Hillsborough County Sheriff
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, he's under 24-hour surveillance, but we're conducting this exhaustive search now at this point.
Our Marine unit, our divers who continued nonstop, our investigators, our professional staff that were out there helping any way they could, our aviation team, our drone team, again, nonstop.
As some of our detectives are examining the latitude and longitude of some of where he had been, they're traveling northbound on the Howard Franklin Bridge, on the Pinellas side of the bridge.
And they see a large black trash bag sitting on the shoulder of the road all by itself.
They stop.
They walk up and as they're approaching it, they immediately smell that unique smell of human remains when it's in that decomposition phase.
They go up, they physically feel the outside of it and realize that there's human remains there.
They stop what they're doing.
knowing that this could be evidence.
We're in Pinellas County at this point.
And they contact the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, who immediately responds, along with the Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office, who takes custody of this bag.
and goes back.
We learned during this that it is our victim, Zamil.
We're able to determine that because he's in the early stages of decomposition.
So we knew it was him through fingerprints that were obtained through the Department of Homeland Security when he had entered the country.
When I talk about gruesome, he had been stabbed several times, which ultimately was the cause of his death.
He was bound in front at his hands and at his ankles.
His legs up towards his buttocks area was almost completely severed so he could be bent together
and make it easier to place in a trash bag.
He was left on the side of the road.
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