Blanca Arellano, victim of femicide in Peru, in a photograph posted on social networks.RR.
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Blanca Arellano met a Peruvian through an online video game application.
She traveled from Mexico, her country, to Lima and came to live with him.
She 10 days ago she disappeared.
This Thursday, Juan Pablo Villafuerte, her partner and the main suspect in her murder, was captured.
A silver ring floating on the sea in Huacho, a province north of Lima, was the first clue that helped investigators unravel the most brutal case of femicide in Peru.
The jewel was embedded in a fingerprintless finger from a body that had been dismembered.
On November 9, a discovery shook the fishermen of the port of Huacho, on Chorrillos beach.
They first found a faceless head and, hours later, an arm.
The next day, in an irrigation canal adjacent to the beach, the torso of a body without organs emerged.
Three days later, through social networks, the niece of a Mexican citizen named Blanca Arellano Gutiérrez, 51, reported that her aunt was missing, that they had lost communication with her since November 7, and that her partner, Juan Pablo Jesús Villafuerte Pinto, a 37-year-old Peruvian, a medical student, had been elusive.
To the point of telling her family that Blanca had gotten bored with him and had made the decision to return to Mexico.
Although Villafuerte Pinto denied, days later, having had a sentimental relationship with Blanca Arellano, the truth is that both met through online video game groups during the pandemic.
There was affinity and in July of this year, Arellano, a graduate in Tourism, arrived in Lima to live with Villafuerte Pinto, in the house she rented in the city of Huacho.
It did not take many days for the forensic experts to be certain that the ring belonged to Blanca Arellano.
They found too many similarities with a ring that the victim wore in photographs posted on her social networks.
On Tuesday the 15th, agents from the Criminal Investigation Department entered the house of Villafuerte Pinto, who remained silent during the police interrogation, and performed a luminol test to reveal latent blood stains in various areas of the place.
The evidence is irrefutable: traces were found in the bathroom, the laundry room, cleaning supplies and even on the mattress.
They also found women's clothing, some suitcases and a Mexican flag.
It was only that day, a week after the disappearance of Blanca Arellano, that the Prosecutor's Office asked the Judiciary for a preliminary arrest warrant against Villafuerte Pinto.
After hours of uncertainty, the alleged murderer was captured on Thursday afternoon in the Villa El Salvador district of Lima.
He is not only accused of femicide, but he is suspected of organ trafficking.
The experts in criminalistics maintain that the mutilations, especially the disfigurement of the face, was carried out by a specialist, since they are cuts without irregularities.
And that he probably didn't do it alone.
Blanca Arellano's family is in the Peruvian capital to carry out the procedures corresponding to the formalization of the identification.
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