Elimelech was found dead along with her boyfriend, David Afuta, in their home in the Ramat Beit HaKerem neighborhood in Jerusalem. She was shot once while he was shot twice. Shortly before the murder, Elimelech's father requested the police to confiscate Afuta's personal weapon, for fear that he might use it against Elimelech, although the weapon was never taken from Afuta because Elimelech demanded that the complaint be canceled. Preliminary investigations of the crime scene revealed that Elimelech was the one who shot Afuta and then committed suicide. The initial presumption, by which Elimelech was the murderer, was because the bodies were found with the gun in Elimelech's hand. Due to these findings, Elimelech was buried in the suicide plot of the Jewish cemetery Har HaMenuchot in Jerusalem, in accordance with Jewish burial customs. Nevertheless, due to pressure from Elimelech's family, a month after the murder the police conducted a second investigation in which they discovered that the original team of investigators were negligent and that in fact Afuta shot Elimelech and then killed himself. It was also discovered that Afuta's brother arrived on the scene of the crime first, before the police, and in order to obscure the evidence, he moved the gun from Afuta's hand to Elimelech's hand. Although this fact was verified in laboratory tests the prosecution decided, with the support of the police, not to initiate legal proceedings against Afuta's brother and he was released. According to the findings of the renewed police investigation, in the last years of her life Elimelech tried several times to leave Afuta, but Afuta did not let her go and threatened to commit suicide if she left him and as a result she always went back to him. The findings of the second investigation were published three weeks after the murder. Elimelech's remains were only moved from the suicide plot of the Har HaMenuchot cemetery to the main burial section of the cemetery in 2001, four years after her death. Court ruling In 2004, Elimelech's father and brother filed a lawsuit against David Afuta's brother Joseph Afuta, demanding that the court would formally determine that Afuta was the murderer, and demanded a compensation of 8.4 million NIS. Eventually, on 1 March 2011 justice Menachem Cohen formally ruled that the murder was committed by David Aftuta who afterwards committed suicide. He also determined that his brother, Joseph Afuta, tampered with the