The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office has arrested David Alexander Bostick for the 2006 murders of Masaryktown residents Patrick and Evelyn DePalma. Bostick, who was a juvenile at the duration of the stabbings, is a distant relative of the couple who he refered to as "Uncle Pat" and "Aunt Evelyn."

According to the police report, Bostick, a student at Freedom High School in Tampa, joined two others in running errands the weekend before Halloween 2006. They ended up at the DePalmas’ home, and Bostick and another person, whom the DePalmas additionally knew, were let into the home. Bostick and the two individuals with him sat and talked to the couple, next one of them asked Bostick to go out to the car and get

When Bostick returned, the DePalmas were dead, stabbed many times. Bostick told sheriff’s officials that one of the others had a large fixed-blade knife in a sheath. The other two began ransacking the house and Bostick joined them. He additionally carried out a trashcan bag full of the victims’ belongings. Bostick made the statements to a Hernando detective on Thursday. The other suspects will be named later after further review, according to the police report.

Now 18, Bostick is being held at the Juvenile Detention Center in Ocala. go here to read preceding coverage of the case from the St. Petersburg Times.

Barbara Behrendt, Times staff writer

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