http://presa.ge/new/index.php?m=crimes&AID=14066ტორონტოში აღმოჩენილი სასტიკად ნაწამები ქალის ცხედარი, შესაძლოა, ქართველ გოგონას ეკუთვნოდეს
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დღეს კანადის ყველა ტელეარხი ქართველ გოგონაზე საუბრობს, რომელიც ტორონტოში, 2009 წლის 14 ოქტომბერს გაუჩინარდა. კანადის პოლიციამ იანგის ხევში სასტიკად ნაწამები ქალის ცხედარი იპოვა, რომლის ხანდაზმულობაც, მარიამ მახნიაშვილის გაუჩინარებას ემთხვევა.
მახნიაშვილის დედა კომენტარს არ აკეთებს, მან პოლიციის თანამშრომლებს სთხოვა ცხედრის ტანსაცმელი აჩვენონ, რაზეც თანხმობა მიიღო. ზუსტ პასუხს, აღმოჩენილი ცხედარი არის თუ არა მარიამ მახნიაშვილის, დნმ-ის პასუხი დაადგენს, რომელიც ერთ კვირაში იქნება.
მახნიაშვილების ოჯახი კანადაში საცხოვრებლად 2008 წელს გადავიდა და ტორონტოში, ლტოლვილის სტატუსით ცხოვრობდა. 2009 წლის 14 სექტემბერს, მარიამ მახნიაშვილი უმცროს ძმასთან ერთად "ფორესთ ჰილის" სკოლაში მივიდა, ძმას უთხრა, რომ სკოლაში სხვა შესასვლელიდან შევიდოდა. ამის შემდეგ მახნიაშვილის კვალი იკარგება. დაკარგული გოგონას მშობლებმა ტორონტოში, ადგილობრივ მედიაში, ამ ფაქტთან დაკავშირებით, პრესკონფერენცია გამართეს. მახნიაშვილის ძებნა ადგილობრივმა პოლიციამ მაშინვე დაიწყო, თუმცა უშედეგოდ.
მოგვიანებით, გავრცელდა ინფორმაცია, რომ მარიამ მახნიაშვილი 14 ოქტომბერს, გაუჩინარების დღეს, "მაკდონალდსში", 50 წლის მამაკაცთან ერთად ნახეს. ასევე ვრცელდებოდა ინფორმაცია, რომ გოგონა ოკოტოკსში ნახეს, როდესაც ტურისტებს ინდიელების ტრადიციულ სუვენირებს სთავაზობდა.
მახნიაშვილის გაუჩინარების შემდეგ, პოლიციამ დააკავა მარიამის მამა, მას ბრალად ახალგაზრდის დაჭრა ედებოდა. მოგვიანებით კი იგი მეზობელს დაესხა თავს და მისი დაჭრაც სცადა. მარიამ მახნიაშილის დედა ამ ინციდენტებს მისი შვილის გაუჩინარებას უკავშირებდა.
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http://www.thestar.com/news/crime/article/...of-missing-girlMariam Makhniashvili: Sources confirm remains found last week are those of missing girl
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Mariam has been found.
On Friday, police confirmed that the decomposed body discovered last week is Mariam Makhniashvili, the 17-year-old girl who vanished without a trace more than two years ago and became the focus of a massive international search.
Ever since it was revealed on March 1 that a body had been found on the Don Valley Golf Course, there has been widespread speculation that the human remains could be Mariam. The coroner’s office confirmed these suspicions by positively identifying the body as the long-missing girl.
The news was officially revealed at a Friday press conference, marking a tragic end to the high-profile and excruciating search that lasted two and a half years and spanned international borders. It also partially answers the mystery that baffled seasoned investigators, tore a Toronto family apart, and captured the public’s imagination with its extraordinary circumstances and many bizarre twists.
Known as “Marika” to her family, Mariam was born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, on Oct. 27, 1991. Her parents are Lela Tabidze, a former journalist, and a philosophy lecturer named Vakhtang Makhniashvili.
Her parents moved to California in 2003, leaving Mariam and her younger brother George to be raised by relatives. In June 2009, the siblings moved to Toronto where they were reunited with their parents. The family spent the next few months getting reacquainted, making frequent excursions to nearby Earl Bales Park, a favourite spot for the Makhniashvilis.
On the morning of Sept. 14, 2009 — Mariam’s fifth day of Grade 11 at Forest Hill Collegiate — the 17-year-old girl put her books into her backpack, waved goodbye to her parents and took off for school with her brother. She and George parted ways outside the building; he entering through the back entrance, she heading toward the front.
And then, Mariam vanished.
A missing persons alert was issued the next day. By the end of the week, police had set up a command post outside the Makhniashvili home and scoured the area for clues. They failed to turn up any leads, however, and the search was upgraded to a Level 3 — the highest designation, reserved for cases of suspected foul play.
Over the coming days and weeks and months, dead-end tips and false sightings continued to pour in as police exhausted every resource and idea in their arsenal. Fields were combed, garbage bins were overturned and more than two dozen computers were seized from nearby libraries, with police hoping to find clues about Mariam’s online activities.
One hundred officers were assigned to the search, which included a canine unit, mounted police and an OPP helicopter that did aerial scans of nearby parks, including Earl Bales. Police canvassed 6,000 homes in the area and made direct appeals to thousands of students at nearby schools.
Search efforts also extended beyond borders, with police contacting Mariam’s friends in Georgia and using Crime Stoppers International, a first for Toronto police.
One month after Mariam’s disappearance, the lagging investigation was briefly reinvigorated by the first significant clue to emerge in the case. Her backpack was found near Yonge St. and Eglinton Ave. East, discovered by a curious passerby who rifled through the books and saw Mariam’s name.
The backpack yielded little information, however. Up until the recent discovery of Mariam’s body, it was the last time police would publicly announce any significant breakthroughs in the case.
In 2009, Det. Sgt. Dan Nealon said Mariam’s case had “all the earmarks of a mystery.”
“Typically speaking, there is always something to kick-start your investigation that gives you direction,” said the lead detective on Mariam’s case, who at the time was heading the core team of 10 investigators. “In this case, we have no direction.”
When she left her house that Monday morning in September, Mariam didn’t have any extra clothes, her passport or cash on hand. She was last seen in an area filled with students, parents and passersby, and yet nobody witnessed what happened to her. Her parents describe Mariam as a smart, happy girl with no reason to run away. The family is not politically engaged either, so it was doubtful the girl was kidnapped for political reasons.
Police were also hobbled by the fact they were looking for someone who had only been in Canada for three months, spoke little English and had no boyfriend or even friends.
But even as the case grew cold, Mariam’s name managed to stay in the headlines as her story evolved in unexpected directions.
Hopes flared briefly in December 2009 when several sightings were reported in Alberta, including one where someone matching Mariam’s description was spotted selling dreamcatchers near Calgary. Investigators speculated that Mariam could have joined a caravan of travelling teenagers, looking to raise money so they could return home to Europe. The theory failed to bear fruit.
In November 2010, it was feared that Mariam’s brother George had also gone missing. The 17-year-old soon turned up at home.
But throughout the ordeal, the actions of Mariam’s father, Vakhtang, have added the most troubling dimension to an already bizarre mystery. Police have said he is not a suspect in Mariam’s disappearance.
About a week after his daughter went missing, local media reported that Vakhtang Makhniashvili had recently been acquitted by a California court of conducting lewd sexual conduct in front of a daycare centre.
Makhniashvili has refused to discuss the incident, but according to court documents, he was charged in November 2008 after police received reports of a man in his car rubbing his crotch in plain view of children. Makhniashvili was arrested a block away and charged with two counts of lewd behaviour and one count of wilfully annoying a child.
He was acquitted of the first two counts, with the last count dismissed. It was not the last time he ran afoul with the law, however, and in May 2010, Makhniashvili was charged with assault after stabbing a neighbour in the abdomen.
Earlier that day, human remains had been found in a Toronto park. It was later revealed in court that Makhniashvili — stressed by news of the body — had forced his way into neighbour Sean Ure’s apartment and accused him of being responsible for Mariam’s vanishing. He was forced to undergo a psychiatric assessment.
Mariam’s father was soon behind bars again when his $50,000 bail was abruptly pulled by the strangers who posted it and opened up their home to Makhniashvili — David Langer, a private investigator who took an interest in Mariam’s case, and his wife Delores. Neither had met Makhniashvili before deciding to post his bail.
Five months later, Makhniashvili was arrested for stabbing the Langers. He was angry about an article written the previous day by Star columnist Rosie DiManno, questioning whether the Makhniashvili home was the best place for George, who had recently run away.
As he attacked the couple, Makhniashvili reportedly yelled out “She wrote that. She wrote that” at Delores, who also goes by the names “Rose” or “Rosita.” According to an agreed statement of facts, he called his wife soon after the stabbing, telling her “I love you. I just found out who was behind this article. I stabbed the Langers.”
In May of last year, Makhniashvili pleaded guilty to both stabbing incidents and was sentenced to six years in jail. He is currently serving his sentence at Millhaven Institute.
Since Makhniashvili’s incarceration, there has been no news related to Mariam or her family.
Then, on Feb. 28, two people walking through a wooded ravine stumbled upon a body in a wooded ravine on the Don Valley Golf Course. The decomposed remains were found just southeast of Earl Bales Park, by an overpass near Yonge St. and Highway 401.
Two days later, police notified Mariam’s mother as a “courtesy.” She was cautious not to read too much into the discovery, telling reporters she didn’t harbour any expectations either way. But Tabidze soon retreated into her apartment, refusing to speak to the media until anything was confirmed.
Today, the Makhniashvilis finally know where their daughter is.
She is lying in a morgue, at the coroner’s office downtown. The only mystery that remains is how she wound up there.
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