Male Scums looking for underaged sex, murdered in Colombia

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U.S. Embassy warns tourists after eight men died in Medellín in two months, often after meeting women on dating apps

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Minnesota comedian Tou Ger Xiong had fallen in love with the expat lifestyle in the vibrant Colombian city of Medellín: stock trading by day, fine dining and dance clubs by night. He was one of a rising number of Americans and foreign nationals who began flocking to the country after the Covid-19 pandemic, some on new digital nomad visas introduced to help spur a growing startup scene.

But hours after prosecutors say he went out on a date on Dec. 10, he was calling family and friends back home to wire him $2,000, telling them he had been kidnapped and held for ransom. The next day, police found Xiong’s lifeless body with multiple stab wounds and bruises after being tossed off a 260-foot cliff along the side of a stream in a lush, wooded area of a city renowned for its eternal spring climate and rolling green hills.

"It’s surreal that in a place so beautiful, my brother died,” Xiong’s older brother, Eh Xiong, said in a phone interview from Minneapolis.

Xiong is one of at least eight Americans who died in Colombia’s second-largest city in November and December amid dozens of cases involving male tourists who were held captive and robbed, often after meeting women on dating apps, Medellín officials said. The deaths, some after the victims were drugged, and a spike in attacks against foreigners led the U.S. Embassy in Colombia to issue an alert this month urging caution for U.S. citizens meeting people through online dating platforms.

The warnings are a stain for Medellín officials who have spent decades cleaning up the city’s image, from 1990s murder capital under cocaine kingpin Pablo Escobar to tourist hot spot with a flourishing nightlife. Homicides are down 97% in three decades.

But some criminals these days are targeting foreigners, many of whom flock to the city looking for drug-fueled parties and sex workers and are reluctant to report crimes if they are victimized, U.S. and Medellín officials said.


The attacks on foreigners come amid a robust rebound in tourism to Medellín, which residents, city authorities and even longtime expats blame for gentrification and a higher cost of living. The number of apartments listed on rental apps like Airbnb has nearly doubled to 7,000 in the last four years, according to data aggregator AllTheRooms . com. Rent has nearly tripled in the affluent El Poblado district, where Xiong had stayed and where many of the crimes occurred, and which is popular with foreigners who the city has tried to attract in an effort to make Medellín over as a remote tech workers’ paradise.

“We want more and more foreigners to come, but we want them to take part in tourism that adds value,” Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez said after the U.S. warning. “Anyone who thinks they can come here for that sex and drugs tourism, we don’t want any of that here.”

In some of the deaths, which the U.S. Embassy deemed suspicious, American men were found dead in their hotel rooms or rented apartments after outings with local women. In other attacks, thugs robbed and killed them on the street while they were on dates, according to police reports. Others are believed to have died from mixing heavy drinking and the kind of mind-altering drugs gangs slip into drinks to incapacitate a victim before a robbery.

Social-media sites and internet travel message boards are rife with commenters encouraging middle-aged American men to indulge in the libertine dating scene in Colombia’s major cities, where prostitution is legal.

Many men tout their prolific dating through hookup apps like Tinder and Bumble. “Tinder has so many beautiful women in Colombia,” reads one post on TikTok where a woman kisses a man as a banner reads “Passport bro date,” the colloquial term to describe foreigners dating local women.

But there are also scores of social-media accounts warning foreigners of the risks of falling victim on dates in which crime gangs use drugs to sedate unsuspecting marks, to rob them. "It’s become a huge, huge problem in the last few years,” said Jeremy Kreisler, a California native who lived in Medellín and runs a service helping young digital nomads embark on the expat life.

On his X profile, Kreisler in October offered a checklist of “Dating 101” tips, urging followers to choose the meeting site, closely watch their drink and avoid getting drunk. He also advised against mingling without

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