Woman Hanging in the Park is Abused by Passersby

Colombia.

Kelly Tatiana Ruiz (24) was found very freshly hanged in a public park. The guy who is filming the video is apparently not the one who phoned the police or, if he was, he didn't stick around.

There was some initial speculation in the news that she was murdered by the guy with the camera. Personally, I think it is significantly more likely that he's a random petty criminal with other business in the part at night and just happened to find this woman who hanged herself only moments earlier. He sounds baked out of his mind while he's slapping her rather ungently, but he keeps saying, "Uncle" "Uncle!" He then says, "This girl just hanged herself here at BN Park." Of course, he's got an ancient, crumbling hand gun as well, but I figure that's just Colombia. According to my source (a reporter for a local tv station), he received the video from the cameraman, but that the guy only wanted to be paid for the video and not to have his identity revealed.

As usual, there was a lot of concern in the news and on social media that she was actually murdered, less because of the drunken gunman with the camera, but more because her knees are on the ground. Very few people outside of the forensic or law enforcement field ever seem to actually understand the prevalence of partial suspension hangings.

Based on statements from her family, she had previously been a prominent soccer player in a local league, but had been battling drug problems for the past year or two.

Here is the original article, as written. It mostly just goes over the things I already highlighted or things visible in the video, but it is a little window into the odd style of journalism that we frequently deal with when researching these cases:

In this community where more than 100,000 people live, they wonder what the video of Kelly's death reveals.

If she didn't kill herself, was she murdered? The video shows Kelly with a rope around her neck; her urine-soaked shorts are a sign of a person recently hanging. But her knees on the ground. Unless she was hung from a second flexible branch, the first branch of the tree was too low to hang.

And they wonder: “And who is the one recording the video so quickly after her death and slapping Kelly and pointing a gun at her? So we have the question, Was Kelly Killed? "

The body of the young woman was taken to Medicinal Legal, a forensic opinion will determine if there are marks on her skin caused by external blows and if there are fingerprints other than hers.

Most importantly, if she died from asphyxiation caused by the rope the marks on her neck will shed light on her death.

Now, the police handle the issue as an alleged suicide, for that reason, the case already goes directly to the Prosecutor's Office. If the family requests an investigation, it must determine whether it was suicide or was killed.

https://www.qhubocali.com/judiciales/piden-esclarecer-la-extrana-muerte-de-kelly/