Two teenage girls, including the victim’s adopted daughter, were accused of murder after a woman was found stabbed to death in a vacation rental in Utah almost two weeks ago, investigators.
The Washington City police department said that Abigael Paige Fanagan, 17, and Mihaela Gabriela Sorescu, 16, were accused of the murder of Andreea Mottram, 47. The police said that Flanagan is also called “Jay” and that Sorescu is also called “Bella”.
Investigators said Mottram had been found by house cleaners on March 23 in a rental property in Washington City, with more than a dozen injuries by stab in the upper body.
Washington County lawyer, Eric Clarke, said to Fox 13 Let out of it and Flanagan are charged in adulthood as a murder, as well as theft of cars, after alleging allegedly brought back the rented car from Mottram to California as a result of the crime.
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Utah authorities charged two teenage girls in the murder of a Californian woman who was found stabbed to death a few days before her birthday during a vacation rental. (Washington / GoFundme police department)
“Currently, it is likely to suspect that the victim has been stabbed to death by Jay and / or Bella and that the two are criminally responsible,” according to new court documents obtained by Fox 13.
Police said Motram had gone to Washington City from California and had stayed in rental for three days before retirement from his body.
Due to the fact that there is no sign of forced entry, the authorities initially appointed the two adolescents as “people of interest” and thought they were the last people to see Mottram vivante.
By painting in the rental house, the detectives located the phones in the toilet which, according to the officials, belonged to Sorescu and Flanagan, according to documents, as well as an ID inside a handbag.
The detectives said that the articles “seem to have been placed in the toilet and tried to be rinsed in order to hide evidence and / or delay apprehension,” said the report.
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The victim’s adopted daughter was identified as one of the teenage girls accused of murder in a Washington City rental house. (Kmyu)
Investigators also located several knives inside the house, including one in the sink which had been washed but which had “traces of blood”, according to court documents.
A pair of pants were also found at home, with blood on both legs and a “bloody imprint of a knife blade”, and belonged to Sorescu, due to the size of the pants, detectives wrote.
Sorescu is Mottram’s adoptive daughter, Fox 13 reported for the first time.
Mottram went to Utah with Flanagan, a few days before his death, to visit his daughter, who had been in a residential treatment center in Washington County for three years, according to court documents.
Flanagan was previously in an establishment but was recently withdrawn by his parents.
The father of Sorsucu told the police that he had found the newspaper of her daughter in which she had written “how much she hated her mother and had written that she wanted to kill her”, in November, according to court documents.
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The day before the discovery of his body, Mottram posted a selfie on his Facebook page, subtitled “It’s … almost 48 years.”
She also posted: “The problem is that you think you have time” “four days before her selfie.
“The apprehension of the two suspects is a crucial step in the investigation,” said Washington City police department. “However, the investigation team currently follows many aspects of the case.
Sorescu and Flanagan were detained in the Dixie region detention center in Washington County.
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Mottram labeled as a “social worker from the hospice, Romania living a Californian life and a mother in three special ways”, according to her About-me section on her Facebook page.
She was also co-founder of associations for helping people with disabilities and refugees in the United States and Romania, notably the American Romanian Coalition based in Chicago for human and equal rights, according to the organization’s Facebook page.
“It is with deep sadness that we mourn the loss of our beloved Andreea Mottram, a fierce defender, a compassion leader and a dear friend of so many people within our community,” wrote the group. “Like many of you, we are still in shock from this heartbreaking news. Andreea’s dedication to justice, equity and human rights was not only a mission – it was the very essence of who she was.”
Stepheny Price is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. It covers subjects, including disappeared, homicide, cases of national crime, illegal immigration, etc. History advice and ideas can be sent to Stepheny.price@fox.com
