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'WE CRY FOR HER:' VOLUNTEERS SHED LIGHT ON SEARCH FOR MISSING TAMPA MOM THAT LED
THEM TO BODY

By Kylie Jones
Published  May 16, 2024 6:15pm EDT
Tampa
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VOLUNTEERS FIND BODY BELIEVED TO BE MISSING MOM

The search group "We Are the Essentials" helped find a body in the Wimauma area
on Wednesday, believed to be that of Sylvia Pagan. She had disappeared days
earlier, with her abductor later found dead and her 9-year-old daughter safely
recovered.

TAMPA - One day after a body believed to be that of a missing Tampa mother was
found in Hillsborough County, volunteers are sharing their emotional thoughts on
the sad end to the search.

Tampa police believe the body of Sylvia Pagan was found Wednesday in Wimauma.





"Yesterday was the fight to find her," Billy Lane, co-founder of the nonprofit
search group We Are the Essentials, said. "Today is the day we cry for her.
Mourn for her family."

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Pagan and her 9-year-old daughter were reported missing on Sunday. Police
believed the two disappeared with Pagan’s boyfriend, Jovanni Caceres Steffani.

An AMBER Alert was issued around 1 a.m. Monday, but it was canceled about an
hour and a half later. Tampa police say Pagan’s daughter was found with Steffani
in a hotel room in Suwannee County.

Police say the little girl was safely removed from the hotel room. They say
deputies in Suwannee County tried to talk to Steffani for about an hour, but he
shot himself in the head.



Investigators say Steffani was the only person of interest in Pagan’s
disappearance.

The search for Pagan intensified over the last couple of days. The group We Are
the Essentials says Pagan’s family reached out to them for additional help in
the search for her.

"On Tuesday evening, we were contacted by the family again, and they had told us
that they were out conducting their own search," Lane said. "Well, at that
point, we realized we had to get boots on the ground and involved, because we
did not want the family to have a tragic find."

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grow

Lane says they joined the search for Pagan on Wednesday.

"They had three areas of concern," Lane said. "One was his home. Number two was
an area where they located a shirt. And number three was a location where an RV
was stored at."

Lane says their crew went to the area in Wimauma where that RV was stored and
neighbored a densely wooded area.

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"Fifteen minutes of being on scene, we were able to locate the remains," Lane
said.

Lane says they called in law enforcement when they believed they had discovered
Pagan’s body.

On Wednesday night, Tampa police confirmed that the body believed to be Pagan
was found in Wimauma.



"That area is an area (where) we were looking," Chief Lee Bercaw said. "It’s a
two-mile square area, so it’s a very large area. We had cadaver dogs, we had
bloodhounds out there, we even had our air service with our infrared camera out
there, and no, we did not see Sylvia out there at that time."

Chief Bercaw says they got a call from Hillsborough County deputies that someone
else had found Pagan’s body.

Lane says this isn’t the outcome anyone had hoped for, and that their goal is to
bring every missing person home to their loved ones.

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"This is about Sylvia and her family, about her children, about their grieving
process and how we all need to just pray for them," Lane said.

Tampa police are still investigating, and say more information will be released
when it’s available.

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