Missing US woman stayed at site of previous Panama killings

 The FBI has been called in to help in the search for a California woman, missing in Panama since November,  who stayed in a hostel linked to the Wild Bill" investigations.

Yvonne Baldelli, 4 was last seen on Carenero Island, Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean coast. According to a Facebook page set up by her family, Baldelli was last seen Nov. 26. Her King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Georgia Mae, also is also missing, according to the family.

FBI officialS  confirmed  their involvement late Wednesday  but would not comment on statement by Panamanian authorities that a San Clemente man is a person of interest in the case.

Her family has flown to Panama to look for her and Panama’s  Department of Judicial Investigation has offered  a $3,000 reward.

During a news conference, identified Baldelli's boyfriend – though not by name – as the primary person being investigated in the case. Several Panamanian news websites as well as CBS News have identified the boyfriend as Brian Brimager, a retired U.S. Marine whose most recent address, according to public records, is in San Clemente.
Brimager, 36, and Baldelli moved to Panama in September and  rented an apartment, and Brimager played music in bars, according to a report in the Miami Herald.
Baldelli called and emailed her family regularly. Her last correspondence with family was an email to her mother in November, according to news reports.
In December, Brimager told people Baldelli had left him and that he planned to return to Orange County Southern California, according to the Miami Herald.
When Baldelli failed to respond to her family about a reunion planned for January, relatives flew to Panama to look for her.La Prensa reported an intensive search on the island on Wednesday, for clues to here disappearance.

She came to the island with the desire to set up a garment manufacturing company to sell to tourists, she told her sister Michel Faust.

She had no property on the island, and stayed, specifically in the hostel "El Sapo", whose owner, Cheryl Lynn Hughes, was murdered in 2010 allegedly by William Dathan Holbert, better known as "Wild Bill".

A source close to the investigation said Briyem Brimagen, 35, who was the boyfriend of Yvonee, traveled to the U.S. last December without explanation of the disappearance of the girl, a situation that drew the attention of the authorities. A source said he has a police record of violence.

Inhabitants who did not want their names used, names, said the U.S. citizen was very violent with Yvonee, and they constantly heard heated discussions.

According to CBS News, Brimager claimed Baldelli went to Costa Rica with another man, though her passport shows she never left Panama. Brimager returned to California in December and has since married another woman, according to news reports.
An Amazon.com Wedding Registry entry for Brian Brimager and Kristin Werkhoven states the two met in Washington, D.C., at a karaoke bar in 2004 and had a daughter in 2010. According to the entry:
"Brian got out of the Marine Corps in November 2011 and went on a vacation to Panama to detox from the Marine Corps. Now Brian is a professional father during the day and a professional student at night. We were engaged on December 15 and on  December 31 we had a civil ceremony to legalize our marriage."