Overview

• Police and a duty prosecutor recovered the body on September 20 in Juliaca’s Torococha River near Jirón Pumacahua in an advanced state of decomposition.
• Torres was reported missing after leaving the El Muki nightclub on September 7 with her ex-partner, Wilber Edu Machaca, in a taxi.
• Areincri reported that the taxi driver’s account was key to locating the site, indicating he had dropped the pair where the body was found.
• Depincri had summoned Machaca, and preliminary checks of his clothing and phone produced no conclusive results as he told authorities he could not recall where they went after leaving the club.
• The Public Ministry ordered transfer of the body to the Juliaca morgue for a necropsy, the family is calling for justice and naming Machaca and the taxi driver as main suspects, and investigators continue their procedures.