Who Killed Kristie Lee?
January 28, 1996|By Larry Keller
The caller to 911 sounded frantic and frightened; a woman saying that her daughter-in-law was unconscious. She could find no pulse.
"There's blood on the walls and the floor," she wailed. "I think I'm going to faint."
Pompano Beach police were dispatched to the Cobblestone apartments, a sprawling 384-unit complex with a pool, a clubhouse and neatly landscaped grounds. In the living room of apartment 1311, they found the caller, Kay Petralia, and her husband Joe. And in the master bedroom they discovered Kristie Lynn Lee, mother, wife, murder victim. The date: March 31, 1994.
KRISTIE DIED fighting. In her living room, where photos of her 20-month-old son Zachary adorned a wall and the top of a china cabinet, she struggled with her assailant and was struck in the head with an object. Police know this because of the blood in Kristie's hair and on the living-room carpet. One of her fingernails also was found there.
She then staggered down the hallway, past Zack's highchair on which lay the book Baby Lamb Chop Loves Words. There was another struggle. Kristies blood was smeared on the hallway wall.
Kristie, who was 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighed 92 pounds, was finally overpowered in her bedroom.
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