A fugitive was on the run for almost five years after police say he killed his girlfriend with a sledge hammer. Investigators say he left her body for her children to find the next morning and their family has never been the same. Investigators caught up with the suspect and we caught up with the local grandmother who is finally hoping to find some closure over her daughter's murder.
She waited five long years to hear that Jorge Villamizar-Ayala was arrested. She hopes to finally see justice. Evelyn Valle tells us, "I'm glad they finally caught him so that what happened to my daughter will not happen to anyone else."
Police say in Novemer 2004, Jorge Villamizar- Ayala used a sledge hammer to kill his girlfriend, 25 year old Bianca Sierra, in Pompano Beach while she was sleeping. Her children, ages 6 and 9, were the ones to find her body the next morning. Valle says it forever changed their lives, "He just left.. The kids got up to go to school and went looking for her and found her in the room."
Evelyn Valle now feels an overwhelming sense of relief. She smiles now knowing her daughter's alleged killer is back in this area and back behind bars and she's ready to face him in court, saying, "I want to see him to make sure it's him with... my own eyes... now you're here to pay for what you did."
Villamizar-Ayala has been on the run since the murder. Investigators thought he might be dead by now, but Valle didn't think so, "I felt in my heart that he's not.. The he's somewhere... I felt like he was alive somewhere." She was right.
A tipster called the authorities after recognizing him on America's Most Wanted and he was picked up in Brownsville, Texas. Valle says, "I feel he should get life and never walk the streets again."
The former fugitive is facing first degree murder charges here, but he's also wanted for an attempted murder in New York, a homicide in Columbia, crimes against children in Colombia, and a sexual assault on a minor in Houston, Texas. He is being held without bond. Tara Cardoso, CBS 12 News.
I'm glad my cousin's killer is caught. Hope he gets what he deserves. I'd give him the death penalty, but the courts will puss out and just give him life. He doesn't deserve to live!
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