08/15/2005 | Steve Seitz

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california police announced aug. 5 that a corpse found in the back of a pickup truck in a los angeles neighborhood belongs to iryna singerman, a 21-year old ukrainian citizen.

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l.a. police began investigating singerman’s disappearance on july 26 after being notified that a man had thrown two bags of bloody towels, a baseball bat and documents into a trash bin.

police found singerman’s decomposing body in the bed of a truck belonging to her 59-year-old millionaire boyfriend, brian joseph cullen. lapd detectives found more blood and signs of a struggle when they searched cullen’s home the next day.

the husband of the victim, 50-year-old ronald singerman, claims to have had no knowledge of his wife’s affair.

singerman said she was a model who would frequently be gone for days at a time, according to lapd detective rick swanston, who said iryna drove a gold 2005 mercedes benz registered to both her and her husband.

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singerman, an accountant, represents himself on the internet as a summa cum laude accounting graduate of california state university with an iq of 148. he attributes his success to his involvement with scientology, a controversial non-profit religious organization.
from 2002-2003, singerman meticulously chronicled the progress of his fiance visa application in discussion forums hosted by internet sites specializing in introducing english-speaking men to russian and ukrainian women.

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in an earlier entry on russian women guide (www.rwguide.com), singerman expresses gratitude to michael muinov, a lawyer specializing in background checks, for vetting his would-be bride.
“your report gives me confidence in continuing to develop my relationship with i. l.,” he wrote, including his full name, home and work telephone numbers, and company web site address.

high-profile nightmares

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iryna singerman’s bizarre death follows the gruesome murder in october 2003 of mykolaiv native alla chevanov, whose mail-order marriage ended abruptly when her husband slit her throat in a parking lot in new jersey.

in another fiasco, kyiv-native nataliya derkach sued an international matchmaking service in virginia for failing to tell her about a provision in the immigration law protecting her from deportation if she left her abusive american husband. the jury also held the marriage agency liable for assuring derkach that her american husband had been carefully screened.