Macabre crime in Colombia: a woman's body is discovered inside a suitcase
The victim was in a temporary apartment with a foreign person who is currently wanted by the Police.
The Colombian authorities are investigating the discovery of a woman inside a suitcase in a building located in the town of Chapinero, in the north of Bogotá, whose macabre crime raised the alert of the local residents.
The case was reported in an exclusive neighborhood of the Colombian capital, where members of the Police and the Prosecutor's Office arrived to remove the body, according to information from local media.
Members of the Technical Investigation Corps (CTI) of the Prosecutor's Office collected the first data to begin the investigation and find those responsible for the crime.
According to preliminary information, the woman, a native of Cúcuta, in the Norte de Santander department, was in an apartment for temporary use in the building, allegedly with a foreign person, who is currently wanted by the Police.
At the moment, the authorities are investigating the people who entered and left the building in the days prior to the incident and are seeking to establish the relationship between the victim and the citizen who was with her.
This is not the first time that a crime of this type has been committed, since on January 22, 2023, the young DJ Valentina Trespalacios was murdered, a case for which the American John Poulos was sentenced to 42 years in prison.
Poulos was accused of murdering his then-partner in their apartment in the north of Bogotá, beating and suffocating her, and then “wrapped the body, hid it in a blue suitcase and abandoned it in a garbage container” in the town of Fontibón, in the west of the city, in a place near the El Dorado airport, according to the film material collected by the Prosecutor's Office.
The Colombian Observatory of Femicides reported 621 murders of women until September of last year, while in 2024 the country added 886 femicides.