Only a few days apart, the bodies of two female models were discovered in their downtown Los Angeles condominiums.
According to KTLA, the Los Angeles Police Department claimed to have located Maleesa Mooney, a 31-year-old model and real estate agent, on September 12 at her opulent apartment.
According to reports, Mooney, the famous Guyanese pop artist Jourdin Pauline’s sister, had only recently moved into the property.
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Police told KTLA that they were looking into the possibility of a homicide in this case.
Days later, according to the outlet, authorities said that another model had been discovered dead in her residence.
Following a similar abrupt communication breakdown, family found the second model, 32-year-old Nichole “Nikki” Coats, on September 10.
According to Coats’s family, they last heard from her on September 8 regarding a date.
It is said that foul play is suspected.
The two deaths took place on a few miles apart from one another, it has not yet been determined whether the two cases are connected.
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