In the Arizona desert, more than 270 miles of a closed Mennonite community, found the body missing from the community girls.
According to investigators, 27-year-old Sasha Krause was last seen 18 January at her Mennonite churches in Farmington (new Mexico). Her car was parked.
Body fitting her description was found on Friday near the National monument sunset crater (Sunset Crater National Monument) at Flagstaff (Arizona). Fingerprints taken at the scene were compared with data from driver’s license Krause of the Texas Department of motor vehicles to confirm her identity.
Shane Ferrari, the Sheriff of San Juan in new Mexico, said that the case was transferred to criminal investigation as authorities try to establish and detain the person responsible for «kidnapping and murder» Sasha Krause.
He also said that the disappearance of Krause from the closed Mennonite community suspicious from the start.
«They live in seclusion, said Ferrari FOX10 Phoenix. – We infrequently they happen, there is always quiet, so it seemed to us very strange that they have lost someone.»
Forensic examination should determine the cause of death of Sasha Krause. The investigation is ongoing.
«Once we know the cause from a medical expert, it will lead us forward,» — said at a press conference, a representative of the Sheriff Coconino County in Arizona John Paxton.
Mennonites — one of the Protestant denominations, called by the name of the founder, Menno Simons (1496-1561), was of Dutch origin. Mennonite appeared in 1530-ies in the course of the reformation movements in the Netherlands. The basis of the doctrine of the Mennonites on the ideas of non-use of force and nepreryvnosti: the Mennonites because of their religious beliefs refuse to take up arms. Principled pacifism of the Mennonites, clashed with the interests of the States in which they resided, gave rise to a specific form of passive protest: every time the state government tried to force the Mennonites to serve in the army, they chose to mass emigration.
