By A man has admitted throttling his girlfriend in Washington in 2009, then taking away her still-missing body, pleaded guilty weekday to the 1989 murder of his unloved adult female, whose remains were hidden on a road median strip.
Appearing in an exceedingly Stafford County, Va., courtroom, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder within the death of Marta Rodriguez, 26, a nurse’s aide WHO was last seen alive could twenty five, 1989. Her skeletal remains, found in Stafford in 1991, weren’t known till 2018.
The guilty plea follows a try of tortuous, connected investigations in Washington and Virginia that stretched for years, involving 2 missing victims, multiple police departments ANd a suspect delineated by authorities as having an explosive, bloody temper toward girls WHO rejected him.
In Virginia, second-degree murder is punishable by 5 to forty years in jail. No sentencing date has been set for Rodriguez-Cruz.
About a decade when Marta Rodriguez’s 1989 disappearance from urban center County, Rodriguez-Cruz became romantically attached a D.C. woman, Pamela pantryman, a 47-year-old pc specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency. In February 2009, she additionally cryptically nonexistent.
Although Butler’s body has not been found, Rodriguez-Cruz, a clerical employee at a abuse clinic WHO had lived in northern Virginia, was inactive in 2017 by D.C. police in an exceedingly case designed nearly entirely on indirect evidence. He eventually admitted in court that he had suppressed her.
Her family aforesaid she was within the method of ending with him once she disappeared.
In a affect prosecutors within the pantryman case, Rodriguez-Cruz was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, and got simply twelve years in jail, reciprocally for agreeing to assist police recover her body. He junction rectifier them to a spot on interstate ninety five in Stafford, however the world had since been mammary gland up for construction, and Butler’s bones were gone.
“At the time authorities were looking out I-95 for Butler’s remains, the Virginia State Police investigators WHO were helping the D.C. authorities alerted their fellow officers . . . that unidentified remains had been settled close to a similar location” in 1991, long before Butler’s disappearance, Stafford Commonwealth’s lawyer Eric Olsen aforesaid weekday.
This caused investigators to suspect that the bones found in 1991, still control in storage, were those of Rodriguez-Cruz’s missing adult female. when deoxyribonucleic acid tests confirmed the suspicion, Rodriguez-Cruz was charged in October 2019 with first-degree murder in her death.
An autopsy report lists the cause and manner of Marta Rodriguez’s death as undetermined. Prosecutors haven’t aforesaid in public whether or not Rodriguez-Cruz has delineated to them however she died.
In March 1989, 2 months before Marta Rodriguez nonexistent, Rodriguez-Cruz, a native of Puerto RICO Act and a former personnel officer, was charged with abducent and assaulting her. therein incident, AN urban center County peace officer saw him dragging her on a street, sure and gagged, authorities aforesaid.
“When asked by the investigator why he would commit such acts against his adult female, Rodriguez-Cruz responded ‘if i can not have her, nobody else can. She’s mine,’ ” in line with a press release issued weekday by Olsen’s workplace.
However, the case against him began to fall aside on could eighteen, 1989, once Marta Rodriguez didn’t seem in AN urban center room for a preliminary hearing. “It is unclear whether or not she stayed away of her own accord or whether or not she was unbroken away,” the statement aforesaid. “Regardless, she would live for less than an extra week.”
Marta Rodriguez was at the start listed in urban center County police files as a missing person. County police closed that case in 2001 when authorities in Everglade State aforesaid that they had found an individual they believed to be Marta Rodriguez living therein state. It clad that the girl living in Everglade State underneath Marta Rodriguez’s name was a friend of Rodriguez-Cruz WHO was incorrectly victimization her establish, authorities aforesaid.
After Rodriguez-Cruz’s 2017 bargaining within the pantryman case, Butler’s relations aforesaid they were but happy together with his comparatively lightweight sentence of twelve years. however they aforesaid they slipped with it in hopes of convalescent her remains, before those hopes were dotted.
Her brother, Derrick pantryman, WHO attended Monday’s court hearing in Stafford, aforesaid in AN interview that he was happy with the most recent bargaining. He aforesaid Olsen told him he’s assured that Rodriguez-Cruz’s ultimate sentence are going to be at “the high end” of the five-to-40-year penalisation vary.
Three Decades when His Wife’s Disappearance, U.S.A. Man Admits Killing Her
In Virginia, second-degree murder is punishable by 5 to forty years in jail. (Representational)
A man WHO admitted throttling his girlfriend in Washington in 2009, then taking away her still-missing body, pleaded guilty weekday to the 1989 murder of his unloved adult female, whose remains were hidden on a road median strip.
Appearing in an exceedingly Stafford County, Va., courtroom, Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder within the death of Marta Rodriguez, 26, a nurse’s aide WHO was last seen alive could twenty five, 1989. Her skeletal remains, found in Stafford in 1991, weren’t known till 2018.
The guilty plea follows a try of tortuous, connected investigations in Washington and Virginia that stretched for years, involving 2 missing victims, multiple police departments ANd a suspect delineated by authorities as having an explosive, bloody temper toward girls WHO rejected him.
In Virginia, second-degree murder is punishable by 5 to forty years in jail. No sentencing date has been set for Rodriguez-Cruz.
About a decade when Marta Rodriguez’s 1989 disappearance from urban center County, Rodriguez-Cruz became romantically attached a D.C. woman, Pamela pantryman, a 47-year-old pc specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency. In February 2009, she additionally cryptically nonexistent.
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Jose Rodriguez-Cruz became romantically attached a D.C. woman, Pamela pantryman, pc specialist for the Environmental Protection Agency. In February 2009, she additionally cryptically nonexistent.
Although Butler’s body has not been found, Rodriguez-Cruz, a clerical employee at a abuse clinic WHO had lived in northern Virginia, was inactive in 2017 by D.C. police in an exceedingly case designed nearly entirely on indirect evidence. He eventually admitted in court that he had suppressed her.
Her family aforesaid she was within the method of ending with him once she disappeared.
In a affect prosecutors within the pantryman case, Rodriguez-Cruz was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of second-degree murder, and got simply twelve years in jail, reciprocally for agreeing to assist police recover her body. He junction rectifier them to a spot on interstate ninety five in Stafford, however the world had since been mammary gland up for construction, and Butler’s bones were gone.
“At the time authorities were looking out I-95 for Butler’s remains, the Virginia State Police investigators WHO were helping the D.C. authorities alerted their fellow officers . . . that unidentified remains had been settled close to a similar location” in 1991, long before Butler’s disappearance, Stafford Commonwealth’s lawyer Eric Olsen aforesaid weekday.
This caused investigators to suspect that the bones found in 1991, still control in storage, were those of Rodriguez-Cruz’s missing adult female. when deoxyribonucleic acid tests confirmed the suspicion, Rodriguez-Cruz was charged in October 2019 with first-degree murder in her death.
An autopsy report lists the cause and manner of Marta Rodriguez’s death as undetermined. Prosecutors haven’t aforesaid in public whether or not Rodriguez-Cruz has delineated to them however she died.
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In March 1989, 2 months before Marta Rodriguez nonexistent, Rodriguez-Cruz, a native of Puerto RICO Act and a former personnel officer, was charged with abducent and assaulting her. therein incident, AN urban center County peace officer saw him dragging her on a street, sure and gagged, authorities aforesaid.
“When asked by the investigator why he would commit such acts against his adult female, Rodriguez-Cruz responded ‘if i can not have her, nobody else can. She’s mine,’ ” in line with a press release issued weekday by Olsen’s workplace.
However, the case against him began to fall aside on could eighteen, 1989, once Marta Rodriguez didn’t seem in AN urban center room for a preliminary hearing. “It is unclear whether or not she stayed away of her own accord or whether or not she was unbroken away,” the statement aforesaid. “Regardless, she would live for less than an extra week.”
Marta Rodriguez was at the start listed in urban center County police files as a missing person. County police closed that case in 2001 when authorities in Everglade State aforesaid that they had found an individual they believed to be Marta Rodriguez living therein state. It clad that the girl living in Everglade State underneath Marta Rodriguez’s name was a friend of Rodriguez-Cruz WHO was incorrectly victimization her establish, authorities aforesaid.
After Rodriguez-Cruz’s 2017 bargaining within the pantryman case, Butler’s relations aforesaid they were but happy together with his comparatively lightweight sentence of twelve years. however they aforesaid they slipped with it in hopes of convalescent her remains, before those hopes were dotted.
Her brother, Derrick pantryman, WHO attended Monday’s court hearing in Stafford, aforesaid in AN interview that he was happy with the most recent bargaining. He aforesaid Olsen told him he’s assured that Rodriguez-Cruz’s ultimate sentence are going to be at “the high end” of the five-to-40-year penalisation vary.
“Yes, i am happy – so i’m,” pantryman aforesaid. “It feels sensible to finally be through with this.”
