Florida detectives give eerie update on husband of beloved mom seen being abducted in broad daylight before she was found dead in her burnt out car - and reveal his murky links to local cop

Florida detectives have given an unsettling update on the Miami mom who was abducted in broad daylight before being found dead in her burnt out car.

Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvivas, 31, of Homestead, was abducted at a busy intersection just before 6pm on April 11. 

It was revealed that Aguasvivas made a call to her husband and told him someone was following her and had rammed her car. He told her to not stop and neither called 911, according to officers. 

Detectives with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office found the remains of a body believed to Aguasvivas in a badly charred car hours later and are continuing to search for suspects.

Seminole County Sheriff Dennis Lemma said in a news conference on Monday that an Orange County deputy was arrested for secretly recording and disclosing information about the case to the Aguasvivas family.

The deputy, 33-year-old Francisco Estrella, was childhood friends with Aguasvivas's husband. Estrella now faces five felony charges. 

Cops said in an arrest warrant affidavit that Estrella had called one of the investigators pretending to be Aguasvivas's cousin and identifying himself as 'Francisco Archuela'

He said he was concerned about the investigation and the victim's safety and asked for an update on the case. The investigator told Estrella she could not share those details as the investigation was ongoing. 

When cops inspected the phone of Aguasvivas's husband, they found WhatsApp messages between him and Estrella. 

The messages included a photo of a business card for the investigator that Estrella called and a video recording of the conversation between the investigator and Estrella - which the investigator did not know had been taken. 

There was also a picture of the investigator's driver's license profile - sent by Estrella to Miguel Aguasvivas. 

Evidence that Estrella had used his access to law enforcement databases to look up the investigator was also found in the WhatsApp correspondence. 

Her husband is not a person of interest in the case and is cooperating with the investigation - but detectives believe he knows more than he letting on.

'I've described the husband as cooperative; quite frankly I think he knows a lot more than what he's shared,' Lemma said.

'You don't have your wife communicate with you that you're getting rammed by a car and go two hours without calling anybody.' 

Lemma said Aguasvivas's husband has handed over his phone for a forensic examination. 

'We would not have known about the Orange County deputy, at least not yet, if he did not do that,' Lemma said, referring to the correspondence between Aguasvivas' husband and the deputy on his phone. 

Lemma said the green Acura that rammed into Aguasvivas during the carjacking was found in an empty apartment complex in Orange County on Saturday morning. 

The same vehicle has been linked to a different case where a tow truck driver was shot multiple times and killed in Taft, Florida. 

On March 19 the Acura had been towed from an Orange County apartment complex by a driver later identified as 39-year-old Juan Luis Cintron Garcia.

Lemma revealed that some of the rounds of shots at the scene where Garcia was killed match the rounds of shots where Aguasvivas was killed. 

A witness driving behind Aguasvivas on April 11 filmed the frightening daytime confrontation and later called 911.  

The footage shows a man in a ski mask and black hoodie get out of an Acura sedan and approach the driver's side of Aguasvivas's Dodge Durango, pointing a 10mm handgun at her. When Aguasvivas unlocks the doors, the man climbs into the rear driver's side door.

Detectives with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office say the man climbed into the passenger seat before Aguasvivas resumed driving, while another man trailed behind them in the Acura sedan. 

Speaking at a press conference on Saturday, Sheriff Dennis M. Lemma said he was appalled by the footage.

'It is incredibly frightening to watch the boldness of this suspect, this perpetrator getting out of the car, wearing a hood, carrying a weapon in broad daylight, getting in the vehicle,' Lemma said.

In a 911 call released by the sheriff's office, the witness urged: 'You need to do something now because I don't know what's going on.'

Less than two hours after the carjacking, police received reports of gunshots and smoke in Oceola County.

A badly charred vehicle, believed to be Aguasvivas's Dodge Durango, was found at a construction site.

A dozen 10mm shell casings and one projectile were also found at the scene.

'There is no clear indicator why somebody would do this,' Lemma said. 'But we do feel and believe...that this was not a random act of violence. The perpetrators knew exactly who they were going after, why they were going after them.'

Aguasvivas hailed from the Dominican Republic and was a United States citizen. She lived with her husband in the Miami suburb of Homestead, where the pair worked at a barbershop and beauty salon.

The carjacking occurred just four days before her 32nd birthday.

Investigators believe she was forced by the gunman to drive to the construction site, and that the suspect was familiar with the area. 

Lemma added neither Aguasvivas nor her husband called police at the time of the incident.

'There’s a lot of unknowns, a lot of things that will leave people scratching your head,' he said.

'Why did she and her husband not call 911? I don’t know. Why did she stop at the red light? There’s a lot of things that we’ll absolutely never know, but this is a tragic incident nevertheless,' he said.

Authorities have not released further details about the suspects in the case. 

Lemma said investigators do not know where Aguasvivas was heading.

Her husband told police she was in Central Florida to visit family, though investigators were unable to trace any relatives in the area.

The sheriff noted Aguasvivas's husband has cooperated with police and has no criminal record in the United States.