Florida man who killed wife, hid body in woods sentenced

homesafetytechpros — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:20:57 +0000

Top inset: Mimose Dulcio (GoFundMe). Bottom inset: Jose Luis Pacheco (Broward County Sheriff). Background: The location in Florida where Dulcio’s body was found (WFOR).

A Florida man convicted of killing his wife amid a messy divorce and leaving her body in the woods was sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Jose Luis Pacheco, 38, learned his fate on Thursday after pleading guilty to second-degree murder charges in the killing of his estranged wife Mimose Dulcio, 39. Broward County Circuit Judge Frank Ledee refused the defendant’s initial plea of no contest after hearing powerful victim impact statements.

“You’re a monster … murderer … manipulator … a narcissist … and you don’t deserve to live,” Dulcio’s sister, Seminta Dulcio, told the defendant, local ABC affiliate WPLG reported.

Added the victim’s brother Enel Dulcio: “I hope one day, when all this is done, you look back and feel the stain of your actions.”

Andre Cross, a colleague of the victim, added, “You need to suffer because Mimose did not deserve what you did to her.”

Dulcio was last seen on Nov. 10, 2022, at around 5:30 p.m. at her residence in unincorporated Central Broward, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.

A missing person alert was issued for her two days later. Pacheco told investigators he had not seen or heard from her in a couple of days, and they had been in the process of getting a divorce.

Seminta Dulcio told local NBC affiliate WTVJ that she called her sister but never heard back. No one could get a hold of Pacheco, so family members went to her home to check on her, the station reported.

“I bust through her door. She’s not in there. We looked around, we just can’t find Mimose,” Seminta Dulcio told the station.

Inside the home, family members said they found blood on a cracked TV screen, the victim’s smashed cellphones stuffed between the couch cushions, and broken surveillance cameras and windows, local CBS affiliate WFOR reported, citing an arrest report.

The victim’s sister said Pacheco, who had been living in a separate room in the home to save up money to move out, told her that “Mimi is not home.”

Seminta Dulcio said he was upset she had been on a dating website, WFOR reported, citing an arrest report. Pacheco drove off after arguing with Seminta Dulcio, the outlet reported.

Authorities got a warrant and searched the couple’s home and their vehicle and found evidence suggesting Dulcio had been murdered in the home and her body had been put into the couple’s car and disposed of, authorities said.

Pacheco was arrested on Nov. 14, 2022.

A GoFundMe page set up by the victim’s colleagues said she was a treasured member of the city of Fort Lauderdale’s Development Services Department who ” worked tirelessly every day to serve her community while putting a smile on anyone who interacted with her.”

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Man beat and shot woman, hid body under sleeping bag: Cops

homesafetytechpros — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 17:25:04 +0000

Benjamin Wilkins was sentenced to 75 years in prison for beating and shooting Jacqueline Goodwin to death in Anchorage, Alaska. (KTUU)

A man hit a woman over 100 times, shot her in the stomach, bound her with zip ties, gagged her and taped a plastic bag around her head before covering her body with a sleeping bag. He then put the body it the car and crashed into a pole.

Cops in Alaska made the grisly discovery in 2016 and charged Benjamin Wilkins with murder. On Wednesday, a judge sentenced Wilkins, now 43, to 75 years behind bars.

Anchorage police on June 27, 2016, responded to the traffic crash in the 2800 block of Debarr Road near Alaska Regional Hospital. Cops quickly realized Wilkins was impaired. As they were waiting for the tow truck, they saw what appeared to be a passenger under a sleeping bag and found the body of 30-year-old Jacqueline Goodwin. She had plier marks and bruises throughout her body and her teeth were broken, the Juneau Empire reported at the time. The medical examiner determined the cause of death was from asphyxiation, blunt force trauma and gunshot wound to her stomach, the outlet reported.

According to the Anchorage Daily News, prosecutors said medical examiners estimated Wilkins had hit Goodwin over 100 times.

Cops found more startling revelations when they searched Wilkins’ house. They found more than 30 pounds of drugs including meth, heroin and Xanax, and $125,000 in cash. Wilkins’ brother Connor Stefano reportedly helped Wilkins load the body into the car. Stefano and their mother Jacqueline Stefano later pleaded guilty to hindering prosecution.

Superior Court Judge Andrew Peterson said during the sentencing hearing the case is noteworthy to him because “the level of cruelty is unimaginable,” the Daily News reported.

Prosecutors originally charged Wilkins with first-degree murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. He faced 99 years in prison. But in November Wilkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder with a sentence of up to 75 years in prison. He also didn’t have to testify against family members.

It’s not clear how Wilkins and Goodwin knew each other and prosecutors never established a motive for the murder.

His attorney, Assistant Public Defender Chong Yim, told the court that Wilkins’ family members could have murdered Goodwin. But the judge didn’t buy it.

“There’s simply nothing for me to look at here, or to even weigh in Mr. Wilkins’ favor,” Peterson said, according to local NBC affiliate KTUU.

Even hardened cops were stunned by the gruesomeness of the crime. Officer Joshua Vance, a 12-year veteran of Anchorage police, was the among the first on scene and said the case has taken more of an impact than any other.

“I don’t think, in my career, I’ve ever seen anything this bad,” Vance testified, according to KTUU. “I didn’t know how to react because it was something you just aren’t ready to see.”

Wilkins previously served eight years in federal prison for pointing a gun at police in 2003. Prosecutors said he started selling drugs following his release from prison and the end of his parole.

At Goodwin’s funeral, her family described her as a happy child with a contagious laugh, KTUU reported. But her demeanor changed after the death of her mother when she was 13. She then detached and turned to a life of drugs up into her death. She also was diagnosed with schizophrenia, family said. Her sister also died. Her family hopes she’s in a better place.

“She’s with her sister and her mom and she’s not hurting, she’s not alone, she’s not suffering, her health is better,” her aunt Cora Rexford said. “That’s the part we feel relieved about.”

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