A former “Shark Tank Colombia’’ contestant wanted for allegedly murdering two teenage girls with poisoned raspberries has been arrested after being fished from the Thames River.
Zulma Guzman Castro, 54, was taken into custody in London on Monday, three weeks after she was pulled from the freezing river by the Battersea Bridge on Dec. 16, the Daily Mail reported.
Castro had been in a psychiatric hospital since her frigid leap, which occurred eight months after she allegedly fatally goofed while targeting her former lover, one of the girls’ dads.
She is now being held by UK authorities till she can be extradited to Colombia, where she has been wanted for the horrific deaths of 14-year-old Ines de Bedout and 13-year-old Emilia Forero in Bogota in April.
Castro is accused of lacing and sending the poisoned chocolate-covered berries to murder Ines’ father, Juan de Bedout, whom she had been secretly seeing for years but had recently broken up with, People magazine reported.
But the girls ended up eating the berries.
Both of the teens died four days after they ate the deadly treat, which had been laced with tasteless, odorless thallium poison.
Another teen girl was left with life-changing injuries from the poisoning, while the 21-year-old brother of one of the victims was also hospitalized, officials said.
Castro — a carpool-business founder who appeared on Colombia’s version of the entrepreneurship television show “Shark Tank” in 2021 — is believed to have fled the South American country April 13, less than a week after the girls died, and arrived in the UK sometime in November.
Already a suspect, she went on the airwaves in December for an interview in which she denied the allegations against her, claiming the murders were being pinned on her because her affair with Bedout made her an easy mark, the Daily Mail reported.
The father of Emilia paid tribute to his daughter in August, on what would have been her 14th birthday.
“Daughter, you will always be the greatest love I as a father can ever feel. There is no girlfriend or wife that can generate the love I had when I had you, and with this love I will go until the last day of my life,” Pedro Forero wrote on Facebook.
“I love you and I will love you for the rest of my life. I cry for the stories we won’t be able to live. I appreciate who you were and what you taught me. You were and will be the cutest thing I had in my life.”
