Margarita Condori Quispe (41) was dedicated to street sales in Arequipa and I intended to return to Vitor to open your own business. That project was cut short after she was murdered inside a rented room in the district of Yura.
Yesterday, her relatives went to the central morgue to remove the body and transfer it to her homeland, where she will be buried in the municipal cemetery of Vítor.
Itinerant work and daily effort
The victim’s sister told Mail that, after losing the father of her daughter five years ago, Margarita decided to leave the valley and look for new opportunities in the city. He settled in the Zamácola sector, in Colorado Hilland began selling jellies and Martians on the street.
“I didn’t have a fixed place. I walked around Cerro Colorado and also through the San Camilo Market. “She always worked alone,” said her sister.
Last calls before disappearing
On Friday afternoon, Margarita called her sister to ask for a yapeo. S/50 in order to pay for dental care. Hours later, he contacted again to say that he was going to replace someone in a jobwithout giving further details.
“A woman later answered my sister’s cell phone and told me that’s what they were going to do, and she cut me off,” said the relative. Since then, they have not heard from her again.
The next day, the dentist confirmed that Margarita had indeed attended the appointment and that she heard when they called her on the phone. “I’m going to go meet you,” the victim then responded, according to the professional.
Finding of the body in Yura
While the family was carrying out inquiries, neighbors of the Camineros Empleados 2 association of Yura reported the discovery of the body of a woman in the room they rented. Simión Cruz G. for four months.
The victim bled to death after receiving multiple cuts on the chest and neck. She was later identified as Margarita Condori.
Family rules out romantic relationship
The sister denied that there was a romantic relationship between the victim and the man who rented the room. “They were not a couple. We do not know that man, we have never heard his name,” he stated, demanding that the person responsible be investigated and captured.
The suspect is known to be native of Cuscoworked in construction and is there hasn’t been since the body was found.
First feminicide of 2026 in Arequipa
The murder of Margarita Condori is the first feminicide recorded in Arequipa in 2026. According to the Prosecutor’s Office, in 2025 more than 16 thousand complaints of attacks against women and members of the family group in the region. Last year, four femicides were recorded, the defendants of which are serving preventive detention.
