Groom wanted in wedding day slaying
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May 17, 2012, Thursday
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THE groom is being sought in the stabbing death of his young bride hours after their marriage - his new wife's body found in a bathtub in the silver sequin cocktail dress she wore at her wedding reception and possibly at the wedding itself, said police in the Chicago suburb of Burbank on Tuesday.
The manhunt continued for 30-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez, who is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the slaying of Estrella Carrera, 26, shortly after they celebrated their marriage with friends, said police.
"It was a very brutal killing," Captain Joseph Ford of the Burbank Police Department said. "We do our jobs every day, of course. But something like this really motivates you to work even harder."
It is possible that Carrera was also married in the short, shimmering dress in which she died, Ford said.
After they were married Friday afternoon at Chicago's City Hall, the couple had dinner with friends at a restaurant, then headed to a nightclub in a party limousine. They were last seen at 4am on Saturday, and Carrera's body was found in her Burbank apartment on Sunday.
The 1.8-meter, 100-kilogram Jimenez was last known to be driving a 2006 black Maserati. Since the killing likely took place just hours after the couple went to her Burbank apartment, the suspect had a day to leave the metropolitan area or even the state, Ford said.
Carrera, a mother of two small children, told nearly no one about her plans to get married, inviting a few friends out last Friday without telling them what she was celebrating, her relatives said. Her body was found after family members worried that they had not heard from her and called police.
Some of those familiar with the couple said there had been incidents of violence during their two years dating, Ford said. But he added that authorities haven't yet found any records indicating Carrera ever filed a complaint against Jimenez.
"And we have no indications the two were arguing at any time during the celebration," Ford said.
Carrera's family and acquaintances were struggling to comprehend how such a tragedy could happen during what should have been among the happiest days of the couple's lives.
The manhunt continued for 30-year-old Arnoldo Jimenez, who is wanted on a first-degree murder warrant in the slaying of Estrella Carrera, 26, shortly after they celebrated their marriage with friends, said police.
"It was a very brutal killing," Captain Joseph Ford of the Burbank Police Department said. "We do our jobs every day, of course. But something like this really motivates you to work even harder."
It is possible that Carrera was also married in the short, shimmering dress in which she died, Ford said.
After they were married Friday afternoon at Chicago's City Hall, the couple had dinner with friends at a restaurant, then headed to a nightclub in a party limousine. They were last seen at 4am on Saturday, and Carrera's body was found in her Burbank apartment on Sunday.
The 1.8-meter, 100-kilogram Jimenez was last known to be driving a 2006 black Maserati. Since the killing likely took place just hours after the couple went to her Burbank apartment, the suspect had a day to leave the metropolitan area or even the state, Ford said.
Carrera, a mother of two small children, told nearly no one about her plans to get married, inviting a few friends out last Friday without telling them what she was celebrating, her relatives said. Her body was found after family members worried that they had not heard from her and called police.
Some of those familiar with the couple said there had been incidents of violence during their two years dating, Ford said. But he added that authorities haven't yet found any records indicating Carrera ever filed a complaint against Jimenez.
"And we have no indications the two were arguing at any time during the celebration," Ford said.
Carrera's family and acquaintances were struggling to comprehend how such a tragedy could happen during what should have been among the happiest days of the couple's lives.
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