Associated Press - March 16, 2010 10:05 AM ET
WATERTOWN, N.Y. (AP) - A 30-year-old man has admitted strangling his girlfriend and stuffing her body into a suitcase he dumped along a rural northern New York road.
Ramon Robles-Ruiz (ruh-MOHN' ROH'-blez-roo-EEZ') pleaded guilty Monday in Jefferson County Court to second-degree murder in connection with the December 2008 death of 33-year-old Annette Vazquez, a Watertown mother of 2 young girls.
Robles-Ruiz admitted through a Spanish language interpreter that he strangled Vazquez with his hands after an argument at his apartment in Watertown.
Her body wasn't found until March 23, 2009, about a month after Robles-Ruiz was arrested in his native Puerto Rico. He was returned to the United States last November.
Robles-Ruiz is expected to be sentenced in May to 20 years to life in state prison.
A compilation of daily news articles from around the United States about deaths (including both people and animals) that appear to occur in the context of a past or present intimate relationship, focusing on 2009-present. (NOTE: this blog is limited to incidents that appear in the media and are captured by our search terms. We recognize this is not an exhaustive portrayal of all deaths resulting from intimate violence.) When is society going to realize intimate violence makes victims of us all?
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