Minelys Rodriguez, the 25-year-old missing woman from Cornelia, was found dead Tuesday, Oct. 29, according to authorities.
Habersham County Sheriff Joey Terrell said Rodriguez’s body was found on Furniture Drive, which runs parallel to the Cornelia Walmart. Terrell said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now leading the case.
“GBI has taken the body to the crime lab and collected evidence and they’re working the case, so that’s about all we know right this minute,” Terrell said.
Rodriguez was reported missing on Oct. 22 after going to Walmart to sell someone a photo, her mother told Now Habersham. She never saw her daughter again.
Rodriguez’s last known communication was with her fiancé, Julio Tovor, who said he received a text message from her around 9:30 that night. He had been texting her before he went to sleep.
The next morning, when Tovor woke up, she was not at home. He said he felt that something was not right and called Rodriguez’s mother, Carmen Ramirez, to see if she had heard from Minelys, better known to her family and friends as ‘Mimi.’
“I am waiting for the brother to pick him up,” the last text message Those were the last words on a text Tovor received from her.
“It didn’t make sense. She doesn’t talk like that,” he told Now Habersham several days after Mimi’s disappearance.
The GBI and Habersham County Sheriff’s Office are not releasing any more information at this time. Rodriguez’s family says investigators instructed them not to comment.
This is a developing story. Now Habersham will update this article as new information is released.
