Since last July 20, when the tragic discovery of the lifeless body of María Camila Potosí, The authorities opened an investigation into the case to identify those allegedly responsible for the disappearance and death of the 21-year-old girl. Also, establish the official causes of his death.
In the midst of the investigations, the victim’s family assured that María Camila had eight months of gestation and that after the technical analyzes it would have been determined that “the baby was not in her womb.”
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Death and disappearance of María Camila Potosí. Photo:Taken from social networks and private archive.
The clue that has become a line of investigation for the authorities
A video at 4:13 in the afternoon of the same day in which all traces of his whereabouts were lost is now part of the file to clarify what would have happened to María Camila Potosíwho was abandoned on the side of the Meléndez River, exactly at kilometer 3 of the road to the town of La Buitrera, in Cali.
In the images, the 21-year-old appears riding a motorcycle with a woman who is already being considered a person of interest in the case. The suspect would have changed the versions she gave to the authorities on two occasions and according to those close to her, “he presented strange behavior in the days after the death of María Camila Potosí.”
EL TIEMPO learned the testimony of the suspect’s ex-partner, who was identified as Yulieth and who is expected to have been one of the last people who saw the young woman alive in Cali.
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Carlos Rincón revealed that He decided to give his statement out of “fear for his life and that of his family.” after recent threats he received at his home. According to their version, they barely realized that the woman driving the motorcycle “would have been involved in the disappearance” of María Camila Potosí“the first thing they did was call the authorities and take her to a police station to be questioned.”
Pain for María Camila Potosí, missing and murdered in the southwest of Cali. Photo:Juan Pablo Rueda / EL TIEMPO
The two ‘false pregnancies’ of the suspect in the case in Cali
Faced with the accusations against his family, Carlos Rincón decided to break the silence and confess that his ex-partner had already faked two pregnancies. Which caused even more suspicion for his strange involvement in this case that shocked Cali and opened a possible hypothesis about the crime.
“Clarify that this is the second time, because in the first was also pregnant and supposedly lost it“explained the ex-partner of the motorcycle driver.
And he added: “It was curious that whenever she had prenatal checkups, I couldn’t attend because it was exactly during my work schedule.”
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Disappearance and murder of María Camila Potosí, in the southwest of Cali. Photo:
On the day of María Camila Potosí’s disappearance, the suspect’s ex-partner said that “That night he slept alone because she never came home”. In addition, he did not respond to the messages that came to his cell phone.
The day the disappearance occurred, I was on my afternoon shift at work, I got home practically at 7 at night and I didn’t know anything, that night I slept alone because she never came home (…) no matter how much I asked him where he was, if he was going to arrive or not, he never answered me,” said Carlos Rincón.
In the video that this newspaper saw, the ex-partner of the woman involved also He reiterated that they had not commented on the case “because the Prosecutor’s Office asked them not to hinder the investigation.”
“For security reasons, The authorities asked us not to provide details about it. because there are allegedly more people involved in the disappearance of the young woman,” he said.
March of rejection for the murder of María Camila Potosí, eight months pregnant. Photo:Juan Pablo Rueda / EL TIEMPO
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In the end, he was once again emphatic that “he no longer has any type of relationship with the suspect” and that, in fact, they alerted the authorities as soon as they found out what happened.
“She is no longer with us, I no longer have anything with her and we had nothing months ago. We had broken up because the relationship was going badly and She was only staying at home those days because of the supposed pregnancy.“, said Carlos Rincón.
Due to the above, The Prosecutor’s Office continues to advance the corresponding investigations and in the collection of key evidence to determine the motives for the crime of María Camila Potosí.
Luisa Fernanda Gutiérrez Henao
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