At the scene, Carlos Montalvo-Rivera told investigators that intruders broke into his home, killed his wife Olga Sanchez and set fire to it. After a three-week trial, a Lancaster County jury disagreed and found him responsible.
A Lancaster County jury convicted 55-year-old Carlos Montalvo-Rivera of killing his wife and setting fire to their family home in 2010, the district attorney’s office said Thursday.Montalvo-Rivera was found guilty of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted homicide, one count of arson and one count of risking catastrophe, the DA’s office said.
Carlos Montalvo-Rivera was convicted of killing his wife and setting their family home on fire on April 6, 2023. Photo provided by the Lancaster County District Attorney's Office. At the fire scene, Montalvo-Rivera yelled that his wife was still inside, which prosecutors argued was evidence of what he had done to her.
Neighbors told investigators that they were helping save the couple’s three children by going onto a nearby roof to get to them, the DA’s office said. Montalvo-Rivera eventually appeared from a foot alley next to the home after the children were rescued. Another inconsistency was that Montalvo-Rivera said he jumped out of a second-floor window to escape the fire, but evidence showed the window he claimed to have jumped out of was closed during the fire, according to the DA’s office.
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