A Brazilian model who vanished from her Los Angeles home last month is presumed dead after California investigators found a video believed to be of her bloodied body.Authorities said that a car registered in her name was found abandoned 1,000 miles away in Oklahoma.A 2015 white Honda Accord registered to Ana Braga was recovered by authorities on February 12 after it stood vacant and abandoned for weeks in the parking lot of Remington Park casino and racetrack in Oklahoma City.Braga was last heard from on January 29, when she spoke by telephone with her mother, Delma Felix, in Brazil, according to KTLA-TV.Police in California say they have surveillance footage showing the bloody body of a woman lying face down with a belt and electric cord wrapped around her neck.The woman's body has yet to be recovered. Investigators, however, have yet to recover the woman’s body, though the victim filmed in the surveillance video is feared to be Braga.Detectives in California used GPS technology to trace Braga’s car to Oklahoma City. Share this article Share A search warrant revealed that investigators went inside the vehicle and found an ID belonging to a woman named ‘Ana’, according to KFOR-TV.Oklahoma City detectives said that the white sedan was ‘found locked in the south lot’ before it was impounded and taken into an evidence chamber ‘inside a climate-controlled storage facility.’ Authorities in Oklahoma say that surveillance footage from February 1 shows two individuals ditching the car inside the parking lot before getting into a ‘green minivan.’Braga moved to Los Angeles from her native Brazil a year ago to pursue a career in modeling.‘I want them to find her body and I want them to bring her body back to Brazil,’ Felix told KTLA-TV.Felix said that she would speak with her daughter every day. Suddenly, after their January 29 conversation, she stopped calling.‘I want to find my daughter because I want to do her funeral and I’m not in the condition to do all that.’The mother said: ‘I feel like trash, I feel like I’m nobody. She was the only one who helped me with everything.’Timothy O’Brien, a friend of Braga, told KTLA-TV: ‘I just try to go back and kinda think who could have done this.’Braga worked part-time as an Uber driver. She also earned money by working for a food delivery service, according to friends.Before moving to Orange County and Los Angeles, Braga lived near Boston. Model, 24, who went missing in LA is believed to have been murdered dailymail,news,Brazil,California
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