A Bradenton man accused of killing a woman he was romantically involved with changed his story several times before blood and phone records linked him to her death, police say.
Detectives said the case began Sept. 28 after a 911 caller reported a vehicle had crashed into a mailbox on Eighth Avenue East and that the driver appeared intoxicated before collapsing on the ground. But when officers arrived and found 44-year-old Thania Fuenmayor with her throat slashed, what they thought was a suspected DUI quickly became a homicide investigation.
Newly filed court records describe how investigators tied 69-year-old Francisco Ramos-Moradel to the killing after tracking clues from the bloody scene to his home two blocks away…