Blanca Arellano flew approximately 3,000 miles from Mexico City to Lima, Peru, in October to meet 37-year-old Pablo Jesús Villafuerte, a human medicine and biotechnology student with whom she met on an online gaming app and formed a romantic relationship with. The 51-year-old headed to the beach city of Huacho, where the Peruvian man lives, and Arellano’s family believed she was happily in love.

However, they grew suspicious when they lost contact with her. Arellano’s family said they last heard from her on Nov. 7. On Nov. 10, police made a troubling discovery when they found a severed fingertip that still had a silver ring on it on a beach. The following day, on the same beach, they found parts of the body of Blanca Arellano in gruesome condition in Huacho. Vice reports that a faceless head and an arm were uncovered, and a torso without any organs was found a day later.

According to investigators, upon her arrival in Peru, the Mexican native spoke with her niece, Karla Arellano, and said her relationship with Villafuerte was going well and she’s in love.

On Nov. 7, when Karla had not been able to make contact with her aunt, she reached out to Villafuerte for answers.

Karla posted screenshots of the conversation with Villafuerte on Twitter.

“My aunt has been incommunicado since Sunday and my family is worried,” wrote Karla. “You think you can tell her to contact us, please? Is she okay?”

Villafuerte then replied, revealing that Blanca had gotten bored of him so they broke up and she was heading back to Mexico.

“The truth is, I don’t know anything since several days ago,” he wrote, according to the screenshot shared on Twitter. “She decided to leave. I could not give her the life she wanted. She got bored of me. She went to Lima to look for a ticket to Mexico.”

Villafuerte then said that he didn’t know whether Blanca’s phone SIM was still working and he knew nothing more about her whereabouts. He wished Karla the best of luck in finding her and ended the correspondence.

The conversation with Villafuerte did not put Karla at ease. In fact, she drew even more suspicious.

“My mind started throwing up thoughts. Leaving just like that? Has your chip stopped working? For me this didn’t make any sense,” she tweeted. “MY AUNT WOULD NOT DISAPPEAR JUST LIKE THAT EVER AND LESS WITHOUT WARNING. When I asked him more questions about the situation he told me the following: ‘She got bored after 15 days of being in Peru.'”

Villafuerte also shared a text between him and Blanca where it appeared she was in good spirits headed back to Lima to catch a bus to Mexico.

Fortunately, Karla wasn’t buying it and continued to push for answers on her aunt’s whereabouts.

Peruvian authorities arrested Villafuerte on Nov. 17, identifying him as the the last person to see Arellano and the main suspect in her murder.

“Juan Pablo Villafuerte was arrested on charges of human organs trafficking,” officials told local reporters, according to The Daily Beast.

Police said they found traces of blood in Villafuerte’s apartment. Another report from Spanish news outlet el Popular reveals that Villafuerte uploaded videos of organs to his TikTok account.

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