Hey Bill, your "big boat" is about to come in! And returning to the scene again and again and again isn't the least bit suspicious. 
When Florida cops found a woman dismembered in three suitcases along the Intracoastal Waterway, there was no telling if and when they would catch the killer. The victim’s name was a mystery. Investigators had to resort to making a reconstruction of her face and released pictures of her clothes and the suitcases.
The answer, however, was pretty much around the corner. The victim, now identified as Aydil Barbosa Fontes, 80, lived nearby with her husband and alleged murderer, William P. Lowe Jr., 78, according to cops in Delray Beach.
As previously reported, witnesses separately found three suitcases with different body parts along the waterway on July 21. Cops said in a newly released arrest affidavit that these contained small landscaping rocks. The second of the suitcases had a sticker featuring the name “Barbosa.”
More grisly discoveries emerged from the waterway. The following day, police found a Tote-type bag, tied shut with twine, that contained the victim’s head. Investigators later identified Fontes through dental records.
They found a single gunshot wound behind her ear, with the exit wound behind the opposite ear.
Two separate couples and three men doing roof work all claimed to see an older white man with a gold sedan hanging about near where another witness found the third suitcase. The roof workers said the vehicle the mystery man was driving was a Ford.
One of the couples said that this stranger looked into the waterway for several days before July 21.
“They stated he appeared to be looking at the suitcase,” police said.
The witnesses claimed to see him approximately five or six times over a three-day period.
The male witness told police he asked the man what he was looking at. The stranger allegedly claimed to be “waiting for the big boat to come into the harbor.”
The roof workers claimed to see the same stranger on July 21, the day the suitcases were found. They described the stranger standing on the seawall looking at the suitcase.
“S—,” he allegedly said, then immediately left in his car.
Detectives executed a search warrant at the couple’s apartment. Cops said they found blood spatter pretty much everywhere: the living room, dining room, hallway, both bathrooms and the master bedroom. There was blood in the master bath shower drain. There was blood in the tub of the second bathroom.
Officers also found drag marks in the living room, hallway, and master bathroom.
On top of all of that, Lowe allegedly tried returning home during the execution of the search warrant attempting to enter through the rear window before officers stopped him, according to the affidavit.
He claimed he was just trying to get his phone and the keys to the storage unit, cops said.
Detectives checked out the aforementioned storage unit where they allegedly found a chainsaw, which had blood, bone matter, flesh and hair on it, police said. Apparent blood marked the cover and inside of a nearby cooler as well.
Many disturbing and gory details at the link:
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When Florida cops found a woman dismembered in three suitcases along the Intracoastal Waterway, there was no telling if and when they would catch the killer. The victim’s name was a mystery. Investigators had to resort to making a reconstruction of her face and released pictures of her clothes and the suitcases.
The answer, however, was pretty much around the corner. The victim, now identified as Aydil Barbosa Fontes, 80, lived nearby with her husband and alleged murderer, William P. Lowe Jr., 78, according to cops in Delray Beach.
As previously reported, witnesses separately found three suitcases with different body parts along the waterway on July 21. Cops said in a newly released arrest affidavit that these contained small landscaping rocks. The second of the suitcases had a sticker featuring the name “Barbosa.”
More grisly discoveries emerged from the waterway. The following day, police found a Tote-type bag, tied shut with twine, that contained the victim’s head. Investigators later identified Fontes through dental records.
They found a single gunshot wound behind her ear, with the exit wound behind the opposite ear.
Two separate couples and three men doing roof work all claimed to see an older white man with a gold sedan hanging about near where another witness found the third suitcase. The roof workers said the vehicle the mystery man was driving was a Ford.
One of the couples said that this stranger looked into the waterway for several days before July 21.
“They stated he appeared to be looking at the suitcase,” police said.
The witnesses claimed to see him approximately five or six times over a three-day period.
The male witness told police he asked the man what he was looking at. The stranger allegedly claimed to be “waiting for the big boat to come into the harbor.”
The roof workers claimed to see the same stranger on July 21, the day the suitcases were found. They described the stranger standing on the seawall looking at the suitcase.
“S—,” he allegedly said, then immediately left in his car.
Detectives executed a search warrant at the couple’s apartment. Cops said they found blood spatter pretty much everywhere: the living room, dining room, hallway, both bathrooms and the master bedroom. There was blood in the master bath shower drain. There was blood in the tub of the second bathroom.
Officers also found drag marks in the living room, hallway, and master bathroom.
On top of all of that, Lowe allegedly tried returning home during the execution of the search warrant attempting to enter through the rear window before officers stopped him, according to the affidavit.
He claimed he was just trying to get his phone and the keys to the storage unit, cops said.
Detectives checked out the aforementioned storage unit where they allegedly found a chainsaw, which had blood, bone matter, flesh and hair on it, police said. Apparent blood marked the cover and inside of a nearby cooler as well.
Many disturbing and gory details at the link:
Man who dismembered wife with chainsaw and stuffed her in 3 suitcases kept returning to crime scene: Cops
When cops found a woman dismembered in three suitcases along the Intracoastal Waterway, there was no telling if and when they would catch the killer.
lawandcrime.com
