Carl Vance is charged in the February strangulation death of his girlfriend, Connie Lynn Asbury.
By Bianca Prieto, Orlando Sentinel
6:33 PM EDT, June 29, 2010
Orange County deputies arrested the boyfriend of a woman found dead earlier this year at an extended stay motel on South Orange Blossom Trail.
Carl Vance, 53, faces a first-degree murder charge in the Feb. 9 death of Connie Lynn Asbury. He is being held without bond at the Orange County Jail.
Detectives think Vance used a telephone cord to strangle Asbury, 50, inside the motel room, court records show. Asbury was strangled, according to the Orange-Osceola Medical Examiner.
Investigators responded to the motel around 7 a.m. that day after a man used Asbury's cell phone to dial 911 and report that "a women [sic] had been killed up in there," records show.
Detectives later determined it was Vance who used Asbury's cell phone to call for help.
Deputies arrested Vance last week, more than four months after Asbury's body was found inside of a room at SunStyle Suites.
Deputies responded and found the door to the bathroom had been forced open. Asbury's body was in the shower stall with clothing and food thrown on top of her. Detectives also found blood soaked clothing and towels in the room, according to court records.
During an interview with deputies, Vance said Asbury locked herself in the bathroom while doing drugs. When he barged in hours later, Vance said he found her with blood on her face.
He first told detectives that Asbury was still alive and moving when he found her, but then changed his story and said she wasn't moving, documents show.
After finding her in the shower, Vance told detectives he sat in the room and drank rum for a few hours before leaving the room to catch a bus to his sister's house, about 15 miles from the crime scene.
But detectives found Asbury's rental car parked in a shopping center about 1.5 miles his sister's house.
Asbury's death is the 15th domestic-violence-related homicide in Orange County this year.
Bianca Prieto can be reached at bprieto@orlandosentinel.com or 407-420-5620.
2 comments:
Connie Asbury was my mother and Carl Vance was NOT my mothers boyfriend he was a friend of hers who wanted more then a friendship from my mother but she would never date him. I was very close with my mom and if he was more then a friend she would have told me. He did kill her and I still do not know why and truth be told he had only known my mom for like 4 months befor he killed her...
Carl Vance was found guilty of my mothers murder and he will die in prison for his ruthless selfish drug fueled actions. He took my best friend and mother from me. Thank u fine ppl of the jury who seen to it that justice was served.
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