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'I will get justice': How a deck of cards may help solve South Florida cold cases

Angie DiMichele, South Florida Sun Sentinel on

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“I know I can’t bring my son back, but for me to get justice, I want that. I really want justice,” Moore said. “And if somebody can help me with this case, I want the help. I want the help.”

Mendell Butler-Lebel, 17, was killed in a drive-by shooting in the 3100 block of Foxcroft Road in Miramar on July 2, 2018. He is featured on the nine of diamonds.

He went to a food store with a friend and was caught in a spray of bullets when he returned to the parking lot of a condo complex. Butler-Lebel was shot in the back.

Detectives believe the shooters were in a silver four-door car with dark tinted windows, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported in 2020 when the reward for tips that help solve the case had increased to $100,000.

“There is no update to the case at this time,” Sgt. Tiffany Roy, a spokesperson for Miramar Police, said in an email. “We are still requesting the help of the community to provide us with anything they know.”

Tiffany Nelson

 

Tiffany Nelson was 20 when she was murdered. On Oct. 29, 2012, her remains were found in a garbage bag in front of an abandoned house in the 1300 block of South L Street in Lake Worth Beach.

Nelson’s mother, Kathy Nelson, previously told the Sun Sentinel her daughter was working as an exotic dancer at clubs in Palm Beach County.

Hannah Reny met Nelson while working at one club in West Palm Beach together, when Nelson was about 19. Nelson had gone down a troubled path by the time Remy met her, but “she was so much more than that,” Reny said.

She described her as a “beautiful, beautiful” girl who was a “sweetheart” and “never said a bad word to anybody.” Reny was several years older than her when they met. She looked after her when they worked together and “saw myself a lot in her.”

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