Huntington Station Man Sentenced For 2013 Murder Of Sarah Strobel​

A Huntington Station man was sentenced on Wednesday to 25 years to life for the murder of 23-year-old Huntington Station woman Sarah Strobel in 2013, Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said.

Fernando Romualdo, 29, received the longest prison sentence allowed under the law. He was convicted of second-degree murder in June.

The body of Strobel, a 2008 graduate of Walt Whitman High School, was found in the woods at the Froehlich Nature Preserve on West Rogues Path in Huntington in October 2013. Her body was reportedly found about 300 feet into the woods by a passerby.

Romualdo, who was already incarcerated in upstate New York for raping a juvenile female, was brought back to Suffolk County to be arrested for this crime in June 2016, police say. The DA said DNA evidence collected from Strobel's body matched Romualdo’s DNA sample that he was required to provide for the state database after his rape conviction.

More on Strobel’s death:

• Huntington Station Man Convicted Of 2013 Murder Of Sarah Strobel
• Arrest Made in 2013 Murder of Huntington Station Woman: Police
• UPDATE: Police ID Woman Found Dead in Nature Preserve
• S. Huntington District Mourns Woman Found Dead
• Friends Gather to Mourn Sarah Strobel

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