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  1. Tourist Murdered Near Parque Lleras Medellin Colombia for Cell Phone

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  2. The Disturbing Rise of Tourist Murders In Medellin, Colombia 🇨🇴

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  3. Murdered tourists and sex trafficking exposes dark side of Medellin’s

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  4. Foreign Tourist Murdered In El Poblado Hotel

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  5. American Tourist Found Dead In Medellin After Date With Woman He Met Online

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  6. American Tourist Found Dead in Medellín Hotel

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  1. 'Drugged, robbed, killed': The city catching US tourists in dating trap

    In the first 10 months of 2023, Medellin's tourism observatory had already recorded 32 violent killings of foreigners in the city - including at least 12 Americans and three from the United ...

  2. Colombia: Slayings of tourists expose the dark side of Medellin's

    Now the tourism boom has presented officials with a new set of dark challenges, including an uptick in sex trafficking and the killing of tourists and Colombian women after rendezvous on dating apps. "This area has spun out of control," Medellin Mayor Federico Gutiérrez said recently while touring a park known for the sex trade.

  3. Another American Tourist Found Dead in Medellin

    Clifford Allan Wilke, a 66-year-old American tourist was found dead in his hotel room last Sunday. Another tourist was found dead on the same day under strange circumstances: Horacio Perez Ledezma, a 54-year-old Mexican tourist was brutally murdered in Medellin. These two deaths take the total death toll of tourists in Medellin's metropolitan ...

  4. 29 tourist deaths trigger alarm bells in Medellín

    29 tourist deaths trigger alarm bells in Medellín. In 2024, there has been one death every 6 days in the Colombian city, compared to one every 10 days in 2023. At least half of those killed have been Americans. Police on the streets of Medellín. Natalia Pedraza Bravo. On Thursday morning, Matthew Watson Croulet got into a cab in Medellín. He ...

  5. Murdered tourists and sex trafficking exposes dark side of Medellin's

    Murdered tourists and sex trafficking exposes dark side of Medellin's tourism boom. A sharp dip in violence in Colombia's second-biggest city has attracted a flood of tourists to Medellin

  6. The American travel hotspot where a tourist is dying every week

    Tourists walk in Provenza neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia on June 13, 2024. At night, sex workers take up their positions in the Colombian city of Medellin, where a tourism boom has led to a ...

  7. U.S. tourists in Colombia caught in new wave of kidnappings

    January 23, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EST. MEDELLÍN, Colombia — The local detectives pointed to the spot in the grass near a creek where the body was found. Eh Xiong walked toward it, listening to the ...

  8. Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of ...

    Slayings of tourists and Colombian women expose the dark side of Medellin's tourism boom. Tourists take photos in the Comuna 13 neighborhood of Medellin, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024. Once a ...

  9. An American Met a Woman on Tinder in Colombia. Now She's

    It's also not exclusive to just Tinder. A 19-year-old woman along with her 25-year-old partner were found guilty for causing the death of a man in London, England who was lured by the pair from ...

  10. Tourists to Colombia Warned Against Using Dating Apps After Sedatives

    Four people were recently arrested in connection with the murder of another American tourist who may have met a date online. Still, arrests are rare. Mr. Nguyen's mother, Kimberly Dao, said the ...

  11. Medellin: Three tourists killed in two weeks

    Medellin, Colombia's second-largest city, had enjoyed a boom in tourism after shaking off its reputation as the former murder capital of the world. But rocky times have returned. More from ...

  12. Colombia investigates the killing of a Hmong American comedian and

    Colombian authorities on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023 were investigating the alleged kidnapping and murder of Tou Ger Xiong, a Hmong American comedian and activist who was found dead Monday in a wooded area of the northern city Medellín. (Darlene Pfister/Star Tribune via AP) Tou Ger Xiong faces a sea of nearly all white faces during his diversity ...

  13. Killing of 3 foreigners the past 2 weeks causing alarm in Colombia's

    Danish tourist Tomás Willemoes was shot and killed last week at close range by an unknown assailant in a popular plaza in the city's most upscale neighborhood. His murder came just days after an ...

  14. Eight 'suspicious' US deaths in Colombia linked to dating apps

    The incidents often occurred in cities like Medellin, Cartagena and Bogota where US tourism has picked up. Travellers are being told to avoid isolated locations like hotel rooms.

  15. British tourist, 34, dies after being mugged and hit over head with a

    A British tourist has reportedly died after being attacked by muggers at a mountain viewpoint overlooking the Colombian city of Medellin, according to local media.. The 34-year-old was reportedly ...

  16. Tourist deaths linked to dance with devil in Colombia's Sin City

    In the decades since Pablo Escobar's death, the city of Medellin has transformed into a global tourism hot-spot and is now Colombia's Sin City. Medellin, Colombia, was the home of infamous ...

  17. US Embassy warns citizens not to use Tinder or Grindr in Medellín after

    "They are the most prone to suffer these types of situations, which result in theft or death," he says. At the same time, criminal organizations have taken advantage of the opportunity with tourist packages ranging from Pablo Escobar tours to drug consumption. Daniel Duque, a former councilman for the Green Party, adds two other reasons.

  18. Medellin, Colombia, tourism: The former 'murder capital of the world

    The former 'murder capital of the world' is now overrun with tourists. Known as the murder capital of the world at the start of the '90s, by the late 2000s Medellin, Colombia, had undergone ...

  19. Yes another post about Medellin. Another foreigner killed in a street

    Yes another post about Medellin. Another foreigner killed in a street robbery (no drugs or sex tourism) Health Foreigners continue to die in Medellín: a Canadian was beaten to death in Belén. ... If anything, the shift has been business areas in Medellin that cater to tourism have been flooded by poor hoodlums from Bello, not tourists going ...

  20. The Disturbing Rise of Tourist Murders In Medellin, Colombia

    Over the last few months, there has been a disturbing rise in tourist deaths and murders in Colombia. What's causing these deaths, and what is going on in Co...

  21. r/medellin on Reddit: Global tourist killings report and some tips for

    Bienvenidos r/Medellin mis parceros! Es Colombia. ... Global tourist killings report and some tips for newbies (from someone who fucking loves this city) ... properly by 25, and I'd hazard a guess that most of these honey traps are younger. They don't set out to get people killed, they just want some money, and they're more likely to be ...

  22. Medellín seems to have daily incidents of tourists getting ...

    Digital Nomads are individuals that leverage technology in order to work remotely and live an independent and nomadic lifestyle. Medellín seems to have daily incidents of tourists getting drugged or even killed. I am member of the Medellín expat Facebook group (very toxic) and the Medellín group on reddit. Every few days there Is a new post ...

  23. All About Karol G's Parents, Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro

    Guillermo Giraldo and Martha Navarro welcomed their daughter, Carolina Giraldo Navarro a.k.a. Karol G, in 1991. Here's everything to know about Karol G's parents, Guillermo Giraldo and Martha ...