Two men have been arrested in connection to the slaying of a man inside his Bithlo trailer. Deputies pulled Robert Pascale from a wooded area Thursday evening near the Fifth Avenue trailer where Hugh Edwards, 79, was found dead on Wednesday. Investigators said Pascale was found by a bloodhound in a muddy pond with only his face exposed for air. Pascale is at the Orange County Jail charged with first-degree murder. He told WKMG-TV that he mistakenly beat the wrong man. When reporters asked him if he thought his alleged victim was a sex offender, he replied, “I thought he was, and the only thing running through my mind is what my uncle did to me.” Pascale continued, “I hit him with a bat twice.” A woman told deputies she was drinking at a trailer on Fifth Avenue with some acquaintances Tuesday night when one of Pascale's friends, Michael Garay, asked her what she would do if a sex offender lived next door. The woman told deputies she said, “I would kill him.” The woman told deputies that Pascale, 20, and Garay, 32, then went into a neighbor's trailer and she heard thumping sounds. She said the men then got in her car and drove a block away to get rid of a baseball bat. Although Edwards had a similar name and age as a registered sex offender, sheriff's officials said Edwards had absolutely no criminal record and was not a registered sex offender. added by: Omnomynous
