| Fingerprints lead to Murder Arrest Daniel Tepfer - Reporter Connecticut Post Newspaper November 15, 2006 Bridgeport - Fingerprints on a newspaper found at a murder scene led police to arrest a city woman in connection with the five-year-old killing, according to police. Luisa Bermudez, 34, of Barnum Avenue, was charged Tuesday with Murder and Conspiracy to Commit Murder. She was being held in lieu of $750,000 bond. The charges stem from the murder of Zoltan Kiss, 24, of Toronto, who was found slumped inside a car on Pembroke Street early in the morning of Sept. 28, 2001. Last year, two men, (WRONG - this past April, 2006), Miguel Zapata, 21, and Orema Taft, 30, were arrested for the crime; their cases are pending. According to the arrest warrant affidavits for all three charged in the murder, Kiss and some friends had been taking Ecstasy and Kiss told the others he was going to get more of the illegal drug. Witnesses said Kiss later pulled up on Pembroke Street and asked people on the street if anyone had Ecstasy for sale. Zapata walked up to Kiss and began shooting him, the affidavits said. Police said a witness claimed that Bermudez also had been involved in the shooting, but she denied being there. A Sept. 28, 2001 copy of the Connecticut Post was found on the sidewalk next to Kiss' body. Police said they found three of Bermudez's finger prints on the newspaper. Police said officials of the newspaper confirmed that copies of the paper would have been distributed to the area before Kiss' killing. Kiss was shot to death while visiting his father here, police said. According to the autopsy report, he was shot 25 times. His mother had conducted an intensive campaing to find her son's killer, offering a $10,000 reward in addition to the $50,000 offered by the state. In September 2005, she and her mother went to the East Side area where her son's body was found and began knocking on doors in an effort to find crime witnesses. I have waited, hoped and cried for this: for 5 long, painful years. |
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