

A security guard at a Costa Rican resort was found guilty Monday of killing Carla Stefaniak, a. Caicedo had to fight back tears during the trial, according to video footage, and at one point he addressed Martínez directly, telling him to confess if he still considered himself a man. Daniel Figueroa IV Former Times Reporter. Her Carlos Caicedo traveled from his native Venezuela to testify in the trial, according to a report from Costa Rican news website. Costa Rican Authorities finally allowed the family of Carla to see the body. It was there, only 200 yards away from the Airbnb Carla was staying in, that cadaver dogs discovered a body. Family members said they identified a body found buried behind an Airbnb in Central America as Carla Stefaniak, a Miami woman who vanished while celebrating her 36th birthday there. Carla Stefaniak was murdered by a security guard at the apartment complex in which she was staying in Costa Rica. Officials in Costa Rica say the motive behind the abduction and killing of a tourist from Florida is sexual in nature following the arrest of a suspect on. Instagram pictured above Carla smiles as she sits on a swing alongside a beachside bar In the coming days, the grounds surrounding the Airbnb would be searched.

Stefaniak, who had been living in Florida, traveled to a Costa Rica resort in November 2018 to celebrate her birthday with her sister-in-law April Antonieta, but. Much of her family still lives in the Tampa Bay area. A missing Florida woman’s family said their worst fears came true Tuesday night. Bismarck Espinoza Martínez was convicted Monday of homicidio simple, or second-degree murder, for the fatal stabbing of 36-year-old Carla Stefaniak, according to The Tico Times.
CARLA STEFANIAK PARENTS TRIAL
The verdict marked the end of an emotionally charged trial for the family of Stefniak, who was born in Venezuela, moved to Tampa in 2000 and then to Miami in 2012. 18, 2020Ī security guard at a Costa Rican resort was found guilty Monday of killing Carla Stefaniak, a 36-year-old Florida woman who went missing during a birthday trip to the Central American country in November 2018.īismarck Espinoza Martínez, of Nicaragua, was then sentenced to 16 years in prison by a panel of local judges, Eduardo Rojas, Simón Guillén and José Alberto Vargas.
