MIAMI- The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday that they have charged 46-year-old Berkley Curtis Jr. with second-degree murder in the 2001 death of his ex-girlfriend Rebeca Pena, according to The Miami Herald.
Pena, who was 26 at the time of her disappearance, was last seen alive leaving a movie set on April 10, 2001, as she was an aspiring actress. She was working as an extra in the Muhammad Ali biopic which starred Will Smith. She was reported missing the next day.
On April 16, her body was found floating in a canal underneath an overpass. Police discovered her decomposing body inside of a suitcase, along with weights and a magazine addressed to her, where she resided with Curtis.
According to an arrest affidavit obtained by NBC Miami, investigators had found the same type of weights in Curtis’s fathers home, but Curtis wasn’t arrested because his girlfriend at that time had told police that she was with him the night Pena disappeared.
Well, Curtis was not with his girlfriend the entire night Pena went missing, as his former girlfriend admitted a decade later that she lied.
Police also say that modern technology helped them in solving this 20-year-old cold case.
Pena had complained to her friends and family that Curtis was stalking her, and had even filed an order of protection against him.
Curtis, and Pena shared a child together.
It’s unclear what Curtis’s motive was in murdering Pena.
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