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Peru Confirms U.S. Tourist Left for Cancún in 2025 as Missing‑Person Probe Continues

Authorities say airline and migration biometric records show an exit to Cancún, shifting the probe to confirm international movements.

Overview

  • Police in Cusco are treating the disappearance of 33-year-old Brittini Nicole Harper as an active missing-person case after her father filed a formal complaint on May 21 and raised the alarm locally.
  • Avianca flight manifests and Peru’s Superintendencia Nacional de Migraciones show Harper boarded a flight from Lima to Cancún on July 31, 2025, with a stop in Bogotá, a finding the PNP provided to the family.
  • Investigators from the División de Personas Desaparecidas and Divincri are now reviewing migration records, airline reports, lodging registries and telecom data to reconstruct her movements since mid‑2025.
  • Police say Harper’s cellphone has been switched off since February, which has blocked geolocation efforts and left key gaps in establishing her whereabouts after she left the Cusco tourist circuit.
  • Harper’s father traveled from Florida to search in person and reported she had been living in the Sacred Valley with a husky and that an earlier attempt to travel was refused over missing pet vaccination paperwork, a detail police have factored into their timeline.