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 will be sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $10,141.09 in restitution for his crime, 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 would already served in prison.
Attorneys for Dominguez-Garcia and the Chippewa County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.