RED LAKE MURDERS
Cops fear YouTuber Sarah Funk may have unknowingly filmed floating suitcase with Cyprus serial killer victim stuffed inside
Four of a monster's seven victims have been found at picturesque Mitsero Red Lake in Cyprus
A YOUTUBER may have unknowingly filmed what might be the body of a murder victim stuffed in a suitcase for a travel video, cops fear.
New York-based vlogger Sarah Funk visited the Mitsero Red Lake in Cyprus in June 2017 - a toxic, acidic body of water tinted red from now-abandoned British mining operations.
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After posting a photo of the view on her Instagram, many began speculating that the suitcase in the picture could be connected to a serial murder case nearly two years after the killings took place.
The man confessed to murdering seven people just days ago.
He told law enforcement officials he dumped some of his victims' bodies in suitcases into a lake that's become a destination for travel influencers.
FOUR BODIES FOUND
Funk's partner, Luis Yanes, can be heard joking in a YouTube video, saying: "This is what murder episodes are made of."
They climbed over barbed wire and scrambled down a steep hill to get to the lake.
Funk said: "This feels like death, you know what I mean?
"I just feel death in the air, it's so nice."
This week, cops have found the remains of a woman in a suitcase at the bottom of the same lake Funk took her picture of.
The fourth body was found on Sunday in a suitcase in a man-made like in the village of Mitsero, 20 miles west of the capital, Nicosia.
Greek-Cypriot army officer Nicos Metaxas has confessed to killing seven women and girls, all of foreign descent.
DETAINED LAST WEEK
Police started searching the area after the 35-year-old man told investigators he had put three of his victims into suitcases and thrown them in the toxic red lake.
Cops said the body was in an advanced stage of decomposition when it was found.
Metaxas was detained last week and has been helping police locate the bodies.
If his claims are correct, he would be responsible for the worst crime committed against Cypriot women in living memory.
He was arrested after officials found the body of Marry Rose Tiburcio, 38, from the Philippines, in an abandoned mineshaft on April 14.
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She and her six-year-old daughter had been missing since May last year.
The girl is yet to be found and authorities believe she was also slain by the suspect.
The country has 80 unsolved missing person cases, going back to 1990.
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