Florida Man Accused Of Murdering Daughter's Girlfriend

A Lakeland, Florida man has been arrested for murdering his daughter's girlfriend. Friends of the victim say he was angry at her for "leading" his daughter into a lesbian relationship.

Jerry Lee Seger, an enraged father who allegedly blamed 24-year-old Courtney Bright for leading his daughter down what he felt was the wrong path - including a three-year lesbian affair - strangled Bright to death and left her body in an abandoned house, say police. Authorities say that Seger admitted to a friend that he hated Bright and blamed her for his daughter's arrest. In the days before the murder, Seger's daughter Ashley Dunn had been arrested for dealing in stolen property. But friends of the lesbian couple think the hatred went deeper than that. "That's not why he killed her. He killed her because they were lesbians," Bobbi Johnson told local station WTVT. Johnson said Dunn and Bright had been together for three years and were inseparable.

Seger is being held without bond on a charge of first degree murder.