An Indian origin dentist in Sydney, who had been missing since Sunday, was found stabbed to death Tuesday night, police said.
Police found the body of Dr Preethi Reddy (32), in a suitcase in her car. The body had multiple stab wounds. She worked at Glenbrook Dental Surgery in the Blue Mountains, about 70km west of Sydney.
Police said that Preethi had stayed at a hotel on Market Street in Sydney’s CBD Sunday with her ex-boyfriend before her death. Her boyfriend was also mysterious killed in a head-on collision with a truck on the New England Highway, south of Tamworth Monday night.
ABC identified Preethi’s ex-boyfriend as Harsh Narde. The head-on collision, around 340 kilometres from where Preethi’s body was found, is believed to have been deliberate.
CCTV footage showed Preethi at a McDonald’s inside the Strand Arcade in Sydney’s CBD about 2:15 am Sunday. She can be seen wearing a long-sleeve black shirt, black pants and black ballet flats.
Her sister, Nithya Reddy, posted on Facebook that she had previously been located at Hotel Urban in Greenwich on Sydney’s lower north shore. A Facebook page set up to help find Dr Preethi Reddy said it was “highly out of character for Preethi to not contact family and loved ones”.
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