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Re: Vilet Patricia Torrez, 38 - Miramar FL missing since 3/31/12
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Nonprofit-Search-Group-to-Work-Miramar-Missing-Mom-Case-158891145.html
Nonprofit Search Group to Work Miramar Missing Mom Case
June 13, 2012
A well-known nonprofit search organization will be working the case of missing Miramar mom Vilet Torrez, family members said.
Texas EquuSearch, a volunteer and donation based group, will be working with local law enforcement officials who have been searching for Torrez for more than two months.
The 38-year-old, a mother of three, was reported missing by her estranged husband, Cid Torrez, early in April. Authorities suspect foul play and named Cid Torrez a person of interest, though he has said he did not see or have contact with his wife on the early morning she disappeared.
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http://texasequusearch.org/2012/06/missing-vilet-torrez-38-yrs-miramar-fl-033012/
Missing: Vilet Torrez, 38 Yrs., Miramar, FL, 03/30/12
Posted on 14. Jun, 2012 by smckinney in Active Cases, Featured Articles, Missing Persons
06/12/12 — Vilet Torrez, age 38, was last seen on March 30, 2012 in Miramar, FL.
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http://www.examiner.com/article/family-of-missing-vilet-torrez-appear-on-geraldo
Family of missing Vilet Torrez appear on Geraldo
June 18, 2012
The family of missing Vilet Torrez appeared on the Geraldo at Large show hosted by Geraldo Rivera on Sunday night for an exclusive interview. The show got very heated between Vilet's brother and sister-in-law and Vilet's estranged husbands' attorney.
Vilet Torrez, from Miramar, Florida was last seen Friday, March 30, 2012.
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Watch the video with the full interview on the left (at link).
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http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21007775163882/missing-woman-s-family-appears-on-national-tv/
Missing woman's family appears on national TV
June 18, 2012
MIRAMAR, Fla. (WSVN) -- The case of a local woman who has been missing for months is now getting national attention.
Vilet Torrez has been missing since March, and authorities suspect foul play in the case.
Since Vilet's disappearance, authorities have named her estranged husband, Cid Torrez, a person of interest in the case.
FOX investigative reporter Geraldo Rivera has taken an interest in the case and recently spoke to Vilet's brother and sister-in-law on his show, "Geraldo At Large."
While on the show, Vilet's brother, Javier Blanco, said, "I believe he had something to do with this because their relationship hasn't been a dream relationship. Throughout their marriage of 20 years, there's been turmoil. There's been us advising her to leave him."
Geraldo played the 911 call Cid Torrez made days after his estranged wife's disappearance, and emphasized a potentially incriminating statement Torrez made during the call. "Sunday, I definitely did it, so," Torrez told the dispatcher.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Miramar-Police-Divers-in-Vilet-Torrez-Case-Have-Difficult-Task-164077436.html
Miramar Police Divers in Vilet Torrez Case Have Difficult Task
The team has a vast amount of water to cover
By Willard Shepard
| Friday, Jul 27, 2012 | Updated 7:24 PM EDT
For weeks now a team of six Miramar Police divers has been on a search to either find missing Miramar mom Vilet Torrez or get a clue to solve the mystery of her disappearance.
The team’s members have a vast amount of water to cover. In Miramar there are almost 100 lakes and canals they have been trying to investigate.
“It’s like a needle in a haystack,” said one of the Miramar Police divers, Sgt. Cesar Andina.
On Friday afternoon, the divers showed NBC 6 some of the challenges they face as they searched the murky waters of a lake off of Miramar Parkway west of I-75.
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Thank you for the update Sharon. Despite the odds, I hope Vilet Torrez can be found.
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Quote from: MuffyBee on July 29, 2012, 08:39:29 AM
Thank you for the update Sharon. Despite the odds, I hope Vilet Torrez can be found.
I've been to Miramar. Lots and lots of water and canals and very deep ditches.
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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-08-10/news/fl-vilet-torrez-billboards-20120810_1_billboards-vilet-torrez-electronic-signs
Billboards bring attention to Vilet Torrez disappearance
One of the billboards addressing the disappearance of Vilet Torrez. (Vilet Torrez's family. )
August 10, 2012|By Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel
South Florida billboards are bringing fresh attention to the unsolved disappearance of a Miramar mother of three.
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Vilet Patricia Torrez, 38 - Miramar FL msg 3/31/12 (Hubby arrested)
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November 22, 2012, 07:39:49 AM »
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/21/3108718/husband-arrested-in-estranged.html
Posted on Wednesday, 11.21.12
Husband arrested in estranged wife’s March disappearance
CBS 4
Police arrested a Miramar man Wednesday night in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife.
Cid Torrez’s wife, Vilet, has been missing since late March. Early in the investigation, he was considered by police to be a person of interest. The couple was said to be having problems at the time of her disappearance.
For months, investigators searched canals and lakes around Miramar, but turned up nothing. Police said they suspected foul play.
“It’s a mixture of shock and ‘Oh my goodness, finally,’ ” said Vilet Torrez’s sister-in-law, Julie Spurlock Blanco, upon learning of the arrest. “Maybe we can start to get the closure that we need.”
Richard Della Ferra, Cid Torrez’s attorney, said he had his doubts about the validity of the arrest, calling the timing “suspicious” and saying it was a “publicity stunt.”
Surveillance video from the Torrezes’ housing complex shows that on the morning she disappeared, March 31, her minivan entered the community through the visitor entrance after having trouble passing through the gate on the residents’ side.
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Cid Torrez has maintained his innocence and, until his arrest, he had custody of the couple’s three children. The children are now in the care of his wife’s family.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Man-Charged-With-Killing-Wife-Vilet-Torrez-Held-Without-Bond-Officials-180506821.html
Man Charged With Killing Miramar Wife Vilet Torrez Held Without Bond: Officials
Prosecutors said he committed the premeditated murder March 31.
By Karen Franklin
Thursday, Nov 22, 2012 | Updated 12:35 PM ES
The husband of missing Miramar mother Vilet Torrez was held in jail without bond Thursday morning following his arrest for first-degree murder, according to officials.
Cid Torrez, 39, was arrested Wednesday at his parents' Miami Lakes home, Miramar Police told NBC 6 South Florida. In a warrant for his arrest, prosecutors said he committed the premeditated murder March 31.
Police said the arrest was the result of a "meticulous" investigation that lasted over seven months.
"I don't think that there was one piece of evidence that really put him behind bars, it was a variety of things," officer Tania Rues said at a press conference Wednesday.
Still, authorities said, no body has been found.
"I just want him to talk. I just want my mother to know where she is," Vilet Torrez's sister Nayiva Blanco said Wednesday night.
Richard Della Fera, attorney for Cid Torrez, spoke with NBC 6 South Florida in court Thursday morning and said he believes the timing of the arrest was for publicity purposes.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Dependency-Hearing-for-Children-of-Missing-Miramar-Mother-181195111.html
Dependency Hearing for Children of Missing Miramar Mother
Children in disappearance/murder case subject of hearing
By Diana Gonzalez and Brian Hamacher
Wednesday, Nov 28, 2012 | Updated 6:27 PM EST
The Miramar man charged in the murder of his wife won't be allowed to have contact with his children until the criminal investigation is complete, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Cid Torrez wore handcuffs and a jail outfit to a dependency hearing for his three children, where Judge Hope Bristol handed down the order.
The children will remain in the custody of the childrens' maternal grandparents, Bristol ruled. The next hearing date was set for Dec. 13.
Torrez, 39, was arrested Nov. 21 and charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Vilet, who went missing in late March. He is being held without bond.
In the warrant for his arrest, police say Cid Torrez killed Vilet on March 31. Vilet Torrez's body has never been found despite an extensive, months-long search.
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Vilet Torrez's Children To Remain With Her Parents
11/29/2012 11:11 am EST
Shackled at his wrists and ankles, the man charged with killing his missing wife kept his head bowed and stared straight ahead as a judge Wednesday formally removed his three children from his care.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/New-Details-in-Vilet-Torrez-Murder-Case-Husband-Indicted-182545941.html
New Details in Vilet Torrez Murder Case; Husband Indicted
Cid Lenin Torrez, 39, allegedly told a friend that if he couldn’t have his wife, Vilet Torrez, nobody could, according to an arrest warrant
By Diana Gonzalez and Juan Ortega
Friday, Dec 7, 2012 | Updated 5:25 PM EST
A missing Miramar woman’s estranged husband made several disturbing comments months before her disappearance, including a prediction that his wife would die if she ever left him, according to an arrest warrant.
Cid Lenin Torrez, 39, allegedly told a friend that if he couldn’t have his wife, Vilet Torrez, nobody could, the warrant said. He also allegedly said that if Vilet Torrez wasn’t with him, “she’s dead,” the warrant said.
The arrest warrant was released by Miramar police on Friday, a day after Cid Torrez was indicted on a first-degree murder charge in his wife’s death. A Broward County grand jury indicted Torrez, even though no body has been found.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/12/07/3128154/mssh-grad-cid-torrez-charged-with.html#storylink=misearch
Posted on Friday, 12.07.12
MSSH grad Cid Torrez charged with wife's murder
By ANGIE AGUILA/Gazette Writer
River Cities Gazette
Ex-Golden Hawk Cid Torrez has been arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Vilet Torrez, who also was a graduate of Miami Springs Senior High. Tragically, the search and hope to find the missing mother of three still alive has turned into a search for her body.
Cid Torrez, 39, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder on Nov. 21 at his parents’ home in Miami Lakes. In the warrant for his arrest, police say Cid Torrez killed Vilet on March 31 and is being held without bond.
The news broke on the eve of Thanksgiving Day. Since then, there has been a buzz among Miami Springs Senior High School alumni on popular social networking sites. The news has been hard for family and friends of Vilet (Blanco) Torrez. Vilet and her sister, Nayiva Blanco, were both Golden Girls at Miami Springs Senior High School in the ’90s. Cid Torrez also was a Golden Hawk in the ’90s.
This past Thursday, Dec. 6 a Broward County Grand Jury heard eight hours of testimony and quickly returned an indictment meaning Torrez will stand trial for murder.
Vilet Torrez was living in Miramar at the time of her disappearance. Police say the last time anyone saw her alive was on Friday, March 30. Cid Torrez was watching their three children that weekend. Surveillance video shows Vilet driving through the gates of the Harbour Lake Townhomes at 5:17 a.m. Miramar police believe her husband was inside their residence with the children. Video cameras did not record her minivan leaving the gated community.
Her car was found in the parking lot of her apartment complex. Cid Torrez reported her missing on Monday, April 2, three days after she was last seen. Despite many months of searching, Vilet’s body has never been found.
Circuit Judge Hope Bristol of the Juvenile Dependency Division ruled that the three children, ages 5 to 13, will remain in the care of their maternal grandparents. Cid Torrez won’t be allowed to have any contact with the children until the criminal investigation is complete.
“The children are doing great,” said Nayiva Blanco, Vilet’s younger sister. “We are hoping and praying that authorities can realize that the children are in the safest place right now. Our main goal is to provide them with the emotional stability that they have been lacking all this time. We love and care for them just as my sister wanted it.”
Cid Torrez, through his attorney, asked the judge to place the children with his parents. Judge Bristol ordered the State Department of Children and Families to do a home study of Torrez’s parents household. “The goal is to do what is in the best interests of the children,” said Paige Patterson-Hughes, a DCF spokeswoman.
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Cid-Torrez-Due-in-Court-Thursday-for-Hearing-in-Missing-Miramar-Mother-Case-183334891.html
Cid Torrez Enters Not Guilty Plea in Missing Miramar Mother Case
Hearing Thursday for husband charged with killing missing wife
By Brian Hamacher
Thursday, Dec 13, 2012 | Updated 9:02 AM EST
The Miramar man charged in the murder of his missing wife entered a not guilty plea during a Thursday morning hearing.
Cid Torrez, 39, was arrested last month on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his wife, Vilet Torrez, who disappeared in late March. He was indicted last week by a Broward County grand jury, even though her body has never been found despite an extensive, months-long search.
Torrez didn't appear in person at Thursday's hearing but submitted a written plea of not guilty.
Richard Della Fera, Cid Torrez's attorney, has maintained his client's innocence and called the timing of his arrest, the day before Thanksgiving, "very suspect."
According to an arrest warrant released by Miramar Police last week, Torrez, who was estranged from his wife, made several disturbing comments months before her disappearance, including a prediction that his wife would die if she ever left him.
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/fl-torrez-ramsammy-similarities-20121216,0,1542879.story
Torrez case reminiscent of overturned missing-wife murder case
By Tonya Alanez, Sun Sentinel
December 16, 2012
It's hard to prove a murder without a body.
That point was driven home to Broward prosecutors when a state appellate court threw out a Pembroke Pines man's second-degree murder conviction in 2010, saying there wasn't enough evidence to prove Naraine "Cyril" Ramsammy was responsible for the death of his missing wife, Annette Rabino.
Two and a half years into his life sentence, Ramsammy, then 58, was released from a state prison in the Panhandle.
The Broward State Attorney's Office now has a strikingly similar case on its hands.
A Broward County grand jury on Dec. 6 indicted Cid Torrez on a first-degree murder charge in the death of his missing wife, Vilet Patricia Torrez, 38. The Miramar mother of three has not been seen since late March.
"We've certainly not forgotten Ramsammy," said Torrez's prosecutor, Brian Cavanagh. "We're proceeding with the analysis that there's more here than in Ramsammy."
So much so, Cavanagh said, that his office will likely pursue the death penalty against Torrez, 39.
"I expect that we will be filing that notice," he said.
With the Torrez case, as with Ramsammy, there is no body, the wife disappeared without a trace amid allegations of infidelity and lethal threats, and the couple's child gave a hazy account of a troubling final squabble between mother and father.
In the Ramsammy trial, veteran prosecutor David Frankel meticulously connected the dots of the purely circumstantial case and secured a jury conviction.
"By the time closing arguments were done, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that he had done it," said Frankel, who now practices privately.
But it wasn't enough to satisfy the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach.
The divided court ruled 2-1 that despite "troubling suspicions," Ramsammy's conviction could not be based upon "the 'pyramiding' of rank assumptions and inferences."
"We are confronted with a case where the victim's body has not been recovered, no evidence of the manner of death was presented, no physical evidence like blood, DNA, or any other type of forensics was found, no confession to homicide was made, and no witnesses to the crime testified," judges Spencer Levine and Dorian Damoorgian wrote.
Because of the Ramsammy decision, the Torrez case should be "very challenging" for prosecutors to prove, said David Bogenschutz, the defense attorney who handled Ramsammy's appeal.
"That's the law of the district," Bogenschutz said. "If I were defending [the Torrez] case, Ramsammy would be my template."
Proving a death without a body -- much less a murder -- to the exclusion of every reasonable doubt is a tough task, Bogenschutz said.
"The evidence has got to be more than they disappeared, they weren't getting along very well, and they're guilty of murder," he said. "I just don't think that quantum leap can be made."
Torrez's arrest affidavit portrays him as an abusive and jealous estranged husband who had asked a friend about obtaining a gun, how to dispose of a body and said: "Either she's with me or she's dead."
It also says Vilet Torrez was last seen in person when she left a boyfriend and headed for her home, where her husband was with their children. Cid Torrez says she never arrived, but a surveillance video shows her arriving at their townhome community's gatehouse and their daughter says she awoke to hear her mother crying and a "howling" noise.
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http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/26/3202276/the-missing-miramar-mom-a-tale.html#storylink=misearch
Posted on Saturday, 01.26.13
The missing Miramar mom: a tale of love, jealousy, mystery
The union of Cid and Vilet Torrez looked like a fairy tale. Behind closed doors, it wasn’t.
By Diana Moskovitz and Brenda Medina
dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com
It was Feb. 24, girls’ night out. Best friends Vilet Torrez and Clarissa Garcia went out to the Cheesecake Factory, where they ordered drinks and split a slice of cheesecake.
They laughed and chatted and caught up on the things best friends talk about over drinks and desserts: their families, their children, their marriages.
And, yet again, Garcia advised her friend she had to leave her husband.
She was tired of hearing the stories of how Cid Torrez beat her and then swore every time afterward he would never do it again. She was sick of seeing Vilet with bruises.
“What’s it gonna take? Your death? A casket?” Garcia asked.
“Oh, my good friend, he wouldn’t do that,” Torrez said.
Torrez went missing five weeks later.
Friends, family and former co-workers of Torrez all believe her husband, Cid, is behind her disappearance. Miramar police and prosecutors agreed and — despite the lack of a body, or an eyewitness, or a weapon — charged the 39-year-old with murder. Such murder charges don’t always stick, as evidenced by the just-completed murder trial of Geralyn Wilson, foster mother of Rilya Wilson. It was another case of no body, no witnesses, no murder weapon. Geralyn Wilson was convicted of lesser charges.
Cid’s family expressed disbelief that he would harm, much less kill and dispose of, the mother of his three children, although they acknowledged the marriage had turned toxic.
Cid Torrez has pleaded not guilty and awaits trial in a Broward jail.
A NEW COUNTRY
Vilet’s disappearance — and presumed death — brought a sudden and nightmarish end to a life that, from the outside, looked like a South Florida variation of the American dream, the kind of success story that reaffirms the belief that anybody with enough determination can flourish in the United States.
Born Vilet Blanco, she came with her family from Nicaragua to Hialeah when she was 15. None of them spoke English. Vilet learned the language at warp speed and excelled enough at Miami Springs Senior High School to get several college scholarships.
Vilet and Cid, also from Nicaragua, started going out during her junior year of high school and never stopped, except for a brief college breakup.
From that point on, Vilet’s world was Cid.
THE MOTHER
Vilet Torrez graduated from the University of Miami in 1997, with a major in advertising, got a job and, a year later, married Cid — on Aug. 8, 1998. It was a small ceremony in Hialeah. The honeymoon was quick, since Cid was being deployed in a matter of days for a tour that would take him to Japan, Guam, Indonesia and Australia.
Weeks later, Vilet learned she was pregnant.
When Cid came back to the United States, he was sent to North Carolina, joined by his wife and their first-born, a daughter also named Vilet.
In about a year, Cid had left the Marines and they were back in South Florida, living in the Blanco family home in Hialeah.
They fought frequently, Vilet’s family recalled, and Cid sometimes ended up sleeping in the car. But Vilet had seen her parents separation when she was a child and was determined not to do the same.
“I am not going to let him go like you did with my dad,” Vilet told her mother, Gladys Blanco.
THE COWORKER
Upon the family’s return, the boyfriend of Vilet’s sister Nayiva helped Vilet get a job where he had worked. Soon he started telling Nayiva stories he was hearing from former coworkers about how Cid would show up at work, unannounced, just checking in on his wife.
When Vilet took up selling insurance and other financial products with Primerica on the side, Cid got himself licensed to do the same, at the same company, said Manny Menendez, who worked with her there.
“She was my top person on my team for a long time,” Menendez said. As for Cid, he never made a sale.
When Cid wasn’t around, his wife opened up about life at home with him.
“Before, it was he treated her bad. And then it was he hit her. And then it was he choked me a couple times. And then I hear the stuff she told her other friends that was even worse,” Menendez said. “I talked to her a week before she disappeared. I told her to divorce him. I said ‘This isn’t gonna turn out good for you.’ ”
THE BEST FRIEND
In March 2002, the Torrezes bought a home — a yellow, two-story townhouse on a quiet street in Miramar’s Harbour Lakes Estates community.
There were parks nearby, other young families around them and plenty of shopping and good schools within a short drive.
Cid started a trucking business, first called White Towers Investments, later Elite Carriers. Cid did the driving, her family said, and Vilet acted as bookkeeper, contract handler and even helped with directions, her sister said.
The company had one or two trucks. They got work by going out for bids on websites that connect carriers with shippers and later picked up more work through referrals, Cid’s brother Douglas said.
As the business continued, their family grew. Little Vilet gained a brother, named Cid. And Vilet befriended another neighborhood mom, Clarissa Garcia.
Garcia, a registered nurse for more than two decades, knew her best friend was an abused woman. She recognized the black eyes, bruises and excuses. But no matter what Garcia said, Vilet Torrez couldn’t break free from her husband.
“I told her, let’s go downtown and get you a restraining order. Let’s call in a police report,” Garcia said. “But it was always ‘no, he’ll get angrier’ or ‘he loves me’ or ‘I’m his only family.’”
Douglas Torrez refuses to believe that his sister-in-law would allow herself to be hit and never call the cops or tell either family about it.
“She was always outspoken and said what was on her mind,” he said.
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Re: Vilet Patricia Torrez, 38 - Miramar FL msg 3/31/12 (Hubby arrested)
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Prosecutors-Release-Hundreds-of-Pages-of-Documents-in-Cid-Torrez-Case-190945891.html
Prosecutors Release Hundreds of Pages of Documents in Cid Torrez Case
A Lehigh Acres Realtor told police about her recent relationship with Torrez, who faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of his wife
By Diana Gonzalez
Wednesday, Feb 13, 2013 | Updated 12:51 AM EST
More than 400 pages of new documents have been released by the Broward State Attorney's Office related to its case against Cid Torrez.
He was arrested in November on a charge of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Vilet Torrez, and has pleaded not guilty.
A month earlier, Cid Torrez started a relationship with another woman, according to a statement included in the just-released documents.
Daviana Fry, a Lehigh Acres Realtor, told police she met Torrez at a Halloween party.
Afterward, she told police, they were kissing and touching outside a hotel. His three children were waiting in his car.
He paid her a visit a week later, "and uh, we uh, we were sitting and talking and, and he said, you know my wife, my wife is missing, you know she, she is um disappeared," Fry recalled in her statement.
Vilet Torrez disappeared in late March, and her body has never been found.
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Re: Vilet Patricia Torrez, 38 - Miramar FL msg 3/31/12 (Hubby arrested)
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http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/Crime-Scene-Photos-Released-in-Missing-Miramar-Mother-Case-192247831.html
Crime Scene Photos Released in Missing Miramar Mother Case
Brother says evidence released Wednesday shows Vilet Torrez killed by husband Cid
February 21, 2013
A mountain of evidence has been released in the high-profile case of missing Miramar mother Vilet Torrez.
Cid Torrez is accused of murdering his estranged wife, and prosecutors continue to build their case against their suspect, who has pleaded not guilty.
On Wednesday, prosecutors released hundreds of pictures of the crime scene, Vilet Torrez's Miramar townhouse. Pictures of everything from the inside of the house to the family’s vehicles were released. Some of the photos included dark spots inside Cid Torrez’s Jaguar.
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