Florida Cops Searching For Missing College Student After Discovering Bloodstains On Her Pillow, As Person Of Interest Is Found Dead By Apparent Suicide
Sept. 27 2021, Published 3:16 p.m. ET
Florida cops are searching for a missing 19-year-old college student after discovering signs of a violent struggle inside her empty bedroom.
Miya Marcano, who attends Valencia College in Orlando, is believed to have vanished from the Arden Villas apartment complex near the University of Central Florida's campus, where she lives and works in the leasing office.
She was last seen there on Friday at around 5 PM local time.
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Office, Miya missed a flight bound for her hometown of Fort Lauderdale that night. Her father, local DJ Marlon Marcano, grew worried when he never got a text from his daughter confirming that she was on the airplane.
Since then, deputies have searched inside, outside and around Arden Villas, noticing that someone had blocked the door to her bedroom. Once inside, they observed that the room was in disarray and her bedroom window had been left unlocked.
Most notably, they discovered bloodstains on her pillow.
During a press conference on Monday, Orange County Sheriff John Mina announced that a person of interest in Miya's disappearance, 27-year-old Armando Manuel Caballero, had been found dead from an apparent suicide.
Armando worked as a maintenance man at Arden Villas and reportedly expressed romantic interest in Miya, which the teenager is said to have rejected repeatedly.
Mina said that a maintenance-issued master key fob, which Caballero was known to have, was used to enter Marcano's apartment a half hour before her shift ended.
Police had issued an arrest warrant for Caballero for burglary prior to learning of his death.