The source transcript frames those two years as a period in which detectives assembled a circumstantial case piece by piece. Phone data, interview contradictions, store surveillance, search history, evidence from the apartment, and property connected with Medina-Pacheco were all evaluated together. In a no-body case, each individual fact carries less weight than the combined pattern prosecutors believe those facts create.
By November 2024, detectives believed they had enough to confront Victoria-Gonzalez again.
The Hartford DNA Warrant
On November 6, 2024, investigators located Victoria-Gonzalez in Hartford, Connecticut. Body-camera footage shows detectives approaching her and explaining that they had a warrant to obtain a DNA sample. She appeared calm and cooperative as they arranged to continue the process at the police department.
This second major interview was different from the questioning in early 2023. Detectives now had nearly two additional years of investigative work behind them. They revisited the fight, the phones, the cameras, the blood evidence, the chainsaw, the shipments to the Dominican Republic, and the internet searches.
Victoria-Gonzalez acknowledged that she and Medina-Pacheco had fought. According to the transcript, she said they had hit one another and again described Medina-Pacheco swinging a purse. She maintained that the fight eventually stopped and that Medina-Pacheco remained alive afterward.
Detectives repeatedly challenged the account. They told her that the amount and location of the blood they had documented were inconsistent with the relatively ordinary fight she was describing. They also confronted her about cleaning the apartment.
At one point, through the interpreter, Victoria-Gonzalez acknowledged cleaning blood. Investigators pressed her on whether anyone had helped. She said no. For detectives, that statement did not resolve the contradiction. It deepened it: if she had personally cleaned extensive blood evidence, they argued, she should have been able to explain exactly how such a serious injury occurred.
The 2024 Confrontation in Detail
The Hartford interview also reveals how much the investigation had changed. In 2023 detectives were trying to determine what had happened. In 2024 they spoke as investigators who believed they already understood the broad sequence and were testing whether Victoria-Gonzalez would finally give an account consistent with the evidence.
They asked her to explain the fight from beginning to end. According to the transcript, she said Medina-Pacheco struck her and swung a purse, while Victoria-Gonzalez denied picking up an object to use as a weapon. When asked what ended the confrontation, she could not give a clear answer and described the two women simply stopping. She then said she went to her bedroom while Medina-Pacheco remained elsewhere in the apartment before eventually leaving.
Detectives challenged that version with the absence of later communication and the phone evidence. They reminded Victoria-Gonzalez that she had answered or possessed Medina-Pacheco's phone despite earlier suggestions that she did not know where it was. They also asked why camera footage from the key period was unavailable even though other recordings survived.
The questioning became increasingly direct when detectives displayed evidence from the apartment. They told Victoria-Gonzalez that blood can remain detectable even after a surface appears clean. When she acknowledged cleaning blood, detectives asked how she could forget a fight serious enough to produce the scene they documented. Victoria-Gonzalez continued to maintain that Medina-Pacheco had survived the confrontation and left.
That denial is legally significant. The source footage does not contain a confession to homicide. The arrest that followed was based on investigators' assessment of the accumulated evidence and contradictions, not an admission by Victoria-Gonzalez that she killed Medina-Pacheco.
The Chainsaw and the Shipment
Investigators also returned to the chainsaw purchase. The source transcript says Victoria-Gonzalez had previously claimed that the tool was purchased for a relative and later shipped to the Dominican Republic. Detectives told her they had contacted relatives and the shipping company and had not been able to substantiate the explanation.
Again, a chainsaw purchase by itself proves nothing. The investigative significance came from timing and context. Detectives believed the purchase occurred after Medina-Pacheco's last known contact and alongside other behavior they considered suspicious.
The internet searches were treated in much the same way. Detectives asked why someone dealing with a missing roommate would search for information about anatomy, electric cutting tools, store hours, and municipal trash handling. Victoria-Gonzalez offered explanations, but investigators did not accept them as sufficient.
By the end of the Hartford interview, the encounter had moved far beyond a request for DNA. Orlando investigators believed the cumulative evidence gave them probable cause to arrest Victoria-Gonzalez in connection with Medina-Pacheco's presumed death.
The Arrest