The man who murdered Rosaly Rodriguez and their unborn child was sentenced on Friday, nearly five years after their deaths.
Juan Dominguez-Garcia, 27, will serve 25 years in prison and an additional 15 years on supervised release after pleading no contest to a single charge of first-degree reckless homicide, according to court records obtained by PEOPLE. The maximum sentence would have been sixty years.
Prosecutors in Wisconsin agreed to drop charges of hiding a corpse and intentional homicide of an unborn child in exchange for Dominguez-Garcia’s no contest plea.
Dominguez-Garcia faces a prison sentence and a restitution payment of $10,141.09, according to court records.
Rodriguez disappeared in July 2020, according to the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office.
Three months later, in October 2020, her body was discovered stuffed inside a suitcase on an abandoned farm.
Authorities took another year to identify Rodriguez due to the condition of her remains.
Dominguez-Garcia was officially named as a suspect in the case in December 2021, but he had already disappeared.
Dominguez-Garcia was arrested in Missouri two years later, more than three years after Rodriguez died.
The Gladstone Police Department apprehended Dominguez-Garcia during a routine traffic stop.
According to a GPD press release, officers stopped Dominguez-Garcia because his car had stolen plates.
Officers then discovered Dominguez-Garcia had several identification cards under multiple names, so they dug deeper and discovered they had just apprehended a murder suspect who had been on the run for more than three years.
He was then arrested in Missouri and extradited to Wisconsin.
In January, Dominguez-Garcia reached an agreement with prosecutors. He will soon be transferred to a state prison to complete his sentence.
The judge did give him credit for the 525 days he’d already served in prison.
