MIAMI – Federal and local investigators haven’t found the bodies of an 8-year-old girl and her 42-year-old mother after they vanished in 2016 in Miami-Dade County. They did find enough evidence to prosecute a suspect about eight years later.
Records show Gustavo Castaño Restrepo had scratches on his arm when he told Doral detectives after a failed May 31, 2016 welfare check that he had abandoned his daughter Daniela with her mother, Liliana Moreno, the day before near the Turnpike and Okeechobee Road.
Miami-Dade detectives later learned Castaño Restrepo had fathered Daniela during an extramarital affair and he had kept her a secret from most of his family. He admitted to going to a warehouse that he owns in Medley where a burglar stole surveillance video…