His body was found in pieces, with his fingerprints erased and his face missing, washed up on the shores.
A Mexican woman identified as white arellano I travel to Peru to meet Juan Pablo Jesus Villafuerte, with whom he had a relationship of months on the internet. However, after spending three months in the city of Huacho, she suddenly lost contact with her family.
A few days later, his body was found in pieces, with erased fingerprints and no face, on the city’s beaches.
The case shocked Peruvian society, and this Tuesday the Justice ordered nine months of preventive detention for Juan Pablo Villafuerte, the main suspect in the femicide, who also faces charges of human trafficking and organ trafficking.
The prosecutor’s thesis maintains that this man, 37 years old and a medical student, is linked to the disappearance and death of the Mexican citizen with whom, apparently, he had a sentimental relationship.
Missing
Arellano, 51, arrived in Peru in late July to meet Villafuerte, whom he had apparently met through a gambling platform.
Once on Peruvian soil, both would have lived together in an apartment in the city of Huacho, located in the department of Lima.
Arellano’s relatives reported his disappearance on November 7, two days before the Police found human remains on a beach in this town.
During the hearing, the Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the forensic report confirmed that these remains belong to the Mexican citizen, according to local media such as RPPdetailing that finally his niece -who led a campaign on social networks to find the victim- confirmed the identity of his aunt.
With our hearts and lives in pieces we confirm that our beloved aunt Blanca Arellano has been identified as dead. We ask our family for respect and discretion in these difficult times, we have no words to express what we are experiencing.
— Karla Arellano (@itskararellano) November 23, 2022
With the Arellano case, there are already 39 women who, so far in 2022, have been murdered in the most extreme expression of gender violence in Peru, where the femicides reported in the last five years add up to a total of 674, reported this Tuesday the Public Ministry.