Police: Handyman arrested in couple's killing, stole cash
Source: Associated Press
Police: Handyman arrested in couple's killing, stole cash
Janet Mcconnaughey, Associated Press
Updated 4:46 pm, Wednesday, October 21, 2015
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A handyman kidnapped and strangled a couple he worked for and stole tens of thousands of dollars from a safe in their home, Baton Rouge police said Wednesday.
Ernesto Llerena Alonso, 42, of Baton Rouge, was arrested about 8 a.m. Wednesday in Hollywood, Florida, and will be extradited and booked with kidnapping and murder in the deaths of Denis Duplantier, 71, and Suzanne Duplantier, 70, Baton Rouge Police Chief Carl Dabadie said in a news release.
The Duplantiers' bodies were found in their pickup at a truck stop in Hammond, about 45 miles east of Baton Rouge and 860 miles from Hollywood.
Alonso's white pickup was on surveillance video pulling into the truck stop at the same time as the Duplantiers' red truck, said Cpl. L'Jean McKneely, a Baton Rouge police spokesman. A large sum of money has also been found, he said.
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