Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Wallingford, CT: Wallingford Murder Suspect in Custody: Cops

The suspect and the victim had a tumultuous relationship, police said.

Police secured an arrest warrant in the murder of a Wallingford woman.

Susan Mazzarella was found strangled inside her Danny's Way apartment complex July 16. She had been dead for several days before she was discovered, police said.

Investigators focused on Luis Roman, who had a prior relationship with Mazzarella. Roman was released from prison in June, after serving a year-long sentence for two domestic violence incidents involving Mazzarella, according to police. Mazzarella apparently allowed Roman to stay at her apartment after he got out of prison.

After Mazzarella's murder, Roman fled to Tampa, Florida, police said. They received a tip Roman was returning to Connecticut on a bus, and took him into custody July 19 at the bus station in New Haven, charging him with a probation violation.

Roman will be formally charged with murder when he appears in Meriden Superior Court Wednesday.

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