MIAMI BEACH, FLA. (WSVN) – New video supplies killer clues months after a grotesque homicide inside a Miami Seaside condominium that led to a younger man’s arrest in what police described as against the law spree that left two males lifeless.
Miami Seaside Police found the physique of 66-year-old Carlos Alonso Villaquiran face down in a bath inside Residence 15 at 1010 Pennsylvania Ave., Nov. 21.
Officer-worn physique cameras rolled as police investigated the crime scene.
“Bent over within the tub,” one officer instructed one other.
This dying, or 45, as first responders referred to it, was later labeled a homicide.
“Standing put up on the ’45’ investigation,” an officer is heard saying in bodycam video.
Detectives decided the trigger to be strangulation.
A manhunt resulted within the arrest of 25-year-old Zsolt Zsolyomi months later.
Investigators stated the suspect was seen on surveillance video getting into and exiting the condominium a number of occasions, in the future earlier than police discovered the physique of Villaquiran, who lived there.
Police stated the sufferer and Zsolyomi had been romantically concerned, however earlier than the killing, there was a sample of abuse.
Detectives reviewed Villaquiran’s telephone, the place they discovered photos of him with a black eye, together with messages discussing the abuse.
At this level, police had been working the case however hadn’t but arrested anybody.
A pair months after the South Seaside homicide, Metropolis of Miami Police responded to scene of a murder at an condominium complicated close to Northwest 14th Avenue and Second Avenue.
It’s horrible, yeah. It’s actually, actually harmful,” stated an space resident.
It was this later case that led detectives to Zsolyomi.
“[The suspect] strangled the motive force after which staged the car crash in an try and cowl up for the murder,” stated Miami Police Chief Manny Morales.
An arrest warrant states Zsolyomi’s fingerprints from the Miami scene allowed detectives to attach him to the Miami Seaside crime.
“[Zsolyomi] is a Hungarian citizen that had come to the nation someday final yr, overstayed and was already in our system, able to be deported,” stated Morales. “It seems now that the connection [between the murders might be that he was targeting the elderly gay community.”
The suspect stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Mindy S. Glazer on Feb. 20.
“I’m going to hold you with no bond on each case where you are charged with two second-degree murder,” she said.
“He is the epitome of evil,” said Miami Beach Police Chief Wayne Jones.
Zsolyomi’s trial is pending. His next court appearance is scheduled for September.
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