Woman Found Dismembered With Missing Organs After Flying To Peru To Meet Online Love
On July 27, 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 for months, 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 which still had a silver ring on it on a beach. The following day, on the same beach they found the body of Blanca Arellano in gruesome condition in Huacho. VICE reports that a faceless head, an arm and a torso without any organs were uncovered.
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 Villafuerta for answers.
Jamás creí estar en esta situación, hoy pido apoyo y difusión para localizar a una de las personas más amadas e importantes de mi vida. Mi tía Blanca Olivia Arellano Gutiérrez desapareció el día Lunes 07 de Noviembre en Peru, ella de origen Mexicano, tememos por su vida+ pic.twitter.com/4aHRuv0zAW
— Karla Arellano (@itskararellano) November 12, 2022
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. “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 says that he doesn’t know if Blanca’s phone SIM is still working and he knows nothing more about her whereabouts. He wishes Karla the best of luck in finding her and ends the correspondence.
El día Lunes 07 de Noviembre fue el día que para la mayoría de los que la conocemos, dejó de tener contacto en redes sociales. Decidí comunicarme con Juan P ya que era el único contacto que ella tenía en ese país y ahí es donde se disparó nuestro temor pic.twitter.com/3e0Y2Tlv4p
— Karla Arellano (@itskararellano) November 12, 2022
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 her answers on her aunt’s whereabouts.
“Ella se aburrió a los 15 días de estar en Peru” El argumenta que el Domingo mi tía decidió regresar a Mexico, estaban en Huacho y ella por sus medios salió hacia Lima para posterior salir a Mexico pero no ha sucedido eso pic.twitter.com/spGgBLhFyX
— Karla Arellano (@itskararellano) November 12, 2022
According to The Daily Beast, a faceless head was found floating by a local fisherman in the waters in the port of Huacho on Nov. 9. Hours later, an arm, then a torso with missing organs was found.
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.
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.
