A PREDATOR accused of slaughtering a girl he met on Tinder because she refused sex and then bathing her dead body in acid has been caught after a major manhunt.

Accused Emmanuel Delani Valdez Bocanegra, 26, was quizzed when friends and family of his victim reported her missing after she hooked up with him via the dating app.

2 Emmanuel Delani Valdez Bocanegra has been accused of a horrific murder after his date rejected him

2 Francia Ruth Ibarra was only 26

Gruesome remains of human bones were found in bin bags on his apartment balcony beside canisters of caustic soda and hydrochloric acid.

Six kilos of human flesh retrieved from the bones have been DNA matched with the victim, Francia Ruth Ibarra, also 26.

Her clothes were found hidden in a bag inside the apartment in Leon, central Mexico.

The pair had met through the dating app Tinder and had then met several times over the past few months before Francia disappeared.

Her university friends backtracked her social media postings and found she'd been dating Boncanegra, a former student.

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He reportedly killed her after she refused to have sex with him and dissolved her body to make it look like she's simply run away.

Police tracked Boncanegra to Mexico City where he was arrested.

In November satanist Stefano Brizzi admitted strangling and dismembering a policeman he met on Grindr.

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