A woman's partially dismembered body was found inside a plastic bag in a hotel room, which people can rent by the hour for sex.
Guadalupe Lorenzo, 21, was found dead on the night of December 7 in room 41 of the El Romance motel in Panama, sparking a manhunt for her killer.
A 32-year-old man, who police say is a suspect, has now turned himself into the police after arriving at the station with his lawyer.
Reports state that local authority sources revealed the room had been rented on December 7, at 2.55pm for two hours and then at 4.55pm a man paid for two more hours before leaving the motel at 6.55pm.
The man reportedly told the establishment that his girlfriend had her period and had stained the bedsheets.
He made the claim while leaving a tip for staff.
The housekeeping worker who cleaned the room after he left found a lot of blood in the room but did not raise the alarm until she found Lorenzo's partly dismembered body in a plastic bag in the garage used to access the room, according to local media.
The body also reportedly had several stab wounds.
Reports state the General Attorney’s Office of Panama Oeste issued an arrest warrant for a suspect whose name has not been disclosed at the beginning of January after several witnesses identified the car Miss Lorenzo had got into on the day of her death.
The same car was reportedly seen in the security camera footage from the hotel.
The suspect is now under police custody while the investigation is ongoing.
