3, 2018, covered in plastic bags and about 200 yards away from the Airbnb. Her body was discovered by cadaver dogs on Dec.
After her phone died at 9 p.m., she made no further online posts. Stefaniak was on WhatsApp until 8:20 p.m. She later told a friend during a FaceTime call that she might ask a security guard at the Airbnb to buy her water because of the storm, the timeline says. When she arrived at the AirBnB, where she was staying alone on her last night, she posted that there were heavy rains, and the "power went off." 27, according to a timeline provided to NBC News. She had dropped off a rental car and her sister-in-law, who had an earlier flight, at the San Jose airport on Nov. 28, 2018, flight home, which she had checked into but never boarded. Authorities confirmed her identity the next day and took Martinez into custody on December 4.Stefaniak was staying in an Airbnb-rented room at the Villa Le Mas hotel in Escazu when she vanished the day before her Nov. A few days later, on December 3, authorities found a body near her Airbnb. Meanwhile, the family continues their search for answers with a social media presence using the hashtag #JusticeforCarla.įamily of Florida woman murdered in Costa Rica suing Airbnb, Costa Rican resort where she stayedĪBC Action News was the first to report Stefaniak's disappearance on November 28. But he won’t reveal if it’s Martinez or someone else. On a Facebook page that was created during the search for 36-year-old Carla Stefaniak, who had failed to return from a trip for her birthday, family members say sources close to the investigation.
“We do know there is a DNA match of one person," he said. Rivera Cheves says one of the most crucial pieces of evidence is new DNA results. We reached out to the OIJ for comment but have not heard back. So far Costa Rican authorities, known as the Organismo de Investigación Judicial, have only charged Martinez. Those tourists moving into the room on the same day Stefaniak was scheduled to check-out he says. In such a manner that other foreign tourists were hosted in the same room as if nothing had happened," said Rivera Cheves. Specifically, for Rivera Cheves, how quickly it was cleaned of blood. The body would have been moved from the second floor and the length of about four football fields to the wooded area where she was discovered. Stefaniak weighed approximately 195 pounds, he says. “For one person to move her from the room where the crime happened to the other place-which is over 400 yards away- is quite a bit complicated, right? because the body shows no signs of being dragged," he said. He's sharing evidence he insists supports long-held family claims.Ĭarla Stefaniak: Body found in Costa Rica identified by family as missing Florida woman “We are considering that there could be at least five suspects that participated in the crime to cover up this heinous murder," said Rivera Cheves through a video interview. He believes Martinez couldn’t have been the only one involved. We spoke exclusively with Joseph Rivera Cheves, he's the family’s attorney in Costa Rica. The family of 36-year old Carla Stefaniak has gone to the morgue in Costa Rica to identify a body that might belong to the Florida woman who went missing in the country a week ago. Investigators arrested security guard Bismark Martinez. We’re getting a never-seen-before look inside the criminal investigation into Carla Stefaniak's murder.Ĭosta Rican police found her body half-buried near an Airbnb she was renting. A Florida tourist was murdered in Costa Rica, and now her family's attorney told ABC Action News about crucial new evidence in the high profile tragedy.
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