FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Detectives who are searching for a Broward County murder victim found the body of a woman on Wednesday in Miami-Dade County’s Carol City area, the Broward Sheriff’s Office announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Authorities in Miami-Dade County had yet to identify the woman’s body. Broward detectives were searching for Mimose “Mimi” Dulcio, who vanished on Nov. 10.
The woman’s body was near the intersection of Northwest 204 Street and 55 Court, in Miami-Dade, according to Veda Coleman-Wright, a spokeswoman for BSO.
“The victim was murdered in the home. Her body was transported using the shared vehicle and then disposed of in an unknown location,” Gerdy St. Louis, a spokeswoman for BSO, said adding the vehicle was a white 2018 Dodge Charger.
Dulcio, an administrative assistant for the city of Fort Lauderdale, and Jose Luis Pacheco were separated, but they were still sharing her three-bedroom home, relatives said.
Seminta Dulcio feared her 39-year-old sister and Pacheco, 36, were going through a difficult divorce. There were secrets her sister shared that made her suspect she had been the victim of his rage.
“I am going to call him a monster,” Seminta Dulcio said.
During the investigation, a witness told deputies that Pacheco is “known to get angry and when he gets angry it takes over him at times” and added that Pacheco’s “anger issue” caused him “to throw items and yell,” BSO Detective Kevin Nitsch wrote, according to the arrest warrant.
Detectives met with Pacheco on Saturday at his mother’s home in Hialeah and he told them he had been married to Mimose Dulcio for about 18 months and they had he had gone to the bank on Nov. 9 to have his signature notarized on divorce paperwork, according to the warrant.
BSO detectives seized his handgun and phone and Miami-Dade detectives seized his car and turned it over to BSO, according to the warrant.
Seminta Dulcio said her sister had planned to file an emergency restraining order against Pacheco. Enel Dulcio said the home’s surveillance cameras were smashed and her damaged phone was inside.
“There is no reason for her to disappear knowing that she has that much love,” Enel Dulcio said. “If she disappears, she is not smashing her phones and leaving herself without credit cards, without debit cards.”
After learning of her murder, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis called for a moment of silence in her memory during a public meeting on Tuesday.
Pacheco, who is facing a second-degree murder charge, remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday awaiting extradition to Broward County, records show.
BSO Detective Chris Blankenship was asking anyone with information about the case to call 954-321-4268 or the BSO non-emergency number at 954-764-4357.
Detectives were asking also anyone with information about the case, but who wants to remain anonymous, to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
Read the arrest warrant