MIAMI — A husband strangled his wife Monday morning at a home in Doral before walking into a nearby Miami-Dade police station and confessing, according to authorities.
“I killed my wife and I’m here to turn myself in,” Luis Manuel Romero-Moran told police when he walked into the Miami-Dade Midwest District station, according to an arrest report.
Romero-Moran, 46, was charged late Monday with first-degree murder in the killing of his longtime wife, Zoranllilis Cadena Cambar. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Monday night, records show.
According to police, Romero-Moran is believed to have followed his wife, who had been walking a dog back to a home where she worked. Doral police, which initially responded to the call, said the 41-year-old worked as a housekeeper at the home on the 10900 block of Northwest 72nd Street.
That’s where Romero-Moran is believed to have attacked, killed her and left. About 9 a.m., another person arriving at the home found her body in the backyard and called police. She’d been discovered with a zip tie around her neck, according to an arrest report.
Romero-Moran subsequently called his family and confessed to them, before surrendering at the Miami-Dade police Midwest station in Doral, police said. Miami-Dade police’s homicide bureau investigated the case.
According to the arrest report, Romero-Moran admitted he’d had a “verbal dispute” with his wife the day before the killing, and “that is when he knew he was going to kill the victim.”
“He walked into the residence where she works with the intent of killing her with a zip tie and strangled her with it,” the report said.
The husband and wife originally hail from Venezuela. Cadena had also worked as a real estate agent in Doral, according to her online bios.
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