A Central Florida man was sentenced for murdering his girlfriend with a steak knife near their children.
The Casselberry man stabbed his girlfriend to death then calmly drove their children to school. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
38-year-old Farel Torres killed Vanessa Santiago with a steak knife in their apartment off S.R. 436 and Winter Woods Boulevard the morning of May 29, 2024. Hours later, a seemingly hysterical Torres called police and described a fit of passion to dispatchers, “I stabbed her in the head … I stabbed her ‘cause I was mad.”
At trial, Seminole County prosecutors Domenick Leo, Jacob Polk and Sarah Mian made the case to a jury that Torres’ tears were part of an act…