in the meantime the investigation was turning up a new lead, a former girlfriend of his, yolanda sirrio. >> she had a relationship with michel before he met the victim. according to her, michel left her for wendy. she loved him and was very much in love with him. >> a single mother, was she also a woman scorned? michel left her just six months earlier, and to add insult to injury, asked her to take care of his dog while he was on his honeymoon with wendy. >> as a woman, that's very strange to me. >> does yolanda become a suspect? a woman who feels she was fired because of a younger woman and nobody gets away with that. and i'm gonna kill you. >> there's a lot to yolanda. >> a lot of bad if you ask ramon santa cruz. >> i didn't like her from the beginning. she was very evasive. the apartment was always dirty. she was never a good person to begin with. >> detectives met with yolanda who freely admitted that she was devastated when michel dumped her. but said she had no idea who beat his wife to death. >> she said she didn't know anything about it. >> but the detectives noted something els