'He loved life, he liked to be with people, he had a lot of friends,' Fred Schlub, an assistant state attorney prosecutor, told producers. There, he found plenty of friends and took advantage of the city's nightlife. Petersburg, a city known for being LGBTQ-friendly. Shortly after turning 18, he came out as gay to his loved ones. The 21-year-old was born in Cuba but had moved to Miami to live with his father. In the meantime, they dug into Martinez's background. They obtained a search warrant to get into the phone, but that would take days. Still, police walked away with one important piece of evidence: They found a cellphone underneath the mattress in the room where Martinez's body was found. вЂњThe only DNA evidence found at the scene belonged to Landy,' Robert Snipes, a sergeant for Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, told producers. But there wasn't much evidence of who had committed this heinous act. This suggested a familiarity with the apartment. It also raised red flags with investigators that the Drano had been taken from the kitchen cabinet to the bathroom when they weren't exactly near each other. Such brutality signaled to cops that this was not a random burglary. He had been shot twice, once in the head and once in the chest.ДЄn autopsy report would later reveal Martinez also had knife wounds and burns on his eyes and throat from exposure to Drano. And in the bedroom was Landy Martinez, dead. There was Drano liquid plumber, a knife, and tape in the bathroom. The shower sliding glass door was broken and off the track. The bathroom, in particular, was destroyed. The roommate was right - the security cameras had been cut. What police saw when they reached Martinez's home was shocking. She requested the police do a welfare check - and her address was on the same street they had been canvassing in search of the man in distress. A woman reported she was worried because she wasn't able to reach her roommate, Landy Martinez.В When she checked their security cameras online, there was no reception. Then, about 40 minutes after the first phone call, another 911 call came through. Petersburg, Florida, and authorities went door-to-door asking if residents had heard anything unusual. They narrowed the location down to two streets in St. Since the man contacted 911 on a cellphone, authorities didn't have an exact address and had to narrow a location down using cellphone tower information. Two gunshots are heard - then the line goes dead. The 911 dispatcher asked him for his address but got no answer. 'Help me, help me, they want to kill me!' a man is heard frantically saying in audio obtained by 'Florida Man Murders,' Oxygen 's new series. On December 21, 2010, a Pinellas County 911 dispatcher received a disturbing call.

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