New video shows Hungarian man charged in 2 Miami-Dade murders

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – New video evidence has come to light showing the man who detectives say is a confessed brutal murderer.

Police say Zsolt Zsolyomi is seen in surveillance video near the scene where one of his two suspected victims was found gruesomely killed.

Officials believe the video shows the 26-year-old outside the Miami Beach apartment building on Pennsylvania Avenue back in November, the night before 66-year-old Carlos Villaquiran was found face down in six inches of bathtub water, strangled to death.

Zsolyomi is first seen at 11:08 p.m. dressed in black with a ball cap on, walking back and forth.

About 20 minutes later, he’s seen smoking a cigarette.

Another 15 minutes pass and the man in the video is seen opening up a dumpster and appearing to drop something in it.

Months later, his second suspected victim in Little Havana, Rodolfo Fernandez de Velasco, was found dead in the driver seat of his crashed car, also strangled with both front seat-belts wrapped around his neck.

Police say Zsolyomi was recorded walking out of the vehicle and leaving the scene before officers arrived.

Investigators say both victims were older, gay and disabled.

Zsolyomi is from Hungary and was in the country illegally at the time of the murders after overstaying his visa.

He was arrested on Feb. 19 for the murders of the two men.

And while he was put on an immigration hold, he has not been deported.

Jail records show he is still behind bars in Miami Dade on a no bond hold, waiting for his next day in court which is scheduled for May.

If convicted, Zsolyomi could also be one of the first to fall under a new Florida law calling for the automatic death sentence of undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes like murder.


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