NBC Dateline: What occurred to Rita Gutierrez-Garcia?

The 2018 event of a missing Longmont mother named Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, who vanished on the morning of Walk 18, has gotten a giant measure of media inclusion all by means of the long term. Her remaining components had been found ultimate April, a few 12 months after a stupendous jury prosecuted Juan Figueroa Jr. for first-degree murder and hijacking for her situation in June 2021.

Reports particular that Gutierrez-Garcia was most not too way back seen close to a bar throughout the midtown Longmont space. Figueroa Jr., who was captured on Walk 27 in affiliation with a particular s*xual assault case, supposedly admitted to killing the missing mother to a fellow prisoner. He admitted to punching her oblivious earlier to choking her. The suspect entered a request discount in a “no-body manslaughter” case.

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NBC’s Dateline is scheduled to account the event of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, beginning collectively together with her vanishing until the day her remaining components had been indetified, this Friday. Keith Morrison will cowl the approaching episode named Finding Rita, which might air on the channel at 9.00 pm ET. The summary of the episode states:

On Walk 18, 2018, Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, 34, had a night out with companions, observing St. Patrick’s Day, when she vanished from a once more avenue behind a bar throughout the midtown Longmont space, setting off a years-in measurement missing explicit particular person’s examination. She was a mother of three youthful children, finding out up for a paralegal diploma at the moment.

After 4 years, on April 28, 2022, her decayed remaining components had been tracked down in Weld Area, Colorado, and had been subsequently acknowledged utilizing DNA assessments in May. Following the disclosure, the casualty’s sister talked about all through a public assertion that her case “is as of now not a missing individual examination.”

As indicated by experiences, an individual named Juan Figueroa Jr. was at first distinguished as a attainable suspect whereas specialists had been the entire whereas researching her vanishing. On Walk 18 at spherical 1.30 am, he “momentarily interfaced” collectively together with her contained within the bar and was seen shut by to her exterior the bar by fairly just a few observers after the spot shut for the night time.

Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s cellphone info confirmed that someplace throughout the differ of two.40 and three.03 am, her cellphone was found shut to the 600 block between Central avenue and Coffman Road. An commentary video confirmed Figueroa’s truck going by precisely the similar spot at 3.03 am.

Subtleties of Gutierrez-Garcia’s horrible battle to endure uncovered additional in regards to the night after it was found that the casualty had settled on two frantic 911 selections that night time sooner than she vanished. Nonetheless, the calls went ineffective sooner than specialists could reply. Minutes after dropped off the group and was positioned at third Road and Vivian Road in Longmont.

Long-term suspect Juan Figueroa Jr. admitted to choking Rita Gutierrez-Garcia after his seize in an irrelevant case

Juan Figueroa Jr. escaped Colorado on Walk 20, 2018, after specialists tried to maneuver in direction of him at his mom’s residence. He then, at the moment, momentarily remained in Texas earlier to crossing the boundary into Mexico two days after the actual fact. He was captured on Walk 27 whereas endeavoring to return the US in affiliation with an irrelevant s*xual assault case, for which he was in the long run thought-about as blameworthy.

After his seize, Figueroa supposedly admitted to choking “the missing lady” and discarding her physique to a fellow prisoner. He assured that she thought-about him a “fruitcake,” which provoked him to punch her, thumping her oblivious. After which, he choked her to dying. His admission likewise included subtleties concerning consuming his garments and unloading the casualty’s physique “in a space not available to people in general.”

In June 2022, Juan Figueroa Jr. confessed to second-degree murder and seizing and was condemned to 48 years in jail for Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s homicide. At that point, he was at the moment ending up a 93-year jail punishment for an inconsequential s*xual assault case.