In the early long periods of Walk 18, 2018, just after St. Patrick’s Day festivities, Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, a mother-of-three, disappeared from downtown Longmont. The case, which at first began as a vanishing, took a curved turn when it was “at this point not a missing individual examination” in the wake of stunning disclosures about the horrendous surfaced.

More than four years after the fact, in 2022, Gutierrez-Garcia’s remaining parts were found. In no time, a suspect named Juan Figueroa Jr., who was at that point carrying out an extended punishment in association with an irrelevant case, confessed to the missing mother’s homicide, getting another strong jail term.

The forthcoming two-extended NBC Dateline episode will have Keith Morrison report on Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s vanishing and killing. The summary for the episode, named Tracking down Rita, peruses:

“At the point when a Colorado mother evaporates suddenly, the criminal investigator exploring her vanishing finds an association with a past attack.”
The all-new forthcoming episode airs on Walk 10 at 9 pm ET.

Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s homicide: Five speedy realities to be familiar with the vanishing and killing of the Longmont mother1) Gutierrez-Garcia’s begun as a missing individual’s examination

Rita Gutierrez-Garcia was a 34-year-old mother of three youthful children, reading up for a paralegal degree when she disappeared on Walk 18, 2018. She was apparently observing St. Patrick’s Day in the midtown Longmont bar and strangely vanished in the early morning hours.

Specialists at first thought a man named Juan Figueroa Jr., who was seen connecting with her at the bar that evening. Reports express that at some point around 1.30 am, the two “momentarily connected.” Witnesses announced seeing nearby to Gutierrez-Garcia outside the bar.

On Walk 20, 2018, Juan Figueroa Jr. left Colorado after examiners endeavored to address him about Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s vanishing at his mom’s home, where he was residing at that point.

After a short stay in Texas, he crossed into Mexico on Walk 22. Notwithstanding, after five days, he endeavored to get back to the nation and was then captured regarding a different s*xual attack case, for which he was at last sentenced liable.

As per Gutierrez-Garcia’s telephone records, she was close to the 600 block among Principal and Coffman Road somewhere in the range of 2.40 and 3.03 am. Figueroa’s vehicle was caught on camera going through precisely the same area at 3.03 am.

Reports additionally express that the casualty settled on two berserk 911 decisions that evening, which got separated before specialists could intercede. Minutes after the fact, her telephone dropped off the organization.

As per reports, Juan Figueroa Jr., who was captured on Walk 27, 2018, in association with an irrelevant wrongdoing, confessed to killing Rita Gutierrez-Garcia and unloading her body.

He purportedly told one of his fellow prisoners that he punched the lady after she considered him a “fruitcake” and took her out. Figueroa Jr. then choked her to death, stacked her body into his truck, and unloaded “in a space not open to the general population” prior to consuming his garments.

5) Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s remaining parts were found after Juan Figueroa Jr. entered a supplication bargain

Figueroa purportedly made a request bargain and consented to tape an admission to Gutierrez-Garcia’s homicide while driving specialists to where he unloaded her remaining parts in Walk 2018.

The missing mother’s disintegrated remains were tracked down on April 28, 2022, in a separated lush region in Weld District. The denounced then confessed to second-degree murder and first-degree capturing charges.