MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A 40-year-old man who detectives suspect fatally shot his girlfriend before abandoning her body in a canal appeared in court on Thursday in Miami-Dade County.
Detectives arrested Saul Garcia on Wednesday at the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office headquarters in Doral after an investigation uncovered evidence that included surveillance video and cell phone data.
A missing person’s case turned into a murder investigation after Garcia’s live-in girlfriend — who is the mother of his 2-year-old daughter — vanished on Oct. 6, and deputies found her body on Oct. 11 in a canal in Redland, records show…