A Dania Beach woman's accidental drug overdose death is being reexamined after police say she may have been linked to a man accused of videotaping the sexual assault of the apparently-drugged woman and her two children before her death.
The strange link was discovered after a lengthy investigation into 66-year-old Randy Jerome Pozdol, whose house was raided in January 2009 by Miami-Dade police who were looking for child pornography on his computer, according to the Miami Herald.
Officers instead say they found several videos of a man believed to be Pozdol assaulting a woman and two children, who were drugged and unconscious.
Over two years later, police identified the woman as Pozdol's 43-year-old mistress, who died in 2006 of what was classified as an accidental overdose from a combination of morphine and anti-depression drug Trazodone.
Now the Broward Sheriff's Office is taking a second look at Pozdol's possible role in the woman's death.
Pozdol is currently behind bars in Miami-Dade, on child pornography charges. He also faces sexual battery on a minor charges in Broward.
Edward O'Donnell, the attorney for Pozdol, said the retired carpenter had nothing to do with the woman's death.
"My understanding is that, unfortunately, the woman was an addict. My client had nothing to with that," O'Donnell told the Herald.
The woman's body was found in November 2006 at her Dania Beach apartment. A police report noted she had a drinking problem, history of depression and had attempted suicide before.
The report also said Pozdol, who is married and had been seeing the woman on the side, returned to the apartment as police investigated the death.
O’Donnell said Pozdol had returned "because he cared about her....That's consistent with his innocence."
