With Video: Fugitive Suspect Wanted for Colombia Murder Sighted on Canadian Train, Says Witness

A Canadian hockey blogger named Travis Ridgen contacted Finance Colombia after claiming to have been in an altercation with Jesse Gilbert Wiseman, the 50 year old Canadian suspect wanted in Colombia for the brutal murder and abuse of the corpse of 20 year old victim Laura Lopera in Medellín.

According to the witness,

“I saw Jesse Wiseman (you have a blue alert out for him) on VIA Rail Train 2 vancouver to winnipeg on February 21st in Winnipeg, MB Canada. He’s wanted for the murder of a 20-year-old women (sic) Laura Lopera in Colombia earlier this month and fled the country, and you have a blue notice out for him. He punched me in the head on the train and was kicked off the train and taken in by Winnipeg police but released yesterday. He was heading to Toronto. I have video of him on the train.”

Finance Colombia immediately turned over all dialogue and the witness’ personal contact information to the Colombian National Police and the Canadian Embassy in Bogotá.

“Yeah he was travelling vancouver to Toronto, Feb 19-23 but got kicked off in Winnipeg on Feb 21 after he punched me. The staff said he wouldn’t be let back on a train for at least a month after this. The police put him in the drunk tank for the night and is now released. They wouldn’t give me any other information outside of this and he was def not mentally stable from having dinner with him…Other passengers said he spent most of the trip in his train cabin and was acting weird. It’s also odd cause these tickets are $2000 a piece so why would you get kicked off the train and punch somebody. Doesn’t make sense.” 

Wiseman is wanted in Colombia for the murder on February 10 of Laura Lopera in the downtown Medellín neighborhood known as “Boston.” According to Colombian prosecutors, Lopera’s body was found stuffed inside of a suitcase. Wiseman had already left the country on a flight to Guatemala before authorities began to pursue him. From Guatemala he was said to have flown to Turkiye, and now has reportedly turned up in his home country of Canada.

The witness submitted the above video, claiming that he ended up in an altercation with the suspect. The killing has caused outrage in the country and drawn comparisons to last year’s murder of Valentina Trespalacios, whose dismembered body was discovered in Bogotá in similarly grisly circumstances. US Citizen John Poulos is facing 50 years for the murder and dismemberment of Trespalacios, who was also found in a suitcase in Bogotá.

Finance Colombia is reporting on the claims made by the witness in this instance and welcomes any corrections, amplifications or clarifications.