THE body of a missing Austrian influencer has been found stuffed in a suitcase and buried in the woods.
Police revealed that beauty influencer Stefanie Pieper was discovered today in Slovenia after desperate search efforts.
They declined to comment on media reports claiming the 32-year-old was found brutally murdered in a suitcase.
Her ex-partner had been strongly suspected of murdering her — and today he confessed.
The nightclub security guard initially fled to his native Slovenia but was arrested and extradited back to Austria on Friday.
He initially remained silent on the matter, but eventually cracked after hours of interrogation.
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The 31-year-old is alleged to have ambushed Pieper after a Christmas party last Saturday and killed her following a loud argument.
Witnesses say that they saw her ex-partner at the apartment and he was carrying a suspicious roll of fabric.
It is thought that he then used his red Volkswagen Golf to transport her lifeless body across the border into neighbouring Slovenia.
Investigators later found his car burned out in a parking lot near the border.
He apparently sought to destroy any evidence of his wrongdoing.
Two other men are thought to have assisted in the crime, or at least covering it up.
They are thought to be the suspect’s brother and stepfather.
On the night of her disappearance, Pieper texted her friends to say that a mysterious figure was hanging around her apartment.
She wrote: “There’s a creep in the stairwell.”
The popular influencer added the person she saw cut a “dark figure”.
Investigators had spent days searching for Pieper, using drones and sniffer dogs to aid their efforts.
Officers had searched several properties belonging to the suspect’s family.
According to reports in Slovenia, her body was eventually found in a forest near the town of Majsperk.
The alarm was first raised when she failed to show up for a scheduled photoshoot.
When she didn’t arrive for work, the concerned photographer went to her apartment to check on her.
Feeling increasingly uneasy about her absence, he contacted the police.
Officers later found her phone discarded in a nearby bush.
This comes as another fashion influencer vanished in Mexico shortly after posting a sinister final video.
Marian Izaguirre was reportedly last seen in a red Kia Rio at around 6pm on Monday, September 1, in the city of Uruapan, west of Mexico City.
The 23-year-old, who has just under 4 million TikTok followers, shared her final post the day before she disappeared.
In the video, Marian appeared in clown makeup while lip-syncing to the song “Why are you leaving?”
Fans quickly voiced their concern, with one commenting, “We will find you.”
The social media star’s rapid rise to fame also prompted her to launch a pop career under the stage name Flor Izaguirre.