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Laura Cuni
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Cutler Bay
State: Florida
County: Dade County
Date of birth: October 17, 1961
Date of death: June 24, 2016
Age: 54
Gender: Female
Race: Hispanic/Latino
Cause of death: Blunt Force
Anniversary month: June
LEA: Miami-Dade Police Department
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April 24, 2023 | By: Grace Dvorovy This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and the University of North Florida’s Applied Journalism class. There were many things that Laura Cuni loved: Cuban coffee, music, dancing, her family, making people laugh and her job. That is what her niece remembers the most about Cuni. Vivian Sanchez, Laura’s niece, stated “She was always there for me; I would run to my aunt for any kind of problem. Not only was she my aunt, but she was also my god mother”. Vivian even has a tattoo of a heartbeat with the date her aunt went missing to memorialize her. And in the six years since her aunt was murdered, those memories have become even more precious. The two were incredibly close, Vivian recalls her aunt as a safe space where she could go to when she would get into arguments with her mother growing up. Even as she got older, she still saw her aunt at... Read More
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