Overview
- Lorena Venier and Mailyn Castro Monsalvo face charges of premeditated murder, aggravated concealment of a corpse and exposing a minor to violence.
- Venier remains in a standard prison facility; Castro Monsalvo is held in a protected mother-and-child center.
- The victim’s six-month-old daughter has been placed in the custody of her maternal grandparents in Colombia.
- Prosecutor Claudia Danelon has commissioned an autopsy to clarify the circumstances of the July 25 killing.
- Defense counsel for Venier has requested a psychiatric evaluation to assess her mental state at the time of the crime.