A motorcycle taxi driver killed and dismembered a young woman before burying some of her remains in the garden of a neighbouring home.
Esteban Chicche Sullo, 51, kidnapped 19-year-old Mercedes Sánchez Querevalú, who was missing for one week before being found dead.
The 51-year-old has confessed to killing her, telling police that he ‘hit her with a stick twice on the head’.
The victims’ mother reported her daughter’s disappearance after she failed to return home.
Mercedes, a mum to a two-year-old girl, left her house on April 6, 2025, to meet with Chicche, who was known to the family.
According to local press, Mercedes’s mum said that Chicche owed her daughter money which is why the pair had met.
After hitting her over the head and leaving her unconscious, Chicche took the young woman to his home.
He told police that when they arrived, he slept with her before dismembering her into eight parts, as reported by NeedToKnow.
Chicche then buried her remains in the courtyard of his neighbour’s home after digging a one-metre deep hole. He was able to climb a neighbouring wall with a ladder and was undetected as the property is currently unoccupied.
According to police, he kept the body of the young woman inside his room for up to 24 hours as he wasn’t sure what to do with it.
He considered throwing her body in a bin but then decided to instead dismember her in his bathroom – in a process which would have taken around three hours.
Chicche disposed of Mercedes’ clothing and her cell phone and used bleach to clean his home. On the morning on April 14, her buried remains were discovered.
Police are currently investigating the details but believe that Chicche s*xually abused Mercedes before killing her as she tried to escape.
Mercedes’ body was discovered in San Juan de Lurigancho, in Lima, Peru, after she left her home in Villa María del Triunfo, also in Lima.
