Mother’s murder solved after 4 years of investigation, her courageous last words to her killer revealed

Four years after her disappearance, the body of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, 34, mother of three, was finally found last Thursday, May 19, 2022. It was the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office that released a statement confirming this news. The body of the unfortunate woman was found in Weld County, Colorado. This after preliminary DNA tests have been carried out.

Remember that Rita Gutierrez-Garcia had disappeared more than four years ago now. The mum was celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with friends when she disappeared. The last time she was seen was in an alley behind a bar on March 18, 2018. His killer has been identified, it is Juan Figueroa Jr., 33 Years. He is expected to plead guilty to first degree murder and kidnapping. Note that it had already been identified as a potential suspect at the beginning of the case, reports The Mirror. “Court documents indicate that Gutierrez-Garcia and Figueroa had a “brief interaction” in a bar shortly before the disappearance of the young woman“, indicates the media.

He confessed his murder to his cellmate

After his arrest, Juan Figueroa Jr allegedly confessed his crime to his cellmate. He would have confessed in particular that he had kidnapped and killed Rita Gutierrez-Garcia hitting her then strangling her. This after she called him “crazy”, according The Mirror. The details also include Rita Gutierrez-Garcia fighting for her life. Besides, she would have managed to make one last call to the police the night of his disappearance. Only the line was cut before the police could respond and all attempts to call her back were unsuccessful.

Those are mobile data which made it possible to locate his telephone which was in the same place as the car of the suspects between 2:30 and 3:10 in the morning. Juan Figueroa Jr also confessed to having burned his clothes and threw the body by Rita Gutierrez-Garcia in a “in an area not accessible to the public”. Note that in June 2021, Juan Figueroa Jr had been charged with murder and kidnapping of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia in a bodyless homicide by a jury. His sentencing is scheduled for June 3.

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