Exactly one year ago, on January 22, 2023, DJ Valentina Trespalacios was murdered and her body He was placed in a blue bag (with his head out) and thrown into the trash.
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The prosecutor’s office claims that there is evidence that American John Nelson Poulos, whom the young woman met through a dating platform, committed femicide, and as of the end of 2023, statements incriminating him have begun to be taken. The resumption of the hearings is planned to be held next February 12, and the Prosecutor’s Office will start the investigation on this date. The evidence he has against the American who claims his innocence.
EL TIEMPO had access to chats, photos and videos on the WhatsApp website that Valentina had left open on a friend’s computer, which were already in the possession of the Prosecutor’s Office. Also there is this Videos showing Valentina and Poulos at parties and in the apartment where she was allegedly murdered.
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With this evidence, the prosecution is trying to show that the American, who declared his innocence from the first moment, pressured her, followed her, and even offered to pay her DJ salary to be alone with her. .
Moreover, despite her objections, he recorded her and asked her to wear underwear. Apart from these videos, they are part of a report. ‘Direct Witness’ program It will be published after the year of the femicide that shocked the country.
According to interviews with officials, Poulos I was looking for friends on Tinder.
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“Can you take a break? I can pay your salary so I don’t hurt you. I’m trying to explain clearly what I’m asking you. I want to be together for a week (sic) and maybe this can lead to more in the future. I would love it if you did,” reads a Tinder message from May 2022.
Valentina asks him before he thinks On his way to Cartagena or somewhere else, he wants Poulos to go to Bogota to meet him: “In my city first. If we understand each other, of course we will get on the plane and go to Cartagena or Mexico.”
Chats show Poulos starting to ask questions about his daily activities. The DJ has threatened to sever all ties at least twice over the allegations against him.
“Yesterday I asked you who you were with. Will you continue to hide it?” reads a chat on January 2, 2022, appearing under the name John and featuring a photo of the American.
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And Valentina replies: “Oh. Go to the psychologist instead. She always has security issues. That’s why she’s always worried that I’ll leave with another man (sic). If I had another man or others as you say, I would have blocked him a while ago, as if it were a lot.. It’s so easy to get away from you. I deleted it from all social networks and it was resolved. You don’t know where I live or anything. Add logic and meaning to objects. “Stop thinking with your paws and think with your head.”
That day, from the same WhatsApp attributed to Poulos makes 17 consecutive video calls to Valentina and she does not respond.
ANDPrivate conversations include photographs of the scenes they visited and the products they consumed.
Additionally, there are the following images in the videos held by the Prosecutor’s Office: the third was from Valentina (apparently Poulos) looking on from the balcony.
According to the prosecutor’s office, there are also videos Poulos recorded in the apartment where he was killed.
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“You can’t be a good couple if you don’t wash my dishes.“Valentina tells Poulos while recording that the American was cleaning some dishes in the kitchen of the apartment he rented for a few days and made the DJ believe that they would live there.
Poulos’ defense now She will have the opportunity to put forward her arguments, show her good conduct certificates from the Church in the United States, which she attended, and insist that she is in love with the Colombian DJ, as she wrote in other chats.
Also like he did before Lawyers will insist that his procedural rights have been violated and that he cannot defend himself.
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They are trying to avoid a problem with this procedural stance. He will be sentenced to nearly 40 years in prison and will immediately remove him from the extraditable pavilion in La Picota, where he awaits the case against him to progress.
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