Miami police found a dead and burned “beyond recognition” body in a trash bin last Sunday and has identified the body just recently to be Paula Sladewski, a 26-year-old who once modeled for Playboy.
Police are asking for the public’s help to put her killer behind bars. Whoever the murderer is, police said, they are nothing short of a “monster.”
“It’s so horrific. They’d have to be a monster. It’s a dastardly act,” North Miami police spokesman Lt. Neal Cuevas told CNN. “It’s the most heinous thing that a person can do to another person.”
Sladewski’s body was found Sunday night after firefighters extinguished flames coming from a large trash bin near a propane business.
When they put out the fire, they saw a body. But there was barely any way to identify it.
“It was just total, total, disfigurement,” Cuevas told CNN. “You couldn’t even tell that it was a woman or a man or even what race.”
Cuevas, who was in the area when the call came in, said the trash bin and body were still smoldering when he arrived. Police were able to identify the body through dental records late Tuesday night, he said.
Police are trying to figure out how a model from Michigan, who appeared in a 2003 Playboy video, ended up burned beyond recognition inside the trash bin — and who put her there.
