Former boxer Félix Verdejo received two sentences of life in prison on Friday in his native Puerto Rico after being found guilty of killing his 27-year-old pregnant lover, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
FiLE - In this April 20, 2019 file photo, Puerto Rico's Felix Verdejo, right, punches Costa Rica's Bryan Vazquez during the fifth round of a lightweight boxing match in New York. Verdejo has turned himself in to federal agents on Saturday, May 1, 2021, just hours after authorities identified the body of his 27-year-old lover Keishla Rodríguez in a lagoon in the U.S. territory, a couple of days after she was reported missing.
A competitor in the 2012 Olympics in London, Verdejo held a professional record of 27-12, with his final fight in Dec. 2020. Five months later, he was charged in connection to the death of 27-year-old Keishla Rodríguez after turning himself in to authorities in San Juan The details of Rodríguez's killing are beyond disturbing. Prosecutors alleged Verdejo, who is married with a daughter, executed a premeditated plan of luring her to his car, punching her, injecting her with drugs, tying her to a cement block with metal wire and throwing her off the Teodoro Moscoso bridge into the San José Lagoon, with the aid of co-defendant Luis Antonio Cádiz-Martínez. He is also alleged to have jumped into the lagoon to ensure her death.
Per the AP, Cádiz said during the trial that Verdejo had pressured Rodríguez to get an abortion. Cádiz later called 911 anonymously and provided the location of Rodríguez’s body.
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