Monroe County man arrested after wife found dead in Cudjoe Key home
Deputies found Lynne Alane Shadduck unconscious in her Cudjoe Key home, and her husband was later booked on second-degree murder after telling a neighbor to call 911 because “there was blood everywhere.”
Monroe County deputies said a domestic call in Cudjoe Key turned into a murder arrest when Bradly Shawn Shadduck, 56, was booked into jail Thursday in the death of his wife, 62-year-old Lynne Alane Shadduck.
Deputies responded just before 6 a.m. May 29 to 136 Maracaibo Lane, where they found Lynne Shadduck unconscious on a hallway floor with injuries to her face, head and hands. She was taken to Lower Keys Medical Center on Stock Island, where she was later pronounced dead. Authorities have not publicly said how she was killed, and autopsy results were still pending.
The sequence deputies described gave investigators their first signs that something was badly wrong inside the home. According to the sheriff’s office, Bradly Shadduck went to a neighbor’s house wrapped in a blanket or towel and otherwise naked, and told the neighbor to call 911 because there was blood everywhere. Another report said deputies found the residence in complete disarray, with broken household items, blood smears throughout the floor and a large pool of blood in the living room.
Detectives later charged Bradly Shadduck with second-degree murder, and he reportedly told investigators the bloody scene came from rough sex and that he sometimes blacked out when drinking. He also asked for a lawyer. Those details will now be tested through the Monroe County court process, where prosecutors will review the evidence, autopsy findings and statements before the case moves forward.
Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay said there was no threat to the public, indicating investigators believed the violence was contained to the home. The sheriff’s office covers the Florida Keys’ roughly 112-mile chain of islands, from Key West through Marathon, Islamorada, Tavernier and Plantation Key, and its victim resources program places first-responder advocates throughout the county’s more than 113-mile span to help crime victims.
The case also puts local domestic-violence resources back in focus for Monroe County residents. The Monroe County State Attorney’s Office lists the Monroe County Domestic Abuse Shelter and the National Domestic Violence Hotline among the resources available in the Keys, a reminder that intimate-partner violence can surface in any part of the island chain, including a quiet residential street like Maracaibo Lane.
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