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Miami Murder Mystery: Who killed twin tots' mom, left her in SUV?

When the police found her, she was slumped in the driver's seat with her 18-month-old twin sons wailing in the back seat.

Now Miami city police and the relatives of Guerline Vincent want answers.

A week after the body of 30-year-old Vincent was found in her SUV underneath an overpass of Interstate 95, authorities are still baffled as to why anybody would want to kill her.

The case is still under investigation and not all details are readily available. Police won't say, for instance, how Vincent was killed or whether she died in the SUV or was placed in it afterward.

Relatives say Vincent went out with her children to make a bank deposit on the morning of Nov. 5. Hours later, when she hadn't returned, they started to worry.

''She left without diapers or formula or her phone,'' said her cousin, Lesny Filsaime, ``That was so unlike her. We started driving the streets looking for her.''

About 2 a.m. Nov. 6, a woman walking by Vincent's parked Isuzu Rodeo at Northwest Sixth Avenue and 75th Street heard children crying. When she looked in the window, she saw Vincent in the driver's seat and her twin sons crying in the back.

The woman knocked on the window. When there was no response, she called police. They hauled the SUV away at 6:30 that morning.

Vincent, 30, had immigrated from Haiti eight years ago, learned English and had earned her associate degree in business administration at Miami Dade College, where she met her husband, Waking Vincent. She worked as an administrative assistant at a real estate firm.

Shortly after Vincent and her husband married, he joined the Army and spent two years in Iraq.

He's still in the Army, but was at Fort Benning, Ga., at the time his wife was killed.

''Basically, for the last few years, she was a stay-at-home mom because her husband was away,'' said her cousin, Erve Pyrie. ``She was a homebody. When she wasn't home with her babies, she was with us.''

Her two sisters and brothers say their relatives in Haiti are devastated and confused by the murder.

''If it was me, I think they would understand. Because I'm always so loud and talk to so many people. But Guerline was so quiet -- when she spoke, you had to ask her to repeat herself because she was so soft-spoken,'' said her older sister, Magalie Jospeph.

Authorities say Vincent had no personal belongings in the SUV and they believe she was robbed.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crimestoppers at 305-471-TIPS.