Indignation and repudiation continues to cause the murder that shook Bucaramanga, following it was found a woman’s body in a suitcase in the center of the Santanderean capital.
The victim would be Julieth Alvarez, 22, who would have been murdered by Edwin Yesid Medina who, apparently, committed the crime because he did not have money to pay him following agreeing to meet for the night.
According to information from the authorities, Medina had agreed to spend the night with the victim, but since He had no money to fulfill the agreement, he chose to kill her. The crime occurred the morning of last Friday, January 14.
The man, according to the evidence that has been compiled by the Prosecutor’s Office, he suffocated her and passed the body to another room. Before leaving, he tucked her in to make it look like she was asleep.
Almost 12 hours later, Medina put the woman’s body in a suitcase and with the help of a friend, whom he told that it was rubble, he took it out of his apartment and left it lying in the center of the city.
The capture
A call that entered the Automatic Police Dispatch Center on Friday night was key to solving the heinous crime.
While the agents of the Technical Investigation Corps, CTI, of the Prosecutor’s Office, carried out the procedure to remove the body, the Police interviewed the person who made the call to 123. The witness would have assured that he helped to remove the suitcase, unaware that inside there was a corpse, because the alleged murderer told him that it was rubble.
His story allowed the authorities to reach an apartment located three blocks from the site where the woman’s lifeless body was found, where they found the alleged perpetrator of the crime.
Through a voluntary search, the authorities entered the building, and there they found the victim’s bag and other belongings.
“I killed her”
Medina was captured hours following authorities found the woman’s body. Sources close to the investigation confirmed to the Bucaramanga newspaper Vanguardia that from the very beginning the man accepted his responsibility in the crime, which was ratified this Sunday before a guarantee control judge in Bucaramanga.
The Prosecutor’s Office charged him with the crime of aggravated homicide in heterogeneous competition with concealment, alteration or destruction of material evidence.
After accepting the charges, the confessed author of the homicide received an insurance measure in a penitentiary center and was sent to the Bucaramanga Model Prison.
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