Waterbury, CT: Police say Conn. man wanted to kill 2nd girlfriend

Published 05:30 a.m., Wednesday, September 7, 2011

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — A Waterbury man is being held as a fugitive from justice in the strangulation of a girlfriend in Puerto Rico, and police say he also planned to kill a woman in Connecticut.

The Waterbury Republican-American reports (http://bit.ly/ouqMZn ) that 52-year-old Rafael Rivera-Torres has confessed to the killing 48-year Maria de los Angeles Herz, at a hotel in Puerto Rico on Aug. 26.

Police say he then flew to Connecticut where he planned to kill another girlfriend and then himself.

Police found Rivera-Torres on Saturday at that woman's apartment after her sister called police to say she had not heard from her sibling in several days.

Rivera-Torres is being held in lieu of $ 2 million bond and is awaiting extradition proceedings. He is due back in Court on Sept. 27.