As police hunt for clues in the murder of a model whose burned body was found this week in Miami, her sister says she thinks the murder was random — not the work of a boyfriend or anyone else Paula Sladewski knew.
"I think someone wanted to rape her and then burned the evidence," the sister, Kelly Farris, told the Detroit Free Press. "Anyone who did this would be covered in scratches. My sister was a fighter."
North Miami police detectives have examined two surveillance videos that may show the California woman's last moments alive after leaving a Miami club Sunday, including one video produced by a lawyer for Sladewski's boyfriend, Kevin Klym. The lawyer says it shows Sladewski leaving the club with another man, but another video provided by the club seems to show her leaving alone.
In each video, the woman is hard to identify, police say, and neither video may help determine who killed Sladewski. Her badly burned body was found Sunday evening in a Dumpster in Miami, and results of an autopsy are pending.