{"id":91385,"date":"2025-12-21T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91385\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T11:10:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T11:10:50","slug":"neighbors-of-citrus-co-woman-accused-of-killing-two-exes-share-their-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/91385\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors of Citrus Co. woman accused of killing two exes share their shock"},"content":{"rendered":"

INVERNESS, Fla. \u2014 Susan Avalon is accused of killing two of her exes:<\/a> one in Hillsborough County, another in Manatee County.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a span of over 100 miles from Bradenton up to Citrus County.<\/p>\n

Watch full report from Mary O’Connell<\/p>\n

Neighbor of Citrus County woman accused of killing 2 exes share shock<\/p>\n

“I\u2019d see her on a golf cart taking her kids down to the bus stop,\u201d said Charles Jackson. “We\u2019ve talked in passing, chit-chatted a little bit.”<\/p>\n

Jackson lives in Inverness, down the road from Avalon.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, she was real friendly. Super friendly person,\u201d said Jackson.<\/p>\n

Records show Avalon was arrested on Sabal Creek Point in Inverness. Tampa Bay 28 reporter Mary O\u2019Connell knocked on that door, though no one else was home.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you heard the news yesterday about what had happened with Susan and her arrest, what went through your mind?\u201d asked O\u2019Connell.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisbelief,\u201d replied Jackson. “I heard it from her boyfriend. He was down here checking the mail at the community mailbox, and he told me, he apologized for the commotion last night, or the night it happened, which I was unaware because it happened down there. I didn\u2019t hear nothing, didn’t see nothing. It was kind of, it\u2019s one of those moments you just go wow. It does exist in my community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay 28 spent time in both Tampa and Bradenton on Thursday.<\/p>\n

We followed up with Tampa Police to see if anyone had been charged in their case on Frierson Avenue.<\/p>\n

TPD said it remains an active investigation and updates will come as the investigation progresses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we find out as we\u2019re talking to the live-in boyfriend is that when she returns home, she is wearing that grey sweatshirt that we see on the camera. She goes into the shower with her clothes on. She doesn\u2019t say anything to him about killing her two ex-husbands,\u201d said Manatee County Sheriff Rick Wells. \u201cShe just tries to clean up and get rid of any evidence inside the car that she can before we finally detain her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay 28 asked the Manatee Sheriff\u2019s Office for an update on Friday on the suspect and were told she\u2019s in Citrus County and will be extradited at a later date.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Wells said on Thursday she\u2019s been charged with second-degree homicide.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be seeking the death penalty, a first-degree homicide charge in her,\u201d said Wells.<\/p>\n

It was a surreal situation for neighbors trying to wrap their minds around something so tragic.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou see about it on the news all the time, but then when it really happens, it kind of hits kinda close to home,\u201d said Jackson.<\/p>\n

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The teen has a rare condition that caused her left leg to grow rapidly. Her father and sister spoke to Tampa Bay 28’s Julie Salomone outside the hospital.<\/p>\n

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