Man with a multi-state criminal history arrested for murdering his own 16-year-old son

A man from Florida, Stephan Thomas Rodda, 37, was apprehended on Monday, accused of the brutal murder of his teenage son using a heavy-duty saw known as an angle grinder. The incident occurred in a mobile home in Polk County, with the suspect attempting to escape the scene on Old Bartow Road in Lake Wales. The victim, 16-year-old Stephen Lee Rodda, was an 11th-grade student at Frostproof High School. The Polk County Sheriff, Grady Judd, …

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