The Florida man spent the rest of his life behind the bar, fatally beating the motel's housekeeping manager, and his abused unconscious body was discovered by his husband.
According to police and a local outlet, 34-year-old Stephen Havrilka hit the 46-year-old woman on Monday and was sentenced to life in prison on Monday after pushing a towel down her throat at the Rodwi Inn in Venice in April 2021. I did.
Authorities say Brute, who was staying at the motel for almost a week, attacked the room she was cleaning as Tina Straddler chased her.
Straider's wounded, bloody body was found in the closet by her husband, tied to a wheelchair. He went looking for her when a series of text messages fell unanswered for nearly an hour. .
“I know because I text me when she starts the room,” Tina's husband Gerald Strader I told WFLA.
“No one ever saw her. Then I went and finally opened the door and I found her.”
The devastated husband sought help, and the workers removed the towel from the Strader's mouth and rendered the CPR until they were taken to a local hospital. According to Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman.
The mother of four, who also had two grandchildren, was declared dead later that day.
The lawmakers discovered video surveillance that captured Havrilka into his motel room around 8:50am.
The tattoo murderer was seen carrying a white towel and his shoes 14 minutes later, deputies said before he was arrested by five officers a little away from the motel.
“We never could tell the motivation,” says Assistant State Attorney Karen Freevilig. I told people.
“But he is a very violent person with a previous episode and I think he just wanted to kill another person. He needs to leave forever. The defendant and victim's There was no relationship between them.”
Habrilka, who has long, violent criminal history, including 36 prior arrests, several felony convictions and four stints in prison, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. According to the Miami Herald.
He was also slapped in 2024 with another life sentence for a case at the Sarasota County Jail. The Herald Tribune reported.
“In the same hotel there was a violent man, a murderer. The murderer had just been released from prison for cruelly attacking his mother, and in anger he went for me. I decided to do so,” Straddler's family wrote in a letter. According to the Herald-Tribune, Fraivillig should read in court.
“To summarise what everything was taken from her and from us is frankly impossible to break it down into measurable increments.”
