A Herald employee was brutally murdered 25 years ago. Her killer is set to be executed

Carolyn Green remembers the last time she saw her coworker and close friend Janet Acosta more than two decades ago.

Acosta was wearing a new outfit — a purple sweater, blue jeans and boots — when she showed up to work on the fourth floor of the Miami Herald’s bayfront building off the MacArthur Causeway. Her hair had a new do, short and sassy, instead of her shoulder-length bob.

She told Green she cut her locks to donate them to charity…

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