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Video of the interview with the juror can be viewed at the link below.


Exclusive: Guerrero juror had ‘no question’ of guilt

May 22, 2017

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A juror in the child *advertiser censored* trial of the man suspected of abducting a San Carlos Park girl said he had difficulty looking at lewd images of the girl that prosecutors said the man took and kept on his phone.

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"By the time it was over with, there was no question in my mind,” Gibson said.

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Most difficult of all for Gibson was finding out after the trial that Alvarez still hasn’t been found. He was only vaguely familiar with the case before the trial, and prosecutors weren’t allowed to mention Alvarez had gone missing.

 

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Search to resume for missing San Carlos Park girl

May 26, 2017

Two volunteer organizations announced their decision Friday to renew the search for Diana Alvarez next week, the day after the one-year anniversary of her disappearance.

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The search will begin Tuesday near her San Carlos Park home, where Diana was last seen on May 29, 2016. The organizations will retrace the path investigators believe Jorge Guerrero took when he fled Lee County.

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The organizations plan to use new technology some law enforcement agencies don’t possess, including two kinds of K-9s and cadaver dogs, as well as high-tech sonar equipment to search deep below bodies of water.

 

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Four search crews scan area where Diana Alvarez disappeared a year ago

May 30, 2017

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Tuesday morning, almost a year after that encounter, Case and several other Peace River searchers and their dogs joined in a renewed search for Diana, fanning out around that same San Carlos Park community.

Looking around the Sheltering Pines trailer park just off U.S. 41, dogs and handlers walked through weedy, brushy, mosquito-infested woods, along sunlit streets, backyards, front yards, wood piles, trash piles and just about everywhere.

Reverand Sarah Witten-Grigsby, public information officer and chaplin for Peace River K9 Search and Rescue, said the dogs and handlers were part of 12 such teams that were searching for evidence of Diana across the state.

Other crews are continuing to search along the travel route officials believe suspect Jorge Guerrero-Torres took.

 

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[h=1]Drones at work in search for missing San Carlos Park girl[/h]

Crews from a pair of volunteer organizations picked up the search this week for Diana Alvarez one year after her disappearance.

“Some areas of interest have been found” in regard to Diana’s whereabouts, said Sarah Whitten-Grisby, a spokeswoman for Peace River K-9 Search and Rescue, one of the groups involved in the renewed search.

The crews are looking near the Alvarez home, as well as in areas near Okeechobee, Moore Haven and Indiantown in accordance with records from the cellphone of former family friend Jorge Guerrero, who’s suspected of taking her.

http://www.winknews.com/2017/06/01/search-for-missing-10-year-old-san-carlos-park-girl-continues/

 

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Team looking for Diana Alvarez has new information

June 2, 2017

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[The Peace River K9 Search and Rescue team] say they uncovered DNA that has them planning a search this weekend in the Okeechobee area.

The family's attorney said a "DNA detector" alerted the team to two areas, one in Lee County and the other near Indiantown, south of Okeechobee. They used a DNA sample from Diana's brother, who has the same mother and father as Diana, to make the connection.

 

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Peace River volunteer search group to focus on two areas in Diana Alvarez search

June 8, 2017

A recent search for Diana Alvarez led a group to at least two areas they plan to re-examine once flood waters recede.

Rev. Sarah Whitten-Grigsby, public information officer and chaplain for Peace River K9 Search and Rescue, said the group that organized a search for the missing 9-year-old girl found evidence in at least two places they checked.

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Thomas Busatta, the attorney who represents Diana's family, said one of the locations is near the family's Sheltering Pines home.

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The Peace River volunteer group is searching independently of law enforcement, but any information they find is forwarded to the sheriff's office, Whitten-Grigsby said. The two areas were flooded by recent rainfall, but she said she expects the search to resume as early as next week.

 

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Search continues for Diana Alvarez

June 16, 2017

The Peace River K-9 Search and Rescue Team resumed the search for Diana Alvarez Friday morning.

 

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40 years

http://www.winknews.com/2017/08/14/...ertiser censored*-charges-to-face-sentencing/

 

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The NBC2 version:

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/36129929...d-in-federal-child-*advertiser censored*-case

 

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http://www.news-press.com/story/news/crime/2017/08/15/lee-county-sheriff-files-charges-against-jorge-guerrero-torres-diana-alvarez-case/569904001/

A day after a suspect in the disappearance of Diana Alvarez was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison, state authorities charged him with additional crimes against the girl.

The Lee County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday that Jorge Guerrero-Torres has been charged with two felonies in the 2016 disappearance case of 9-year-old Diana.

Undersheriff Carmine Marceno said the charges include lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim less than 12 years of age and battery of a child.

"Our investigation leaves us confident that Jorge Guerrero-Torres played a role in Diana's disappearance," he said."Our focus has always been and continues to revolve around bringing Diana home."

More at link.

 

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Family Fears Missing 9-Year-Old Was Abducted and Trafficked After Man Is Sentenced for Pornographic Images of Her

A Florida man suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old girl in 2016 was sentenced Monday to 40 years in federal prison for producing pornographic photos of her before she went missing, PEOPLE confirms.

Jorge Guerrero Torres, 29, was sentenced on Monday after being convicted in May for having sexually-explicit images of Diana Alvarez, who went missing in 2016 and with whom authorities allege Torres had a sexual relationship, a Florida District Court official tells PEOPLE.

At his sentencing hearing on Monday, Diana’s mother pleaded with Torres to reveal where her daughter was, according to the News-Press.

“Please tell me where my daughter is; look me in the face and tell me,” Rita Hernandez said through an interpreter, the paper reports.

http://people.com/crime/florida-man-40-years-pornographic-images-diana-alvarez/

 

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Guerrero appeals federal child *advertiser censored* charges

August 29, 2017

Jorge Guerrero filed an appeal last week after being convicted of federal child *advertiser censored* charges in May.

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Guerrero filed his appeal last Tuesday to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals based out of Atlanta.

The appeal was put on the court's agenda two days later.

Guerrero failed to pay the filing fee for his appeal.

His attorney Roger Azcona also filed a motion, requesting to withdraw as Guerrero's representation and be replaced by public defender.

http://www.nbc-2.com/story/36246180/guerrero-appeals-federal-child-*advertiser censored*-charges

 

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I was thinking about Diana today and searched to see if there were any updates on her. I found two new articles that have not been posted yet!

Documents refer to ‘murder’ of Diana Alvarez

Newly released documents from the state attorney’s office make reference to the “murder” of Diana Alvarez.

The disappearance of the San Carlos Park girl is still being treated by authorities as a missing person’s case, but the findings represent the first time the term “murder” has been formally used in relation to the girl, who was 9 when she vanished on May 29, 2016.

“This is a classic case where a child was abducted and possibly the worst may have happened to her,” said Walt Zalisko, a private investigator hired by Diana’s family.

The documents detail an interview the Lee County Sheriff’s Office conducted with Juan Laverde, an inmate who spent time in jail with 29-year-old Jorge Guerrero of Mexico, the only suspect in the child’s disappearance.

Laverde told sheriff’s investigators Guerrero asked him how much time he’d face for “the murder charge.” Guerrero told Laverde he thought he’d be charged for rape, kidnapping and murder, Laverde said.

Source: http://www.winknews.com/2017/12/18/documents-refer-murder-diana-alvarez/

Private investigator hired by family of missing Diana Alvarez

The search for missing 9-year-old San Carlos Park girl Diana Alvarez will continue with the help of a private investigator.

The child has been missing since May 2016.

The family hired Walter Zalisko, a former police chief and investigator for Global Investigative Group, to help track down what happened to their daughter.

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com/story/37082619/private-investigator-hired-by-family-of-missing-diana-alvarez

 

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Here is another one :

Man suspected of kidnapping 9-year-old admitted to killing her

New information has revealed more to the investigation into missing Lee County girl, Diana Alvarez, and the main suspect in her disappearance, Jorge Guerrero Torres.

Guerrero-Torres is currently in the Lee County jail, serving a federal sentence for possession of child *advertiser censored* while he awaits a trial at the state level for child molestation and battery with bodily fluid, all connected to allegations he inappropriately touched Diana Alvarez.
Alvarez, who vanished when she was just 9 years old, has been missing since May 2016.

New details brought to the family's attention reveal a jailhouse confession by Guerrero-Torres when he was initially questioned for her disappearance and taken into custody in Okeechobee.
"A lot of the items weren't revealed in federal court that will be in state court," the family's attorney explained. "The information coming to light is actually not new information, it was initiated in June 2016."

Source: http://www.nbc-2.com/story/37103445/man-suspected-of-kidnapping-9-year-old-admitted-to-killing-her

 

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Nine-year-old Florida girl's remains found four years after she vanished
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March 17, 2020, 2:14 PM EDT
By Elisha Fieldstadt


The remains of a Florida girl who went missing in 2016 were found last week, authorities said, and her accused killer could face the death penalty.

Diana Alvarez was 9 years old when she vanished in the middle of the night from her home in San Carlos Park, about 18 miles south of Fort Myers on the state's Gulf Coast. The search for her ended Thursday when her body was found in Yeehaw Junction, about 140 miles away, according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office.



Following her disappearance in May 2016, the sheriff's office and assisting agencies twice searched areas of Yeehaw Junction in Osceola County after the phone of Jorge Guerrero, a friend of the family, pinged there around the time of Alvarez's disappearance.