QuoteFor more than two decades, the mystery lingered. On Sept. 21, 1990, a well-dressed stranger with a black briefcase knocked on the door of a South Beach apartment, asking for the phone number of the complex’s manager.
Within moments, the man forced his way inside, shot and killed the tenant, 34-year-old Mercedes Perez. Then he forced her friend into a bathroom, raping her at gunpoint before ransacking the apartment.
The horrifying attack, police say, has now been solved thanks to a DNA hit. And the suspected killer has been captured in Jamaica, after having been deported nine years ago after a burglary conviction.
Dale Ewers, 53, a former South Beach resident who lived near the victim’s home in 1990, was put on a plane to Miami on Wednesday, escorted by federal marshals. He’ll face charges of first-degree murder, sexual battery and kidnapping in Miami-Dade circuit court.
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