Two days after a 26-year-old model was found dead in her bathtub alongside her two dogs, someone sent Jeffrey Epstein an email. "Kate just committed suicide." And the sender wasn't a stranger. It was one of the four women named as potential co-conspirators in Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement. A woman court filings described as a quote live-in sex slave. A woman who five years earlier had screened a young Czech girl for Epstein while he sat in jail for sex offenses. The girl she screened was called Katka. Katka, I think I'm pronouncing that right, is a Czech nickname for Katerina. And the dead model's name was Katerina Netolicka. And here's the part that should bother you. The autopsy said that it wasn't suicide. It said no foul play, no substances, a healthy 26-year-old championship athlete whose body just stopped. The dogs were never explained, the case went quietly closed, and for 11 years nobody even thought to connect her to Jeffrey Epstein until last week when anonymous researchers started digging through the files and they found her. And once you see everything that they found, you're going to have the same questions that I do. >> >> Katerina Netolicka was born November 1st, 1988 in Most, which is a coal-mining city in the northwest of the Czech Republic near the German border. In 2004 at 15, she entered a national competition called Top Model of the New Millennium. And she ended up winning the whole competition. In an interview she gave as a teenager right after that win, she talked about the life that she was potentially leaving behind. "Before it was just a volleyball," she said. "I thought I'd never trade it for anything in the world." But Katerina's modeling career took off rather fast. One of her first bookings was with Prada, then she went to New York, she did H&M, Harper's Bazaar, magazine covers across Europe. A 15-year-old from a Czech mining town suddenly inside of the machine that feeds young Epstein European girls into the global fashion industry. In what was a twist of events for me to find out, by 2014, she was not only this big successful model, but she also was a successful kickboxer. In October of 2014, she won the Czech national championship in the K1 category. Her coach told the German press she trained six times a week. She was preparing for the world championships. And Katerina was in love. For 5 years, she'd been with someone named Jacob Petruzalek. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. He was a professional hockey player in Litvinov local, and the two shared an apartment in his hometown while he spent that season playing in Russia. Czech media reported that they were planning a wedding. Some outlets were already calling her his fiance, and after her death, he walked away from the Russian league entirely and came home to play for Litvinov, the town where he lost her. By everything I read and came across, Katerina doesn't seem to be somebody that was spiraling by any sense of the word. I mean, her coach described a discipline that she had, six sessions a week, a world championship in her sights. And her friend Adrian, who stood beside her at nationals a month before, described someone happy, in love, and someone that was settled. It seemed that she'd survived the machine that chews up teenage models and came out the other side with a title belt, a fiance, and a hometown that she never really left. Every single thing in her life was pointed in one direction, but she only had 8 days left. Sunday, November 9th, 2014, Litvinov, Czech Republic. Katerina isn't answering her phone. Jacob is in Russia playing hockey, so his brother Miroslav goes to the apartment that they share, and there's no answer when he knocks, so he ends up breaking down the door. He ends up finding her in the bathtub, and she's dead at that point. And strangely enough, both of her dogs are dead, too. It was just 2 days after her 26th birthday. The Czech tabloids went, "Really? Farrow, suicide stroke, brain hemorrhage, gas leak." That one seemed to spread fast because of the dogs. Her friend Adrian told reporters he couldn't make sense of any of it. Nobody really could. 6 weeks later, just before Christmas in 2014, Czech police released the findings and there was three conclusions. No foul play, no foreign substances in her body, none, which also killed the gas leak theory. And the cause of death was health problems that she likely didn't even know that she had. Czech outlets reported it as probable heart failure. A championship kickboxer training six times a week, heart failure in a bathtub. And the dogs? Gas was ruled out and starvation was impossible because she had been gone only a day before she was found. To this day, no official explanation for those two dogs has ever been published. Not by police, not by anyone. Two healthy animals dead in the same apartment on the same day as their healthy owner. And the case just went closed. The tabloids moved on. And then there was 11 years of silence. Then the Epstein files opened. Millions of pages and researchers coming through them found a photograph of a young, dark-haired woman standing next to someone that, if you are familiar with the Epstein case at all, you may recognize. Nadia Marchenko. Nadia Marchenko was one of the four women named as potential co-conspirators in Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement, alongside Sarah Kellen, Leslie Groff, and Adriana Ross. I've actually made a whole video about the four women who worked alongside Epstein and I will link that below if you're interested in watching it. Court filings described Nadia Marchenko as Epstein's quote live-in sex slave. A JP Morgan internal compliance document in the files states Epstein reportedly purchased her from her parents at 14 years old. She was brought to America as a teenager through the modeling pipeline. The same machine that found Katerina at 15. Nadia Marchenko appears on more than 140 of Epstein's flight logs. She visited him over 70 times in jail. And in a 2010 deposition, when lawyers asked her whether she'd been on a plane with Bill Clinton, she pled the fifth. Asked about Prince Andrew, the fifth. Over 40 times on question after question, she said, "I plead the fifth." This is a woman that is photographed next to Katerina. But let's rewind to October 18th, 2009. Jeffrey is serving his jail sentence in Palm Beach. And on that Sunday evening, an email lands in an account that his people labeled JE Jail. But I found that the actual email address is jevacation@gmail.com. So, clearly he is considering his jail sentence as his vacation. Anyways, Nadia is screening a girl for him from jail. She sends him a photo of a young Czech woman, and Epstein writes back, "Not enough info." Nadia replies that she'll Skype with her, quote, "today or tomorrow to get a better idea." The girl's name in the emails is Katka. Katka is a standard Czech nickname for Katerina. And then 6 months later, in April of 2010, Epstein emails Nadia Marchenko about a trip he calls the Czech ride. Is the Katka in those emails Katerina? Of course, I cannot prove that. And to be fair, Katerina is one of the most common names in the Czech Republic. But what those emails prove beyond any doubt is this. Jeffrey's inner circle was actively recruiting young Czech women by name while he sat in a jail cell for sex offenses. That is documented. That is in the files. And surprise, surprise, nobody's ever been asked to answer for it. Uh, which brings us back to the email. November 11th, 2014 at 5:05 p.m., 2 days after Katerina's body was found, there's an email from Nadia to Jeffrey Epstein. And it says, quote, "Kate just committed suicide, 26." And underneath, there's a link to a Czech news article. And the news article is talking about the Katerina that we are talking about, the model who died. So, that in itself proves that they knew her. And not even as her full name, but as Kate. So, they had given her a nickname. To me, this is proof that Katerina was in Jeffrey's orbit in some sense, because you wouldn't send an email to Jeffrey Epstein using Kate as a nickname if he didn't even know her or if she wasn't part of their whole circle, if that makes sense. But, the weirdest part about it to me is that the email she sends with the words, {quote} Kate just committed suicide, is asserting something that the article never said. That headline gives no cause of death. Nobody knew the cause. The autopsy was six weeks away. Committed suicide is Nadia Marcinkova's addition and her claim. And when the autopsy finally came back, it didn't say suicide. It said natural causes, an undiagnosed condition, no substances in her system at all. Her claim and the official finding cannot both be true. It's all just very odd and alarming to me. And then on top of all of that, there's her dogs, because here's the thing about the official explanation. An undiagnosed heart condition explains Katerina, but it does not explain the two dogs who both simultaneously died the same day that she died. Czech police have never reopened Katerina's case. No agency in any country has ever publicly cross-referenced the deaths of women in Epstein's orbit against these documents. By researchers' counts, there are dozens of them. Young women who died early and under very strange circumstances. As we all know, the major outlets have moved on from Epstein a long time ago, and it seems that the only people who aren't are all of us, online, independent researchers, online sleuths, creators. You know, I first saw this story through Becca Day, whose work I've covered on this channel before, and who inspires me so much with the content that she puts out. Her TikTok is linked below, and I strongly suggest checking it out. But, this connecting of the dots between Katerina and potentially being part of Epstein's circle, it was linked together from anonymous forum users. Nobody officially announced it. Nobody officially has even said a word. Which means that if Katerina's family knows her face is in the Epstein files, they learned it the same way that you and I just did. From a forum post. 11 years ago, a mining town girl who thought that she'd never trade volleyball for anything died in a bathtub with her dogs and the machine that knew her by a nickname never even had to acknowledge that she existed. You know, Czech police can reopen a case file when new evidence emerges. An email from a named Epstein co-conspirator asserting a cause of death her own autopsy contradicts. That is new evidence to me. If the DOJ can just look through their own unredacted files to see if the has screened in October of 2009 was in fact Katerina. Or if Nadia Marchenko can be asked under oath how she knew Kate and maybe we could get some answers to Katerina's family. If her death really was a hidden condition and just horrible timing, they deserve to have that confirmed against these files instead of finding her name in them through a Reddit thread. Thank you so much for watching today's video. I came across this story and you know, as I always say, the core intent of my channel has always been to give the voiceless a voice. And unfortunately, Katerina can't tell her story anymore. Thank you again so much for watching. I hope that you're having a good day and I will see you soon with another video. Okay. Bye-bye.
A 26-year-old model was found dead in her bathtub alongside her two dogs. Her death was ruled natural causes, and the case quietly faded from the headlines. Eleven years later, researchers combing through the Jeffrey Epstein files uncovered something no one had connected before: emails referencing her, a photograph linking her to one of Epstein's closest associates, and a series of unanswered questions that remain unexplained to this day. In this episode, we examine the documented evidence surrounding Kateřina Netolická's life, death, and the unexpected connections found inside the Epstein files. The Women Who Kept Epstein’s Empire Running (The Untouched Inner Circle): https://youtu.be/wCQ0BZquSZs Find Bekah Day: https://www.tiktok.com/@bekahdayyy?lang=en Topic/Content Suggestions: https://forms.gle/c3QzhBq1HZHZZkJn8 Subscribe to 'Stories With Matt' my new channel where these true crime stories (and more) will be living: @StoriesWithMatt 🤍 FOLLOW ME 🤍 ► Instagram: http://instagram.com/mattcullen ► TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattlcullen ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattcullenchannel ► YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/matthewlcullen ► X: https://twitter.com/mattlcullen Thank you for watching 'Case Files with Matt Cullen', the series where we investigate the stories the system tried to bury, with a focus on the voices often left out. If you have a case you would like to see me dive into next, email me at matthewlcullen@gmail.com If you’d like to support my channel, here is my PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/mattlcullen Venmo: @MattLCullen True Crime, True Crime Daily, True Crime Podcast, true crime story, true crime youtubers