The TikTok Killer

The mother started chasing the last man on her daughter's phone

Josefa Perez, called Pepa in Netflix's writeup, got a text in August 2023 that she could not sit with. Her daughter Esther Estepa, 42 and newly out of an abusive relationship, said she was living on the street and meant to leave Spain for Buenos Aires with a friend. Then the phone went dead. The family reported her missing in Alicante, latestnetflix.com contends, the seaside town where Esther had been staying in a women's shelter.

A few weeks later a stranger rang. Jose Jurado Montilla, posting travel clips as Dinamita, said he had met Esther at the shelter and walked with her for weeks. Tudum says he even posted about the trip, as if he were spreading the word to thousands of followers. Pepa treated him as the last person known to have seen Esther alive and started digging on her own. What she found is the spine of the documentary.

Netflix put The TikTok Killer up on 6 March 2026. The Spanish title is El asesino de TikTok. It is two episodes, 39 minutes then 54, directed by Hector Muniente, who also made The Ecuadorian Candidate. IZen Documentales produced it. The February announcement named Arantza Sanchez, Cesar Marti, and Santi Aguado as executive producers. TMDB lists the original name and the March 6 season start.,,

He posted like a harmless walker. Spanish courts already had a file.

Esquire Spain reports that Montilla, 64, billed himself as an adventurer, reached nearly 7,000 TikTok followers, and that some clips passed half a million views. After Esther vanished he video-called her mother offering to help, and he used Esther's phone to send messages that made it look like she was still heading to Argentina. Esquire quotes a 4 a.m. Clip where he says he cannot sleep, has been thinking about his friend all day, and asks her to give a sign of life to him or her family. Police later treated that feed as a map.

A&E, citing The Olive Press, says hikers found Esther's skull on a highway median in February 2024. Esquire Spain dates a body recovery in Gandia to June. Montilla was arrested in May 2024 in a bar in Badajoz, near the Portugal border, after officers traced a posted location. A&E says he has denied any role in Esther's death and has not been convicted in that case or in the 2022 killing of a 21-year-old identified as David. He is in jail awaiting trial.,

The older file is not rumor. Esquire Spain writes that he was sentenced to 123 years for four homicides in Malaga between 1985 and 1987, served 28 years, and walked out of Zuera prison on 13 December 2013 under the Parot doctrine. He went back to Campanillas in Malaga and later started posting as DinamitaJuradoMontilla, often with landscape shots and Boney M on the track. IZen later said the miniseries sat in Netflix's Top 10 after launch and reached second among series worldwide. That is the producer's chart claim, not a verdict.,