{"id":323688,"date":"2026-06-29T19:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323688\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T19:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:35:07","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-woman-with-mallet-charged-with-2nd-degree-murder-of-fort-myers-woman-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/323688\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing woman with mallet charged with 2nd degree murder of Fort Myers woman | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 Florida State Attorney Amira Fox announced 2nd-degree murder charges in the homicide case of Julia Curvo, a 28-year-old woman who was found dead near downtown Fort Myers in January.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Fox announced the homicide charges against Rolbert Joachin<\/a>, a man who is also facing first-degree murder indictment charges in the killing of a woman with a mallet in early April.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox stated that the Joachin case has been reviewed by a Lee County grand jury, leading to the indictment. In addition, the state\u2019s attorney’s office is seeking the death penalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Curvo, who was reported missing for about a week, was found dead near downtown Fort Myers<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n

\"Rolbert<\/p>\n

Her body was discovered on Hough Street, just blocks away. According to Fox, Curvo\u2019s cause of death was strangulation.<\/p>\n

Investigators then declared the disappearance and death of Curvo a homicide investigation in late February.<\/p>\n

Fort Myers Police Chief Jason Fields was in attendance and discussed the investigation and, eventually, the charges filed against Joachin.<\/p>\n

Watch the entire news conference above.<\/p>\n

\"Fox<\/p>\n

Stay tuned to WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK) \u2014\u00a0 Florida State Attorney Amira Fox announced 2nd-degree murder charges in the homicide case…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-323688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}