Police secured an arrest warrant in the murder of a Wallingford woman.
Susan Mazzarella was found strangled inside her Danny's Way apartment complex July 16. She had been dead for several days before she was discovered, police said.
Investigators focused on Luis Roman, 41, who had a prior relationship with Mazzarella. Roman was released from prison in June, after serving a year-long sentence for two domestic violence incidents involving Mazzarella, according to police. Mazzarella apparently allowed Roman to stay at her apartment after he got out of prison.
After Mazzarella's murder, Roman fled to Tampa, Florida, police said. They received a tip Roman was returning to Connecticut on a bus, and took him into custody July 19 at the bus station in New Haven, charging him with a probation violation.
Police said he later confessed to the crime.
Roman is being held on $1 million bond will be formally charged with murder when he appears in Meriden Superior Court on Wednesday. He is at the New Haven Correctional Facility, according to the state Department of Correction Web site.
