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Colombian Jorge Ignacio Palma charged with four accusations attributed by a Valencia court (Spain): the death of three women and the introduction of cocaine by force into the genitals of another, with whom he had a sexual encounter.
The alleged fatalities of this 38-year-old man born in Ibagué are Marta Calvo, a Spaniard who disappeared on November 7, 2019; Lady Marcela Vargas, Colombian, who died on June 15, 2019, and Arliene Ramos, Brazilian, who died on March 25, 2019.
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Marta Calvo, 25, met Palma through a contact page and went to her home, a rented house in the town of Manuel, in Valencia. According to the alleged killer, she died by accident after an evening of sex and cocaine. He, scared because he had a criminal past, dismembered the body and hid it.
On December 4, he appeared before the police and confessed. It is possible that it was delivered by the fact that Marta had shared with her mother the location in real time where she was. The truth is it is not known what he did during the 21 days he was on the run nor where is the body of the victim.
The Civil Guard, which stopped the search a month ago, found nothing in the Dos Aguas landfill, which receives the containers from l’Olleria and Alzira, where Palma said he had distributed the remains.
In December 2019, he entered the Picassent prison in Valencia, where He remains in custody without bail.
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The social alarm that was aroused in Spain by the disappearance of Calvo accelerated investigations into the deaths of Lady Marcela Vargas and Arliene Ramos.
Vargas, a 26-year-old Colombian girl who was supporting her mother and two children, He worked as a prostitute in a brothel in Valencia.
On a night with few clients, he arranged a visit to Palma by phone. The man came and they entered a room from which he hurried out during the early morning. Her companions discovered the naked and lifeless body of Lady Marcela in the bed.
The medical services determined that the cause of death had been an overdose: cocaine impregnated in the genitals, whose absorption is immediate. The National Institute of Toxicology found a number of drug 26 times higher than what is considered lethal.
Arliene Ramos, 32, also worked as a prostitute in a place on the outskirts of Valencia. The meeting with Palma consisted, in the same way, in a “white party”: sex and drugs. The truth is that he suffered an overdose and died two days later in a hospital.
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Although the three deaths with common elements took place over just seven months, the police did not initially link them.
In fact, the cases were shelved on several occasions. Now, the Court of Instruction Number 20 of Valencia accumulate the four causes in a single procedure, a decision ratified by the Provincial Court of Valencia.
They are united by the analogy in the forms of action of the alleged murderer and the relationship of time and space between them. It would be a serial killer.
The last case that is attributed to the introduction of cocaine into the genitals of a woman during a sexual encounter without her consent, the complaints of at least seven others are added who stated before the Civil Guard that they had been victims of the same type of action by Palma.
Palma, whom the authorities consider to be a trafficker of cocaine in medium quantities, He served eight years in prison in Italy, after being arrested with 9 kilos of that drug.
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The civil Guard he suspects that from prison he contacted drug traffickers who possibly helped him during the 21 days he was on the run — from Marta Calvo’s death to her surrender to the authorities — and also to dispose of the girl’s body.
Investigators requested permission to trace their calls, as they suspect that he uses two clandestine telephone cards in prison.
Finding Calvo’s corpse is key because defense of the accused seeks to minimize punishment in the absence of this, and even thinks that it could consist of an administrative infraction of the police regulations.
The unification of the cases against him, however, makes the defense difficult. The judge who is now in charge of them points to intentional homicide (intention to kill) and murder with eventual intent (knowledge that their action can cause death). The penalties for these crimes are between 15 and 22 years.
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