Latest News: One Venezuelan newsapaper reports that police claim that EDWIN VALERO confessed to stabbing his wife, Jennifer, to death at a hotel in Valencia, third largest city in that country...
This report is verified also by the Caracas Bureau of Reuters, news agency is cited in Washington Post:
"At 5.30 in the morning, the boxer came down to reception and communicated to security staff what he had done inside the room," police commissioner Wilmer Flores Trosel told reporters, saying Valero had made a confession.
More news as it develops on this horrific tragedy...
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Edwin Valero is being formally charged in Venezuela with stabbing his wife to death (AP Photo)
Edwin Valero, murderer.
Edwin Valero, wifekiller.
Knockout artist Edwin Valero won't likely ever be in the boxing ring again. But he could very soon be in a cage, the cage of a Venezuelan prison on charges of stabbing his lovely wife, the mother of his two children to death.
Venezuelan news sources report Sunday morning that the drug and alcohol plagued WBC lightweight champion, who won all his bouts by knockout, was arrested by Carabobo State Police on suspicion of murdering his wife, Jennifer Carolina.
The vicious stabbing death happened at a hotel in the city of Valencia.
Valero, who suffered brain damage in a 2001 motorcycle accident. can forget about cashing in against superstar Manny Pacquiao or anyone else now.
Valero, age 28, ran up 19 successive first round KOs with a wild, unorthodox lefthanded punching style. His pro record is a perfect 27-0, all by KO.
The warning signs of out of control domestic violence surrounded Valero last summer when he was reported to have assaulted his own mother and sister. No formal charges were filed and the fighter said the allegations were lies spread by his enemies.
Just a couple of weeks ago, Valero's wife landed in a hopsital with a collapsed lung and multiple bruises.
Valero showed up at the hospital in an agitated and confused mental state and threatened medical staff at the facility.
Valero has been barred from entering the United States based on a drunk driving case from Las Vegas. That incident, often misreported as occurring in Texas, took place last May 2 as Valero was on his way to or from the Pacquiao-Ricky Hatton bout.
More recently, there was talk of Valero “drying out” at a rehab center first in his native Venezuela, then in Cuba and even in the Los Angeles area.
In light of his previous troubles, Top Rank promoter Bob Arum said “poor Valero.”
Certainly Arum did not know the depth of Valero's mental demons.
Now his wife, the mother of his children, has paid for his problems with her precious life.
Edwin Valero, tragic figure?
No, but surely his deceased wife and his children are.
All the signs were there but nothing was done.
That's the tragedy, really.
(mlcmarley@aol.com)
Source: examiner.com
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