Miya Marcano Body Positively Identified By Medical Examiner

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ORLANDO (CBSMiami/CNN) – A assemblage recovered successful the woods implicit the play adjacent an Orlando flat analyzable is that of missing Pembroke Pines teen Miya Marcano.

The Orange County aesculapian examiner positively identified the remains arsenic those of the 19-year-old who went missing much than a week ago.

“A affirmative recognition of a pistillate whose assemblage was recovered successful a wooded country connected October 2, 2021 has been identified arsenic Miya Marcano,” Orange and Osceola Counties Chief Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Stephany said successful a connection Tuesday.

“This lawsuit is presently nether progressive instrumentality enforcement probe and immoderate further requests for information, including origin and mode of death, volition beryllium deferred to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office.”

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday they believed the assemblage was Marcano but deferred authoritative recognition to the aesculapian examiner’s office.

Marcano had been missing since September 24, erstwhile she was past seen astatine the Arden Villas Luxury Apartments successful Orlando wherever she lived and worked. She was scheduled for a formation that evening but ne'er made it connected the plane.

Members of the Orange County Sheriff’s exigency effect squad found the body astir 10:45 a.m. Saturday, Sheriff John Mina said, portion searching a wooded country adjacent the Tymber Skan connected the Lake apartments, astir 18 miles westbound of her home. A purse with her recognition was located adjacent the body.

Cell telephone records indicated Armando Manuel Caballero, a idiosyncratic of involvement successful the lawsuit who was recovered dormant of an evident termination September 27, was “in oregon near” the apartments for astir 20 minutes betwixt 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. the evening Marcano was reported missing, according to the sheriff.

Caballero utilized to unrecorded astatine the Tymber Skan apartments, Mina said.

Mina said authorities were not “looking for immoderate different people,” adding that investigators judge Caballero was “responsible for this crime.”

Authorities judge Caballero, a attraction idiosyncratic astatine the Arden Villas apartments, had accessed Marcano’s flat without her permission. An apprehension warrant had been issued for Caballero for burglary.

Caballero had shown a romanticist involvement successful Marcano, Mina said, but was repeatedly rebuffed.

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