FL FL - Nicole Ganguzza, 26, Orlando, 10 June 2008

[Beyond Belief]

Man Apparently Fitting 'East-Side Rapist' Description Questioned In Jogger Homicide

ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. -- A 19-year-old taken into custody late Thursday who apparently fits the description of the "east-side rapist" will be questioned in the case of a slain jogger, Local 6 has learned.
http://www.local6.com/news/16594383/detail.html

 

[concernedperson]

From the article they have DNA on the person accused of the prior rape so if it is Garcia this should be a fairly easy match. LE is not saying if Nicole was raped but they are saying the suspect in her murder will have scratches on his arms and legs so I would imagine they have DNA from under her nails.

Of course anytime something happens in central Florida I think of Jennifer Kesse and if the person apprehended for these later crimes could have had anything to do with her disappearance.

 

[UCFAlumni2002]

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/121333183550790.xml&coll=1&thispage=1

A touching story about Nicole

 

[Bobbisangel]

How sad for Nicole and her whole family. Wasn't she newly married?

I wish that women wouldn't go out jogging alone. Parks like that are so dangerous in this day and age. Two or three women should go jogging together or with a male. So many women have lost their lives while jogging in places like this.

I hope the person that did this is caught.

 

[UCFAlumni2002]

I really hope the community rallies together here to stand up and take a stand. Get together a jogging group. Show the community that EVIL will not win.

 

[UCFAlumni2002]

Has anyone taken a look at the "east side rapist" picture? Think that he has any resemblance to our "person" who is the suspect in Jenn's disappearance?

 

[KR2tonenow]

I sure hope they catch this ....there should be at least one witness. Her car was dumped in the lake at the park. What!?

Clearly, she was jogging at a time when people are out of work and doing the same thing. This would be a jogger too. Also, in shape and looks like the average kind of person to fit in.

Poor girl!!

 

[Bobbisangel]

I sure hope they catch this ....there should be at least one witness. Her car was dumped in the lake at the park. What!?

Clearly, she was jogging at a time when people are out of work and doing the same thing. This would be a jogger too. Also, in shape and looks like the average kind of person to fit in.

Poor girl!!

The news article just says that her car was at the park near the jogging trail that she takes. LE took it away.

 

[UCFAlumni2002]

Car was not dumped in a lake. The local news station in Orlando, WFTV, took a reporter and photographer onto the trail and videotaped the area near where she was found to show what the wooded area looked like. May Nicole rest in peace, and I hope the scum who did this rots.

 

[RR0004]

I sure hope they catch this ....there should be at least one witness. Her car was dumped in the lake at the park. What!?

Clearly, she was jogging at a time when people are out of work and doing the same thing. This would be a jogger too. Also, in shape and looks like the average kind of person to fit in.

Poor girl!!

Supposedly there were few people out due to inclement weather...so this person may have been hiding out just waiting for a victim.

 

[Taximom]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-nicole-ganguzza-061808,0,6519291.story
Sketches released

 

[KR2tonenow]

Updated on Greta tonight, still no suspects in Nicole's murder.

 

[Bobbisangel]

The killer must hang out in the parks and watch for women who are jogging alone. It sounds like he stalks them before he grabs them. He was hiding in the bushes when he grabbed the one gal. That tells me that he knew the time of day or evening that she jogged and what path she took. He probably stalked all three women. I believe an article said that Nicole told her parents that she was going jogging on her usual route. Probably her usual time too.
So easy for someone to just hang out down the trail and grab her a she ran by.

It really bothers me that people know what a dangerous world we live in and the horrible things that take place...especially to women in parks on jogging paths. Yet they continue to go jogging alone and a lot of the time in the evening. I just don't get it. I'm not saying that they ask for it or anything like that but why don't they take steps to protect themselves? They should never go alone...maybe with three or more or with a male along. Or even jog on the sidewalk of the main street of town! Someone safer then a park jogging path.

I remember when my oldest daughter was about 16 and knew everything. She used to jog on a dark road by our home at night. There were no houses there and no one would have seen anything that might have happened to her. She wouldn't listen to me so I had a policeman friend come over and talk to her. It did the trick and she realized the unsafe position she was placing herself in.

 

[colette]

They have released a new sketch of the Orange County serial rapist and the possible murderer of Nicole Ganguzza.


http://www.wftv.com/news/17795709/detail.html

 

[colette]

Maybe a break in the case of Nicole Ganguzza!

"Orange County investigators have at least one suspect in the murder of Nicole Ganguzza and are trying to establish a DNA link between a suspect and the crime."

The killer..."was a stranger who might have plotted the murder for weeks or even months."..."they believe the man responsible lived nearby and had significant knowledge of Blanchard Park."
And the "man still lives in the Orlando area and is capable of striking again."

http://www.wesh.com/news/18188421/detail.html

 

[SeriouslySearching]

Great news! I hope they get the break they are waiting for in this case.

 

[colette]

The same rapist that murdered Nicole Ganguzza and raped other women might have struck again. A young woman walking her dog was attacked, she fought him off and her dog helped scare him away.


"She described her attacker as a black or Hispanic man about 5'6" to 5'8" and weighing 150 to 170 pounds. He was wearing a dark blue or black hoodie sweatshirt with the word POLO written in red and white vertically from shoulder to waist on the right side of the shirt, blue jeans and sneakers.

Investigators say this man's description matches the so-called eastside rapist who's believed to be responsible for several rapes and the murder of Nicole Ganguzza."

http://wdbo.com/localnews/2009/02/deputies-investigate-attempted.html

 

[UCFAlumni2002]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...nicole-ganguzza-murder-030409,0,3783961.story

Investigators with the Orange County Sheriff's Office this morning confirmed they are questioning someone in connection to the 2008 murder of UCF student Nicole Ganguzza.

Homicide and sex crimes detectives at 7 a.m. served a search warrant on a person living in Colonial Village at 2105 Harrell Road. The trailer park is a little more than a mile from the Little Econ Trail where search crews had discovered the body of the 26-year-old jogger.

The search warrant is related to the Ganguzza murder case, sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said.

Residents said the man, who lives alone in the trailer, was escorted out by sheriff's deputies.

 

[nursebeeme]

http://www.wftv.com/news/18851339/detail.html
lots of coverage here with even some live footage

 

[EmMomma]

Oh, I hope this will offer some closure for her husband and the rest of her loved ones...