"The friend who wooed her bought a knife and bottles of flammable material":
The police solved the murder case of the late Yelena Gerenberg, who was stabbed to death about a month ago in Rehovot, and this morning (Thursday) the investigators of the Central District Court submitted to the Court of Appeals with the conclusion of the accelerated investigation, a prosecutor's statement against the suspect , her friend Jason Blaise, and a request to continue his detention until the end of the proceedings. As you may recall, according to the claims of acquaintances, Blaise was interested in a romantic relationship with Granberg, but she rejected his advances.
The murder of Yelena Gerenberg near Rehovot is solved // Photo: Police spokespersons
About a month ago, Rehovot police officers began operational searches and isolation of a crime scene, together with the forensic investigators of the Shefala area, upon receiving a report on August 25 in the early morning, regarding an unknown woman lying on a dirt road near the city, lifeless.
At the end of an assessment of the situation in the field conducted by the Central Police Department - Superintendent Avi Biton, the investigation was assigned to the Central Police Department, in accordance with the district investigative strategy and in view of the complexity of the case, including the lack of initial identification of the deceased, circumstances or background.
The detention was extended until Sunday.
Jason Blaze at the court hearing (archive), photo: Efrat Fursher
In the meantime, a report submitted that morning to the police about a missing 25-year-old woman who had not yet returned to her home in Israel from last night, advanced the investigation and within a few hours led to the identification of the deceased and the formation of suspicion against a resident of Bat Yam, who, according to the report, had prior acquaintance with the deceased and had met her near the time of her disappearance With
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arrest of the suspect at his home in Bat Yam, with blood-stained clothes on his body and similar findings in his car, the suspect was rushed to the hospital due to a critical health condition and after a medical examination was found fit for investigation and criminal proceedings and provided several versions in his investigations.
As the rigorous investigation developed, the investigators were able to build a professional timeline that strengthened the suspicions of pre-planned murder, including the disclosure of the store where the suspect had purchased a knife two days before the murder that he used to stab her. The murder several bottles of flammable material, when these were found at the scene, and according to the suspicion, he used them to pour the gasoline on her clothes, in the place where her body was found.
In his investigation, Blaise claimed that he committed the act spontaneously and after Greenberg, who collected it from the Weizmann Institute's library, scolded him.
But the investigators rejected his version after gathering evidence proving, as mentioned, that he had planned the event ahead of time and even prepared a letter in which he asked for forgiveness for his actions and gave instructions on where to bury him.
As mentioned, all the findings and evidence collected by the investigators of the Merkaz District Attorney's Office in the case led to the deciphering of the murder and today, in coordination with the Merkaz District Attorney's Office, the police submitted to the High Court of Appeals a prosecutor's statement against the suspect - Jason Blaze and a request to continue his detention until the end of the proceedings, when in the coming days He was indicted on suspicion of his involvement in the murder, and his detention was extended until Sunday.
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