Why they call it the “kiss of death”, the unimaginable scene between John Poulos and his girlfriend Valentina Trespalacios two days before the DJ was found dead in a garbage dump

A year of loving relationship took, approximately, John Poulos and Dj Valentina Trespalacios. It was a stormy courtship, where love scenes, in full view of relatives, were few. It was no secret to anyone that he was excessively jealous of her and had sought out a private detective to follow her. In addition, he insistently tracked the 23-year-old’s social media.

Poulos “considered Valentina Trespalacios as something of his property,” said the representative of the Attorney General’s Office on the night of Wednesday, February 1, 2023, at the hearing against the detainee that took place since Tuesday and that was widely extended yesterday.

The transmission, via networks, of the judicial act monopolized, the attention in Colombia, where several frames of tours of the victim’s fiancé were shown.

Inside and outside the country of New Granada, the case of the notorious femicide of DJ Valentina Trespalacios is closely followed. Due to the death of this young woman, in Bogotá, all eyes fell on the American John Poulos, who left the country the same day the young woman’s body was found.

The kiss of the death

On Twitter, the medium Snail News transmitted the development of the judicial act. Issues of Poulos’s conduct were aired and frames were released that portray since his arrival in Colombia, supermarket trolley transfer in which they say the body of Valentina Trespalacios and an image that they have called “The kiss of the death”.

Poulos, according to authorities from the neighboring country, would have gone to Colombia about three times in 2022. On Friday, January 20, he arrived in Bogotá in what would be his first stay in that city during this 2023.

in the audience, Miguel Angel del Riothe lawyer for Trespalacios’ mother, presented another series of evidence against Poulos after the prosecutor intervened.

El Tiempo points out that “in the chronological line made since he arrived in Colombia, the defense of the Trespalacios family showed records of security cameras in which the foreigner is seen entering the Kappadocia building for the first time, north of Bogotá, after have rented it for a few days.

Once you left your belongings, He went to rent a gray vehicle. According to the establishment staff who attended him, the rent was established from January 20 to (Monday) January 23.

On the afternoon of Friday, January 20, at 5:57 pm (5:57 p.m.), Poulos arrived in a car at the residential complex where Valentina lived with her family.

“I would pick her up with the suitcases to take her to the Kappadocia hotel,” Del Río said. To park the car, he responded to the signs that a young man made him, recorded a security camera.

He did and got out of the vehicle. Like a normal boyfriend he approached the young woman, who was sitting in the parking area, and kissed her on the lips.

“In that image it is 6:10 pm on January 20. John Poulos gets out of the car and kisses Valentina Trespalacios, the kiss of deathDel Rio described.

Unimaginable that two days later, she would be found lifeless in the middle of a pile of garbage.

Valentina Trespalacios: Friend reveals details of the DJ’s private life

What happened after that scene?

According to what was related by Valentina’s mother and uncle, they were together. They think that she would have a rumba (party to work as a DJ).

On Saturday, January 21, Valentina and her fiancé were still together. This is how they were at 11:30 pm (11:30 pm) that day, as the young woman’s brother knows.

The couple, according to Laura Hidalgo, mother of the murdered woman, “had plans to get married, they had rented an apartment and were planning to buy a house in Colombia, invest, create companies… I don’t know what happened. He seemed like a good man, we trusted him.”

To radio media from the neighboring country, Hidalgo narrated that, on the night of Saturday the 21st, Valentina spoke with her 13-year-old brother Sebastián by video call.

Sebastián tells me that she seemed happy, she was with John (the boyfriend) and she showed him the apartment they had rented.

“We know they were together because at 11:30 (23:30) at night my girl told her brother that the food they had ordered had arrived. I don’t know if my daughter went to a party to work”.

The shocking case of the DJ

the body of Valentina Trespalacios found it a garbage recycler inside a suitcase abandoned in a garbage dump in the Fontibón area of ​​the Colombian capital.

The macabre discovery was on the afternoon of Sunday, January 22, 2023, just two days after that “kiss of death.”

The DJ’s family insisted that the last person to see Valentina alive was her fiancé, the American.

Knowing the strong and unexpected news of the murder, Laura Hidalgo said that it was not possible to contact her daughter’s boyfriend. “She disappeared,” she maintained.

The arrest of Poulos in Panama

Poulos was captured on the afternoon of Tuesday, January 24, at the Tocumen Panamanian airport. He was seeking to travel to Istanbul, Turkey, they said when announcing the arrest.

The American was taken to Bogotá, where he faces justice. Before leaving Panama he pointed out that a drug cartel was behind the high-profile murder.

Shortly after, Colombians reacted with horror when it was spread how he would have moved the lifeless body of his partner. The authorities, relying on a video, tell him to take it out in the blue suitcase and mobilize the “luggage” in a supermarket cart.

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

in the hearing

The representative of the mother of Trespalacios, cited this Wednesday, February 1, 2023, in Noticias Caracol, recalled that “John Poulos leaves Bogota for Panama to escape”, but what most attracts his attention is “the premeditated exercise that Poulos had” when having Montenegro, in the southeast of Europe, as his final destination.

“To Valentina Trespalacios she has been murdered for the sole fact of being a woman as the final part of an exercise in brutal violence and a manifestation of a patriarchal society,” said Del Río.

The Attorney General of the neighboring country said “from these evidence it can be logically deduced that Mr. John Poulos is probably the perpetrator of the crimes of: aggravated femicide and concealment, alteration or destruction of material evidence.”

The American’s jealous attitude was exposed at the hearing. According to the young woman’s mother, quoted in Noticias Caracol, John Poulos argued with the girl because a friend of hers touched her leg. Days later, Poulos hired the private investigator that has been talked about.

Previously, the woman had said: “He placed a private investigator (detective) on her and my daughter saw that he was very obsessive and was afraidbut she continued with him because he asked her for forgiveness.

Poulos is expected to be placed in pretrial detention at a prison. For now, the hearing would continue this Thursday, February 2, 2023.

(YO)

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