Images of surveillance cameras on the Teodoro Moscoso bridge , telephone communications and the confession of a collaborator are only part of the evidence available to federal authorities in Puerto Rico to support the accusations against the boxer Félix Verdejo and the co-defendant for the events that unleashed in the murder of Keishla Rodríguez Ortiz .
Since before the body of the young woman from 27 years was found floating in the San José lagoon where it was thrown, the past 29 of April, supposedly by Verdejo and Luis Antonio “Tony” Cádiz Martínez, and the local and federal police authorities were collecting evidence.
Compromising exchanges of calls and texts between Félix Verdejo and Keishla Rodríguez
Specifically, the 30 April, a day after Keishla disappeared, l The agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) obtained data from the cell phone calls between Keishla and Verdejo and established the location of the victim’s cell phone.
The El Vocero report indicates that the analysis of said data showed that, in the morning hours of that Thursday, the telephones associated with the victim and Verdejo were connected in several cellular communication towers, located very close to each other. .
The files of the phone calls obtained by the FBI confirmed several communications between Verdejo and the victim, not only on the day of the murder, but the day before. The evaluation identified several calls and text messages between the parties – who were romantically involved – the 28 April in the morning hours.
Keishla’s mother, Keila Ortiz Rivera, was one of the first to publicly declare to the press that her daughter informed her that she would meet with Verdejo that Thursday to show him the positive results of the blood test that confirmed her pregnancy.
According to Ortiz Rivera’s story to media such as Telemundo and Primera Hora, he warned Keishla to be careful, because Verdejo had already threatened her and asked her to abort the creature.
Blood on the Teodoro Moscoso bridge could be from Keishla
Other evidence that would help advance the case is the finding of blood on the fences of the bridge , as confirmed by sources to NotiCentro then d e that Keishla’s body was recovered from the water on Saturday.
Staff from the Institute of Forensic Sciences examined the area above the San José lagoon, and that was part of the compilation.
Seizure of the Dodge Durango de Verdejo vehicle
Another relevant piece of information from the investigation that has emerged to the media is the seizure of Verdejo’s Dogde Durango truck in which he hit Keishla before injecting him, along with his buddy, a mixture of fentanyl and heroin that rendered her unconscious .
Puerto Rico Police personnel arrived at a residence owned by the fighter in the Caimito neighborhood of San Juan in hours of at dawn last Sunday to occupy the vehicle owned by the athlete .
Images of security cameras on the Teodoro Moscoso bridge
The m isma truck would have been captured in the morning hours of security of the Teodoro Moscoso bridge, from where Keishla’s still-alive body was thrown.
The devices would have captured part of the duo’s movements in the area that day.
Primera Hora reported that the available material shows a vehicle similar to Verdejo’s stopping on the bridge, but that additional analysis would be necessary to confirm the data because the image was somewhat blurred.
The same Sunday that the boxer’s truck was confiscated, the boxer turned himself in to federal authorities and was transferred to the Federal Metropolitan Detention Center in Guaynabo.
The testimony of Cádiz Martínez to the FBI that served as the basis for the official presentation of charges against both by of a grand jury this Thursday, indicates that he moved to the bridge in the vehicle or Kia Forte de Keishla and Verdejo with the victim in the Dodge, and who later removed the body that was tied with wire from the feet and hands, tied a cement block to it and threw it into the water. While Keishla fell into the lagoon, Verdejo shot him twice without reaching her.
In fact, the collaborator’s testimony also mentions that they both walked around the area before parking to launch. Keishla.
Testimony of Verdejo’s alleged partner corroborates physical evidence, says lawyer
The testimony of the collaborating witness who is also a co-defendant in the federal case corroborates the physical evidence of the crime, as he told Puerto Rican television media , the lawyer Edwin Prado.
Prado, who represented Cádiz until the accusations of the grand jury fell, was the “common thread” between the implicated and the federal prosecutors.
“The first thing we did was the logical thing, ‘where is the body?’, And he authorized me to give that information to the federal government, and from then on, as he did not have money to hire my services, the court appointed me ex officio … One des special authority to represent him in this period until the accusations are dropped, “said the jurist who was the common thread between Cádiz Martínez and the federal government.
Both defendants remain in custody awaiting the hearing deposit next 11 May. They face charges
of “carjacking” and kidnapping that led to the murder of the young woman as well as an unborn baby, since Keishla was allegedly pregnant with Verdejo.
The fighter also faces a charge for using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. This charge refers to the moment when Verdejo allegedly shot the victim twice without hitting her while she fell into the water.
It should be noted that no relative or friend of Verdejo or his lawyers have reacted to the tragic case that has impacted the most sensitive fiber of the Puerto Rican people and has encouraged the call against femicides in the country .