Newlywed bride found stabbed to death in her bathtub wearing her dress from wedding reception: Police

Federal authorities successful Illinois person announced that a antheral accused of murdering his woman connected their wedding nighttime is present successful custody aft fleeing the country.

Arnoldo Jimenez, 44, was charged with first-degree murder successful transportation with the 2012 decease of his wife, 26-year-old Estrella Carrera. Carrera's assemblage was recovered successful the bathtub of her flat successful Burbank, Illinois, 2 days aft she and Jimenez got joined successful a civilian ceremonial successful Chicago City Hall connected May 11, 2012. Authorities said Jimenez called respective of his friends connected May 13, 2012, and told them that helium and Carrera got into a carnal altercation.

According to reporting by section Fox affiliate WFLD, Carrera's household requested a payment cheque astatine her home, and Burbank Police Department officers recovered her successful her bathtub, dormant from aggregate stab wounds. She was wearing the aforesaid formal she was seen wearing astatine her wedding reception.

WFLD reported that constabulary recovered a Maserati registered to Jimenez astatine his brother's location successful Chicago. Police said grounds from the scene, including humor matching Carrera's DNA, breached jewelry, and shattered glass, suggested that Carrera had been attacked wrong the car and moved to her bathtub.

Police said that days aft Jimenez told friends helium was going to crook himself in, his cellphone records revealed that helium was successful Texas. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's Chicago bureau said helium past fled to Mexico, wherever helium remained astatine ample until Mexico's Fiscalía General de la República (FGR), moving alongside Interpol, apprehended him connected Jan. 30, 2025. FBI Chicago announced connected June 18 that Jimenez was present successful the United States.

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Jimenez faces a complaint of first-degree execution successful Cook County. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that helium arrived astatine Chicago O'Hare International Airport connected June 18. He was owed to look successful tribunal connected Monday.