KEY POINTS

  • Dmitry Korovin confessed to murdering his girlfriend, Gretta Vedler, and dumping her body in a car boot
  • Vidler wrote on social media that Vladimir Putin had "psychopathy," among other things, before her death
  • Her death was believed to be the result of an issue over money and not her opinions about Putin

A 23-year-old man in Russia has confessed to killing his girlfriend, a model who once claimed Russian President Vladimir Putin had "psychopathy.”

Dmitry Korovin admitted to strangling 23-year-old Gretta Vedler to death before driving her 300 miles to Russia's Lipetsk region and abandoning her body in the boot of a car, The Daily Star reported.

He kept posting to Vedler's social media pages to maintain the illusion that she was still alive, added the outlet.

Korovin's act got exposed after a friend named Evgeniy Foster, a blogger from the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, grew suspicious and asked another friend in Moscow to file a missing person case.

Vedler's corpse was found stuffed in a suitcase a year after she went missing.

The Investigative Committee of Russia, the country's main federal investigating agency, has released a video where Korovin confessed and demonstrated how he killed Vedler.

Before her murder and disappearance, Vedler penned social media posts about Russia's head of state.

"I can only assume, in my opinion, a clear psychopathy or sociopathy is seen in [Putin]," she wrote.

The model claimed that it was not surprising for the Russian president to have left law school and joined the nation's Committee for State Security, more popularly known as the KGB since he "went through a lot of humiliation in childhood [and] could not stand up for himself due to his [slight] physical form."

People like Putin "are timid and fearful from childhood, afraid of noise and darkness, strangers, so traits such as caution, restraint, and lack of communication are developed early in their character," Vedler wrote.

"For psychopaths, it is important to constantly experience a sense of fullness and sharpness of life, so they love risk, intense experiences, intense communication, intense activity — an intense and dynamic life," she told her followers.

"Maybe he really wants to enhance the integrity of Russia and sincerely wishes [for the good of Russians]. But can he really do anything? I think you know the answer to this question yourself," Vedler added.

Despite the timing of her January 2021 posts and later disappearance, Vedler's death was believed to be the result of an issue regarding money and not her thoughts on the current Russian regime.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has faced widespread criticism for invading Ukraine, is a frustrated and dangerous leader who feels aggrieved over the West, US intelligence officials say
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has faced widespread criticism for invading Ukraine, is a frustrated and dangerous leader who feels aggrieved over the West, US intelligence officials say SPUTNIK via AFP / Sergei GUNEYEV