NBC Dateline: What happened to Rita Gutierrez-Garcia?

Posted by Martina Birk on Monday, May 6, 2024

The 2018 instance of a missing Longmont mother named Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, who vanished on the morning of Walk 18, has gotten a significant measure of media inclusion throughout the long term. Her remaining parts were found last April, about a year after a stupendous jury prosecuted Juan Figueroa Jr. for first-degree murder and hijacking for her situation in June 2021.

Reports express that Gutierrez-Garcia was most recently seen close to a bar in the midtown Longmont region. Figueroa Jr., who was captured on Walk 27 in association with a different s*xual attack case, supposedly admitted to killing the missing mother to a fellow prisoner. He admitted to punching her oblivious prior to choking her. The suspect entered a request bargain in a “no-body manslaughter” case.

NBC’s Dateline is scheduled to account the instance of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, beginning with her vanishing until the day her remaining parts were indetified, this Friday. Keith Morrison will cover the impending episode named Finding Rita, which will 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 back street behind a bar in the midtown Longmont region, setting off a years-in length missing individual’s examination. She was a mother of three youthful children, reading up for a paralegal degree at that point.

After four years, on April 28, 2022, her decayed remaining parts were tracked down in Weld Area, Colorado, and were subsequently recognized utilizing DNA tests in May. Following the disclosure, the casualty’s sister said during a public statement that her case “is as of now not a missing individual examination.”

As indicated by reports, a man named Juan Figueroa Jr. was at first distinguished as a potential suspect while specialists were all the while researching her vanishing. On Walk 18 at around 1.30 am, he “momentarily interfaced” with her inside the bar and was spotted nearby to her external the bar by numerous observers after the spot shut for the evening.

Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s telephone records showed that somewhere in the range of 2.40 and 3.03 am, her telephone was found near the 600 block between Central avenue and Coffman Road. An observation video showed Figueroa’s truck going through precisely the same spot at 3.03 am.

Subtleties of Gutierrez-Garcia’s terrible battle to endure uncovered more about the night after it was found that the casualty had settled on two frantic 911 decisions that evening before she vanished. Nonetheless, the calls went dead before specialists could answer. Minutes after dropped off the organization and was situated at third Road and Vivian Road in Longmont.

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

Juan Figueroa Jr. escaped Colorado on Walk 20, 2018, after specialists attempted to move toward him at his mom’s home. He then, at that point, momentarily remained in Texas prior to crossing the boundary into Mexico two days after the fact. He was captured on Walk 27 while endeavoring to return the US in association with an irrelevant s*xual attack case, for which he was in the long run viewed as blameworthy.

After his capture, Figueroa supposedly admitted to choking “the missing lady” and discarding her body to a fellow prisoner. He guaranteed that she considered him a “fruitcake,” which provoked him to punch her, thumping her oblivious. After which, he choked her to death. His admission likewise included subtleties relating to consuming his garments and unloading the casualty’s body “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 that point carrying out a 93-year jail punishment for an inconsequential s*xual attack case.

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