L.A. Police Fear Foul Play in Disappearance of Model

A part-time model from West Los Angeles may have met with foul play at the home of a man she had been seeing, police said Thursday.

Iryna Singerman, a 21-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, was last seen by her husband Monday night.

On Wednesday, investigators traced her Mercedes-Benz to a home in the 5000 block of Medina Road in Woodland Hills but found neither Singerman nor the man who lives there, Brian Joseph Cullen, 57.

However, investigators did find bloodstains, West Valley Homicide Det. Rick Swanston said. “We are hoping that Iryna is alive somewhere,” he said. “But we are concerned for her well-being because of the circumstances of her disappearance, which point to foul play.”

The case began to unfold Tuesday when witnesses saw a man driving a gray Ford Focus pull up to a dumpster and unload two trash bags containing documents, bloody towels and a blood-soaked baseball bat, Swanston said.

Singerman immigrated last year and was married in the United States, Swanston said.

According to investigators, her husband said he was concerned because he hadn’t seen her since Monday. Interviews with Singerman’s friends linked her to Cullen, who also goes by the name Mark Corbett, Swanston said. Cullen may be traveling with a 14-year-old boy, whom he has told friends he adopted last year in Mexico.

Police are searching for Cullen’s Ford Focus, license plate 5PBS947. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the homicide unit at (818) 374-7721.