Roberto Alfonso was one of several victims killed in a series of Florida homicides in 1986 later linked to Manuel Pardo Jr. Pardo, a former police officer, admitted to intentionally killing victims he identified as drug dealers; a calendar book found in his apartment listed Alfonso’s name along with dates, clippings and a running count of victims. Alfonso was killed alongside Mario Amador in a double murder episode cited in the investigations.

Rolando Garcia was initially charged in a multicount indictment that included the deaths of Alfonso and Amador. Pardo testified that Garcia had no involvement, but Garcia was subsequently tried and convicted for the double murder; those convictions and his death sentences were later overturned on appeal because the court found the cases had been improperly joined and lacked sufficient temporal and geographical connection. Legal proceedings in Garcia’s retrials and appeals continued for years.

Does anyone have details about Alfonso’s life, where he lived, or witnesses who might remember the double killing?