By JOE SEELIG

LAKE PLACID — Highlands County sheriff’s investigators continued Thursday to canvas the Cumberland Street neighborhood in Sun ’N Lake South, using interpreters, looking for information that will bring a killer to justice.

On Tuesday near noon, a female friend found the body of Ana Jaramillo, 36, of 140 Cumberland St., Lake Placid. She was found in an added-on utility room at her single-wide trailer home. The woman was late for an appointment to meet someone and the friend came by to check on her.
The victim was at home alone when she was viscously attacked.

“She sustained major trauma to her upper torso and that’s what killed her,” said sheriff’s Lt. John Chess. “That’s all we’re going to say at this time. It was a viscous attack, absolutely viscous.”

The entire crime scene was in the utility room, said Chess.
“She wasn’t doing wash, so we don’t know why she was in that room. But she was in there,” said Chess.
The victim was 5-feet 3-inches tall and weighed 115 pounds, and was killed sometime between 8 a.m. and noon, Chess said. There was no sign of a sexual attack.

The trailer is set back from a shell-rock road. Chess couldn’t say if anyone could have heard the victim if she screamed. There is a home across the road, he added.
Her husband is not considered a suspect, Chess said Wednesday. The victim had two children, ages 12 and 17 years old.
Detectives are asking neighbors to call if they’ve come home and had someone going through their things or maybe woke up and found someone in their home and did not report the crime.

Anyone with information about this crime is urged to contact Det. Anthony McGann at (863) 402-7250 or CRIMESTOPPERS at 1-800-226-TIPS (8477).