‘Paranoid’: Illinois Woman Posed As Mexican Cartel, Tricked Her Cheating Fiancé Into Murdering His Co-worker Mistress and Her Entire Family After Learning of Their Affair, Police Say

After a year-long investigation, police released new details about the heinous quadruple murder of a married couple and their two young children. The bizarre events leading up to the killings are truly stranger than fiction. At the center of this gruesome love triangle is alleged mastermind Ermalinda Palomo, who tricked her cheating fiancé Nathaniel Huey Jr. into slaughtering his affair partner, her husband, children, and dogs in their suburban Chicago home last year. Nathaniel Huey Jr. and Ermalinda Palomo (left) and Zoraida Bartolomei and Alberto Rolon with their two kids (right). Credit: ABC7/GoFundMe) The country was shocked when the news broke, but no one could fathom the diabolical scheme — involving fake social media accounts and tales of a Mexican drug cartel — that led to the murders. On September 17, 2023, Zoraida Bartolomei, Alberto Rolon, and their boys, Adriel, 9, and Diego, 7, were discovered gunned down inside their Romeoville home after police were called for a welfare check. Authorities knew it was not a random act or murder-suicide from evidence at the scene, reported ABC7 at the time, and their investigation quickly led them to Huey Jr, who had been having a long-term affair with his co-worker Bartolomei....