Ocala restaurant owner strangled, boyfriend staged fake drowning, police say

The owner of a well-known Ocala restaurant who was found dead in December was intentionally killed by her boyfriend, who she was trying to break up with, investigators said.

Diane German, 72, was strangled hours before Michael Rowland called police in December, claiming he found her lifeless in her pool, investigators determined.

Detectives said Rowland initially presented a convincing story, where he returned from completing a plumbing job in Jacksonville to find German in the pool…

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