By Katie Stallard, Moscow Correspondent
A young woman has been found mutilated and murdered in a Moscow park - the second such attack in the same area in recent weeks.
The woman's body was found wrapped in tape inside a roll of cardboard, hidden in a ravine in Bitsevsky Park on Sunday evening.
She is thought to have been 20 to 25 years old.
Russian news agency Ria Novosti cited an unnamed law enforcement source as saying that the woman appeared to have been scalped.
She also had her right ear cut off, and had a severe wound to her throat, multiple broken ribs and a broken nose.
The source said a note was found in the woman's pocket with the name of a man who had allegedly raped her.
Searches are under way to locate the man.
A spokesperson for Russia's Investigative Committee later told news site gazeta.ru that due to the nature and severity of the woman's head injuries it was not yet possible to confirm whether she had been scalped or badly beaten.
Another woman was found murdered in the same park, a large forested area to the south of the city, on August 29.
She had suffered multiple injuries to her head and body, as well as reportedly having her fingers severed.
Her body was discovered by a couple out walking, who noticed a woman's hand in a bush by the side of the path.
In a statement on the latest murder, the Investigative Committee of Russia said: "On October 6 in a ravine near one of the houses on Rokotova Street was found a roll of cardboard, inside of which there was a body of an unknown woman with head and body injuries.
"The investigative committee started a criminal case based on the signs of murder.
"At the moment there is an ongoing investigation and measures are being taken to determine the circumstances of the event, the identity of the victim and the person who participated in the crime.
"The criminal investigation is continuing."
Bitsevsky Park has a notorious reputation among Muscovites as the location of scores of murders by a serial killer who became known as the Bitsevsky Maniac from 2001 to 2006.
Later identified as Alexander Pichushkin, he was convicted in 2007 of 48 murders, although he has since claimed he killed 62, and was aiming for 64 deaths to match the number of squares on a chess board.
Pichushkin is currently serving a life sentence in prison. Investigators have not said whether they are considering the possibility of a copycat killer.
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