BY BRENDAN BROSH
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Thursday, July 29th 2010, 5:12 PM
Murderer Julio Flores smirks as detectives walk him out of the 52nd Precinct in the Bronx shortly after the murder in 2008.
Victim Jaritza Calderon was accused of seeing other men by jealous monster Julio Flores.
A savage killer who strangled and dismembered his ex-girlfriend before burying her in concrete in a Jersey basement was sentenced yesterday to 19 years to life in prison by a Bronx judge.
Julio Flores, jealous that former flame Jaritza Calderon, 28, was seeing other men, lured her to his East Gun Hill Road apartment to pick up a cable box in 2008 - but killed her instead.
The baby-faced construction worker pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this month before the case went to trial.
"It was a crime of astonishing brutality," said Acting Supreme Court Judge Ann Donnelly as she sentenced the Guatemalan immigrant.
"Not only did you strangle this woman, you then chopped her up."
Calderone's sister said the aspiring nurse met Flores at church and trusted him.
"My sister did not deserve to die the way she died," said Elizabeth Calderone. "The justice that God gives him will be greater than the justice the judge just gave him."
Flores, 34, carted Jaritza Calderone's remains in plastic bags to a vacant Teaneck, N.J. home and buried her severed body parts in a false wall underneath a basement staircase, according to court records.
Flores then ran into the homeowners and confessed to putting a body in the basement.
"At the moment I was angry," said Flores during a rambling statement before sentencing. "I am sorry to the family."
Flores will be deported back to Guatemala if he is ever released from prison because he entered the country illegally, his attorney David Leung said.
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