Laura Cuni

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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