In photos, a gorgeous model in Florida looks like the picture of perfection. However, when she wasn’t in front of the camera, she was lurking around in the dark, hiding her dirty secret all over Florida.
Liliana Vanegas lived a glamorous life, having made her way out of poverty in Columbia and starting anew in Florida, using her stunning looks to get ahead. Despite having the world at her fingertips, it wasn’t enough for this beauty. There was something else she was after, and she kept getting away with it until one man woke up and saw what she was doing to him.
Canadian tourist Alvin Mahli was in Miami when he decided to hit the club scene for a night of fun and partying. He chose to abstain from drinking, as he took in all the town had to offer after dark, including a conversation with a beautiful girl, who seemed only interested in him.
Vanegas was at the night club alone, when toward the end of the evening, she picked out the 40-year-old Canadian and struck up a conversation with him. Shocked that she had only talked to him all night, Mahli asked the 25-year-old model, “Why are you talking to me, when you didn’t talk to anyone else all night?” he recounted to CBS-4 Miami. Her reply seemed odd, but the businessman brushed it off, unable to look past the opportunity to be with a beautiful young woman.
Mahli said she answered him by saying that she “likes men and doesn’t like boys,” and then, she asked if the two of them could go back to his room. He eagerly accepted, which came to be a regrettable decision a few hours later, when he woke up and realized romance was not on her mind.
Vanegas began drinking heavily, upon entering Mahli’s room, to the point she got drunk and passed out. The traveler eventually fell asleep as well, a little upset that his night hadn’t gone as planned. When he woke up, he found that the model was ransacking his room for valuables, stealing his expensive Rolex watch off the night stand before taking off out the door. However, this was the tip of the iceberg to a long-kept secret she and a male accomplice were keeping around the southern part of the state.
Mahli chased her down the hall, but she escaped him by hopping in a getaway car driven by Francisco Trujillo — or “Daddy,” as he was listed in Vanegas’s phone, according to police. As it turns out, the Canadian was one of the lucky victims, as a long string of men before him didn’t fare as well, based on what was found in the car belonging to the model and “Daddy.”
After police tracked down and apprehended Vanegas and Trujillo, they uncovered a treasure trove of stolen goods that the model had ripped off of the men she seduced, after drugging them with what could have been a lethal elixir of water mixed with Xanax and Ambien.
Investigators believe she spiked their drinks before robbing men, who she picked out based on their accessories. She would then steal their belongings off of them after they passed out. Mahli was fortunate since he chose not to drink that night. Otherwise, he too would have been drugged.
Hopefully, this man learned his lesson that not everyone is who they seem and one night stands aren’t a good idea. Vanegas threw her life away for material greed. Her once pretty face looks a lot different in her mugshot than at her modeling shoots. It’s proof that good looks can be deceiving.