Relatives and friends of the Cubans Irisbel Cartalla (50 years old) and her daughter Isbelsy Olivera (22 years old), murdered on December 13 in an apartment in Miami, met on Tuesday night to say goodbye to them before repatriating their bodies to the island.
A report from the channel Univision shows at Sisters of Cartallawho claim that they still do not believe what happened.
“She has destroyed a family for pleasure,” they said in reference to Olivera’s ex-boyfriend, identified as Carlos Alexander Travieso, 49, who confessed to the crime.
Likewise, they stated that the victims never reported the episodes of violence they experienced within their own apartment at the hands of Olivera, nor did they tell anything to their relatives, for fear that other men in the family would get involved in problems.
On Friday both women will be sent to the Cuban province of Camagüey, where the rest of his family They hope to bury them.
Both were shot at the entrance to her apartment in a multi-family unit north of Miami, on the afternoon of December 13.
After committing the double feminicide, Travieso got into his car and turned himself in to the authorities. His latest publications on social networks suggest that it was a premeditated crime after the breakup with the young woman.
On November 25, the alleged murderer said goodbye to Miami and headed to Phoenix, Arizona, where according to his networks he resided.
However, in recent days several of his publications alluded to his relatives: his deceased mother, his several children, a cousin and all of them had a touch of nostalgia and farewell, something that has not gone unnoticed by the many Internet users who in both In recent days they poured out all kinds of insults towards the murderer.
Added to this are short, enigmatic phrases as if pointing to a goal. The highlight was a publication from December 10, three days before the crime, in which he wrote: “Thank you, goodbye for forgiving me, I’m ready for everything, amen,” along with a fragment of a video of a preacher.
Police said the women were ambushed by the man. Mike Vega, spokesman for the Miami police, said that officers found the two Cuban women shot in one of the apartments on the ninth floor of the condominium and they were declared dead at the scene.
A person close to the victims said that the young woman worked as a manicurist in her own apartment, while her mother was a cleaning employee in the condominium.
