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Hunt for Florida woman who vanished celebrating birthday in Costa Rica – Partially-buried body wrapped in plastic is found in back of Airbnb during during search for Carla Stefaniak who went missing from her ‘sketchy’ Airbnb in Costa Rica a week ago

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>Partially buried body wrapped in plastic is found in Costa Rica during search for Florida woman who went missing from her Airbnb a week ago <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Costa Rica&&num;8217&semi;s Justice Investigation Dept searching for missing Carla Stefaniak on Monday found a woman&&num;8217&semi;s body&comma; <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">partially buried and covered with bags in backyard of Stefaniak&&num;8217&semi;s Airbnb rental<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;"><strong>The body was found in the back of the rental property in San Jose&comma; which Stefaniak described in a text message to her sister-in-law as being &&num;8216&semi;pretty sketchy&&num;8217&semi; the night she vanished<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Stefaniak went to Costa Rica with her sister-in-law&comma; April Burton&comma; to celebrate her 36th birthday&comma; but <&sol;span><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Burton took a flight home the day before Carla<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The birthday girl dropped Burton off at the airport to board a flight home the day before&comma; on Nov 27&comma; Carla was expected to follow the next day<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Carla never showed up to her 1pm flight the next day&comma; leading her family to fear she has been kidnapped  &&num;8211&semi; and <&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">April said Carla texted her around 8pm that the power was out in her Airbnb and it was &OpenCurlyQuote;pretty sketchy’ – that was the last she heard from the missing woman<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">Her family&comma; convinced Carla was kidnapped&comma; traveled to Costa Rica<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">An Uber driver&comma; Airbnb host and guards all claimed she was last seen getting into an unknown car with her luggage at 5am the morning of the flight<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;000000&semi;">The family believes the stories do not match up<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"adHolder column-content cleared">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"para&lowbar;top" data-google-query-id&equals;"CJHZl9mahd8CFQVZwQodXi0H&lowbar;g">&NewLine;<h6 id&equals;"google&lowbar;ads&lowbar;iframe&lowbar;&sol;424397508&sol;dm&period;dailymailtvhouse&lowbar;0&lowbar;&lowbar;container&lowbar;&lowbar;"><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-302228" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;Carla-Stefaniak-8&period;png" alt&equals;"Carla Stefaniak 8" width&equals;"843" height&equals;"642" &sol;>Miami resident Carl Stefaniak &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; went down to Costa Rica to celebrate her 36th birthday&period; She vanished from her Airbnb on Nov 27&comma; hours before she was due to return to her family in Florida<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>A body has been discovered partially buried in the backyard of the Airbnb property in Costa Rica where a Miami <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;03&sol;florida-woman-celebrating-her-36th-birthday-in-costa-rica-vanishes-from-her-airbnb-om-her-last-day-carla-stefaniaks-family-fear-she-has-been-kidnapped-after-texting-that-the-power-was-going-out-an&sol;">woman vanished nearly a week ago<&sol;a>&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Officials in Costa Rica have not confirmed that the body is that of 36-year-old Carla Stefaniak&comma; who has not been seen or heard from since last Tuesday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the country’s Justice Investigation Department&comma; the body was found in the back of the rental property in San Jose&comma; which Stefaniak described in a text message to her sister-in-law as being &&num;8216&semi;pretty sketchy&&num;8217&semi; on the night of November 27&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-302236" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;April-Burton-and-Carla-Stefaniak-1&period;png" alt&equals;"April Burton and Carla Stefaniak 1" width&equals;"718" height&equals;"536" &sol;><strong>Carla &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; flew down to Costa Rica with her Her sister-in-law April Burton &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; seen enjoying their vacation together in Costa Rica&comma; who took a flight home the day before&period; They were last texting around 8pm on November 27&period; She was reported missing on the morning of Nov 28<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">Carla Stefaniak went to Costa Rica with her sister-in-law to celebrate birthday and has been missing since November 27&period; On Monday&comma; police searching for Stefaniak recovered a body<br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Related<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;03&sol;florida-woman-celebrating-her-36th-birthday-in-costa-rica-vanishes-from-her-airbnb-om-her-last-day-carla-stefaniaks-family-fear-she-has-been-kidnapped-after-texting-that-the-power-was-going-out-an&sol;" rel&equals;"bookmark">Florida woman celebrating her 36th birthday in Costa Rica vanishes from her Airbnb om her last day – Carla Stefaniak’s family fear she has been kidnapped after texting that the power was going out and &OpenCurlyQuote;It’s pretty sketchy here’<&sol;a><br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;03&sol;florida-woman-celebrating-her-36th-birthday-in-costa-rica-vanishes-from-her-airbnb-om-her-last-day-carla-stefaniaks-family-fear-she-has-been-kidnapped-after-texting-that-the-power-was-going-out-an&sol;"><img class&equals;"attachment-loop wp-post-image alignleft" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i1&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;Carla-Stefaniak-10&period;png&quest;resize&equals;174&percnt;2C131&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" sizes&equals;"&lpar;max-width&colon; 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Airbnb host and security guards all claim they saw Carla Stefaniak leaving the Airbnb with her luggage around 5am and getting into an unknown car&comma;<&sol;strong> <a title&equals;"Florida woman celebrating her 36th birthday in Costa Rica vanishes from her Airbnb om her last day – Carla Stefaniak’s family fear she has been kidnapped after texting that the power was going out and &OpenCurlyQuote;It’s pretty sketchy here’" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;03&sol;florida-woman-celebrating-her-36th-birthday-in-costa-rica-vanishes-from-her-airbnb-om-her-last-day-carla-stefaniaks-family-fear-she-has-been-kidnapped-after-texting-that-the-power-was-going-out-an&sol;">&lbrack;&&num;8230&semi;&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">&NewLine;The remains had been partially buried and covered with plastic bags&comma; reported NBC6&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the Spanish-language news site <a class&equals;"class" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;crhoy&period;com&sol;nacionales&sol;encuentran-a-una-persona-sin-vida-en-escazu&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">crhoy&period;com<&sol;a>&comma; specially trained K9 dogs participating in the search for Stefaniak led police to a woman&&num;8217&semi;s body in the Escazu neighborhood at around noon local time on Monday&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Stefaniak traveled to Costa Rica with her sister-in-law April Burton last week to celebrate her 36th birthday and was due to fly home to Hallandale Beach alone Wednesday&comma; the day after she dropped April off at the airport&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Carla checked into her 1pm flight&comma; but never showed up to the airport the next morning&comma; November 28&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-302237" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;Carla-Stefaniak-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Carla Stefaniak 1" width&equals;"780" height&equals;"770" &sol;>Her family and friends say they have not heard from her since Tuesday at 8pm when she texted her sister-in-law from the Airbnb to say it was raining and the power was going out &&num;8211&semi; a scene she described as &&num;8216&semi;sketchy&&num;8217&semi;&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Now her family are on the ground in Costa Rica&comma; working with local authorities and questioning any witnesses as they believe Carla has been kidnapped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"artSplitter mol-img-group">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"mol-img">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"image-wrap fff-pic">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"overlay-icon mobile-gallery">&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"mobile-gallery-icon"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-302229" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2018&sol;12&sol;Carla-Stefaniak-with-her-mom-and-two-brothers-1&period;png" alt&equals;"Carla Stefaniak&comma; with her mom and two brothers 1" width&equals;"744" height&equals;"542" &sol;><strong>Her sister-in-law April Burton&comma; took a flight home the day before Carla &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; and they were last texting around 8pm on Nov 27<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div>The family said Carla&comma; who works at a Miami insurance agency&comma; dropped her sister-in-law off at the airport in San Jose on November 27 and returned the rental car&period;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"mol-para-with-font">She then took an Uber to an Airbnb about 30 minutes from the airport&period; It was the same Uber that drove Carla sightseeing and shopping for the afternoon&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to family spokesperson Katie Gardner&comma; Carla texted her brother&&num;8217&semi;s wife updates and photos throughout the afternoon until she got back to the Airbnb&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;Last time we heard from her was 11&sol;27 around 8pm when she said it was raining crazy and power went out&comma;&&num;8217&semi; April said in an Instagram post in a desperate plea to find her sister-in-law&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8216&semi;She continued with &&num;8221&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s pretty sketchy here&comma;&&num;8221&semi;&&num;8217&semi; April said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;April then said she texted Carla to wish her a happy birthday at midnight but received no response&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The next day&comma; April got a call from Carla&&num;8217&semi;s friends saying they had wished her a happy birthday but also got no response&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;That&&num;8217&semi;s when they discovered Carla had never boarded her flight back home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;

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