THE DARK SIDE OF FLORIDA
Florencio Alvarez
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photo courtesy FDC
Full Name: Florencio Alvarez
Date of birth: August 17, 1955
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Mayo Correctional Institution
Date of Crime: November 11, 1981
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Evelio Valdez
Date of birth: August 17, 1955
Conviction: 1st-degree murder
County: Miami-Dade
City: Miami
Current Location: Mayo Correctional Institution
Date of Crime: November 11, 1981
Tentative discharge date: Life
Victim(s): Evelio Valdez
On November 11, 1981, Florencio Alvaraz, 39, used a MAC-10 submachine gun to kill his sleeping roommate, Evelio Valdez, after the two had argued about ownership of a bag of marijuana. He later bragged about the murder.
On January 2, 1995, Florencio and six other killers escaped from the Glades Correctional Institute through a tunnel they spent months digging under the prison’s chapel. For weeks, the men snuck undetected into the crawl space beneath the red brick chapel, carving a 45-foot long tunnel from the rich, black Okeechobee muck with pilfered shovels and burrowing under a razor-wire fence. A little over a week later, police tracked down Florencio at a remote squatter’s camp in a wooded area west of Miami International Airport
On January 2, 1995, Florencio and six other killers escaped from the Glades Correctional Institute through a tunnel they spent months digging under the prison’s chapel. For weeks, the men snuck undetected into the crawl space beneath the red brick chapel, carving a 45-foot long tunnel from the rich, black Okeechobee muck with pilfered shovels and burrowing under a razor-wire fence. A little over a week later, police tracked down Florencio at a remote squatter’s camp in a wooded area west of Miami International Airport