
That prompted her family to raise the alarm with Costa Rican authorities. 28 return flight after messaging friends that it was “pretty sketchy” at her resort. A security guard at a Costa Rica Airbnb rental villa was arrested in the death of the Florida woman who went to the Central American country to celebrate her 36th birthday but never boarded her Nov. tourist Carla Stefaniak who went missing last week, talks about having to identify his daughter’s body at the morgue, speaks during a press conference in San Jose, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Dec. She’s never been early for anything in her life she wouldn’t leave to go to the airport at 5:30 a.m.,” Burton told ABC Action News. She wouldn’t do that her flight was at 1:30 p.m. “The guard told us that she left at 5 in the morning with all of her bags and got into an Uber. while Carla decided to stay an extra day alone, said Martinez told her that Carla got into an Uber early morning on November 28, despite her flight not leaving until later in the afternoon. Espinoza declined to elaborate on the details of the attack, but indicated the victim had been hit on the head and stabbed on the neck and arms.īurton, who left a day early to return to the U.S.

Authorities found Carla partially nude, wrapped in a plastic bag and buried behind the Airbnb she stayed at. A security guard at the Airnbnb, 32-year-old Bismark Espinosa Martinez, who stayed in Apartment 7, was arrested Tuesday in connection with Carla’s murder.Īccording to the head of the Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Department, Walter Espinoza, the 36-year-old lost her life due to a possible sexual assault. Authorities said she was attacked before could make her flight, inside Apartment 8 at the Airbnb Villa La Mas, in San Antonio de Escazú.


A video released by Costa Rican authorities show the moment a security guard accused of killing Florida woman Carla Stefaniak in Costa Rica was taken into custody.Īs CrimeOnline previously reported, Stefaniak, 36, spent the week in Costa Rica celebrating her birthday, but never boarded her flight back to Miami on November 28.
