A teen mother who went missing five months ago in Venezuela has been found tied up in her own freezer with her naked body mutilated by 50 screwdriver stab wounds.
Ana Gabriela Medina Blanco, 19, was discovered inside the chest freezer in the foetal position with her hands bound, her head between her legs, and arms crossed.
Her ex-partner, who is believed to be the father of her four-year-old son, discovered Ms Blanco after a months-long search on July 29 inside her house in Santiago Marino in the northern Venezuelan state of Aragua.
Detectives believe she was killed by her new boyfriend, named locally as Josue, who was described by neighbours as ‘very jealous and abusive’, reporting that the pair often fought. Josue, from Caracas, is believed to be on the run.
Ana Gabriela Medina Blanco, 19, was discovered inside the chest freezer in the foetal position with her hands bound, her head between her legs, and arms crossed
As the young woman often travelled to the capital, Caracas, no alarm bells were raised over her disappearance in March
As the young woman often travelled to the capital, Caracas, no alarm bells were raised over her disappearance in March.
Her stepfather also told local media that he had moved to a different part of the country and only maintained sporadic contact with her.
However, as time went on, Ms Blanco’s ex-partner decided to take matters into his own hands and enter her home to see if he could find any clues about her disappearance.
When he entered the property, he was met by a stench, so he looked in the fridge and then the freezer, where he came across the grim scene. He then went straight to the police.
Investigators are currently analysing fingerprints left on the freezer, which may link her ‘jealous and abusive’ boyfriend Josue to the crime.
The murder rate in Venezuela has soared amid an economic collapse in President Nicolas Maduro’s failed socialist state.
According to data from the independent Venezuelan Violence Observatory (VVO), the homicide rate was 45.6 per 100,000 in 2020, with 11,891 murders recorded.
While violence remains rampant, the latest figures from the VVO represent a 30 percent decline in murders compared to last year.
Despite this the VVO describes violence as still rampant in the country and an ‘epidemic that was 11 times more deadly than the coronavirus’ last year.
Source: Daily Mail
