Adopted daughter among 2 teen girls charged with murder of woman found butchered in Utah vacation rental

Two teenage girls, including the adopted girl of the victim, were charged with execution aft a pistillate was recovered stabbed to decease wrong a abrogation rental successful Utah astir 2 weeks ago, according to investigators.

The Washington City Police Department said Abigael Paige Flanagan, 17, and Mihaela Gabriela Sorescu, 16, were charged with the execution of 47-year-old Andreea Mottram. Police said Flanagan besides goes by the sanction "Jay" and Sorescu also goes by the sanction "Bella."

Investigators said Mottram was recovered by location cleaners connected March 23 wrong a Washington City rental property, with implicit a twelve stab wounds to her precocious body.

Washington County Attorney Eric Clarke told FOX 13 that Sorescu and Flanagan are being charged arsenic adults with murder, arsenic good arsenic car theft, aft allegedly taking Mottram's rented car backmost to California pursuing the crime. 

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Authorities successful Utah person charged 2 teenage girls successful the execution of a California pistillate who was recovered stabbed to decease days earlier her day astatine a abrogation rental. (Washington City Police Department/GoFundMe)

"At this time, determination is probable origin to fishy that the unfortunate was stabbed to decease by Jay and/or Bella and that some are criminally responsible," according to caller tribunal documents obtained by FOX 13.

Police said Mottram had traveled to Washington City from California and had been staying successful the rental for 3 days anterior to her assemblage being found.

Due to determination being nary signs of forced entry, authorities initially named some teens arsenic "persons of interest" and believed they were the past radical to spot Mottram alive. 

When combing done the rental home, detectives located phones successful the toilet that officials said belonged to Sorescu and Flanagan, according to documents, on with an ID wrong a purse. 

Detectives said the items "appear to person been placed successful the toilet and attempted to beryllium flushed successful an effort to conceal grounds and/or hold apprehension," according to the report. 

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The victim's adopted girl was identified arsenic 1 of the teen girls charged with execution wrong a Washington City rental home. (KMYU)

Investigators besides located respective knives wrong the home, including 1 successful the descend that had been washed disconnected but had "trace amounts of blood," according to tribunal documents. 

A brace of pants were besides recovered successful the home, with humor connected some legs and a "bloody imprint of a weapon blade," and were believed to beryllium to Sorescu, owed to the size of the pants, detectives wrote. 

Sorescu is Mottram’s adoptive daughter, FOX 13 archetypal reported.

Mottram traveled to Utah with Flanagan, days earlier her death, to sojourn her daughter, who had been successful a Washington County residential attraction installation for the past 3 years, according to tribunal documents.

Flanagan was antecedently successful a installation but was precocious taken retired by her parents. 

Sorescu's begetter told constabulary that helium had recovered his daughter's diary successful which she had written "how overmuch she hated her parent and wrote that she wanted to termination her," successful November, according to tribunal documents. 

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The time earlier her assemblage was discovered, Mottram posted a selfie connected her Facebook page, captioned "This is… astir 48." 

She besides posted, "The occupation is, you deliberation you person time," 4 days anterior to her selfie. 

"The apprehension of some suspects is simply a important measurement successful the investigation," the Washington City Police Department said. "However, the probe squad is presently pursuing up connected galore aspects of the case. Again, our sincerest condolences spell retired to the household and friends of the unfortunate of this senseless enactment of violence."

Sorescu and Flanagan were being held successful the Dixie Area Detention Center successful Washington County.

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Mottram labeled herself arsenic a "Hospice societal worker, Romanian surviving a Californian life, and parent successful 3 peculiar ways," according to her about-me conception connected her Facebook page. 

She was besides a co-founder of disablement and exile assistance associations successful the U.S. and Romania, including the Chicago-based American Romanian Coalition for Human and Equal Rights, according to the organization's Facebook page.

"It is with heavy sorrow that we mourn the nonaccomplishment of our beloved Andreea Mottram, a fierce advocate, a compassionate leader, and a beloved person to truthful galore wrong our community," the radical wrote. "Like galore of you, we are inactive successful daze astatine this heartbreaking news. Andreea’s dedication to justice, equity, and quality rights was not conscionable a mission—it was the precise essence of who she was."

Stepheny Price is simply a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers topics including missing persons, homicides, nationalist transgression cases, amerciable immigration, and more. Story tips and ideas tin beryllium sent to [email protected]