After Years on the Run, Man Who Killed His Pregnant Girlfriend, 25, and Hid Body in a Suitcase at Abandoned Farm Learns His Fate

• Juan Domiguez-Garcia killed his pregnant girlfriend Rosaly Rodriguez, 24, in July 2020
• The remains of Rodriguez were found in a suitcase three months later, and it took a year for authorities to identify her
• Dominguez-Garcia was charged in Dec. 2021, but police did not track him down until Nov. 2023

The man who killed Rosaly Rodriguez was sentenced on Friday, nearly five years after killing her and their unborn child.

Juan Dominguez-Garcia, 27, will serve 25 years in prison and another 15 years of 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 60 years.

Wisconsin prosecutors agreed to drop charges of hiding a corpse and intentional homicide of an unborn child in exchange for Dominguez-Garcia’s no contest plea.

In addition to his prison sentence, court records show that Dominguez-Garcia will also be required to pay $10,141.09 in restitution for his crime.

Rodriguez went missing in July 2020, according to the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office.

Three months later, in October 2020, her body was found stuffed in a suitcase at an abandoned farm.

It then took another year for authorities to identify Rodriguez because of the condition of her remains.

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In December of 2021, Dominguez-Garcia was officially named as a suspect in the case, but by then he was long gone.

Two years later, and more than three years after Rodriguez’s death, Dominguez-Garcia was finally arrested in Missouri.

The Gladstone Police Department were able to apprehend Dominguez-Garcia during a routine traffic stop.

In a release, the GPD said that officers pulled Dominguez-Garcia over because his car had stolen plates.

Officers then discovered that Dominguez-Garcia had several identification cards under multiple names, so they pried a bit deeper into and eventually learned they had just pulled over a murder suspect who had been on the run for over three years.

He was then taken into custody in Missouri before being extradited to Wisconsin.

In January, Dominguez-Garcia agreed to the deal with prosecutors. He will soon be transferred to a state prison to serve his sentence.

The judge did give him credit for the 525 days he has already served in prison.

Lawyers for Dominguez-Garcia and the Chippewa County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to requests for comment.