Influencer, 21, ‘murdered by obsessed classmate’ as body is found in car park after vanishing on way to meet pals

AN INFLUENCER has allegedly been killed by a classmate who became obsessed with her.

Argentinian social media star Catalina Gutiérrez, 21, was found dead in a Renault Clio in a car park.

Her lifeless body was reportedly found burnt in the back seat.

Catalina was last seen on July 17 when she left home to catch up with pals at the Patio Olmos shopping centre in Córdoba City.

Upon leaving, she sent a voice message to her boyfriend, telling him she was on the way.

But the influencer who had 36,000 TikTok followers never showed.

Cops initially ruled out a homicide but the case flipped on its head when they started interviewing her friends.

Architecture student Néstor Soto – a classmate of Catalina’s – allegedly buckled under questioning and confessed to the horror crime.

He conceded he was infatuated with the influencer, calling her the “love of his life”.

Detectives believe he Nestor beat Catalina in the car until she was unconscious.

Suspecting he’d killed her, he drove to a car park and reportedly set the vehicle alight.

Nestor is said to have reeled Catalina in by asking her to pick him up on her way to the shopping centre, before the alleged deadly beating took place.

Local cops said: “As he made his statement, he contradicted himself.

“From one moment to the next, he suddenly admitted that he killed her.

“He said she was ‘the love of his life’.”

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