They find a corpse in a freezer 18 years after the disappearance of a young woman "Diario La Capitale de Mar del Plata

Eighteen years ago, a Croatian student disappeared and the mystery about where she stood seems to have been elucidated after the discovery, by the police on Sunday, of a body in the home freezer of the victim's sister, the press reported.

Jasmina Dominic was 23 years old when she disappeared in 2000. Born in Mala Subotica, a town in northern Croatia, she was studying in Zagreb.

The family reported the disappearance to the police five years later, according to the newspaper Vecernji List.

Saturday night, a 45-year-old woman was arrested in Mala Subotica as part of the investigation, told AFP a spokesman for the regional police, Nenad Risak.

"We badume that the body found in the freezer is that of a young woman born in 1977 and whose disappearance was reported on August 16, 2005," said the spokesman.

Police favor the trail of a murder. An autopsy will be performed to have more items, according to the same source.

The spokesman did not give details about the identity of the detained person. According to the local press, she would be the sister of the victim.

According to the regional information web site eMedjimurje, the body was found in the house where the victim's sister lived with her husband and three children.

Jasmina Dominic's father, who died a few years ago, told the press in 2011 that his daughter had announced in 2000 that he would leave for a cruise and that he was also considering living in Paris.