In the last video that the Colombian DJ Valentina Trespalacios sent to her mother while she was alive, she appears in a vehicle with her alleged murderer, the American John Nelson Poulos.
In the images that have been widely reviewed by the media in Colombia, the young woman is seen in the passenger seat of a car while Poulos drives.
Trespalacios, 23, waves to the camera and then turns the camera on the device towards Poulos, 35.
The young woman asks her partner to greet her mother.
In the background, reggaeton music is heard.
Trespalacios’ body was found on January 23 inside a suitcase thrown in a garbage container in the Versalles neighborhood, in the town of Fontibón, Bogotá. The young woman had been strangled hours before in an apartment that Poulos rented.
Images from security cameras captured the couple’s movements from the moment they arrived at the apartment until the foreigner left the property with the suitcase in a shopping cart and placed it in the trunk of the car he had rented.
Throughout the weekend, Trespalacios had been sharing with Poulos, with whom he had a sentimental relationship.
Despite being married with three children, the man had allegedly told her that he would marry her and move to the South American country.
Although the specific circumstances prior to the strangling are unclear, prosecutors allege that Poulos was jealous over the DJ’s alleged ties to another man.
Poulos was detained last Tuesday at the Panama airport when he was planning to take a plane to Istanbul, Turkey.
Colombian and Panamanian authorities with the help of Interpol worked in coordination to achieve the arrest of the American.
The suspect was extradited to Colombia the day after his arrest.
Poulos pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated femicide in competition with concealment, alteration and destruction of evidence.
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