Victim speaks about multi-state crime suspect arrested in Arizona

this man had the tightest grip straight under my chin like cut off the airway immediately knew what he was doing last year Leah palan's life turned upside down she says her then coworker Rod Almanor violently attacked her in her Florida apartment he says verbatim he says if you scream I'll kill you after their dishwashing shift together at a popular Orlando restaurant palan offered to drive Almanor home he claimed his car was broken down and he needed help but because he lived so far away she le

t him sleep on her couch in the morning she says things took a dark turn and he goes let's go to the bedroom he gets very like forceful very angry paleen says once he stopped strangling her he became aggressively sexual he forced me to perform oral sex on him on my couch after he had just strangled me with the intent of murdering me then using her own car she says Almanor took her hostage heading towards a second location she begged to stop at a gas station to use the bathroom where she was able

to call 911 I think if you let him go with a slop on the r that he will turn into the next head Bundy after an interview with prosecutors Almanor was charged with sexual battery aggravated assault and Grand Theft Auto but all charges except Grand Theft Auto were dropped the State of Florida has failed me so badly and they have failed other women in this process we also learned the night of the alleged murder the suspect contacted paleen sharing these messages quote why did you treat me so miser

ably knowing now what happened since her own attack paleen has a message for Florida prosecutors all of this could have been prevented like if they had taken me seriously and we did reach out to Florida prosecutors to learn more about why they dropped those more severe charges in Lea palan's case we are waiting to hear back I also tried to speak with the suspect's family today to learn more about him and they said they did not want to talk and slam the door on me guys