When police found the remains of wanted killer Jesse Scott Ellis last week, it may have brought some measure of closure to the families of his two victims, but for Riomar residents, there’s still an element of mystery tied to the March 24 double homicide and the manhunt that followed.
Ellis’ badly decomposed corpse was discovered hung from a tree, hidden in dense foliage between two homes in Riomar Bay, one of the most upscale subdivisions on the island. Because salt air slowed the process of decay, it will likely be impossible to pinpoint when Ellis died – and therein lies the mystery.
Ellis, a 64-year-old local electrician, had been married to his wife Stacie Mason for 13 years when he killed her in the main county library parking lot early in the morning. Mason, 49, was a traffic analyst technician employed by Indian River County…