MIAMI — There’s been a major break in the case of Trukita Scott, the missing South Florida mother of two who vanished in the summer of 2014. Authorities said her remains were found last Tuesday in the backyard of a home in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.
Local 10 News was there as Miami-Dade and Broward law enforcement agencies conducted their investigation.
Scott, 24, was last seen in Miami Gardens after leaving her job at U-Haul in Fort Lauderdale. She was reported missing that same day when she failed to pick up her kids from daycare.
Now that her remains have been found, the question that still remains, 12 years after her disappearance, is who killed her and why.
Scott’s ex, Carl Watts, has long been the subject of suspicion.
The 49-year-old is currently behind bars for killing his wife.
Watts, then 45, attacked and stabbed Shandell Harris, 30, then shot and killed her a day later at her daughter’s swim lesson.
He’s also been romantically linked to another murdered woman. Vickie Simmons, 25, was killed at a Miami motel in 2009. Watts has not been charged with her killing.
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