Florida woman stabs boyfriend to death during argument, calls 911 four hours later after telling him to 'f**king die'
RIVERVIEW, FLORIDA: A cosplay model from Florida allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the middle of an argument and told him to "f**king die" and waited four hours before calling for help.
According to arrest reports, 26-year-old Melissa Rose Turner was charged with second-degree murder for the crime after her boyfriend, 25-year-old Matthew Trussler, was found dead at the couple's Riverview home, reported the Tampa Bay Times.
In her 911 call, Turner told the dispatcher that she found his body all cold and bloodstained on the front porch of their house, adding that she didn't know what happened to him.
The arrest report, however, reveals that things went quite differently, as she told detectives that "things escalated" during a fight between the two in the early hours of October 18, after which she admittedly "waited four hours to call for help".
The report states that she said: "If it was an accident, then I would have called 911 and not just let him die."
Turner reportedly called 911 at about 8.45 am on October 18. When the police got there, Trussler's body was found on the pool deck with dried blood all over, along with abrasions on his arm and chest.
According to Turner, Trussler came home drunk at 4 am while she was asleep and woke her up. She revealed it angered her, but he supposedly had a knife in his hand which cut her when she tried taking it away from him.
A neighbor's surveillance system, however, caught the couple's fight going a different direction: the audio from 4:31 am reveals a woman's voice saying "You stay down."
A moment later there is the sound of glass breaking, shortly after which the same female voice can be heard saying, "So f*****g die." The voice can be heard again, saying "I hate you," followed by a lot of banging ad slapping sounds.
Finally the words "Get up" can be heard shortly followed by "No," and what sounds like "What did I do?" a couple of minutes later.
According to the police, there was a defensive wound on Trussler's right arm and a massive wound in the middle of his back, consistent with the stab wound, among other injuries.
As for Turner, she is currently being held in Hillsborough County jail under charges of second-degree murder with a weapon. Reports say she is self-employed, with her occupation listed as "modeling/cosplay".
The couple is believed to have bought the house back in December, and Trussler seemed content in his Facebook posts, with one of them from January this year reading: "Quarter century later I've got a mortgage, a pup, four fur babies and a wonderful girl. I'm a happy man."
Trussler had moved to Florida just years ago from Massachusetts; a friend of his told The Tampa Bay Times: "Matt was the most fun-loving, hard-working guy ever. He would put anybody in a good mood. This is not supposed to be the way things turned out for him."