By Lisa Lednicer, The Oregonian
December 16, 2009, 5:59PM
A Washington County Circuit Court jury Wednesday found Delfino Hurtado-Navarrete guilty of murder for killing Juana Rosales-Garcia in March when she told him she wanted out of their relationship. He will be sentenced in January.
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Delfino Hurtado-Navarrete
Hurtado-Navarrete, 37, showed no emotion when the verdict was announced in Judge Rick Knapp's courtroom.
During a discussion in Hurtado-Navarrete's Chevy Blazer, he beat Rosales-Garcia, 40, unconscious when she told him she wanted to end their eight-year partnership. He then slashed her throat and beat her again.
Afterward, he dumped her body on a wooded embankment outside North Plains, parked in a strip mall and went home. For the next month, he pretended he had no idea where she was. When police confronted him with cell phone records that didn't match his alibi, he confessed.
Hurtado-Navarrete's attorneys said he acted in a fit of uncontrollable rage and should be convicted of first-degree manslaughter. But prosecutors said he intended to kill Rosales-Garcia and thus was guilty of murder.
Hurtado-Navarrete also was found guilty of corpse abuse and unlawful use of a weapon.
-- Lisa Grace Lednicer
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