Overview
- Police identified the victim as Jennifer Lisbeth Mendoza Segura, an Ecuadorian mother of four who entered Peru by air on January 11 reportedly for a job.
- Security cameras captured a mototaxi leaving a mattress containing her body at the intersection of Naranjal and Pacasmayo in San Martín de Porres.
- Driver Darwin Cruz Vásquez was detained after saying he was paid 30 soles by three foreigners to transport the mattress, and a court ordered nine months of pretrial detention.
- Investigators say forensics, including diafanización to recover fingerprints, confirmed her identity, and local reporting cites more than twenty stab wounds.
- Police are searching for three alleged accomplices identified as Alex, Dark and Adriana, with alerts active at the Tumbes and Tacna border posts, while examining possible links to Ecuadorian gangs and Tren de Aragua.