Victoria-Gonzalez was taken into custody in Hartford. Orlando police publicly announced the arrest on November 7, 2024, one day after the Connecticut apprehension. She was accused of second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and grand theft.
The murder charge did not mean the state had found Medina-Pacheco's remains. Police explicitly said the body had not been located. Instead, investigators were proceeding on the theory that the totality of the evidence demonstrated a homicide despite the absence of a body.
Connecticut court reporting showed that Victoria-Gonzalez was initially held while the interstate process moved forward. Later reporting from March 2025 said the case had advanced to prosecutors in Florida for formal presentation of the charges. Public coverage continued to emphasize that Medina-Pacheco remained missing.
The source transcript states that Victoria-Gonzalez pleaded not guilty. That is consistent with the legal posture described in coverage after her arrest: she contested the accusations, and the state still carried the burden of proving its case.
What Investigators Say the Evidence Shows
The case against Victoria-Gonzalez is largely circumstantial as publicly described, but circumstantial does not mean insignificant. Prosecutors can prove homicide cases without eyewitnesses and without recovering a body if the combined evidence establishes death and criminal responsibility beyond a reasonable doubt.
The public police statement is deliberately restrained. It says investigators found numerous inconsistencies in Victoria-Gonzalez's account and significant evidence at the apartment indicating that a violent incident occurred. The source transcript goes much further, attributing to investigators evidence involving Medina-Pacheco's blood, phone data, camera recordings, store surveillance, financial conflict, suspicious searches, and property sent out of the country.
Those details, if admitted and authenticated in court, would allow prosecutors to build a chronological narrative. The defense, however, would be entitled to challenge the forensic testing, interpretation of digital evidence, interview translations, timing of purchases, chain of custody, and the leap from evidence of violence to proof of second-degree murder by Victoria-Gonzalez.
That distinction matters. Police can have probable cause to arrest someone while a jury later determines that the evidence does not establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Until a conviction is entered, Victoria-Gonzalez remains legally presumed innocent.
The Unanswered Question
The central unresolved issue is still the same one Medina-Pacheco's family faced in December 2022: where is Runyleidy?
Her remains have not been publicly reported as recovered. Without them, her family has been denied the certainty that normally comes with a homicide investigation. They have an arrest and a prosecution, but not a grave, not a complete reconstruction of the final moments of her life, and not yet a publicly documented final verdict that resolves the criminal case.
The absence of a body also means some of the most dramatic claims in the source transcript must remain allegations rather than established history. Investigators may believe the purchases and searches reveal how evidence was removed, but without a recovered body and without a completed trial record, a documentary should not present a particular disposal method as proven fact.
What can be said with confidence is narrower and still deeply troubling. Runyleidy Medina-Pacheco was last known alive in Orlando on Christmas Day 2022. Two days later, the roommate with whom she had been living reported her missing. Police subsequently concluded that the roommate's story contained serious inconsistencies, found evidence of a violent incident inside the apartment, and spent nearly two years developing a case.
Then, on November 6, 2024, detectives approached Gisselle Victoria-Gonzalez in Hartford with a DNA warrant. By the end of that investigative push, she was under arrest for second-degree murder, evidence tampering, and grand theft.
Current Legal Status
Publicly available reporting reviewed through August 18, 2026 does not provide a reliable final conviction, acquittal, or sentencing outcome in the Florida murder case. Reporting in March 2025 described the prosecution as moving forward, and later summaries continued to describe Victoria-Gonzalez as charged while Medina-Pacheco's remains remained missing.
Accordingly, the proper legal description is that Gisselle Victoria-Gonzalez has been accused of killing Runyleidy Medina-Pacheco and charged with second-degree murder, tampering with physical evidence, and grand theft. Those charges have not been treated here as proof of guilt.
For Medina-Pacheco's relatives, however, the legal distinction does not resolve the personal loss. Their last ordinary Christmas contact became the beginning of a years-long search, and the woman they expected to hear from every day simply disappeared from their lives.
The case remains striking because it shows how a missing-person report can change as digital records, forensic testing, surveillance, and repeated interviews accumulate. There was no body when the investigation began. There was still no body when an arrest was made. What detectives say they found instead was a trail of contradictions and physical evidence strong enough, in their view, to turn a disappearance into a murder prosecution.