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Updated · Fox News · Jun 19

Arnoldo Jimenez Returned to U.S. to Face 2012 Wedding-Night Murder Charge After 13 Years

Updated

Updated · Fox News · Jun 19

Arnoldo Jimenez Returned to U.S. to Face 2012 Wedding-Night Murder Charge After 13 Years

Q: After a decade on the run, will the motive for the wedding night murder of Estrella Carrera finally be revealed?

Not yet. Jimenez’s return to the United States means the case can finally move forward in court, but authorities still have not disclosed a motive for Estrella Carrera’s killing. What is known is that Arnoldo Jimenez, accused of murdering Carrera on their wedding night in 2012, was captured in Monterrey, Mexico, on January 30, 2025, and has now been returned to Chicago to face a first-degree murder charge. Investigators have alleged that Carrera, 26, was stabbed more than 18 times, possibly in Jimenez’s Maserati, before her body was placed in the bathtub of her Burbank apartment. She was found less than 48 hours after the couple married, still wearing her wedding dress. Whether the motive is finally revealed will likely depend on what emerges in court filings, a probable cause presentation, witness testimony, or any statement Jimenez makes after his return. A first court appearance has not yet been announced, so there is no public timeline for when those details might surface. His extradition is significant because it ends more than a decade as a fugitive and gives prosecutors the chance to present the full case in open court. But for now, the central unanswered question remains the same: officials have brought the suspect back, yet they have not publicly explained why Estrella Carrera was allegedly killed.

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 19

More than a year after his Jan. 30, 2025 arrest in Monterrey, Arnoldo Jimenez was returned from Mexico to the United States to face an Illinois murder case, the FBI said Thursday.
Jimenez is accused of killing his 26-year-old wife, Estrella Carrera, on their wedding night in May 2012; her body was found in a bathtub at their Burbank, Illinois, apartment less than 48 hours after the couple married.
Illinois authorities charged him with first-degree murder on May 15, 2012, and a federal unlawful-flight warrant followed two days later after he fled.
The FBI had listed Jimenez among its Most Wanted fugitives, ranking him No. 4 at the time of his capture, but authorities still have not disclosed a motive or a date for his first court appearance.