‘STRANGE’ DEATH: Cops looking for Gambian immigrant – in Austria illegally – after U.S. nanny Lauren Mann found dead of 'suffocation' in Vienna
As the investigation into the death of Lauren Mann continues, her friends and colleagues have begun reflecting on her life.
Police are treating the case as homicide "because third party involvement cannot be excluded," a police spokesman told NBC News.
Mann, 25, who grew up in Colorado, was found dead in her Vienna apartment, with her half-naked body located on a mattress near "a considerable amount of blood," police have said.
FACEBOOKLauren Mann, originally from Colorado, was found dead in her Vienna apartment.
She was sharing the apartment with a Gambian immigrant who was in Austria illegally, and police were looking for him, Austria's Kronen Zeitung reports. The nature of his relationship with Mann was unclear.
Police were interviewing her acquaintances, neighbors and friends, as well as her employer.
Mann had lived in Vienna for three years and was working in Austria as an au pair, officials said. She was considered "very reliable," officials said Wednesday.
RONALD ZAK/APMann was sharing the apartment with a Gambian immigrant who was in Austria illegally, police said.
When she didn't show up as scheduled for work Monday, the concerned family called the police. Police and firefighters forced open her door the following day and found the body on a mattress in the bedroom.
She had a sweater across her face and her arms were stretched along her body, according to local newspapers.
Police said they were still searching for a possible motive.
FACEBOOKMann's death shocked family and friends who said she was "creative" and "thoughtful."
News of Mann's death shocked her friends and acquaintances.
"Lauren was one of the most intelligent, talented, and beautiful women I have ever met," Cassy Renee Newitt wrote on Facebook. "I'll never forget my childhood memories of you. I'm sending your family good vibes during this hard time."
FACEBOOKLauren Mann graduated in 2012 from the University of Colorado-Boulder's College of Music.
Reggie Berg reflected on her originality.
"In my few conversations with Lauren Mann, I learned that she was an incredibly creative, thoughtful, witty, and talented individual," Berg wrote. "I'm very sorry for the grief and sorrow that her family, love ones, and closest friends are dealing with at this time. The universe is hurting right now. Sending love and support to everyone who once knew her."
Mann graduated in 2012 from the University of Colorado-Boulder's College of Music. A spokesman said the university was saddened by news of her death.
HERBERT P. OCZERET / APA / PICTUREDESK.COMPolice are investigating Mann's death as a homicide.
When police broke into her apartment, all its light bulbs were burned out. Investigators had to replace them in order to examine the scene.
Mann, who has a background in the arts, had her writing published by The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, a literary and arts web journal.
Her bio said she grew up in "one of the small mining towns/arm pits of Colorado" and studied piano and French before she "fled the scene."
FACEBOOKLauren Mann, 25, lived in Vienna for three years.
"All the beauty, by all surmise, that all the fingertips lay bare beneath the cloak and lift the veil we are bewildered, we bear beneath bewildered, lain beneath the beauty," she wrote in one passage.
Mann's death comes just two weeks after the shocking murder of another young American woman living abroad.
Ashley Olsen, 35, an expat living in Florence, Italy, was strangled inside her apartment this month, Italian officials said.
Like Mann, Olsen had been living overseas for three years.
Autopsy findings indicated that she died after a cord or rope was tied around her neck.
Olsen's body had bruises and scratches on the neck, officials said. Police arrested a Senegalese immigrant in connection to her death.
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