The location of the Bogotá businesswoman Zulma Guzmán in London (England) reactivated the trial against her for the murder of two girls in the Colombian capital, a case that shocked the country in April 2025.
The event occurred on Wednesday, December 17th, in the early hours of the British police rescued Guzmán from the waters of the Thames. near Battersea Bridge.
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An international arrest warrant is in force against the 54-year-old woman, requested by the Attorney General’s Office through Interpol after she was identified as the main suspect in the double murder of the minors, including the daughter of Juan de Bedout Vargas, who had an extramarital relationship with Guzmán between 2018 and 2020.
Criminal lawyer Fabio Umar, judicial representative of the De Bedut family and who spoke in the podcast, speaks about what follows in this dramatic case and after the location has been determined Georgetown Americas InstituteThe key to identifying Guzmán lay in the analysis of communication and telephone records as well as technical traces.
According to Umar, the next step in the process will be to begin the administrative procedures that will allow Guzmán to appear at a hearing to face charges.
This procedure could practically be carried out from Colombia, with support from staff at the Colombian Consulate in the UK. Formal extradition depends on the legal agreements between both countries and the assessment of the British judges involved in the case.
“What follows are purely administrative procedures to then initiate an arraignment hearing, which can be done practically from Colombia to the United Kingdom, of course with the presence of a lawyer that the Colombian consulate must provide so that she can begin her criminal proceedings as the main suspect,” said the lawyer punctually.
The investigation, in which the collaboration of Juan de Bedut played a central role, made it possible to trace the device from which the delivery of the poisoned raspberries would have been coordinated. Based on this evidence, the prosecution requested the issuance of the Interpol Red Notice.
“It is important to recognize the full decision of Mr. Juan de Bedout and his family to cooperate with the investigation by the then Public Prosecutor’s Office.. “It was the same Juan who said that he had an extramarital relationship with this person,” added the criminal.
And he noted: “The prosecution conducted an impressive, precise and surgical forensic investigation, validating hundreds of technical tests, cell phone tracking, calls and IMEI of cell phones.”
Guzmán had left the country and traveled through Argentina and Spain before settling in the United Kingdom, where one of his children lived. He conducted an interview the weekend before his arrest Focus News by He denied all allegations and stated his intention to prove his innocence to the authorities.
The Attorney General’s Office expanded its investigation into the deaths of two minors in Bogota after finding a history related to the mother of one of the victims, who died in 2021.
The woman was married to the father of one of the girls and her previous illness was also related to poisoning with thallium, a highly toxic element. This information was highlighted in the program The informants by Caracol Television, It was discovered that the woman experienced severe symptoms in December 2020, in the middle of the pandemic.
Dr. Julio Portocarrero, an internist and endocrinologist who treated the patient, said in an interview that the woman had “severe hair loss and terribly painful peripheral neuropathy.”
Due to these signs, blood and urine tests were carried out, which confirmed high levels of thallium, well above normal levels. From this result follows The patient received specific treatment and, according to Portocarrero, achieved significant improvement: “The last thallium test I did on him, which was two or three, came back zero, undetectable, so he was already fine.”
After improving and lifting health restrictions, the couple traveled around Europe in 2021 and visited his friend Alejandro Herrera in France. Herrera told the show that the wife arrived “completely devastated” and with major weight loss, while the husband felt it was not necessary to resort to emergency medical care. After returning to Colombia, the patient died a month later, on August 17, 2021, at the age of 50.
Dr. Portocarrero later reported that the woman had suffered a relapse during the trip and that according to later medical reports A previously diagnosed tumor was reactivated, a cause determined to be the cause of death..
Although Portocarrero stated that “the probability that thallium was the cause of this tumor or cancer is close to zero,” he warned that the stress caused by the poisoning could have weakened the patient’s immune system and favored the recurrence of the disease.
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