California police believe the plumber fled. Killed the old man If only they hadn’t found a strange detail in his bank statements while investigating another murder.
Rosalie Durell Foster, 38, was jailed in 2022 for allegedly killing a friend, but she was also charged with killing one of her clients, who was previously believed to have died of natural causes.
A Camarillo man has been charged with the murder of 35-year-old Jose Antonio Velazquez, who also worked as a plumber. Velazquez went missing in July 2022 and his body was found several months later in the Santa Monica mountains, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office and Sheriff’s Office.
“It could be a financially motivated murder.”
Prosecutors said Foster used a gun to “violently” obtain Velazquez’s financial information and used the stolen money to buy gasoline, clothes and food.
In the process of charging Foster with murder, police became aware of his connection to the death of an elderly man whose body was discovered on January 10, 2022.
Bill Dean Levy, 72, was found dead in his Granada Hills home, but authorities did not consider the incident suspicious and no autopsy was performed. Levy was believed to have died of natural causes and his body was buried.
That might have been the end of the story until detectives discovered Levy had made multiple payments through Foster’s bank account.
What’s odd is that these payments were made on January 11th, the day after the man died.
Police immediately suspected the payment may have been part of a similar pattern to payments made after Velazquez’s death, or, in police terms, a “possible financially motivated murder.”
Investigators later discovered that Foster had performed multiple plumbing works at Levy’s home.
Authorities exhumed Levi’s body to determine if there were any other murders, and the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office determined that Levi had died of natural causes, but rather from overdosing on fentanyl, and changed the cause of death to homicide.
Authorities said other evidence also linked Foster to Levy’s death and filed murder charges.
More casualties possible
Police are also investigating suspicious bank transactions made to Foster by another Los Angeles man, who is also accused of armed robbery of a convenience store in July 2022.
Foster is charged with 33 felony counts, including first-degree murder, robbery-murder, identity theft and forgery.
He had previously been convicted of manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon as a minor. Authorities sentenced him to 21 years in prison but said it was unclear how much time he actually served.
Police said Levy lived alone and donated all his money to numerous charities, including the American Heart Association and children’s hospitals.
This is Video News Report From KTLA-TV on the incident:
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