2024-01-31 12:18:31
Isabella Mesa Sánchez, a 19-year-old Colombian model who lived in Mexico, traveled to Medellín to celebrate the birthday of her boyfriend, Sebastián Villegas, and never returned. The man stabbed her 24 times in the middle of an argument on Sunday night and hid her body in a suitcase. It was the murderer’s mother who reported the femicide to the authorities.
According to local media, Villegas is a soldier who belongs to the Pedro Nel Ospina battalion of the National Army, and had asked his mother for permission to take his girlfriend home while he enjoyed a period of days off for his birthday.
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According to the testimony of a friend of Isabella, the couple went to a party on Saturday night, where they were seen arguing before leaving for Villegas’ house. It is not known what happened next until the call that alerted the authorities.
Isabella Mesa Sánchez had traveled from Mexico to visit her boyfriend, Sebastián Villegas. (Photo: X/@jorgezuluagao).
According to Villegas’ mother, on Sunday morning she left the house to go to church and returned around 4:00 p.m. She found the young man while he was wiping the floor. It was then that her son “told him that he had killed Isabella, but did not tell him where the body was,” reported the newspaper El Tiempo.
The woman went to her son’s battalion, from where they called the police. The authorities arrived at Villegas’ house, in the popular Doce de Octubre neighborhood, and found Isabella’s body placed in a fetal position in a suitcase wrapped in a plastic tarp. Villegas was arrested.
According to the Fourth Brigade of the Army, to which the Battalion belongs, “the incident occurred in an apparent act of intolerance.”
Villegas was arrested for the crime of his girlfriend. (Photo: X/@bluradio).
The preliminary autopsy report revealed that the model received 24 stab wounds. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, Isabella had “eight stab wounds with a knife in the cervical region, seven wounds in the left breast region, three in the left abdomen, and six more wounds in the left forearm, which shows that there was a defensive action.” .
A controlling and jealous boyfriend
The victim’s mother said that Isabella and Sebastián had met at a school in Copacabana. The woman described Villegas as “a controlling” and “jealous” person, who “threatened” the model and “demanded that she share her cell phone screen, and also sent him WhatsApp videos to see who she was talking to.” .
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Isabella Mesa Sánchez was 19 years old. (Photo: Instagram/@isabellam__15).
“Sebastián told her that if he realized that she was talking to other men, he wouldn’t mind killing whoever it was, even killing her herself,” she said.
More than 500 femicides in Colombia in 2023
According to the Colombian Femicide Observatory, in 2023, 511 crimes were recorded in the country, while the Attorney General’s Office recorded 410 between January and September. According to local media records, Isabella’s femicide would be number 11 so far in 2024 in Colombia, and the second in Medellín.
The young model was murdered with 24 stab wounds by her boyfriend. (Photo: Instagram/@isabellam__15).
The mayor of Medellín, Federico Gutiérrez, called for the care of “our women” and expressed “pain and sadness” for Isabella’s femicide. Valeria Medina, Secretary of Women, asked to “denaturalize violence once morest women, especially in the context of a couple, and to denounce or report any case,” indicated the newspaper El País.
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