A crazed Florida divorcee was thrown behind bars after allegedly gunning down each of her ex-husbands in separate broad-daylight shootings on the identical day, police stated.
Susan Avalon, 48, was cuffed Wednesday and slapped with homicide prices after blasting one ex-hubby with bullets in Tampa, then touring greater than 50 miles to Manatee County to fatally shoot the opposite later that day round 3 p.m., in accordance with Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells.
Investigators stated Avalon was embroiled in bitter custody battles together with her former spouses, which they imagine might have sparked the cold-blooded killings.
“It doesn’t get anymore brazen than this,” Wells advised reporters at a press convention Thursday.
“We imagine this was premeditated. She knew what she was doing, it was deliberate and he or she got here right here to kill her ex-husband.”
Police stated the alleged murderess focused her first husband — a 54-year-old man she divorced roughly 11 years in the past — at his Manatee County house round 2:55 p.m., luring him to open his entrance door with stolen meals from a Panera Bread earlier than capturing him twice.
The unidentified man was rushed to a close-by hospital, however succumbed to his accidents later that day.
Surveillance footage captured Avalon strolling into the close by bread eatery and swiping meals from the supply pickup shelf with out paying earlier than heading to her ex-husband’s house, authorities stated.
Her live-in boyfriend allegedly advised police she had just lately tracked down her ex-hubby’s tackle.
The ex’s reportedly had ongoing custody disputes and about $4,000 in unpaid youngster help, with Avalon going through a looming deadline to pay $200 or lose her driver’s license.
Investigators tracked her silver Honda Odyssey again to her Citrus County house after the capturing and located her scrubbing the minivan with bleach and rags. However when requested by police about her ex-husband, she chillingly replied, “Which one?”
“We solely know of 1,” Wells stated.
“We begin to dig into this second ex-husband that we all know nothing about, and we discover she was married once more after the wedding to our sufferer, and that this ex-husband lives in Tampa.”
Wells stated investigators alerted Tampa authorities, who carried out a welfare verify on the second husband’s Frierson Avenue house and located him lifeless inside with a number of gunshot wounds. The again door was additionally broken, suggesting pressured entry, he added.
Officers haven’t disclosed the second sufferer’s identify or age, however imagine Avalon allegedly killed him first.
The alleged killer, who was beforehand arrested on youngster abuse prices in Virginia in 2004, was charged with second-degree murder in Manatee County. Wells stated he’s working with prosecutors to have that cost upgraded to first-degree homicide and the dying penalty.
Avalon, who reportedly has 5 kids between each slain ex-husband’s, additionally confronted two different youngster abuse circumstances in Tampa and Pasco County that have been later dropped.
She has not but been charged within the Tampa capturing as police proceed their investigation.
Avalon is at present being held at Citrus County Detention Facility in Lecanto.
