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A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.



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According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

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Vilet Patricia Torrez
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
missing person case update January 2023 found new details posted
Vilet, date, approximate 2012; Cid Torrez
Date Missing 03/31/2012
Missing From
Miramar, Florida
Missing Classification Endangered Missing
Sex Female
Race
Hispanic
Date of Birth 03/18/1974 (48)
Age 38 years old
Height and Weight 5'3 - 5'5, 125 pounds
Associated Vehicle(s) Toyota Sienna minivan (accounted for)
Markings and/or Distinguishing Characteristics Hispanic female. Black hair, brown eyes. Vilet was born in Nicaragua. Her maiden name is Blanco.
Details of Disappearance Vilet was last seen in Miramar, Florida. On March 30, she spent the night out with her boyfriend. The surveillance video at Harbour Lake Townhomes, the gated community where she lived, shows her driving her Toyota Sienna minivan through the visitor's entrance at 5:17 a.m., but the video doesn't record her ever leaving.
Cellular phone records indicate Vilet placed two calls to her estranged husband at 5:19 a.m.; he denies having received them. She didn't show up for work that day and has never been heard from again. Her vehicle was later found parked near her home.
Vilet left behind three children between the ages of four and twelve, and it's uncharacteristic of her to leave without warning or be out of touch with her family. She left all her belongings behind at home, including clothing, jewelry and toiletries.
Vilet and her husband of fifteen years, Cid Lenin Torrez, had separated about two months before she went missing and they were in counseling, but both of them were considering divorce. Vilet's relatives describe Cid as jealous and controlling, and there was a documented history of domestic violence in their relationship.
A photo of Cid is posted with this summary. He had moved in with friends, but on the night of Vilet's disappearance he was at their family home, watching their three children. According to Vilet's family, this was the first time he'd stayed there overnight for months.
He moved back in after Vilet disappeared, over the objections of her family. Within about a week of her disappearance, child protection authorities had removed the couple's children from Cid's care and placed them with Vilet's parents. Cid got supervised visitation.
In early April 2012, authorities named Cid as a person of interest in his wife's disappearance. They searched his car as well as hers, and the home at Harbour Lake Townhomes which the couple had shared before their separation, and took DNA samples from Cid.
In November, Cid was arrested for first-degree murder in Vilet's . Their twelve-year-old daughter reported hearing strange noises and crying in the house the night Vilet disappeared, and cadaver dogs detected the scent of human remains in the trunk and backseat of Cid's car.
Cid had reportedly made disturbing comments about six months before Vilet's disappearance, supposedly telling a friend that "she's dead" if she left him, and that if he couldn't have her then no one could. He told his friend he also wanted to kill the man she was seeing.
He asked the friend to help him set up surveillance cameras to monitor Vilet at her home and in her car; he had already installed tracking software on her cellular phone so he could listen to her conversations, view her pictures and videos, and read her text messages. He also hired a private investigator in September 2011 to have her followed.
Cid maintained his innocence at his trial in the summer of 2017. The prosecution argued that he murdered her and buried her body in the Everglades swamp; the defense said that without Vilet's body, there was no proof as to what had happened to her. The jury deliberated eight hours before convicting Cid of second-degree murder.
Vilet graduated from Miami Springs Senior High School and was attending the University of Miami at the time of her disappearance, majoring in advertising. Foul play is suspected in her disappearance due to the circumstances involved.
Investigating Agency
Miramar Police Department
954-431-4600
Other
Florida Department of Law Enforcement
The Huffington Post
NBC Miami
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
CBS Miami
ABC News
The New York Daily News
The Daily Mail
Local 10
The Vanished Podcast

Missing Person Photos

A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, death in a location where they cannot be found (such as at sea), or many other reasons. In most parts of the world, a missing person will usually be found quickly. While criminal abductions are some of the most widely reported missing person cases, these account for only 2 to 5 percent of missing children in Europe. By contrast, some missing person cases remain unresolved for many years. Laws related to these cases are often complex since, in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. The situation, uncertainties, and lack of closure or a funeral resulting when a person goes missing may be extremely painful with long-lasting effects on family and friends. A number of organizations seek to connect, share best practices, and disseminate information and images of missing children to improve the effectiveness of missing children investigations, including the International Commission on Missing Persons, the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), as well as national organizations, including the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.



Missing Person Photos

Resources for Missing Persons

According to current statistics, 4,000 people in the United States go missing every day. Sometimes a child suddenly vanishes from the bus stop or the local park or even from their own yard or bedroom. Or a teenager doesn�t return home after a walk to the neighborhood grocery store or a bike ride or a party with friends. Other times, an adult is mysteriously absent from their job or neighbors haven�t seen them for several days, and family and friends haven�t heard from them either.

Missing Person Photos