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http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070531/NEWS01/705310338&template=palmbay
Updated May 31, 2007 8:22 am
Killer used GPS device to track wife, police say
Orlando man followed woman to Palm Bay
BY J.D. GALLOP
FLORIDA TODAY ADVERTISEMENT
PALM BAY - It was a chilling, high-tech twist to what investigators
say was Carlos Acevedo's final, deadly grasp for control of his failed
marriage.
Palm Bay police detectives said Wednesday the estranged husband used a
live-tracking Global Positioning System device to stalk his wife,
Idelisa Morales, from her Orlando apartment to the home of a male
friend on Salina Street last Thursday.
Police said the 51-year-old Orlando accountant sat in his car, looking
over a grid map and following the movements of his wife's red Sedona
minivan as a homing device tucked beneath her car's bumper indicated
her whereabouts to a satellite-supported tracking system.
As Acevedo and Morales arrived at the house, Acevedo jumped out of his
car, pulled out a .40-caliber handgun and chased the mother of his two
children down the residential street before fatally shooting her and
then turning the gun on himself, detectives said.
Morales' male friend, meeting with Morales for the last time before
she was to go to Puerto Rico, was shot at but not injured.
Police learned about the GPS tracking system -- which pinpoints a
target nearly anywhere across the globe using satellite technology --
after finding the device and laptop in Acevedo's car. Detectives
located the small tracking node covered with a strip of rubber
underneath the minivan's bumper.
Similar devices, which can be found at shops like the Spy Source
Warehouse in Melbourne, have been on the market for years and are
often used for real-time tracking of shipments or rental cars. In the
Morales case, police said, the device offered an unblinking eye into
her whereabouts for a man she wanted to get away from.
"(Acevedo) was very, very controlling in the past and controlled every
aspect of her life," said Det. Mark Mynheir of the Palm Bay Police
Department. "This guy was very savvy. The device was well-hidden and
if we didn't know what we were looking for we wouldn't have found it."
Contact Gallop at 409-1422 or jdga..._at_floridatoday.com.
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