BODY BAGGED: Ex-Partner Seized After Grim Discovery Of Mum-Of-Three’s Mutilated Body

A mum of three has been found dead with her throat cut a week after she went missing in Mexico when her partner was seen leaving her home with plastic bin bags.

Wendy Hellem Sandon Herrera, 33, poses in undated photo. She disappeared on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, and was found murdered in Apizaco, Mexico. (Newsflash)

Stunning Wendy Hellem Sandon Herrera, 33, disappeared from her home in San Juan Cuautlancingo, Puebla state, on 16th December.

Her family had reported her missing hours after losing contact with her and receiving strange messages from her mobile phone.

Wendy’s mutilated body was found on a plot of land in Apizaco, Tlaxcala state – around a 45-minute drive from her home – on 23rd December.

According to reports, there were signs that her throat had been cut.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office in Puebla state reported that her ex-partner, named only as Dario, had been seized the next day.

Wendy Hellem Sandon Herrera, 33, poses with her daughter in undated photo. She disappeared on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, and was found murdered in Apizaco, Mexico. (Newsflash)

His arrest came after he was spotted on CCTV removing several bin bags from her home and loading them into his pickup truck on the day of Wendy’s disappearance.

Wendy had been born in Huacho, Peru, but had lived in Mexico for 10 years and had become a successful businesswoman.

She had her own chain of beauty salons, Hellen Sandon Studio, and had opened her fourth salon in an upmarket neighbourhood of Puebla a day before she went missing.

She leaves behind three children, two from a relationship with an American man.

The suspect Dario, poses in undated photo. He is supected of having killed Wendy Hellem Sandon Herrera, 33, who disappeared on Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, and was found murdered in Apizaco, Mexico. (FGE/Newsflash)

The investigation into her death continues, but the motive for the crime remains unclear.

Eleven women are murdered every day in Mexico for reasons of gender.