‘Hit the two adults first’: Woman learned her fiancé was having an affair so she manipulated him into murdering lover, her family, cops say

Cops in Illinois released their final report on a quadruple murder that took the lives of two young kids last year, which untangled a wild web of lies and manipulation orchestrated by a scorned lover.

Police responded to a home in the Chicago suburb for a well-being check shortly before 9 p.m. on Sept. 17, 2023, after one of the family members did not show up for work. Officers who arrived on the scene looked through a window and saw multiple dead dogs and the home in disarray, body camera video reportedly showed. Cops entered the house and found four bodies : Alberto Rolon, 38, his wife Zoraida Bartolomei, 32, and their two sons, 9-year-old Adriel and 7-year-old Diego. There were also three dead dogs.

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    The Romeoville Police Department sent its final report on the homicides to local TV stations . Over the ensuing weeks and months, detectives allegedly uncovered a convoluted plot masterminded by the fiancée of Bartolomei’s lover. According to police, Bartolomei began a long-standing affair with a co-worker, 32-year-old Nathaniel Huey Jr. At some point, Huey’s fiancée, 50-year-old Ermalinda Palomo, learned of the affair.

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