were trying to locate him. “We have some information but I cannot speak about it because of the interest of the investigation. The ministry and the officials are doing everything possible to find the killer”, commented the minister and confirmed that some women had already reported to have been persecuted there. .

Meanwhile, on social media, friends and family of the victim paid tribute to him. Thus, they recalled that Shanaea had volunteered with the homeless in Melbourne, a site she left in 2016 to travel around the world, and was an animal lover.