MEXICO CITY, June 17 (UPI) -- The murder weapon that was buried in the forehead of Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky may have turned up after 65 years.
A relative of the secret policeman who investigated Trotsky's death says she has the ice-pick -- and it's still stained with Trotsky's blood, Infobae reported.
Trotsky was killed in August 1940 by Spanish Soviet agent Ramon Mercader,while living in exile in Mexico City.
The Russian revolutionary had played an instrumental role in helping overthrow Russia's czar and creating the Soviet Union.
However, Trotsky was forced into exile after loosing a power struggle to eventual Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
Seva Volkov, Trotsky's grandson, said he was willing to have the blood on the ice-pick tested to see if it was his grandfather's but would not pay for the murder weapon.
