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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Johanna Chisholm

Woman flew 3,000 miles to meet online boyfriend before being murdered for her organs

Facebook/Blanca Olivia Arellano Gutiérrez

The romantic pursuits of a 51-year-old woman that saw her travel 3,000 miles from her home in Mexico for a date in Peru took a nightmarish turn after her dismembered body washed up on a beach.

Blanca Arellano told her family at the end of July that she would be taking a trip to Lima, where she planned to finally meet Juan Pablo Jesús Villafuerte, the man she’d been in an online courtship with for several months, in person.

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