Teenager Isla Bell excitedly told a pal she had met ‘the best Russian sugar daddy’. Within 48 hours police say she was murdered – and the horrific details about her alleged fate have now been revealed after her body was found hidden in a fridge weeks later

Melbourne teenager Isla Bell thought she had found the man of her dreams in the days before she was allegedly brutally murdered by a man more than twice her age.

Daily Mail Australia can reveal police claim the 19-year-old texted her friend to express her happiness just hours before her alleged murder.

In a Snapchat message sent on Oct. 7, Ms. Bell told her friend that she had “found the best sugar daddy,” court documents state.

On Wednesday, Marat Ganiev, 53, from St Kilda, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court charged with murder.

His co-defendant, Eyal Yaffe, 57, of Hampton, is charged with assisting an offender in murder.

Daily Mail Australia has obtained the court documents detailing the alleged harrowing final moments of Ms Bell’s life.

Ms. Bell told her friend that this “sugar daddy” had showered her with gifts and “saved her from sex traffickers.”

She is said to have been with Ganiev just two days earlier – a day after her frantic mother reported Mrs Bell missing to police.

Police allege Ganiev murdered Ms Bell just after midnight on October 7.

Why remains a mystery for now.

Homicide squad detectives claim CCTV footage captured outside Ganiev’s apartment complex in St Kilda East captured what appeared to be him attacking Ms Bell.

Cameras captured Ms Bell entering his apartment at 9.27pm on October 5. She never left, police claim.

Police allege Ms Bell’s head was ‘swinging around’ from an opening in the front kitchen window when she was hit by Ganiev.

“She falls to the floor and Ganeiv is seen hitting her on the floor of the kitchen,” according to court documents.

“You see what appears to be Bell’s head rising before being pushed back down by Ganiev’s arm.”

The footage is said to have captured Ms Bell alive between 12.43am and 2am, when she disappeared from view.

Police allege that Ganiev went to work cleaning the apartment over the next few days.

On October 9, Yaffe reportedly arrived at the property with a black refrigerator on the back of a trailer.

Police allege the fridge was installed to replace an old fridge into which the men then stuffed Ms Bell’s body.

Police allege the fridge containing Ms Bell’s body was dumped by both men in a driveway in Caulfield South on October 17.

The refrigerator was wrapped in plastic and tape.

Eyal Yaffe (pictured) appeared jovial within the confines of the prison dock on Wednesday. He is accused of helping the man who allegedly killed Isla Bell to cover up his crime

Two days later, just an hour after police first tried to contact Ganiev, police allege Ganiev moved the refrigerator to an address in Hampton.

By this time, a neighbor noticed that the refrigerator smelled and had attracted flies.

On October 22, the refrigerator was moved again, this time to an address in Bentleigh East, where it remained for the next three to four days.

A bag belonging to Ms Bell was allegedly dumped by Yaffe on October 28 after he was brought in by police to be interviewed.

Police executed search warrants at each of the addresses the fridge allegedly visited, and found a bucket hat belonging to Mrs Bell at one of them.

On October 30, police allege the fridge was moved again, this time to an address in Mulgrave.

The refrigerator had been stored behind other items in a van and showed up at a recycling facility in Clayton on Nov. 18 when someone opened the smelly item.

Police allege a rubbish bag containing Ms Bell’s body fell from the fridge but was mistaken for a dead animal by the person.

While the fridge was dumped on a street corner in Bentleigh East along with the rest of the hard rubbish, the bin bag containing Mrs Bell’s body was placed in a residential bin around the corner.

Ms Bell’s body would later be recovered from a Dandenong tip.

Marat Ganiev, 53, from St Kilda appeared in the Melbourne District Court on Wednesday charged with Ms Bell’s murder

When Yaffe was arrested, police reportedly found meth and $6,000 in cash on him.

He was also packing a ticket to Bulgaria, where police claimed he planned to flee the next day.

Although police initially denied his involvement in hiding Ms Bell’s body, police claim Yaffe eventually admitted to the crime but claimed to have known nothing about how the teenager died.

Jaffe appeared in court on Wednesday after his partner and the alleged killer were charged with murder within the same court.

Placed behind protective bulletproof glass in the courthouse’s jail dock, Yaffe was seen laughing with a guard during his brief appearance.

In front of him at the front of the court sat members of his family, with whom he smiled and tried to communicate.

A woman was seen crying as the court heard that a proposed bail application could not be held due to delays in the case under appeal.

Isla Bell (pictured) was last seen leaving her home in Brunswick, inner-city Melbourne, at around 6pm on October 4.

Yaffe is represented by Melbourne’s top lawyer, Ian Hill, an elite Kings Counsel who helped free convicted cop killer Jason Roberts after years behind bars.

Mr Hill will return to court on Friday where he will fight to have Yaffe released from custody.

Police are expected to oppose the bail application, arguing Yaffe is a flight risk with a hint of “unexplained wealth.”

While it remains unknown how Yaffe is linked to Ganiev, social media accounts show that the pair were friends on Facebook, with Ganiev’s profile photo apparently including a text message alert from Yaffe in a bizarre profile photo.

On Wednesday, Ms Bell’s heartbroken mother, Justine Spokes, issued a heartbreaking statement in memory of her daughter as Ganiev appeared in court.

“I am so very sorry, my dear daughter,” she said. “I couldn’t protect you from your complex diseases and this cruel world.”

Ganiev, from St Kilda, dressed in black and looking thin, looked visibly unwell as the brief hearing took place.

His lawyer, Adrian Lewin, told the court his client was in desperate need of his methadone medication, a drug used by addicts trying to get off heroin.

The court heard Ganiev needed 70mg of the medication, which he had not received in the past two days.

It remains unknown how and why police allege Ganiev killed the teenager, who was reported missing in October.

Police claim Isla Bell’s body was stuffed in a refrigerator and thrown in the trash

Ms Bell was last seen leaving her home in Brunswick, Melbourne, about 6pm on October 4, just days before her 20th birthday.

Her remains were found at a landfill in Dandenong on Tuesday evening and have yet to be formally identified.

Mrs Spokes paid a moving tribute to her ‘kind and adventurous’ daughter on Wednesday.

“I was so proud of your choices this year, of your strength to persevere despite your suffering,” she said.

“All you ever wanted was to create life, to create and cherish it, to love and be loved.

‘We were so looking forward to being reunited as a family; my heart aches and I can’t bear to think that won’t happen.’

She said Isla was “the gentlest soul, the kindest person and free-spirited.”

“I will connect with you in my mind, my care bear, and no one can take that connection away from us,” she added.

Victoria Police are investigating whether Ms Bell’s remains were placed in a household rubbish bin before ending up in the landfill.

Detectives from the Missing Persons Squad arrested three men after executing search warrants at two properties in Bentleigh East and Mulgrave.

A 63-year-old Mulgrave man was released pending further inquiries.

The Missing Persons Squad formally took over the investigation in late October.

Shortly after her disappearance, Ms Bell’s best friend revealed that their last conversation took place on October 7 – three days after she was reportedly last seen and the day police allege she was murdered.

During that conversation, Mrs. Bell was eager to talk about a recent night out and a new friend.

‘She was just about to tell me all about her evening. She abruptly stopped answering before giving me more details,” the anonymous friend said.

“She really wanted to tell me all about it, then radio silence.”

Another friend said Ms Bell struggled with mental health problems and would sometimes disappear for days, but her recent disappearance was extraordinary.

“The messages to her friend the night she disappeared were really sussed, a really unreliable audience,” they said.

“The police pinged her and such, but without much immediate results.”

Ms Bell’s mother, Justine Spokes, also shared her concerns online.

“My girl is missing and dearly missed,” she wrote on Facebook.

‘She leaves an impression, she is difficult to forget. She has a fighting spirit, sometimes loud and sometimes soft, always persistent.

“We’re here for you, buddy. I love you, my care bear.”

Mrs Spokes later revealed the family had planned to visit the Great Barrier Reef for Mrs Bell’s 20th birthday and became alarmed when they could not reach her.

“Hey rascal. Looking forward to our reef trip for your birthday coming up,” her mother wrote in a public post after she disappeared.

‘We tried calling you to book flights. Let us know your opinion.

“We love you, my love.”