Epitome of evil: Hungarian serial killer arrested in Florida for murdering elderly, disabled gay men

The Miami Police Department and the Miami Beach Police Department agree that Zsolt Zsólyomi (25) is the epitome of evil and would have committed other murders had he not been apprehended with a joint operation of the local police. His strategy was to seduce elderly members of the local LGBTQ+ community and then kill them. The Hungarian serial killer was in the United States illegally. Earlier, he committed a robbery in Florida, but Hungarian media found that even the Hungarian police wanted him for theft, vandalism, and fraud. He may receive a death sentence.

Hungarian serial killer arrested in Florida

According to local10.com, Zsolt Zsólyomi resided in the United States with an expired visa. However, that did not stop him from committing a strong-armed robbery last year in Broward County, Florida. Tragically, more serious crimes followed.

According to Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, after the robbery, he was placed under criminal supervision. However, he cut his EM device in a day, changed his appearance and, under the alias Thomas Kray, rented a flat with forged documents. Officially, he worked as a waiter in a local restaurant.

Later, Mr Zsólyomi got acquainted with a 66-year-old Miami senior, Carlos Villaquiran in 2024. The relationship became romantic since both men were members of the LGBTQ+ community, but ended in homicide. Mr Zsólyomi did not tell the victim his real name. However, based on message exchanges the police acquired, Mr Villaquiran discovered the true identity of “Thomas Kray”. “I can’t believe what you did to me and what you took from me,” he texted the Hungarian man and also sent a picture showing a “prominent injury to his right eye,” the police warrant quoted by local10.com said.

Fingerprints found everywhere

Mr Zsólyomi said then that he could not control himself while drunk. The victim asked Zsólyomi to return his cell phone and other belongings, but a month later, he was found face down in his bathtub. Police investigation discovered that the cause of death was strangling. The autopsy revealed that Villaquiran suffered “internal trauma to both sides of the neck, a fractured rib, and a broken bone in his neck.” Zsólyomi was spotted on the apartment’s surveillance camera footage arriving at and leaving the victim’s apartment the night of the homicide.