TAMPA - It’s been two years since Steven Lorenzo was sentenced to death for the murders of two Tampa men.

That sentencing in 2023 finally brought some semblance of closure for the families of Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz.

According to the court documents, Lorenzo and an accomplice abducted Galehouse and Wachholtz on separate occasions and tortured and murdered the men.

Those murders took place in December 2003 and in January 2004.

Steven Lorenzo murders happened 20 years ago

It took police and prosecutors almost 20 years to get the conviction and sentence imposed on Lorenzo, who is now on death row in Florida State Prison.

The backstory:

Law enforcement developed leads in the murders of the two men in May 2004 after Steven Lorenzo and Scott Schweickert were arrested follo

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