"The Suitcase Murderer"
Since 2000 the bodies of four victims have been found stuffed in containers and left near major roadways.
Police believe at least two murders were committed by the same man, whom they have dubbed "the suitcase murderer."
At least three of the women had similar characteristics: slender builds and strawberry-blonde hair. All were strangled and were last seen strolling along U.S. 1 in Fort Lauderdale. One of the Fort Lauderdale women was mutilated and dumped near a Palm Beach highway.
The second "suitcase murder" sparked one of the region's largest homicide investigations, staffed by approximately 30 investigators from the Broward Sheriff's Office; Cooper City, City of Miami, Miami-Dade County, and Hollywood police; and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
By the time the South Florida task force announced they had sought assistance from the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) in Quantico, Virginia — the agency credited with profiling some of the most sadistic serial killers of modern history — investigators were all but certain they were looking for one man.
To date, there are at least fourteen unsolved prostitute homicides in Miami-Dade and Broward counties for which investigators have no reliable eye witnesses, obvious suspects, or jailhouse confessions to help track the killer. None have been positively linked to the Dietz and Demas murders.
In the months and years since the murders, the bodies of nine more women were found dumped in various spots in and around Miami-Dade and Broward.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-05-24/news/the-suitcase-murders/
Link to info on the "Suitcase Murders"
Here are the Suitcase Murders victims:
June 22, 2000
Kim Dietz-Livesey
35-year-old Miami woman
Disappeared: June 20, 2000, peach-color duplex in El Portal, FL (near Miami FL)
Found : June 22, 2000, at Flamingo Road north of Sheridan Street in Cooper City
Lived at: El Portal (Miami FL)
Known to use this motel: Knight's Inn at 3580 Biscayne Blvd (like victim nr 2 also did )
Motherhood: mother of a toddler, 17-month-old daughter
Husband: Michael Livesey *advertiser censored* NW 6th Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311, USA
My POI address: *advertiser censored* NE 3rd Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA 0.9 miles apart from Michael Liversey
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-06-24/news/0006240160_1_alcohol-addictions-undercover-officer
Victim Was Fighting Addictions
June 24, 2000
By NICK SORTAL Staff Writer
When she wasn't on drugs and alcohol, Kim Dietz-Livesey was a beautiful, vibrant woman, excited about being a mom.
But her final days -- capped off by a prostitution arrest -- were a downhill plunge. She was probably murdered in Miami, and her body was found early Thursday morning in a suitcase on Flamingo Road north of Sheridan Street in Cooper City.
A friend says Dietz's final days were a result of an unbreakable addiction that put her in the wrong place at the wrong time. Police have not released any possible scenarios.
Her estranged husband, Michael Livesey of Fort Lauderdale, identified her late Thursday night after seeing photos of her four tattoos. Two passing motorists had stopped to pick up a suitcase on the side of Flamingo Road. Dietz's nude body was found inside.
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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2000-06-24/news/0006240160_1_alcohol-addictions-undercover-officer
A body was found seven weeks ago inside a brown canvas suitcase on the side of Flamingo Road north of Sheridan Street in Cooper City. She too had four tattoos -- including a few roses and a dragon -- on her arms and legs. She was 5 feet 6 and weighed 120 pounds.
In the Dietz-Livesey case, police still have no suspects in the June 22 death. Investigators said she died of blunt head trauma.
She was the mother of a toddler and a former retail store manager who lived in El Portal in north Miami-Dade
the Livesey family lived in in Oakland Park.
According to court documents, Michael Livesey began to fear for his daughter's security and safety. On May 23, 2000, he filed for divorce, citing "recent drug abuse problems and suicidal tendencies by mother."
One tip led police to the Knight's Inn at 3580 Biscayne Blvd., where manager Maria Rivaflecha claimed to have seen Dietz the night before she was killed. She also claimed to have found a grapefruit-size blood stain on the carpet of room 133.
A few days later Michael received a call from her, and the conversation that ensued often replays in his head: "She said she was done partying and she wanted to come home." It was Tuesday, June 20, 2000. The couple arranged to meet at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting at 10:00 p.m. that night near 79th Street and Biscayne Boulevard.
Dietz never showed up. Thirty-six hours later she was found dead.
August 9, 2000
Sia Demas
21 year old, of Wilton Manors
Disappeared from: 6700 Biscayne Blvd, Miami, FL 33138
Found: Few yeards from Broward Medical Examiner's Office 5301 Southwest 31st Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL near Dania Beach
Lived at: ???
Known to use this motel: Knight's Inn at 3580 Biscayne Blvd (like victim nr 1 also did )
Motherhood: In 1996 Demas gave birth to a son
Body of second woman found stuffed in luggage
Detectives say the victim's tattoos and the manner in which the body was found are eerily similar to a case from less than two months ago.
By Compiled from Times wires
For the second time in two months, a passer-by found the nude body of a tattooed-woman stuffed inside a piece of luggage left on the side of a Broward roadway.
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...a bulging black, 4-foot-long duffel bag left in plain sight just yards from the Broward Medical Examiner's Office near Dania Beach.
Inside was the body of a white female with dark brown hair and green eyes.
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In May 1999, Delia Lorna Mendez, a Broward prostitute, was found cut in half in a trash bin in Hollywood.
A few months before, the body of Sheila Griffin was discovered in a vacant lot in the 1300 block of Northwest Second Street in Fort Lauderdale. She had been strangled.
The cases remain unsolved.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/081000/State/Body_of_second_woman_.shtml
She was naked.
Sia Demas ALSO used Knight's Inn at 3580 Biscayne Blvd like Kim Dietz
In 1996 Demas gave birth to a son
Demas was released on July 2, 2000, after serving thirteen months in the Pembroke Pines facility
"I never stopped loving her," said Saiger (her mother). "I never stopped trying to help her. People think she was a throwaway person, but they forget she had a family who loved her."
Demas used Joe Keane's Wilton Manors address on occasion to receive mail
On August 8, 2000, another prostitute, Nicole Bullard, told police she and Demas were on the 6700 block of Biscayne Boulevard. Shortly before 3:00 a.m. Bullard says a man in a dark color Chevy 1500 truck pulled up and flashed a wad of cash. She claims the pickup had tinted windows, an extended cab, a thin chrome sun visor, chrome rims, and big tires.
Demas climbed in next to the driver, whom Bullard described as a white male, approximately 40 years old, with a stocky build and a mustache. Twenty-four hours later, her battered body was discovered in Dania Beach.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-05-24/news/the-suitcase-murders/4/
April 2001
Rebeca Pena
26-year-old
Disappeared: last seen by a co-worker heading north on Interstate 95 about 2 a.m. Wednesday April 11, 2001
Lived at: 3285 Foxcroft Rd, Miramar FL
Found: Biscayne Canal beneath I-95 several blocks north of NW 151st Street
Motherhood: three-year-old daughter
the bludgeoned body of 26-year-old Rebeca Pena was found in a zippered suitcase floating in the Biscayne Canal beneath I-95 several blocks north of NW 151st Street. While police did not rule out the possibility that the case may be linked to the suitcase murders, domestic violence claims and a dispute over the parental rights of her three-year-old daughter reveal a history of physical and emotional conflict with Pena's former high school sweetheart, who fathered her child. Pena had never been arrested. The investigation into her murder is still open.
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-05-24/news/the-suitcase-murders/4/
Police Hunt Missing Actress
April 16, 2001|By JEFF SHIELDS Staff Writer
Police have yet to turn up any signs of foul play in the case of an aspiring actress who has been missing since Wednesday morning.
Rebeca Pena, 26, of Miramar, was last seen by a co-worker heading north on Interstate 95 about 2 a.m. Wednesday, said Bill Robertson, spokesman for Miramar Police, who took the case from Miami Police on Friday.
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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20...1_miami-police-disappearance-aspiring-actress
Monday, April 18, 2005
Jane Dooe
Disappeared:
Found: April 18, 2005
British long-distance cyclist Anthony Gunn was pedaling north along an isolated expanse of U.S. 27 into Palm Beach County as daylight began to fade on Monday, April 18, 2005. Gunn, who was biking through the southern United States, began looking for a suitable place to camp overnight.
As he searched his surroundings he noticed a large, blue Rubbermaid container partially hidden in the thicket of weeds by the road. Curious, he stopped, unclipped his shoes, wheeled his bike over, and pried open the corner.
Stuffed inside was the naked body of a woman.
"I saw a hand," he told a reporter. "It was a corpse ... it was sick."
The victim was white, five feet tall, weighed 110 to 120 pounds, and had sandy brown hair and a scar across her stomach. Investigators never identified the corpse, but certain things about the case were eerily familiar.
Twenty-six women with prostitution or drug-related arrest records have been brutally slain in the past dozen years in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. One was decapitated and had her heart carved out before she was dumped near a rural Miami road. Four women were strangled and set on fire. Another woman was decapitated and dismembered, her limbs scattered in New River, near Samuel Delavoe Park in Fort Lauderdale.
Prosecutors successfully linked several of the murders to three serial killers — Rory "the Tamiami Strangler" Conde, Fransico Del Junco, and Charlie Brandt — who preyed upon South Florida prostitutes between September 1994 and March 1996. Fourteen of those cases remain unsolved.
Since 2000 the bodies of four victims have been found stuffed in containers and left near major roadways. Police believe at least two murders were committed by the same man, whom they have dubbed "the suitcase murderer."
He has never been caught.
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http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2007-05-24/news/the-suitcase-murders/
http://findarticles.com/p/news-arti...0050421/officials-identify-body/ai_n51875001/
OFFICIALS TRYING TO IDENTIFY BODY
Apr 21, 2005
The unidentified woman whose body was found in a box off U.S. 27 may have used a wheelchair, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.
Investigators said they found signs of atrophy in the woman's legs, suggesting she may have lost the capacity to walk. Authorities are attempting to identify the body, discovered Monday night by a long-distance cyclist. It was found in a blue Rubbermaid container in southwestern Palm Beach County.
The woman is described as 5 feet tall and 110 to 120 pounds. She was 40 to 70 years old, with gray and/or sandy brown hair, a gap in her top two front teeth, gold fillings and stomach scars. Evidence of breast cancer was found.
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Anyone with information is asked to contact sheriff's Detective John Cogburn at (561) 688-4063 or Crime Stoppers at (800) 458-TIPS (8477).
FYI:
My POI have lived in thise locations between 1988 and 2012
BUT in the same timeframe he has traveled up and down the east coast, from Florida to New York,
woking as a construction worker and as a carpenter.
He has also from time to time, lived in the New York area as well as in Atlantic City (Ocean City) NJ,
he might have lived in other locations as well:
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
DANIA, FL
SUNRISE, FL
PEMBROKE PINES, FL
OCEAN CITY, NJ
BROOKLYN, NY
