Facebook affair gone sour

A 30-year-old Romanian woman, Eliza Dragne, has been murdered by a married man she met on social media platform, Facebook, after the man, 29-year-old Nicu Alin Cristea, raped and stabbed her on the neck with a screw driver on the day they finally met.

Cristea's identify would not have been uncovered after leaving Dragne for death, but she managed to crawl to the road where she was picked up by the police. She just managed to mention his name and what happened to her before she slipped into coma in the hospital.

Dragne met Cristea on Facebook, where he claimed to be a humanitarian worker helping orphaned children, not knowing he was a newly married construction worker. After some months of chatting, he persuaded her to go no a date with him and arranged to pick her up in his car.

Miss Dragne had kept the new relationship secret from friends and family, who had no idea where she was going.

On the date they planned to meet, according to Daily Mail, Cristea arrived as planned, but instead of driving to the bar the pair had picked for the date, he took her to a remote spot near Alexandria, southern Romanian, before attacking her, a police report claimed.

According to the police report, Cristea savagely beat and raped Dragne, before strangling and repeatedly stabbing her in the neck with a screwdriver.

Thinking she was dead, Cristea took her mobile, logged in to her Facebook account, deleted all of his messages to her, then abandoned her.

But she survived the attack and crawled naked through the countryside to a main road were she caught the attention of a passing driver who called police.

Because of the extent of her injuries, officers were forced to call for an air ambulance to take her to hospital in the capital of Bucharest.

While she was being rushed to hospital, she managed to reveal the identity of her alleged attacker to officers riding alongside her.

Shortly after arriving at Bagdasar-Arseni Hospital, Dragne slipped into a coma, and despite the efforts of surgeons, passed away.

Meanwhile, police officers had tracked down Cristea, and when they arrived at his home, found him in the middle of a one month anniversary party with wife Elena, 28.

He initially denied ever having met the victim, but was told by officers that she had lived long enough to name him as the attacker.

Cannily, since news of the arrest, other alleged victims of Cristea have come forward claiming that they were also assaulted by him.

One woman, who has not been named, said he came to her house to do some building work, but when he realised she was alone, he raped her.

She claimed she was left with a fractured skull and broken hand after the attack, and was terrified that if she went to the police he would return and kill her.