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A Florida man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for fatally
beating and strangling a motel housekeeping manager, whose battered and unconscious body was found by her husband.

Stephen Havrilka, 34, was handed a life sentence Monday after he pummeled
the 46-year-old woman and shoved a towel down her throat at the Rodeway
Inn in Venice in April 2021, according to police and local outlets.

Authorities said the brute, who had stayed at the motel for nearly a week, attacked Tina Stradler when he followed her into a room she was cleaning.

StradlerÆs bruised and bloodied body was discovered in a closet by her wheelchair-bound husband, who went searching for her when a series of text messages went unanswered for nearly an hour ù after the couple agreed to
remain in touch whenever she entered and left a room.

ôShe texts me when she starts the room so I will know,ö TinaÆs husband,
Gerald Stradler, told WFLA.

ôNobody had seen her. Then when I went and finally opened the door, I
found her.ö

The devastated husband called for help and a worker removed the towel from StradlerÆs mouth and rendered CPR until she was taken to a local hospital, according to Sarasota County Sheriff Kurt Hoffman.

The mother of four, who also had two grandchildren, was pronounced dead
later that day.

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Stephen Havrilka, 34, was given a life sentence on Monday after pleading
guilty to second-degree murder.

Deputies uncovered video surveillance that captured Havrilka entering the
motel room around 8:50 a.m. ù just one minute after Stradler had gone
inside and texted her husband.

The tattooed killer was seen leaving 14 minutes later carrying a white
towel and his shoes, deputies said, before he was apprehended by five
officers a short distance away from the motel.

ôWe could never discern a motive,ö Assistant State Attorney Karen
Fraivillig told People.

ôHowever, he is an extremely violent person with prior episodes and I
think he just wanted to kill another human being. He needs to go away
forever. There was no relationship between the defendant and victim.ö

Havrilka, who has a lengthy and violent criminal history that includes 36
prior arrests, several felony convictions and four stints in prison,
pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, according to the Miami Herald.

He was also slapped with another life sentence for an incident in the
Sarasota County Jail in 2024, the Herald-Tribune reported.

ôIn the same hotel, there was a violent man, a murderer, who was just
released from jail over brutally assaulting his own mother, and in a rage-
fit, decided he would then go for mine,ö StradlerÆs family wrote in a
letter read by Fraivillig in court, according to the Herald-Tribune.

ôTo sum up what all has been taken from her, and from us, is quite
frankly, impossible to subdivide into measurable increments.ö

https://nypost.com/2025/02/06/us-news/florida-brute-gets-life-sentence- for-savagely-beating-gagging-housekeeper-to-death/

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