“It was a brutal attack, so much so that we had to wait until this afternoon to get an identification on her because we recovered her body [Thursday] evening,” Auburndale police chief Terry Storie said, according to WFLA.
At the same time, her boyfriend, Andrew Ridgeway, 46, called the handyman to ask what officers were doing as he had surveillance cameras that could see the activity, police said.
He told police that on February 5 she had flown to Jamaica to be with her ill father, and he didn’t know when she would return, police said.
Police went to her home and met with a handyman, who said the residents were not home, according to WFLA.
Boyfriend arrested for ‘savage’ murder of girlfriend who was reported missing after not logging into work: cops Authorities have not released a motive for the alleged murder.
