missing woman

Family and friends held an emotional vigil for 33-year-old Erika Verdecia in Davie at the very same spot where her body was recovered just over a week ago near Orange Drive.  “The balloons mean fly high Erika,” Verdecia’s mother, Carmen Verdecia said. Verdecia leaves behind a six-year-old daughter. Eric Pierson, 54, was arrested October 16 on a first-degree murder charge…

A vigil was held Sunday at the very spot where Erika Verdecia’s body was found. The 33-year-old mother’s body was found after missing for about a week. NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides has the story.

Just hours after Erika Verdecia’s body was found Saturday near Fort Lauderdale, a man has been charged in the case by police. NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides reports.

NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides is in Sunrise where police arrested and charged a convicted murderer just hours after police say they found the body of 33-year-old Erika Verdecia, who was missing for weeks.

A convicted murderer, who was released early from a 40-year prison sentence last year, has been arrested and charged with the killing of a Florida mother.

The Margate Police Department is asking for the public’s help in searching for a missing endangered woman. Authorities are looking for 35-year-old Arnisa Hunter who was last seen leaving her home on foot Saturday at approximately 9:30 a.m. She is 5-foot-5 with a thin build, medium length red hair and brown eyes, police said. Hunter was wearing a colorful...

Miya Marcano, the 19-year-old South Florida woman who disappeared and whose body was found in Orlando a week later, will be laid to rest this coming week.

Safety concerns come to light as a medical examiner officially identified the body of Miya Marcano. NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi reports

Miya Marcano’s family has reainted a national civil rights lawyer and are taking aim at the apartment complex she lived and worked at.

The family of slain college student Miya Marcano is calling for justice in the wake of her death and taking aim at the apartment complex where she lived. “We believe that this apartment complex was negligent in a number of things that they did,” Marcano family attorney Daryl K. Washington said at a news conference with the family Sunday. Washington…

NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi is in Orlando where Miya’s father says he will not leave without her. Her family is now focusing on funeral arrangements in South Florida.

Marcano’s family says they’re finally able to have some closure after more than a week of searching.

A vigil was held for Miya Marcano just hours after the Orange County Sheriff’s Office announced they found a body they believed to be hers. Team coverage with Julie Leonardi in Orlando and Kim Wynne in Pembroke Pines.

A body sheriffs believe to be Miya Marcano’s was found by the Timber Skan Apartment Complex in Orlando where, Armando Caballero, the main suspect who took his own life, used to live. NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi reports.

NBC 6’s Julie Leonardi is in New Smyrna Beach where search and rescue efforts for Miya Marcano continue for the seventh day.

As law enforcement continues to search for Brian Laundrie, a person of interest in the disappearance of Gabby Petito, an attorney for the Petito family welcomed help from TV stars Dog the Bounty Hunter and John Walsh, while imploring Brian Laundrie to cooperate with authorities.

The disappearance and death of Gabby Petito and the police hunt for her boyfriend have generated a whirlwind online, with a multitude of armchair detectives and others sharing tips, possible sightings and theories by way of TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides is in North Port, Florida where authorities are also looking for Petito’s boyfriend, Brian Laundrie, who has also gone missing and is a person of interest in her disappearance.

50 police officers and FBI agents expanded their search for Gabby Petito in Wyoming as authorities are also looking for her fiancé in Florida. NBC 6’s Cristian Benavides reports.