After Pelzer and McLeod broke up, Pelzer married Rosalyn Lewis, who filed for divorce by December 2018, officials said.
A detective reached out to Pelzer’s new girlfriend that August. She told investigators Pelzer described a “rocky” relationship with McLeod and conspired with Lewis for months to kill McLeod in 2011, according to the district attorney.
Pelzer said Lewis hired a hitman to kill McLeod, officials said.
“Defendant Pelzer, along with Lewis and the alleged hitman kidnapped McLeod as she arrived to work and held her captive for a few days while they dug a hole for her body,” the district attorney said in the release.
In December 2018, months after first speaking with investigators, Pelzer’s new girlfriend reached out to police “to warn them Pelzer planned to kill her wife,” according to the district attorney.
A few days later, police found Lewis in a motel room with more than 30 stab wounds, prosecutors said.
Before she died at a hospital, she told police Pelzer had stabbed her, officials said.
