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Zoraida Bartolomei’s brother had a bad feeling as he headed to her house in Romeoville, a village southwest of Chicago, he later told police. His 32-year-old sister hadn’t returned their mother’s calls all day, and her husband, 38-year-old Alberto Rolon, hadn’t shown up to work.
And it was Palomo who set the violence in motion, police said. She’d allegedly manipulated Huey for years with an elaborate catfishing scheme of faked messages and accounts that made him believe he was associated with a Mexican and Bulgarian criminal organization. As she feared his relationship with Bartolomei would tear theirs apart, police said, she used one of her fake personas to convince Huey that Bartolomei was a mole who was targeting him. She needed to be taken out.
“You mean so much to me like I don’t think you understand how much I actually love you,” read a Post-it note found in Huey’s workstation that police said appeared to be in Bartolomei’s handwriting.But by June 2023, Bartolomei was receiving threatening messages. They warned her away from Huey and claimed he was about to be at the center of a murder investigation. The messages accused Bartolomei of putting her children in danger by seeing him.
One boy was wearing a sleep mask covering his eyes, and the other clutched a stuffed animal, police said. The intruder fired two gunshots into each child’s head, killing them, before fatally shooting their mother. One of the daughters told officers she didn’t know Huey well, but described him as paranoid, often saying people were coming for him and that he was being followed. He was the type of person who placed black electrical tape over his mobile doorbell camera and even the red light on the television in their home. She said if anyone removed the tape, Huey became angry.
Huey had a history of cheating on Palomo, and she knew he was seeing another woman. Police said Palomo used her fake personas within the fictitious criminal organization to encourage her boyfriend to be faithful in his relationship and stop speaking with other women. However, conversations between Palomo’s fake personas and Huey turned dark when she convinced him that he was under constant surveillance by the fictitious criminal organization.
On Sept. 19, 2023, the couple met with an attorney. Then Huey met his mother at a Target while Palomo waited in the car outside. Huey confessed to killing Bartolomei and her family, his mother told police. When asked why, he said because “people were after him” and “he believed the kids were better off dead than alive without parents,” according to police.
Huey and Palomo had stopped at a Walmart, where according to a police review of surveillance video, “Neither appeared to be held against their will. Both appeared relatively relaxed.”
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