‘He was saying on scene that she had committed suicide’: Live-in boyfriend identified as zip tie murder suspect more than a month later

Joel Bauza, Joysee Cartagena Clemente

Joel Bauza (Sanford Police Department), Joysee Cartagena Clemente (LinkedIn)

The former live-in boyfriend of a mother and JetBlue customer support specialist found dead with a zip tie around her neck in mid-July is now accused of murdering her and trying to steer the investigation towards a suicide probe.

Sanford Police said that Joel Bauza, 50, was arrested “without incident” Thursday after the totality of the evidence showed that Joysee Cartagena Clemente, 49, was manually strangled to death in her Florida home on July 17.

A 911 call was made by her employer after Joysee never signed on to her computer for work that day.

“It’s very unlike her to just disappear, and I want to make sure she’s okay,” the 911 caller said, according to WESH.

When authorities got to the scene in the afternoon, they found the victim with a “large” zip tie around her neck.

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