Missing four days in Russia, the American is dead

Russian news agency, RIA, said that the woman, identified as Catherine Serrow, was studying law at a university in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 420 miles [420 km] east of Moscow, since she moved there from California three years ago.

Russia's Detective Commission said it has opened a criminal investigation case for the disappearance of a foreign citizen and that a man in his 40s with a criminal record has been arrested for her death, writes Reuters.

The commission's statement says that the victim had left home about 6 p.m. on the evening of June 15th and had been put in a car. Its location was unknown from that day.