ORLANDO, Fla. — Discovery released in an Orlando woman’s murder case shows evidence police found that they said led them to their suspect, who turned out to be a security guard at the woman’s downtown apartment.
Police started gathering evidence inside 27-year-old Sasha Samsudean’s apartment after finding her body in her bed Oct. 17.
The pictures show a clean and organized home, but things like a lifted toilet seat in a single woman’s apartment, didn’t add up.
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Stephen Duxbury, the security guard at the Uptown Place Apartments, told officers he saw Samsudean alive and intoxicated the night she died, but insisted he never went inside her apartment.
In a polygraph test with investigators, they asked Duxbury again if he entered her apartment that night and he said, "No."
The test indicated that he wasn’t telling the truth.
The test results can’t be presented before a jury as evidence, but his fingerprint found on her lifted toilet seat can.
Beside her bed, investigators found a condom wrapper and shoeprints that didn’t belong to the victim.
Detectives asked Duxbury to provide the shoes he wore the night she died.
Those shoes didn’t match the prints in her home, but when detectives served a search warrant on Duxbury’s messy apartment, which had trash strewn throughout, they found shoes that were a match.
During the course of their investigation, detectives photographed Duxbury in his security uniform.
They noted scratches and bite marks that they believe were defensive wounds left behind by the victim, trying to escape.
Duxbury is being held in jail without bond.
He’s set for a status hearing in March.
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