Jose Pineda

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Jose Pineda
Name	Jose Elias Pineda-Pineda
Sex	Male
Age	21 - 35
Discovered	December 10, 1998
Location	Fort Meyers, Florida
Identified	May 2016
Span	17 years
Cause of death	Beating

Jose Elias Pineda-Pineda was a man found beaten in Florida. He died at a hospital shortly after. He was identified in May 2016.

Case

Jose was found by a sheriff's deputy in the street with head and face trauma. It is believed he was beaten in a vacant home on 118 North 6th Street, and then wandered to North 3rd Street. Jose was rushed to Lee Memorial Hospital in Fort Myers, Florida, where he died shortly after. His body was returned to Immokalee following his death.

Investigation revealed that Jose may have gone by the name Torombolo and that he traveled to Collier County via a work bus from Clinton, North Carolina in November 1998. He may have been in the Washington D.C. area before traveling to Florida, as he was found to have 11 Ourisman Mazda dealerships that were registered in the area.

Before traveling to Immokalee, Jose lived on a trailer on the "6 L's" farm in Naples. His last known address was on South 3rd Street in Immokalee, a 2 minute drive or 8 minute walk to the abandoned house in which he was assaulted in.

Jose was also discovered to have been treated for violations of the Marchman Act under his real name, however this did not lead to his identification. His identification was eventually confirmed in May 2016 and the investigation into his death is ongoing; his murderers have yet to be arrested.

Sources

• Jose Pineda at the Doe Network
• Collier County Sheriff's Office