Missing Woman Found Raped And Murdered After Distress Call To Friend

In the former Soviet country, Georgia, authorities had launched a search for an Australian woman after she was reported missing. The woman had reportedly made an alarming call to a friend in California while being attacked.

After a day of her disappearance, 31-year-old Shanae Brooke’s body was discovered in a park. It is believed that she had been sexually assaulted and murdered. Police have launched an investigation and are looking for suspects.

On Friday, July 30 afternoon, the woman from Melbourne, Australia had gone for a hike alone. She had been hiking on the 2,526ft Mount Mtatsminda in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi. Sometime in the afternoon one of her friends in California received the last sign of the victim being alive.

According to the Daily Star, the friend heard Brooke’s distressed voice telling someone to let her go or get off of her. The call got disconnected without the woman saying anything further. When her friend tried calling her back the woman did not answer the phone. This worried the friend. They got in touch with the woman’s friends based in Georgia.

Some of the woman’s friends alerted the police. In a since-deleted post, one of Brooke’s friends reached out to the Facebook group “Expats in Tbilisi” for any information. The police launched a search for the missing woman. They tracked her phone to the Mtatsminda area but were unable to find its exact location, Agenda reported.

Brooke’s friends also organized a search party to join the police on Saturday, July 31. The joint search by the volunteers and the police came to an end when the missing woman’s body was discovered in the park. Her body was found in a gorge under a Ferris wheel, hidden under tree branches.

The woman’s body was removed and sent for post mortem examination. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia launched a murder investigation after the body was discovered. While post mortem reports are being awaited, it is believed that the woman had been raped.

The victim had been living in Georgia where she worked as an English teacher. She had been residing in the city of Batumi on the Black Sea coast. Just a day before going missing she had traveled to the country’s capital.

Police questioned Brooke’s friends and colleagues as well as visitors to the park. Some social media users have also reached out to the victim’s friends with information that could help with the investigation.