A TV quiz contestant was drugged, beaten and then hanged by her boyfriend for revealing live on air how she worked as a seedy nightclub dancer and prostitute and not, as he believed, in a call centre.
Bryan Romero Leiva has confessed to killing Ruth Thalia Sayas, 19, after she appeared on the controversial television show El Valor De La Verdad (The Value Of The truth) in Peru in July.
The outraged boyfriend drugged the teenager with a sleeping tablet, killed her and, with the help of a relative, hid her body in a well in Jicamarca, on the outskirts of the capital Lima, on September 11.
The taxi driver was arrested this weekend moments before he was due to leave his home and flee to Ecuador, Peruvian newspaper El Comercio has reported.
The contentious, yet extremely popular, Saturday night show sees contestants honestly answering intimate questions, which they have been asked off-camera beforehand, in return for vast cash sums.
The maximum cash prize for answering 21 questions is 50,000 Soles (£11,800). Sayas decided to retire from the quiz after winning 15,000 Soles (£3,500).
But the damage had already been done.
During the quiz, Sayas was asked, in succession, if her parents would be ashamed at her job, if she worked at a nightclub and if she had ever been paid for sex.
In response, she revealed how she did indeed work in a seedy club as a dancer, and had also previously charged money in return for sexual favours.
She was watched, from a nearby sofa, by her distraught parents and an increasingly angry-looking Romero.
It is not the first time the show's format has caused controversy.
It has previously aired in Colombia, but was scrapped after a woman confessed to hiring a hitman to kill her husband. She also admitted to drug trafficking and corruption.