Police: Missing Woman's Ex-Boyfriend Is Person Of Interest In Disappearance
MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- The family of 28-year-old Tanya Gonzalez is asking the community for help locating her.
Gonzalez has been missing since last Tuesday.
For the first time, Miami Police have named the woman's ex-boyfriend, Roy Blanco, as a person of interest in her disappearance.
CBS4 obtained a photo from the afternoon of Tuesday, September 9th from the surveillance camera of the building where she lives.
The photo shows Gonzalez in the hallway of the Miami building where she lives at 1:48 p.m. last Tuesday.
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"I would give anything right now if my daughter was here," said Gonzalez's mother, Tammy Buonomo. "I would give anything."
Buonomo told CBS4's Peter D'Oench, "She is missing. I want her to come home. I love her and she has been mssing for days. If anyone sees her, please call police." Watch Peter D'Oench's report, click here.
Buonomo delivered an emotional family appeal at Miami Police headquarters.
Gonzalez's aunt Yvette Oliver said, "It would mean the world to me if we could find her. She was like a sister to me. If anyone has any information at all, please give police a call."
"To know that I find my daughter, I will be born again, if I don't find my daughter, my life is finished," added Ramon Gonzalez, Gonzalez's father. "What it would to find her would be like stepping out of hell."
"She is a plus for this community," he told D'Oench. "She is a teacher. She is a gentle person. I will kiss the ground if she can be found. My daughter is everything to me. She was my first daughter. I cut her umbilical cord. She is everything to me."
According to family members, Gonzalez just moved into a new apartment after breaking up with Roy Blanco, her live-in boyfriend of five years.
Ramon Gonzalez says Blanco was controlling and obsessive, distancing Tanya from her family, monitoring her phone and stopping Tanya from going anywhere without him.
"She felt (she didn't) feel nothing for him no more," said Gonzalez. "She told her mother, she told me, she told him. (Blanco) went ballistic."
The woman's family believes Blanco was stalking her when she disappeared.
"All the red flags point to him," he said. "When my daughter disappeared, he stopped going to work at the same time. But I will find my daughter. One way or the other through good God and the people on this planet I will find her."
Ramon Gonzalez has come to South Florida from northern New Jersey to join in the search.
Miami Police Detective Maykel Baluja said Blanco was a "person of interest."
"My information is that he was the last person who spoke with her and from then on her phone was disconnected or shut down," said Baluja. "He was the last person to speak with her."
Gonzalez's family said Blanco rented a boat in the days since Tanya went missing from a Coconut Grove marina, loading his mom and two dogs on it. The family says Blanco never returned the boat and was later found off the coast of Key West when he ran out of gas.
Gonzalez's family believes Tanya's missing car may be the key to finding her. She drives a dark blue 2011 BMW with Florida license plates 705-YLJ.
Blanco's whereabouts are unknown. He was last seen in the Key West area (mile marker 10) and may have been travelling with an elderly woman and a Siberian Husky, police said.
Anyone with information is urged to call the Miami Police Department at (305) 603-6300.
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