![]() Her phone went completely dark since that phone call that was made at 9 p.m. ![]() “‘I’m just gonna go ask the guards to buy me a bottle of water.’ He says that her phone died, and that’s it,” Burton said. She told him she was thirsty and was going to get water. When she got there, she FaceTimed a friend. ![]() The night prior to Stefaniak’s flight, she took an Uber downtown and was dropped off at an Airbnb in San Jose. She checked in for the flight, but she never got on the plane.” She would have texted somebody, she would have done something. “Even if she was in immigration, she would have made it to the tarmac, she would have service. “Six o’clock, still haven’t heard from her,” Burton said. 27, but no one had heard from her in five days, and her family feared the worst. Relatives said Stefaniak was scheduled to come back to Florida the next morning, on Nov. “I do feel guilty because I left earlier,” said Burton. 22 to Costa Rica with her sister-in-law, April Burton, on a girls trip.īurton returned to the U.S. “You cannot just blast on the news the fact that it’s her, the fact that you think it’s her if you don’t have confirmation from the family. Why don’t you let the father and the brother that are there to confirm if it’s her or not?” said family friend Delia Andronache. While officials work with the FBI to make a positive ID using fingerprints, dental records and DNA, family members and friends are demanding more from investigators in Costa Rica. He was a security guard at the building where Carla was staying. He’s been identified as 32 year-old Bismark Espinosa Martinez of Nicaragua. NEW: Photos shared by Costa Rican authorities show the suspect in the murder of Carla Stefaniak in custody. “We’re still waiting to see if it’s her or not,” said Leandro Hernandez, a friend of the family. Officials said a separate task force with K9s searched Stefaniak’s room and found “biological fluids compatible with blood” that were sent for testing. They are waiting to see the body, this body that they found near the Airbnb where my sister stayed that night, the last night that we knew from her.” “My dad and my brother and other friend, they are right now at the morgue in San Jose, Costa Rica. That’s our biggest hope,” said Mario Caicedo, Stefaniak’s brother. Monday afternoon, police in Costa Rica said a K9 unit located a decomposing body near the Airbnb where Stefaniak was staying. ![]() “You can’t imagine what we are feeling,” said Carlos Caicedo, Stefaniak’s father. They said she had traveled there to celebrate her 36th birthday. Meanwhile, Stefaniak’s family are now on their way to the Central American country. “All the data we’ve compiled points to this being her however, we want a determination that is more precise, more technical and more scientific,” said Espinoza. He will spend at least the next three months behind bars.Įspinoza said all data gathered indicates the body is Stefaniak’s however, investigators are waiting to compare fingerprints from the body with FBI records and noted dental and DNA records may be used to definitively identify the body as Stefaniak if fingerprints are not conclusive. “The person detained for the homicide was near her, had chances to commit the act and became a suspect through all our investigation,” said Espinoza.Įspinosa Martinez is being held on what is called a preventive sentence in Costa Rica.
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