A 37-year-old woman was found dead in a forest area near the Pleven district of “Storgozia“, reported “Trud news”, citing relatives of the deceased who insist on transparency in the case.
Zhenya Ivanova leaves behind four children - aged 16, 10, 3 and a baby aged 1 and a half.
On April 5, shortly before 5:00 p.m., a call was received on 112 about a woman's lifeless body found in a forest. Forensic experts are conducting an examination, according to which no traces of violence were found on the body. Zhenya Ivanova, 37 years old from Pleven, has been identified, and the case has been taken over by the District Prosecutor's Office in the city. Pre-trial proceedings have been initiated.
„She was a very good woman and a devoted mother. Her husband claims that a few days before her death she shared that she had thoughts of suicide because she could not mentally withstand the pressure. Her husband Vardan Khachatryan has problems with gambling and drugs. Now he realizes his mistake, but it is too late. However, we are also considering the version that she was murdered, and not that she ended her life herself. There are many mysteries surrounding her death“, said Venelin Georgiev, a family friend of the deceased and her husband.
„The police are not revealing who found the body, we have no information about the person who reported the 112 signal. Other things also raise doubts. The investigators told her husband that she hanged herself on a mobile phone charging cable. The circumference of a human neck is at least 20 centimeters, and a charger is 70-80 centimeters, how can a person hang herself on a charger? Vardan saw her in the morgue and claims that the scars on her neck are thicker than the marks a charger can leave“, noted Georgiev.
According to him, another unofficial version is circulating in Pleven, which is spread by word of mouth. The day before she disappeared, Zhenya was tense, talking on the phone for a long time, and a dark jeep was driving around the family home.
"It could be just a coincidence or a figment of someone's imagination. The truth is that we are all in shock from the news of her death. If she committed suicide - she simply could not stand the problems in the family. Vardan is a good person, but he succumbed to his vices. People with a more unstable psyche cannot stand today's life. I tell you this as someone who struggled with the same addictions for a long time. In recent years, nearly a hundred people I know from the region have died because of drugs," commented Georgiev.
"We are puzzled why this case was not made public. They find the body of a young woman and mother of four children in a forest, and the institutions are silent. No information about Zhenya has been reported anywhere. We want to know officially what the cause of her death is," commented Vesi Shopova, the woman's friend.
The police commented that they do not have a practice of reporting suicides in their bulletin.