Decades After His Wife Vanished, US Man Sentenced To 40 Years In Her Murder Decades After His Wife Vanished, US Man Sentenced To 40 Years In Her Murder Circuit Court Judge in Stafford County, Va., imposed the maximum sentence on Rodriguez-Cruz, 55, after he pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder
Updated: April 10, 2021 8:52 am IST
Jose Rodriguez-Cruz is already serving a 12-year term in the D.C. killing. (Representational)
Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, who admitted strangling his girlfriend in the District of Columbia and disposing of her still-missing body in 2009, was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday for murdering his estranged wife in Virginia in 1989 and also hiding her remains.