She forged a dream for a better life in U.S. Then she was found murdered — buried in a backyard.

Pedro Mulett, who also lives in South Florida, said he and Gomez-Mulett grew up in the same place, Corozal, Sucre in Northern Colombia, and they both studied in Barranquilla. He said his cousin dreamed of coming to the U.S. and working in a blood blank. He said he would have tried to stop the sham marriage had he known.