Man pleads guilty to murdering 2 Utah women, unborn child in 2006 & 2008
The Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office announced Monday that 42-year-old Juan Antonio Arreola-Murillo pleaded guilty to three 1st-degree felony counts of aggravated murder. Two of the charges were for the murder of 29-year-old Sonia Mejia and her unborn daughter in Taylorsville on Feb. 9, 2006. The third charge was for the murder of 57-year-old Damiana Castillo in West Valley City exactly two years later.
“Once somebody is a foreign national who leaves, we do have certain diplomatic responsibilities," Gill said."In Mexico, we must assure we will not seek the death penalty.”Taylorsville Police were called to 1167 W. Clubhouse Drive on the night of Feb. 9, 2006, after Mejia's body was discovered by her husband when he arrived home from work.
According to the allegations, Taylorsville Police discovered that Mejia's vehicle, as well as a diamond ring and a religious pendant, had been stolen.West Valley City Police were then called to an apartment at 4000 S. Redwood Road on a report of a dead woman exactly two years after Mejia's murder — and only a mile away.
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