Remains of 9-Year-Old Florida Girl Found After 4 Years of Disappearance

Working in a wooded area in Florida, a team of surveyors stumbled on the body of 9-year-old Diana Alvarez who had been missing for 4 years. Fox News reported that Diana’s disappearance in Lee County in 2016 “touched off a massive search and led to the arrest of a family friend for possessing lewd pictures of her and then for her murder even though her body had not been found.”

“This does not bring Diana back but hopefully it brings closure to the family,” Lee County Sheriff Carmine Marceno said at a news conference.

Diana’s body was found on Thursday at Yeehaw Junction in Osceola County.

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Diana’s family reported her missing from her home in Fort Myers, Florida on May 29, 2016. During the process of investigation, Lee County Sheriff’s deputies discovered that a man named Jorge Guerrero-Torres used to live with the family. Guerrero-Torres was kicked out after engaging in an “inappropriate relationship” with Diana. Pornographic images of Diana on Guerrero-Torres’s phone were also found.

In August 2018, Guerrero-Torres was sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted on charges in relation to the pornographic photos. “People” reported that Guerrero-Torres has been indicted on a first-degree murder charge in Diana’s case. He’s currently awaiting trial on the new charges.

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