American sentenced to 42 years in prison for femicide in Colombia

Prosecutors said he beat and choked her “in the midst of an attack of jealousy.”

Security camera footage showed Poulos leaving his apartment pushing a shopping cart with a large suitcase in which Trespalacios' body had been stuffed.

His body was later discovered in a trash can.

The previous year, the Colombian Femicide Observatory, an NGO, recorded 612 feminicides in the country, while the government recorded only 100.

Femicide has been a separate crime in Colombia since 2015.

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