#CARLA STEFANIAK MURDER TRIAL#
The trial is expected to last five days and 14 witnesses are expected to testify, including Stefaniak’s father, WTSP reported. “She cried a lot,” said González, adding that the distraught woman disclosed what she learned from the call, then left, according to the reports.
Martinez worked as a security guard at the Airbnb property and was arrested on charges of homicide.Ĭarla González, a cleaning worker, testified Monday that she was with Martinez’s mother when the woman received a call from her daughter-in-law, claiming he confessed to killing Stefaniak, according to Costa Rican outlets Diaro Extra and La Teja. Her body was found by cadaver dogs less than 200 feet from where she had checked in for the night, the report said.
“It’s pretty sketchy here,” she reportedly wrote in a text. 27, 2018, when she texted her family about the lights going off at the Airbnb in San Antonio de Escazu, WFTS reported. She was last heard from on the night of Nov. Stefaniak, an insurance agent from Miami, traveled to the Central American nation to celebrate her 36th birthday with her sister-in-law. Her sister-in-law left the country the day before, Stefaniak staying the extra day, the day she would have her death.ĭuring her stay in Costa Rica, prior to the fateful night, Stefaniak and sister-in-law visited the tourist destinations of Manuel Antonio (Quepos) and La Fortuna de San Carlos, among other places.A Costa Rican security guard accused of killing a Florida woman on vacation confided in his wife about the slaying after the victim was buried on the property of her Airbnb, according to reports.īismark Espinoza Martinez appeared in court Monday as the trial got underway for the November 2018 death of 36-year-old Carla Stefaniak, news station WFTS reported. Bismark Espinoza Martinez has now been charged with the murder by. Stefaniak, a resident Hallandale, a suburb near Miami, where he worked as an insurance agent, arrived in Costa Rica on November 22, in the company of her sister-in-law to celebrate her birthday and planned to return to Florida on Wednesday, November 28. Carla Stefaniak was murdered between November 27 and 28, 2018, at the Villa Buena Vista property in San Antonio de Escaz. In the complaint, they alleged that both companies did not verify the background and conditions of the accused, a man who was allegedly in Costa Rica illegally at the time of the murder. This video covers the murder of Thomas Jeffrey Cook, the murder of Carla Stefania. In the US, Stefaniak’s family filed a complaint against the Airbnb platform – used by the victim to rent the room in the remote hills of Escazu – and against the property owners (a corporation). This episode discusses a string of murdered tourists in Costa Rica in 2018. In addition, the crime scene (the room where Stefaniak had stayed) was cleaned up quickly and the room rented to others. The reason Stefaniak’s relatives believe it difficult for a single person to have moved her such a distance. The distance between the rented villa and the place where the body was found – December 3 – is about 300 meters (3 blocks in Costa Rica). The crime analysis reveals Stefaniak repelled the attack because she had defensive wounds on her arms. The lawyer maintains that these new elements will be analyzed seriously and in a thorough manner and considers the additional statement inevitably causes more doubts. It is interesting, because, he says, that he considers that more people participated, but that he never had anything to do with the attack on the victim,” said Hernández. “He (Espinoza) mentions that it is impossible, according to the weight of victim (close to 90 kilos), that he could have moved her from the room where she stayed (an possibly killed) to the where her body was found (some 300 meters from the property). Other details revealed in the statement referred to the specific case. The suspect assured that he was to keep “strict confidentiality” of what he saw inside the property. Updated: 3:18 PM EST JanuSAN JOS, Costa Rica She was on a trip to paradise, but Carla Stefaniak never returned home to Florida. One of the aspects that most captivated the victim’s lawyers is that, according to suspect’s story, the villas were commonly held fo parties and activities with some sexual connotation – including drug use – by guests staying there. He was the security guard at the villas in San Antonio de Escazú where Stefaniak spent her last night alive, on November 27, in the country. Espinoza Martínez, 32, was arrested on December 4, 2018.
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