The family of a rideshare driver kidnapped and murdered in Georgia in 2021 will finally have some closure after nine drug traffickers pleaded guilty in her case.
According to11Alive.com, Delgado’s husband said his wife told him she was dropping off one last passenger and then coming home for the day. He became worried after Delgado didn’t return later that night. He then traced his wife’s last moves through her phone, finding a bloody face mask at one of the locations she had been, which led compelled him to call police.
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Rossana Delgado.Rossana Delgado Facebook
Investigators were led to a rural cabin that was rented through an online app using a stolen identity. There, investigators found Delgado’s body four days after she was reported missing, 120 miles away from where she was last seen.
“At the cabin [the suspects] did torture Delgado prior to her death and eventually carried out the killing of Delgado and dismemberment and burning of Delgado’s body,” the Appalachian Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Officesaid in a press releaselast week, announcing the latest details in the case.
Rossana Delgado.National Center for Missing and Endangered
Police first saidthey were searching for five suspectsin connection to Delgado’s death. But in its press release, the district attorney’s office say nine people have pleaded guilty to crimes connected with the Georgia mother’s kidnapping and murder.
After Delgado’s murder, several of the suspects had fled to Mexico. A month after Delgado’s murder, the district attorney’s office says four of the suspects were apprehended in Mexico and extradited to the United States.
In all, a grand jury indicted 14 people on charges in connection to Delgado’s kidnapping and murder, while all nine suspects in custody pleaded guilty before the trial was set to begin this month. Two people, Oscar Manuel Garcia and Juan Ayala-Rodriguez, were sentenced to life in prison for the murder.
The office says police are still searching for three more suspects.
“It is my hope, even though this matter remains open, that the resolutions and sentences entered at this time will assist the family and loved ones of Rossana Delgado in beginning to obtain closure,” District Attorney B. Alison Sosebee said in a statement.
source: people.com
