January 8, 2010, at 1:30 pm
Paula Sladewski and Kevin Klym
26 year old Paula Sladewski was found dead on Sunday, Jan. 3rd, in a Miami trash bin. Sladewski and her boyfriend of two years, 34 year old Kevin Klym, came to Miami to celebrate the new year and see lady Gaga in concert at the Fontainebleau. The couple was enjoying their stay in the sunny city and decided to stay a few days longer.
Sladewski and Klym were partying at Club Space (Which is about 5 blocks away from my place) on Saturday night until about 7am the next morning, when the two started fighting. According to Klym, the fight began when he was ready to go home and Paula did not. Space security kicked Klym out over the commotion and he had no choice but to take a cab back to their hotel. Creepy… I was actually at Space for New Years Eve two years ago.
When Paula did not come back by Monday, Kevin filed a missing persons report. Sladewski’s body was found Sunday night when firefighters were called in to put out a fire in a trash bin around NE 130th Street. Once the fire was out, the firefighters realized that the source was in fact a body. Sladewski’s body was burned so badly that there was no way to recognize her on the spot. Local authorities finally made the statement that the burned body was of Paula Sladewski when her dental records were confirmed on Tuesday night.
Paula Sladewski was said to be a playboy model who appeared in the Ultimate Playboy Search 50th Anniversary in 2003. However, according to the Miami New Times, there’s no indication that Paula Sladewski was in fact testing for Playboy that day as her name did not appear in the video credits. Paula’s family was actually quite upset that every source reporting the gruesome murder, put ‘Playboy Model’ in every headline. Like everything she has ever done in her life sums up to her being naked for some magazine.
Police is still looking for clues, and are not conclusive on whether Paula Sladewski’s long time boyfriend, Kevin Klym, is still a person of Interest. There have prior reports that Klym has a history of violence and that he was arrested two months ago for breaking Sladewski’s nose during a fight. According to Klym’s lawyer he is “devastated and traumatized”.
