They know about Rashid.

Ravi paced the room, checking his phone repeatedly.

I told you to deny everything.

We never saw him that night.

We know nothing.

They have footage, Ravi.

Someone sent them video of us moving his body.

This revelation stopped him cold.

What? That’s impossible.

It’s true.

And I need to understand.

Did you know about the cameras in this room? Before we started meeting here, his hesitation told her everything.

That’s not relevant now.

It is to me, Lena pressed.

Did you know this room was under surveillance when you first brought me here? The transcript of their conversation, later played in court, revealed the full extent of Ravi’s manipulation.

Ravi, you’re being naive, Lena.

Of course, I knew this room has always been monitored.

It’s how we protect certain guests who might be compromised.

Lena, so you deliberately brought me to a room where we would be recorded.

Ravi, I needed insurance.

Do you have any idea how many staff make accusations against management? How many try to claim relationships for personal gain? I needed protection, Lena.

Protection? You pursued me.

You told me you loved me, Ravi.

A laughing.

Come on, Lena.

You’re a smart girl.

What did you think was happening here? You’re a receptionist from nothing.

I’m married to the hotel owner.

This was never going to be a love story.

As the conversation continued, Ravi’s true nature emerged fully.

His language revealed classic narcissistic patterns.

No empathy for Lena’s suffering.

No remorse for Rashid’s death, only concern for his own circumstances.

Every statement repositioned himself as the victim rather than the perpetrator.

Lena, a man is dead because of us.

Ravi, because of you, if you hadn’t distracted me with all your drama, I would have handled him differently.

Now I have to clean up your mess.

Lena, my mess.

You pushed him, Ravi.

After you made yourself a target for blackmail, after you involved me in your problems, everything was manageable until you became so damn emotional about everything.

The psychological pattern displayed in this exchange is textbook Darvo.

deny, attack, reverse victim and offender.

Ravi consistently repositioned himself as the victim of Lena’s actions rather than acknowledging his own agency and responsibility.

As Lena pushed for more admissions, Ravi grew increasingly threatening.

Let me make something very clear.

If I go down for this, you’re coming with me.

Who do you think the police will believe? the hotel manager with an impeccable record or the desperate foreign worker who was sleeping her way to the top.

One phone call from me and your family will never see another duram from you again.

Neither Ravi nor Lena heard the door to room 713 open.

Anita Kapor entered silently, her expression unreadable as she listened to her husband threatening his former lover.

“You were always predictable, Ravi,” she said finally, her voice cutting through the tension.

But I never thought you’d go as low as this.

Both turned frozen in shock.

Anita stood in the doorway, elegant in a simple black dress, holding a leather portfolio and what appeared to be a small clutch purse.

Anita, Ravi recovered quickly.

This isn’t what it looks like.

I’m handling a staff disciplinary.

Stop.

The single word quietly delivered.

Silenced him instantly.

I’ve heard everything just as I’ve seen everything for months.

The affair was disappointing but expected.

Your eighth, I believe, but murder.

Ravi blackmail.

Threatening a girl who could be your daughter.

Anita walked calmly to the center of the room, placing her portfolio on the bed.

Divorce papers already filed this morning.

And transfer documents for your ownership shares in the hotel.

Sign them now.

And this recording doesn’t go to the police.

She turned to Lena.

Yes, I know about your little device.

Did you really think I wouldn’t anticipate that? What happened next would be reconstructed through forensic evidence, partial security footage from the hallway, and conflicting testimony.

The gun appeared suddenly, drawn either from Anita’s purse or Ravi’s jacket, depending on which version you believe.

Words were exchanged that no recording captured.

A single gunshot echoed through the executive floor of the Palmyra Grand Hotel at 9:47 pm First responders found Ravi Kapoor dead from a gunshot wound to the chest.

The weapon was found on the floor between the three individuals present, Anita, Lena, and Ravi’s body.

Ballistic tests confirmed the fatal bullet came from the recovered weapon.

A 9 mm Beretta registered to Anita Kapor.

Gunshot residue was found on all three individuals hands.

Blood spatter analysis was inconclusive due to the close proximity of all parties at the time of discharge.

Most significantly, the hotel’s extensive security camera system experienced a complete failure in the executive wing during the exact 9-minute window surrounding the shooting.

When systems came back online, the first frame captured showed Anita Commy using the house phone to report.

There’s been an accident in room 713.

Send security immediately.

The forensic evidence in this case is remarkably ambiguous, explains criminalist Dr.

Farahani.

The residue pattern is consistent with multiple scenarios.

Anita firing the weapon, Ravi attempting to use it before losing control, or even Lena intervening in a struggle.

The blood spatter indicates close-range discharge, but doesn’t definitively identify the shooter.

The ensuing investigation would encounter numerous obstacles.

Key evidence, including Lena’s recording device, mysteriously disappeared from police custody.

Witness statements from hotel staff changed between initial interviews and formal depositions.

The authorized search of Anita’s private office found nothing incriminating, as if materials had been removed in anticipation.

Most tellingly, the investigation itself seemed to lose momentum as it progressed.

Detective Al-Mamood was reassigned to another case one week after the shooting.

His replacement showed notably less interest in pursuing certain leads, particularly those involving Anita’s potential fornowledge of events.

The interference was obvious, but untraceable.

A former investigator revealed anonymously.

Suddenly, search warrants were delayed.

Requests for financial records were denied on technical grounds.

Witnesses became unavailable.

You have to understand, the Kapor family has connections throughout Dubai’s business and government sectors.

This wasn’t just about a hotel manager’s death anymore.

Public records reveal Anita’s extensive network within Dubai’s elite circles.

charitable board positions with the wives of government ministers, joint venture partnerships with ruling family investment vehicles, close relationships with senior police officials through hotel security collaborations.

By December 2022, the investigation had effectively stalled.

The official conclusion listed the death as homicide during an altercation, perpetrator undetermined.

Ravi Kapoor was buried with the dignified ceremony befitting his position.

his transgressions carefully erased from the public narrative.

His death was attributed to a tragic security incident.

For those who orchestrated events and those caught in their wake, the aftermath would bring vastly different fates.

Some escaping all consequences, others paying prices far beyond what justice might demand, and some disappearing entirely from a story they never chose to enter.

Disappearing in the digital age requires resources, planning, and usually assistance, notes identity security expert James Morales.

Passport changes, digital footprint erasure, financial trails obscured.

It’s complex work.

Someone with Lena’s background and limited means couldn’t accomplish this alone.

She had help from someone with significant resources.

The question remains, who orchestrated Lena’s vanishing act, and why was it protection or silencing, salvation or elimination? The answer may lie with the other key players in this tragic drama.

Ivy Santos was located by our investigative team at the Desert Palms in a two-star airport hotel in Abu Dhabi.

After her abrupt dismissal from the Palm Grand, she spent months fighting deportation through legal aid services.

Eventually, she secured a position significantly below her qualifications.

Front desk supervisor at a budget property catering to transit passengers.

“You want to know what happened? I became expendable,” Iivey stated in our exclusive interview.

Her once confident demeanor replaced by bitter resignation.

“I was just a tool for Anita.

When I stopped being useful, she discarded me just like she discarded everyone else.

Her account of events has changed substantially since her initial police statements where she once denied any knowledge of surveillance or blackmail activities.

She now claims extensive awareness of Anita’s operations.

Anita was collecting evidence against Ravi for years.

Not just the affair with Lena, but financial improprieties, side deals with suppliers.

She needed total control of the hotel and Ravi was an obstacle.

Lena was just collateral damage.

Yet, when pressed for specifics or evidence, Ivy becomes evasive.

Her timeline contradicts established facts.

Her claims about Anita’s direct involvement lack supporting documentation.

Most tellingly, her statements about Lena shift between victim blaming and grudging sympathy.

Lena wasn’t innocent in all this.

She made her choices.

Ivy insists.

Then, moments later, but nobody deserves what happened to her.

Nobody should be used like that.

The psychological dynamics at play in Iivey’s behavior reflect both perpetrator and victim mentalities.

Her initial betrayal of Lena stemmed from jealousy and wounded pride.

Emotions Anita expertly exploited.

Yet her subsequent treatment by Anita mirrors exactly what she helped inflict on her former friend.

Ivy experienced what psychologists call karmic justice, explains Dr.

Elena Fernandez.

The very mechanism she participated in using vulnerability for manipulation was turned against her.

This creates a complex psychological state where she simultaneously feels victimized while struggling with guilt for her own actions.

Today, Iivevy lives in a perpetual state of insecurity.

Her visa tied to her current employment, her reputation in the industry tarnished, her future prospects limited.

When asked if she regrets her role in the events at the Palomera Grand, she pauses before answering.

I regret trusting Anita.

I regret thinking I was special.

I don’t regret everything else.

Some people deserve what happens to them.

Anita Kapor emerged from scandal not merely unscathed, but ascendant.

Following Ravi’s death, the official narrative positioned her as the grieving widow rebuilding her late husband’s legacy.

Within 6 months, she had consolidated complete control of the Palmyra Grand and launched an aggressive expansion plan.

Financial records reveal the extent of her improved position.

Life insurance policies on Ravi paid out approximately $4.

7 million.

His ownership stakes in three additional hotel properties transferred to her under their marriage contract.

Most significantly, foreign investors who had partnered with Ravi now dealt exclusively with Anita.

on more favorable terms for her interests.

The Palmra Grand Hotel Group has expanded by 37% since Mrs.

Kapoor assumed soul leadership, notes hospitality industry analyst Sarah Chun, two new properties in Saudi Arabia, management contracts in Bahrain and Qatar.

She’s leveraged tragedy into empire building with remarkable efficiency.

Anita’s public image underwent careful rehabilitation through strategic philanthropy.

The Kapor Foundation for Hospitality Education now provides scholarships to young women from South and Southeast Asia.

Ironically, women much like Lena.

Her public appearances project dignified resilience rather than ambitious calculation.

I’ve learned that life can change in an instant, she told Dubai Business Monthly in her only interview addressing personal matters.

My focus now is building something meaningful from loss.

Ravi would have wanted that.

Was Anita the ultimate puppet master behind the events that unfolded at the Palomera Grand? Circumstantial evidence points strongly in that direction? Her access to surveillance systems, her methodical isolation of both Ravi and Lena, her careful positioning before the final confrontation.

Yet, no direct evidence links her to Rashid’s death, the blackmail operation, or the fatal shooting in room 713.

Her alibi for key moments remains unimpeachable.

Her digital footprints have been scrubbed with professional thoroughess.

Even the financial trails that might connect her to Lena’s disappearance have been obscured through complex offshore structures.

Some investigations reach a point where evidence and influence achieve perfect balance.

Observes retired detective Ibrahim Noaz, where what can be proven and what powerful people will allow to be proven reach equilibrium.

The Palra Grand case has all the hallmarks of this stalemate.

Room 713 at the Palmra Grand reopened to guests in January 2023 after extensive renovation.

The marble steps where Rashid fell were replaced.

New furniture eliminated any trace of the room’s dark history.

Even the room number was briefly changed to 715 before reverting several months later.

Yet something changed in the room’s atmosphere.

Housekeeping staff report unusual phenomena.

Electronic key cards that malfunction only for this room.

Temperature fluctuations that engineering cannot explain.

The persistent scent of a particular cologne that no guest has worn.

I won’t clean that room alone, confides a housekeeper who requested anonymity.

Sometimes you hear someone breathing when nobody’s there.

Sometimes the shower turns on by itself.

Once I saw a handprint appear on the mirror.

From the inside, guest complaints about room 713 have increased substantially.

The front desk maintains a private log of incidents.

Unexplained sounds, personal items rearranged, vivid nightmares reported by otherwise balanced individuals.

One guest described waking to find a young Asian woman standing at the foot of the bed, only to vanish when he switched on the light.

More pragmatic observers point to the room’s electrical issues.

Lights that flicker.

Air conditioning that cycles erratically.

The TV that turns on unprompted during early morning hours.

Maintenance records show room 713 requires service calls at three times the rate of other rooms in its category.

The front desk has an unofficial policy now.

Reveals a current employee.

We don’t assign room 713 to families with children, pregnant women, or elderly guests.

If someone specifically requests it, we try to upsell them to a suite instead.

Management pretends nothing’s wrong, but everyone knows.

As our investigation concludes, three central questions remain unanswered.

Who actually killed Ravi Kapoor? The forensic evidence remains frustratingly ambiguous.

The gun belonged to Anita, but both Lena and Ravi had residue on their hands.

The trajectory could support any of the three as shooter.

The missing security footage from those crucial minutes ensures the truth may never be known.

What happened to Rashid’s body? Despite extensive searches of the hotel’s waste disposal systems and surrounding areas, no trace of his remains has ever been found.

The industrial facilities in the Palmyra Grand’s basement provide multiple possibilities.

None conclusively proven.

Where is Lena Reyes now? Is she living quietly under a new identity, financially secured by either conscience money or blackmail payments? Or did she meet a darker fate? Her family’s silence purchased to maintain the illusion of her escape.

Cases like this remain unsolved for three main reasons, explains criminologist Dr.

Muhammad Alfes.

First, the power differential between victims and perpetrators creates barriers to justice.

Second, the transnational nature of the crime complicates jurisdiction and evidence gathering.

Third, the resources available to certain parties allow for obstruction on a scale law enforcement cannot overcome.

The human cost behind these unanswered questions is substantial.

Rashid’s family in Pakistan continues seeking closure.

Their appeals for information largely ignored by authorities.

Lena’s family lives in an uncomfortable purgatory.

Newfound comfort purchased at the cost of truth.

And dozens of hotel staff carry the burden of what they witnessed, suspected, or chose to ignore.

Tonight, the Palmra Grand Hotel continues operations as one of Dubai’s premier luxury destinations.

Its marble floors still gleam under crystal chandeliers.

Staff still attend to every guest need with practice smiles.

The official record of what happened within its walls has been sanitized, minimized, and finally erased.

But in room 713, a different reality persists.

On quiet nights, housekeeping staff report hearing muffled conversations through the door.

A man and woman arguing in hush tones.

Engineering notes that no matter how many times they replace the light fixture, it continues to flicker in patterns that almost suggest Morse code, and guests sometimes wake at precisely 9:47 pm, feeling a pressure on their chest as if someone is sitting there watching them sleep.

The true crime at the heart of the Palmyra Grand story goes beyond the deaths of Rashid and Ravi.

It encompasses the exploitation of vulnerable workers, the power imbalances that enable abuse, and the systems that protect wealth and privilege from consequences.

For every Lena Reyes who disappears, thousands of other migrant workers remain trapped in similar dynamics.

Their legal status dependent on employers, their economic future tied to compliance, their humanity reduced to their utility.

As our investigation closes, we’re left with the haunting image of the Palmra Grand at night.

Its windows illuminating the Dubai skyline like a palace of light and luxury.

On the seventh floor, room 713 stands dark, except for the occasional unexplained flicker.

And at the front desk, a new receptionist checks in guests with a practiced smile.

Unaware of the ghosts that inhabit not just one room, but an entire system built on silence, power, and the disposability of those who serve.

The wealthy and powerful may believe their secrets die with those they silence.

But some stories refuse to remain buried.

Some truths demand to be heard.

And sometimes justice arrives in unexpected ways through voices that can no longer be silenced.

Human remains have just been found in the search for a pregnant mother of two abducted from her home on Tuesday.

Those remains were found near an area crews were searching for 27-year-old Andrea Lloyd.

The medical examiner has not positively identified them as those of Lloyd, but arrived at the search scene earlier this evening.

Authorities have detained an ex-boyfriend, but did not reveal his name.

Lloyd is expecting her third child.

Anyone with any information in the case is asked to is asked to call Miami date police.

>> Two days before Andrea Lloyd disappeared, she shared something on her Facebook page.

The people who saw it scrolled past it.

Nobody called to check in.

But when you read what she shared, you will understand exactly what she was trying to say, but no one caught it in time.

Before we get into it, leave a like, drop your thoughts in the comments, and subscribe to Crime on Pulse so you won’t miss the next case.

Andrea Ollet Lloyd was born on December 13th, 1993 in Miami, Florida.

She grew up in Miami Dade County, Laura Sanders Elementary, Campbell Drive Middle School, Homestead Senior High School, and eventually earned her diploma at Maverick’s High School.

She was driven.

She started her working life in retail, but that was never going to hold her.

She found her real calling in caregiving, taking care of people who needed consistent, genuine support.

She joined Sunrise Community and within 3 years, she had worked her way up from caregiver to residential program director, overseeing the care of adults.

Outside of work, Andrea was a mother of two boys, a 1-year-old and 5-year-old.

Her family described her world simply.

She worked and she took care of her kids.

That was it and that was everything to her.

She was deeply connected to her family.

Her parents Arnold and Alfreda Lloyd and a wide circle of people who loved her.

Xavier was 32 years old and he had been in Andrea’s life for 11 years, not months or a couple of years.

That is more than a third of her entire life.

They had two children together, built a shared life, vacations, family events, and everyday moments.

They traveled together, did ordinary couple things, nail salons, outings, family gatherings.

Oh.

Read it.

I don’t even know what the top say.

>> Can you read it out loud, please? >> No, I ain’t going to read it out loud.

>> Oh, I scored it.

Where the money at? That already came prepacked.

They wanted, you know.

>> So, you didn’t do this? >> No, I ordered it.

>> Okay.

I open I open >> psych.

>> Psych.

I want to open taste.

>> Open taste.

>> Can you go Bad boy.

Bad boy.

>> Can I see the box? I should have >> I should have put on my clothes.

Maybe.

Maybe a By every visible measure, Xavier was not just her boyfriend, he was her partner in everything.

At some point during their relationship, they did a maternity shoot.

Beautiful black and white photos.

Xavier with his hand on her pregnant belly.

Both of them in white, holding hands, laughing in an open field.

The kind of photos that are supposed to mark the beginning of something beautiful.

Everyone around them saw a happy couple.

Andrea’s family said they had never seen them argue.

Not at gatherings, at family functions, not in any setting they were present for.

Her nephew said their relationship seemed perfect.

When they came around, they were always happy.

But at some point, the relationship that looked so solid on the outside had become something else entirely.

Xavier had become controlling and dominating.

He had been unfaithful to Andrea repeatedly.

And Andrea, who had given this man 11 years, two children, and her full commitment, had reached the point where she was done.

Her aunt described her as someone who had given that relationship everything a marriage would require.

She was, in her words, like a wife, not just a girlfriend.

She had carried this relationship with everything she had and was tired.

She had made up her mind and was planning to leave.

2 days before everything changed, Andrea went on Facebook and shared a post.

not something she wrote herself, a post she came across that clearly spoke to exactly where she was.

It read, “Narcissistic manipulators.

” Let’s get into it.

People who intentionally or unintentionally attack you and hurt you.

Then once they hurt you and you react, they are upset at how you reacted to the intentional or unintentional hurt they did to you.

They try to turn it on you to add more hurtful things to make it seem like you’re the problem or at fault for how they did you when in fact you did absolutely nothing to them to cause their reason for the intentional or unintentional hurt or attack.

Not once will they think to apologize because remember once you reacted to what they did to you, you then became the problem and now they are the victim.

They hold zero accountability.

They see no wrong in what they did only in how you reacted.

These will be the same people who say they love and care for you.

Feel free to correct me where I am wrong.

And good morning.

December 8th, 2021, just after midnight, Andrea was at work.

She was the overnight supervisor at a South Miami Dade group home, the same kind of facility she had dedicated her career to.

She was doing her job.

She showed up to every shift, caring for adults who depended on her.

A knock came at the door.

She opened it.

She knew the person on the other side.

It was Xavier.

The surveillance camera at the facility captured what happened next.

Xavier did not come to talk.

He attacked Andrea at her workplace, forced her out of the building, pushed her into her own vehicle, a white Honda Civic, and drove away with her.

The camera caught all of it.

When Andrea did not come home and made no contact with her family, the alarm spread immediately.

For someone whose whole life revolved around her children and the people depending on her, silence was not something that happened without reason.

Now to a developing story out of Southwest Miami Dade, where police say a woman is still missing after being abducted from her job this morning.

27year-old Andrea Lloyd works as a caretaker at a home.

That’s where she was when we’re told she opened the door to a man who beat her and dragged her into his car against her will.

Here’s CBS4’s Joel Waldman with more details.

>> In news, unfortunately, we covered too many of these stories, but I can’t remember a time in recent memory when so many family members showed up in such a short amount of time, desperate for Andrea to come back home safely.

>> It’s hard.

It’s hard because, you know, I mean, she’s the type of person she she always she always calls her dad because she we got so much love in the family.

>> Comforted by all that love, Patriarch Arnold Lloyd, a modest family man, told us he only wants one thing this holiday season.

>> Everybody know me, I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I don’t beg for nothing.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

The baby of his 12 children, Andrea Lloyd, never returned home from her job as a caretaker at this South Miami Dade group home where the 27year-old worked as a supervisor.

>> For her not to not to have contacted any of us, something is wrong.

>> Miami date police confirming something did in fact go drastically wrong overnight.

They say surveillance video revealed a disturbing scene after a man showed up at Andrea’s job just after midnight.

>> This male proceeded to batter her and eventually during the altercation pushed her inside of a vehicle and drove off in an unknown direction.

>> Police say she was dragged and forced into a white Honda Civic with Florida tag Y650DL.

Andrea’s family tells us they have a hunch who her attacker is, but were asked by police to keep it to themselves for now.

>> Andrea is not the type person that would leave with a stranger.

And the information and the evidence that the detectives shared with us indicates that she was very familiar with the person that abducted her.

>> The mother of two young boys herself, Andrea’s family says she would never leave them alone.

>> She works, she takes care of her kids.

She works, she takes care of her kids.

That’s her life.

>> She’s an angel.

She’s an angel.

I mean, she’s a real angel.

>> Anyone with any information is asked to call Miami Day Crimes Stoppers at 305471 TIPS.

There is a reward for anyone with information that leads to an arrest.

Reporting in Florida City, Joel Walman, CBS4 News.

>> Her father knew right away.

Her family had a strong feeling about who was responsible.

Police asked them to keep the name to themselves while the investigation moved forward, but they already knew.

And investigators later confirmed that the person who took Andrea was someone she knew very well.

Someone she had every reason to open the door for.

Miami Dade police launched a full search operation.

Aviation units, all-terrain vehicles, K-9 teams, everything they had was deployed.

The white Honda Civic and its Florida tag were named in public alerts.

The community was asked to come forward with information and a reward was put on the table.

Andrea’s family did not sit and wait.

They went looking for her themselves.

Family members, including Andrea’s uncle, were out covering ground when they spotted Xavier Johnson in a heavily wooded area near the Homestead Speedway.

So, they called the police immediately.

Officers responded and Xavier was detained on the spot.

The K-9 unit moved in.

The cadaavver dog worked through that wooded area and alerted Xavier’s black pickup truck.

Close to that truck was a large metal utility box, the kind typically used for storage in the bed of a pickup.

What investigators found inside confirmed everything Andrea’s family had feared from the moment she did not come home.

Andrea Lloyd was gone.

She was reportedly just weeks pregnant with her third child.

Her two boys, 1-year-old and 5 years old, were now without their mother.

She was 5 days away from her 28th birthday.

Her father had stood before cameras while she was still missing and said something that stayed with everyone who heard it.

>> It’s hard.

It’s hard because, you know, she’s the type of person she she always she always calls her dad because she we got so much love in the family.

Everybody know me.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I don’t beg for nothing.

I don’t beg for nothing, but I’m begging for my daughter to come home.

I feel good, but you know that still won’t bring back my daughter.

You know, I still want to bring back my daughter cuz she was going to leave him.

She was tired of him messing around on her and she was like a, you know, a wife, not a girlfriend.

If I knew anything was wrong, she wouldn’t have been there cuz I could have put in the house myself.

>> Her uncle spoke about what it meant to lose someone this way.

He said, “It hurts knowing that you loved someone like family, treated them like your own, and that same person brought this kind of pain into your home.

It hurts me for the fact that sometime you have loved ones that’s so close to you [ __ ] to get you involved in certain things when it come to them.

>> Her godmother could not stop thinking about the children.

Those two little boys who were now going to grow up without the woman who was the center of their entire world.

Xavier Johnson was taken to Miami Dade Police Department headquarters for questioning and he confessed.

He admitted to holding Andrea Lloyd against her will and hurting her.

Miami Dade Police Director Alfredo Ramirez publicly confirmed the charges against Xavier Johnson and addressed the community directly.

Right now at noon, authorities arresting a man who they say confessed to kidnapping and killing his pregnant girlfriend.

We were there as 32-year-old Xavier Johnson was walked into jail shortly after midnight.

Police say Andrea Lloyd was abducted as she was working at a Southwest Miami Dade group home >> and human remains were found sadly on Wednesday, but they have yet to be identified.

Johnson now facing a judge and local 10’s Anelise Garcia is live in Derell with more on this one for us.

Anelise.

>> Yeah, Janice Christie.

Today Johnson did appear in front of a judge and that judge did find probable cause and now he’s being held no bond.

>> The medical examiner confirmed the identity of the remains found near Homestead.

It was Andrea.

Xavier Johnson was charged with first-degree homicide, kidnapping, and burglary with assault.

Xavier appeared before Circuit Judge Mindy Glazer.

The judge found probable cause on all three counts.

She noted that this was the kind of case that could potentially be pursued as a capital penalty case.

>> Mr.

Johnson, good morning.

>> 33-year-old Xavier Johnson stood before a judge Thursday morning.

The judge addressed the disturbing allegations against him.

>> Morning, sir.

You were arrested for one count of first-degree murder, one count of kidnapping, and one count of armed burglary with an assault or battery.

>> Johnson, arrested in connection to the disappearance of 27year-old Andrea Lloyd, spoke in court about possibly acquiring a private attorney.

>> Do you have an attorney? >> Yes.

>> Who’s your >> I don’t have one yet, but I’m I’m going to get one.

>> He asked that you own the property owner what jet skis and what else? >> Uh the value of my jet skis is um 16,000.

Family tells us Johnson was the boyfriend of Lloyd and father of her two children.

When the question of legal representation came up, Xavier brought up the value of his jet skis, reportedly around $16,000.

>> We asked that you own the property owner what jet skis and what else? >> Uh the val the value of my jet skis is um 16,000.

>> When discussing whether he could afford a private attorney, the judge assigned him a public defender.

Xavier was ordered held without bond and booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

Now, the question that everyone was asking is this.

Why? Police never officially released a motive, but Andrea’s father, Arnold Lloyd, shared what he believed drove Xavier to do what he did.

>> Cuz she was going to leave him.

She was tired of him messing around on her, and she was like a, you know, a wife, not a girlfriend.

If I knew anything wrong, she wouldn’t have been there cuz I could have put in the house myself.

Andrea had been planning to leave Xavier.

She was exhausted by his repeated unfaithfulness, had made her decision that the relationship was over and was moving on.

And there was one more piece to it.

The child Andrea was reportedly carrying, Arnold Lloyd believed that the baby was not Xavier’s.

That combined with her decision to walk away is what her father believed set off everything.

That is not a finding from investigators.

No official motive was ever confirmed, but it is the assessment of a man who knew his daughter, knew the relationship, and was left standing in the wreckage trying to understand the unimaginable.

The two boys were placed in the care of their grandfather, Arnold Lloyd.

He appeared before a judge to take custody, exhausted and griefstricken, but steady, doing what needed to be done for those children.

There is no way to fully describe what that requires of a person.

He had just lost his daughter and now had to hold himself together for her children.

One week after Andrea’s passing, her community gathered for a celebration of her life.

People who had known Drea, worked with her, grew up with her, loved her, came together to honor who she was beyond the headlines.

Whoever, how many ever did this to my daughter? Just suffer.

>> Just suffer >> and never see the light.

>> An emotional night for the loved ones of Andrea Lloyd.

The mother who police say was abducted and killed last week.

Today would have been Andrea’s 28th birthday.

And her family wanted to use this opportunity to celebrate her life and honor her memory.

Meanwhile, her boyfriend and the father of her children remains in jail tonight accused of a murder.

That’s where CBS4’s Joel Waldman joins us from with more details.

Joel.

Elliot and Carly.

That is correct.

The man accused of killing Andre Lloyd sits in a jail cell here at TGK.

He is being held on no bond.

Uh this is Andrea’s family celebrated her birthday today, one week after her murder.

God will allow his blessings to be over us.

>> Prayers instead of wishes for Andrea Lloyd and her family on her 28th birthday.

A sea of pink balloons released into the bright blue sky.

>> And all y’all know that we are a loving family.

>> And that was my baby.

>> Yes.

>> That was my heart.

>> Andrea’s father’s heart now forever broken.

and the youngest of his 12 children found in this swampy area of Homestead.

Now, less than one week after the gruesome discovery, a celebration of life.

>> Her first wish would have been bringing our family together like we always do.

>> Andrea wants us to smile right now.

>> Hard to do whenever a young person’s life is cut so short, but especially difficult knowing the way Andrea died.

Police say Xavier Johnson, her boyfriend of 11 years, beat her up and dragged her into his car at the group home where she worked.

ultimately murdering her.

Johnson is the father of Andrea’s two children as well as the one she was pregnant with, leaving family members asking why.

>> My my thing was, why do you have to do this? You could have just walked away.

>> That fatal decision leading to a barrage of other questions from Andrea’s 5-year-old son.

>> 5-year-old is asking, “Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy? Where’s mommy?” >> An answer they say they’ve shared too difficult for most adults to process, let alone young children.

her uncle just grateful they’re all part of such a big loving family.

>> We always get together for anything that the family needed.

We be there.

Brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and all >> and they were in fact all there.

Now, the attorney for Xavier Johnson, he released a statement to us saying that Mr.

Johnson and his family have been recipients of numerous threats since he was identified as a suspect in Miss Lloyd’s case, and we ask that before the public makes a rush to judgment against Mr.

Johnson and presume him guilty, that it allow all the facts of the case to come to light.

Meanwhile, the funeral for Andrea Lloyd will be held this Saturday with details to come.

Reporting live from Northwest Miami Day, Joel Walman, CBS4 News.

Her funeral was held that Saturday.

On what would have been Andrea’s 28th birthday, her family and friends gathered near the area where she was found.

They released pink balloons, stood in that place, and chose to fill it with something that looked like her.

Bright, full of color going up.

Tonight, we’re learning more about tomorrow’s funeral service for Andrea Lloyd.

Her services begin tomorrow at 2:00 pm at the Covenant Baptist Church in Florida City.

Police say the 27-year-old, who was 6 weeks pregnant, was found dead on December 8th in Homestead after her boyfriend, 32-year-old Xavier Johnson, confessed to abducting and killing her.

He’s facing first-degree murder charges.

Years after that, December, Andrea’s mother, Alfreda, took to Facebook during DV awareness month and wrote that she had almost not survived her own first marriage and that surviving had become her badge of honor.

She then said that her daughter, Andrea Lloyd, was a victim of intimate partner violence.

She urged anyone in that situation to plan in secret, to tell their family, and to understand that love does not hurt, that love is patient and kind and does not envy or boast.

She wrote that her life would never be the same because of one selfish and evil act that took the life of her baby girl.

And she asked people to share the post with purple hearts in tribute to Andrea.

That was not just a grieving mother posting about her pain.

That was a woman trying to make sure her daughter’s story meant something going forward, that someone else somewhere would read those words and make a different decision.

On what would have been Andrea’s 31st birthday, her mother posted again.

She wrote, “Today, I’m supposed to wake up singing and screaming happy birthday to you, Andrea Lloyd.

Instead, my heart is broken because you are not here to celebrate year 31.

No matter what, December 13th will forever be Drea Day.

Happy birthday, baby girl.

I miss you.

Three years later, and that grief had not moved.

December 13th will be Drea Day every year.

The world keeps spinning and so does crime.

Stay observant, listen to your instincts, and don’t ignore the warning signs.

I’ll see you in the next case on Crime on Pulse.

Thanks for watching.

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