Found Deceased CT - Ana Barros, 55, Danbury, 11 May 2010

DANBURY -- Police are investigating the disappearance of a 55-year-old Danbury woman who was last seen nearly a month ago.

Ana Barros, who lived in an apartment on Housman Street, was reported missing by her niece on Friday, and information developed by detectives during the course of the investigation is "of a suspicious nature," Detective Lt. Thomas Michael said Thursday.

Local and state police searched part of Rogers Park, not far from Barros' home, Wednesday night. Nothing was found, but a state trooper and police dog were searching the area of the Ives House in the park Thursday morning.

Barros was last seen on May 11, Michael said.

She was described as a white female with blonde hair, approximately 5-feet, 5-inches tall, and weighs 170 pounds.

Anyone who may think they have any information regarding this missing person case is asked to call police at 203-797-4662.

Contact John Pirro

at jpirro@newstimes.com

or at 203'731-3342

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DANBURY -- The search for a Danbury woman continued Friday a week after she was reported missing.

Danbury police said longtime resident Ana Barros, 55, of Housman Street, was reported missing by her niece on May 28.

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summer_breeze said:

http://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Search-continues-for-missing-Danbury-woman-511949.php

Published: 05:51 p.m., Friday, June 4, 2010

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Danbury, Conn. (WTNH) - The case of a missing Danbury woman has become a homicide investigation after her body was found inside her home.

According to the Danbury NewsTimes , the body of Ana Barros was found buried in the basement of her home on Housman Street late Sunday.

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Blondie in Spokane said:

wow...it took 17 days for someone to report her missing...and she ends up buried in her own basement. boyfriend? husband?

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The victim had been stabbed multiple times, according to an autopsy performed Monday by the state medical examiner in Farmington.

Barros, who lived alone in an apartment of the house, which is owned by her sister and her sister's husband, was reported missing by a niece May 28. The niece last saw her alive May 11, police said.

The homeowners, Maria and Gaspar Costa, and their son, Danny, are in Portugal. Neighbors said the parents have been there for several months, and their son joined them a few weeks ago, shortly before Barros was reported missing.

Michael said investigators "are working on developing a person of interest" in the homicide, but he stopped short of calling the person -- whom he declined to identify --as a suspect in the homicide.

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An arrest warrant has been issued in state Superior Court in Danbury for 40-year-old Daniel Costa, charging him in the May stabbing death of his aunt, Ana Barros.

Authorities believe that Costa is in Portugal, where he went in May, three days before another relative reported Barros missing and two weeks before her body was found buried beneath a newly poured concrete floor in the basement of the Housman Street apartment house where they both lived... Another source familiar with the case said Costa tried unsuccessfully to withdraw money from his aunt's bank account before leaving the country...

Court and city records indicate that Costa obtained a $100,000 mortgage on the property in September 2007, and another $345,000 loan on it two months later. The house is valued at $435,000, according to the city assessor. Before leaving the country, Costa applied for a state program designed to avoid foreclosure, but failed to show up for the mediation session at state Superior Court in Danbury.

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