Lawyer: Murdered Bnei Brak woman may have been pregnant
Prime suspect's attorney indicates third party involved; mother, 2 daughters arrested in murder case.
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The defense attorney of the prime suspect in the Bnei Brak murder of a young woman claimed Friday morning that the deceased might have been pregnant.
During a hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, the attorney indicated that a third party would therefore be the prime suspect, not his client.
The court ruled that the Abu Kabir Forensics Institute in Tel Aviv conduct a post-mortem in the presence of an observer appointed by the Public Defender's Office.
The court also extended the 25-year-old prime suspect's custody by 11 days and sent her for psychiatric evaluation.
On Thursday, a Jerusalem mother and her two daughters were arrested in the capital in connection with the murder of a 24-year-old woman, who was found with a knife in her throat in Bnei Brak, on the city's Jerusalem Street.
Early Thursday morning, police received an alert from a female caller who said, "I killed someone in the Ramat Gan area," before hanging up. Officers searched the area but found nothing.
A short time later, the family of the deceased called police, saying they were concerned for her life. Police began combing Bnei Barak, and in one of the buildings, officers discovered a woman with stab wounds, lying in a pool of blood.
