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Shocking: Promising Golf star is brutally stabbed to death on golf course




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Police in the US have charged a man aged in 20s with murder after the body of a champion golfer was found on a golf course.

The arrest was made after the champion golfer Celia Barquin Arozamena, 22, was found dead with a number of stab wounds at Coldwater Golf Links in Ames, Iowa on Tuesday.

It is understood Ms Arozamena was found with a number of stab wounds at approximately 10:20am.

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Police investigating the murder say 22-year-old Collin Daniel Richards, has been arrested and charged with her murder.

According to reports in the US, Richards who had been living in a tent a short distance from the course was intent on committing a serious crime after he had told an acquaintance that he had the urge to rape and kill a woman.

Ms Arozamena who was originally from San Miguel, Spain, was the Iowa State female athlete of the year and was finishing a civil engineering degree.

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