Police told Derekos that Karina had been killed by “violent death”. However, because the story was “so horrible”, the authorities hid information from them, even though they were informed that he had been tortured. They also advised Ms Dereko not to see pictures of her daughter’s remains. “We believe he may have been raped,” Dereko added. “We have not seen the lower part of her body, only the upper part, but what we have seen at the top, we can only imagine what may be in the rest of her body.” The full details of how their child was killed are not known. They were told the address where her body was found, some distance from the apartment where she lived. They know that she was tortured and that she had “tears” and “wounds” on her body. The photos seen by The Telegraph showed that the skin on her hands was burnt and the bones were visible, although the silver rings she wore on her fingers were still there. All of her nails, bar one, which was pink, had been torn from her fingers. “It was like trying to fight,” said her father. Karina was also found with a tourniquet around her leg, where she had tried to stop the bleeding from a gunshot wound found in her legs and arms.
