STORY
YOU'LL WANT TO SEE.
>> ABSOLUTELY.
WE START RIGHT NOW WITH BREAKING
NEWS.
OUR NEWS 6 CREWS WERE THERE WHEN
OSCEOLA COUNTY DEPUTIES WALKED
TWO OF THE THREE SUSPECTS INTO
THE OSCEOLA COUNTY JAIL.
IN ALL TWO WOMEN AND A MAN ARE
NOW CHARGED WITH FIRST-DEGREE
MURDER.
DEPUTIES SAY THEY TARGETED
42-YEAR-OLD JANICE
ZENGOTITA-TORRES EARLIER THIS
WEEK.
SHERIFF RUSS GIBSON IS- ADDRESSING THE MEDIA RIGHT NOW.
THERE IS A NEWS CONFERENCE UNDER
WAY.
LET'S LISTEN IN.
>> THE HEINOUS MURDER OF ONE OF
OUR OWN CITIZENS WILL NOT BE
TOLERATED IN OSCEOLA COUNTY.
THE VICTIM HAD PROVED HERE FROM
PUERTO RICO OVER A YEAR AGO AND
WAS MAKING HER LIFE HERE IN
OSCEOLA COUNTY WITH HER HUSBAND,
HER 14-YEAR-OLD SON, AND HER
MOTHER.
HER HUSBAND CONTACTED THE
SHERIFF'S OFFICE ON MONDAY
MORNING AND REPORTED HER
MISSING.
SOON THEREAFTER THE SHERIFF'S
OFFICE BELIEVES THAT THE BODY OF
THE WOMAN FOUND THAT MORNING IN
ORMOND BEACH WAS THE MISSING
WOMAN THAT THEY BEGAN WORKING
THE CASE ON, AND NOW IT WAS A
POTENTIAL HOMICIDE.
ON WEDNESDAY THE BODY FOUND IN
ORMOND BEACH WAS POSITIVELY
IDENTIFIED AS THE VICTIM, JANICE
ZENGOTITA-TORRES.
I WANT TO SAY AT THIS POINT THAT
THE HUSBAND AND THE FAMILY AT
THIS TIME OBVIOUSLY ARE GRIEVING
FOR THE LOSS OF THEIR WIFE,
THEIR MOTHER, AND DAUGHTE
THEY WERE REMARABLE, STRONG,
AND INSTRUMENTAL IN CATCHING T
SUSPECTS.
REMARKABLE.
THE SUSPECTS BEGAN TO USE THE
VICTIM'S A.T.M. CARD, AND THEY
WERE WITHDRAWING MONEY FROM THE
ACCOUNT.
ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT T OSCEOLA
COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE BANK
ETED A.T.M.s IN ORANGE AND
OSCEOLA COUNTY.
WE HAD APPROXIMATELY 45
UNDERCOVER DETECTIVES OUT THAT
NIGHT COVERING THESE COUNTY,
THESE A.T.M.s.
WE WERE HOPING THAT THE PERSON
WOULD USE THE A.T.M. CARD AGAIN
AND HELP US CAPTURE THESE
SUSPECTS.
UNFORTUNATELY THE SUSPECTS USED
THE CARD AT AN A.T.M. THAT WE
DID NOT HAVE COVERED, AND WE
MISSED THEM BY JUST A FEW
úMINUTES.
LAST NIGHT, WITH THE HELP OF THE
ORMOND BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT,
THE KISSIMMEE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
THE ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S
OFFICE, AND THE ORLANDO POLICE
DEPARTMENT, WE WEREBLE TO
COVER MORE A.T.M.s OBVIOUSLY,
AND WE WERE ABLE TO APPREHEND
THE SUSPECT I SHNAR WHILE SHE
WAS ATTEMPTING TO USE THE A.T.M.
CARD OF THE VICTIM.
SHE WAS BROUGHT BACK TO THE
SHERIFF'S OFFICE WHERE SHE GAVE
A FULL CONFESSION AND SHE
IMPLICATED TWO OTHER SUSPECTS
AND GAVE US A DESCRIPTION OF THE
OTHER SUSPECTS' VEHICLE.
WE WERE ABLE TO TRACK THE OTHER
SUSPECTS TO THE HOTEL IN ORANGE
COUNTY AND PLACE THE OTHER TWO
SUSPECTS EVENTUALLY UNDER
ARREST.
BOTH OF THESE SUSPECTS GAVE FULL
CONFESSIONS, AS WELL.
ALL THREE CONFIRMED THAT THIS
WAS A MURDER-FOR-HIRE AND THE
VICTIM WAS MISTAKENLY -- AGAIN,
MISTAKENLY -- TARGETED AND
MURDERED AS BEING THE PERSON
THAT THEY THOUGHT WAS THE
INTENDED VICTIM.
I WANT TO PERSONALLY THANK THE
MEN AND WOMEN OF THE OSCEOLA
COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, THE
OTHER GREAT AGENCIES THAT
ASSISTED IN THIS CASE.
THEY WORKED AROUND THE CLOCK
SINCE WE SUSPECTED THIS WAS A
MURDER, AND THEN WHEN WE HAD THE
VICTIM POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED,
TREMENDOUS WORK, TREMENDOUS
COOPERATION AND TEAMWORK FROM
OSCEOLA SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND THE
OTHER AGENCIES INVOLVED TO BRING
THIS CASE TO WHERE IT IS TODAY
WITH THREE OF THESE SUSPECTS,
THE MURDERER, FULL CONFESSIONS,
AND THEY'RE IN THE OSCEOLA
COUNTY CORRECTIONS RIGHT NOW
GETTING READY TO BE PROCESSED
FOR THEIR CRIMES.
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, AS
YOU KNOW, THEY TOOK TIME AWAY
FROM THEIR FAMILIES.
THAT'S OUR JOB, AND AS I SAID
EARLIER, I HAVE A HEART.
THEY HAVE HEART.
THAT'S WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO.
THAT'S WHY I'M ABLE TO DO IT FOR
AS LONG
AS LONG AS I'VE DONE IT, AND SO
HAVEN'T THE OTHER MEN AND WOMEN.
THE HEART TO SERVE IS SOMETHING
YOU CANNOT BUY.
I GET EMOTIONAL BECAUSE IT
TOUCHES ME SO DEEPLY THAT ONE OF
OUR CITIZENS WAS KILLED IN SUCH
A MANNER OVER A MISTAKEN
IDENTIFICATION, AND IN THE END
IT APPEARS TO BE A LOVER'S
TRIANGLE.
WOW.
BUT AS I SAID EARLIER, WE WILL
TURN OVER EVERY STONE, ENTER
EVERY CAVE, WE WILL USE EVERY
RESOURCE.
IF YOU HURT ONE OF OUR CITIZENS,
ATTACK ONE OF OUR CITIZENS IN
OSCEOLA COUNTY, WE WILL PUT
EVERYTHING TOGETHER AND WE WILL
NOT REST UNTIL WE HAVE Y IN
CUSTODY.
I LOVE PEOPLE AND I WELCOME THE
MEN AND WOMEN OF PUERTO RICO,
THE AMERICAN CITIZENS, BROTHERS
AND SISTERS, BUT ON A SAME
TOKEN, AS MUCH AS I LOVE PEOPLE,
WE HAVE TO TREAT PEOPLE WITH
RESPECT, DIGNITY, A KINDNESS.
AN WE CANNOT JUST INNOCENTLY
KILL THESE PEOPLE FOR NOTHING.
>> ALL RIGHT.
WE HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO
ANOTHER EMOTIONAL PRESS
CONFERENCE FROM OSCEOLA COUNTY
SHERIFF RUSS GIBSON GIVING US AN
UPDATE ON THE ARREST OF THREE
PEOPLE FOR THE MURDER OF A
MISSING WOMAN, 42-YEAR-OLD
JANICE ZENGOTITA-TORRES.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS WAS A CASE
OF MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
HERE IS VIDEO JUST IN TO THE
NEWS 6 NEWSROOM OF SOME OF THE
SSPECTS.
THEY WALKED TO THE OSCEOLA
COUNTY JAIL.
OUR REPORTER IS AT THAT PRESS
CONFERENCE.
HE IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO STAY
ON TOP OF THIS FOR US, AN HE
WILL CONTINUE TO UPDATE US.
WE'LL HAVE A FULL UPDATE FOR YOU