Her Address: Karaholik-O Bryon, Robyn DC# 969522
Lowell Correctional Institution & Annex
11120 NW Gainesville Rd
Ocala, Florida 34482-1479
Even while they were divorcing, Robyn Kraholik O'Bryon was talking about reuniting with husband Bryan O'Bryon.
But when they began exchanging pages and phone calls, Robyn O'Bryon's boyfriend, David Lanzafame, grew suspicious.
Robyn O'Bryon lied. She told her boyfriend that her husband was harassing her, police said.
Lanzafame wanted to settle the score and avenge the girlfriend he mistakenly thought had been harmed. But the weapon he chose, a wooden baseball bat, helped police crack a case of murder.
Police say Robyn O'Bryon, Lanzafame and a third friend, John Stites, ambushed Bryan O'Bryon on Dec. 17 by a lake inside a Pompano Beach commerce park.
Lanzafame whacked Bryan O'Bryon repeatedly with the Louisville Slugger bat, police said, and left him for dead.
When Pompano Beach police found the bat tangled in weeds on Christmas Eve, they had the lead they needed to solve the case.
"It was a personalized bat with the wife's boyfriend's last name on it, which is a pretty good clue," Pompano Beach Police Sgt. Carl Sonntag said.
On Saturday, Robyn O'Bryon, 21; Lanzafame, 19, of 8191 N. University Drive, Tamarac; and Stites, 20, of 5881 NW 41st Terrace, Fort Lauderdale, were charged with first-degree murder by Pompano Beach Police.
Robyn O'Bryon and Lanzafame confessed Saturday after they returned to South Florida from spending Christmas with her parents in Georgia, police said.
Robyn and Bryan, the parents of a 1-year-old girl, were married in February. They lived at 11162 S. Terradas Lane in Boca Raton before they separated.
The relationship was often strained, those who knew them said.
"He would fight with her every time they had conversation," said Dan Dubinsky, 18, a friend who lives across the street in Boca Raton. "He just wanted to see her daughter and she wouldn't let him."
The two attended weekly parenting classes. Seeing each other regularly helped rekindle the relationship, police said. They started paging each other and making phone calls.
"I remember she would beep him all the time," Dubinsky said.
Lanzafame and Robyn O'Bryon had been living together at the time of the murder.
"[Lanzafame) grew suspicious about the pages and an attitude change he detected after one of the parenting classes on Dec. 10," Sonntag said. "She had to come up with an excuse, and she said her husband forced himself on her ... and [Lanzafame) was upset about it."
Police said Robyn O'Bryon drove her husband to the ambush, thinking only a fight would result. But Bryan O'Bryon died. His body was discovered two days later at 2801 Centerport Circle East.
Sonntag said police suspected Robyn O'Bryon early in the investigation because of her reaction to questioning.
She attended her husband's funeral on Friday, but "she was quite cold about the whole thing," Sonntag said. "She cried but there were no tears."
