“The smallest detail can be the biggest break in a case like this,” said Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Diane Carhart.
The victim’s parents, Juan Rivera and Rosa Veldizen, said they are grateful for everything local law enforcement is doing to find their daughter’s killer. The couple returned to their home in Lima, Peru on Sunday after holding a funeral service for their daughter on Friday afternoon at All Faith Funeral Chapel in Deerfield Beach.

Rabbi Brander

 

The family also received tremendous support from the Jewish Orthodox community of Thornhill Green, where Rivera-Veldizen took care of a family with four children. “We will never be the same again,” said Rabbi Kenneth Brander of nearby Boca Raton Synagogue. “We will never take life for granted.”

Anyone with information about the incident is urged to call 688-4037 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.

Despite the 80-degree heat, no discernable odor disseminated from the body, which investigators said had not begun to decompose. Veldizen’s was also fully clothed, dressed in the same blue jeans and dark windbreaker she wore on the night she disappeared. Her sneakers were found in the nearby grass, said Carhart, who did not reveal how the victim died.
An autopsy, scheduled for 10 a.m. this morning, would reveal the time and cause of death.
Veldizen, a native Peruvian, had been in Boca Raton since September and was planning to leave in March, according to investigators. Like clockwork, the young female went for a walk every night around 7 p.m. and returned by 9:15 p.m., said Tyz.
And when Veldizen didn’t return Friday night, her roommates panicked and called police.

“We do suspect foul play and are treating it as a predatory act,” said Sheriff Ed Bieluch. “Someone may have been targeting her or targeting the area.”
The victim’s parents, Juan Rivera and Rosa Veldizen, flew in from Peru early Sunday morning and made a desperate plea for the safe return of their daughter. As medical examiners carried the body away on a stretcher around 6:30 p.m., the family stayed inside the home, too distraught to speak, said investigators.

Neighbors in the quiet predominantly Jewish orthodox Boca Del Mar community said they were stunned.
“It makes me very scared. Nothing like this has ever happened here before and we took it for granted,” said 18-year resident Ora, who declined to give her last name. “This is a message to me and my family that anything can happen to anybody.”

Sheriff meeting

Terri Tushingham and Elayne Weiner said they take leisurely walks in the neighborhood every year when they visit their 88-year-old mother, Corrine. “They always tell you to walk with a partner, but in a neighborhood like this you wouldn’t think you’d have to,” said Tushingham. Leaders from nearby Boca Raton Synagogue also expressed concern since nearly 900 children in the congregation live in the surrounding area. “A lot of us are concerned as far as our own safety. We’re a very close knit community, that’s why this is very alarming for us,” said Assistant Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, who said the synagogue was working closely with the sheriff’s office to allay residents’ fears. Goldberg and Bieluch held a closed meeting for concerned residents at 8:30 Monday night. A mental health professional was also on hand to help parents explain the tragedy to their children, said Goldberg.

“We are reassured that the Sheriff’s office is protecting us and we’ll take whatever precautions we need to.”
Complaints about the dimly lit street are one issue likely to be addressed, said the rabbi, who has heard frequent complaints from residents about the dark street where Veldizen took her evening walks.
The victim last had contact with her boyfriend in Peru, when she placed a phone call to him from the Publix parking lot, according to investigators.
“She told him that she was at Publix and that she was eating cookies and that she would call him right back,” said Tyz.
But Veldizen’s boyfriend never heard from her again.

“When he did call her back, the phone went straight to her voice mail,” said Tyz.
With no leads and few clues, detectives are urging the public to come forward with detail that seems suspicious.
“Somebody in this community has seen something and they need to call us,” said Bieluch. “It’s particularly heinous to me that a young lady would be victimized like this, snatched up off our streets and murdered. It’s absolutely terrible. We’re going to find this guy. The sooner the better.”
Anyone with information about the incident is urged to call 688-4037 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-458-TIPS.

 

since she was new to america, and she was baby sitting for a family, has the police ask questions to the family in which she was babysitting? since she did not have family here the police should start looking at the people she was in regular contact with.

I read a long time ago this family that hired a 15 year old baby sitter, the parents went to a party of some sort, the father of the child which was being baby sitted left the party went to his home and brutally raped and murderd the babysitter in there home cleaned up and went back to the party. the man was discovered some months later when a neighbor remember seeing him 2 blocks from there home on the night this happened.

For several months, until the August primary, he refused to respond to personal attacks by Eggleston. He began responding only after Eggleston finished slightly ahead in the primary, forcing a run-off.

Following the Nov. 2 run-off, which he won decisively, Bradshaw publicly refused to claim victory over Eggleston until the last vote was certified – stubbornly ignoring media projections and even a concession note Eggleston had declined to address to him.
“He doesn’t just get an idea in his mind and act on it. He consults everyone within the chain of command,” said Michael E. Gauger, a retired PBSO major and Bradshaw advisor. “He likes to build consensus. We had a lot of prior sheriffs who didn’t do that.”
Gauger, master of ceremonies for Tuesday’s swearing-in at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, said Bradshaw is not the type to make waves even after he comes to a consensus on an issue.

“He’s already told people that everything’s going to be the same,” said Gauger, who expects about 400 people to attend the 20-minute ceremony. “Obviously, some people will be moved around down the road, but it won’t be a mass movements like with prior sheriffs.”
New sheriff

The new sheriff, meanwhile, is also pledging to review every unsolved murder case that hit the county in recent years. 'I believe the most high-profile one is the nanny murder down in Boca,' Bradshaw said, referring to the killing of Peruvian-born Monica Rivera Veldizen one year ago this week. “I don’t think anyone has stopped working on that. We’re definitely going to review open cases, including that one, to make sure all the necessary resources are dedicated to solving them.”