31 to assist in the search for Gómez Menéndez. When her mother Patricia Menéndez noticed that Smith had Jana's diary, he allegedly responded that he must have mistakenly taken it back with him to the United States. On August 16, the day after the 2007 Peru earthquake, the dismembered body of Gómez Menéndez was discovered by fishermen in a large blue suitcase that washed up on a beach at the Barranco District of Lima. Smith left the country on the same day. Police believe that the suitcase, which was found attached to thick green cords, had been kept submerged by a weight and broke free by the force of the quake; the epicenter was located in the ocean 150 kilometers (93 mi) south of Lima. Patricia Menéndez identified her daughter's partially decomposed remains by a butterfly tattoo on the back of the neck and vowed to seek justice. The case attracted widespread attention in Peru and became known as "El Enigma de la Mariposa" ("The Mystery of the Butterfly"). Investigation San Remo Hotel employees told investigators that Smith was seen leaving the premises with a suitcase that matched the description of the one in which the body of Gómez Menéndez was found. Police obtained emails from March 2007 in which Smith allegedly asked Monica Cecilia Muñoz Pereda, a student at the Universidad de Lima, where he could obtain a drug to put a person to sleep and how to find a boat that would not require a lot of "paper work". In other emails, Smith offered to pay double to rent the boat anonymously at night and asked about how the police handled missing person reports in Peru. Lead investigator Manuel Leon contacted Muñoz in Italy, where she had moved to study. She returned to Peru to discuss the case with police at her parents' urging and was not permitted to leave the country for the duration of the investigation. According to Muñoz, she met Smith on the internet in February 2007 and broke off their "intimate relationship" after discovering that Smith was already involved with another woman, but remained friends. Muñoz told police that on July 8, days after Gómez Menéndez was last seen by her family, Smith asked her to join him on a 7 p.m. boat ride from the Chorrillos District of Lima. Smith was allegedly carrying a large dark blue suitcase which he said contained "some