Colombian media show videos in which John Poulos is seen transporting a large package, which could be the inert body of Valentina Trespalacios

What could have been a love story between a Colombian woman and an American ended tragically last weekend in a Bogotá garbage dump.

Little by little, details of the final hours that passed Colombian DJ Valentina Trespalacios, 23, and her boyfriend, American John Poulos, 35, considered the alleged perpetrator of the murder because he was with her since Friday and from there no more was heard from the young musician.

Newspaper reports surrounding the case detail the existence of surveillance camera footage that showed a man first loading a large package into a parking lot and then dumping the suitcase, taped shut and closed, into the construction waste bin. next to a park.

Meanwhile, he was detained in Panama when he was trying to travel to Turkey, He was already taken to Colombia to answer questions about Valentina’s deathwhose body was found inside a blue suitcase in a garbage container in the Colombian capital on Sunday afternoon.

The gruesome discovery of the body was made by a homeless person looking for recyclables.

Colombian media have already published videos from Sunday morning, around 10:00, in which Poulos is seen waiting for the elevator to go down to the parking lot carrying a suitcase inside a supermarket car. He with difficulty transfers the package to the trunk of the vehicle.

That same Sunday, Poulos bought a one-way ticket to Panama City. He was seized at Tocumen airport Tuesday night by Interpol and Panamanian immigration agents, moments before boarding a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul, Turkey. The first investigations ensure that his flight was connected to Montenegro, where there is no extradition treaty to Colombia; with this he intended to evade the authorities.

In his first statements to the Panamanian authorities, Poulos said the now-defunct Medellín Cartel was behind the assassination of Trespalacios and that he had fled Colombia because members of the group wanted to kill him. Colombian authorities have yet to corroborate his version of events.

remote romance

There is no major confirmation on the marital status of John Poulos, who is known to have three children in the United States; the children’s mother had obtained a restraining order because he was violent, said Victoria Jiménez, a friend of Valentina, who assures that they realized that the American, whom she met on an online dating application, was a stalker and obsessive with the young

The couple had been dating for eight months and had planned to marry in the near future, as Poulos had expressed his desire to reside permanently in Bogotá with Trespalacios.

Jiménez said that Poulos is increasingly upset with Trespalacios because she refused to publish their relationships on her social networks, because her accounts were only used to promote her work as a disc jockey.

Valentina’s funeral

This Thursday afternoon, the body of Valentina Trespalacios was buried in a cemetery in the north of Bogotá. The autopsy carried out on the body has determined that he died due to drowning. (YO)