A Wisconsin man who killed his pregnant girlfriend, stuffed her remains inside a suitcase, and abandoned them in a farmhouse, will spend decades in prison for the crime.
Jose Eduardo Dominguez-Garcia, 27, was sentenced in 2025 for the killing of Rosaly Cindy Chavarria Rodriguez, 25 who was pregnant at the time of her death.
Her killing led to a long investigation that lasted several years and crossed state lines before Dominguez-Garcia was eventually arrested.
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| Rosaly Chavarria Rodriguez |
Chavarria Rodriguez was last seen alive on July 2, 2020, while working at Sprecher’s Restaurant in Lake Delton, Wisconsin.
Her co-worker and boyfriend Dominguez-Garcia later picked up her final paycheck on July 23, 2020, one day after his own last day at the restaurant.
During the investigation into her disappearance, Dominguez-Garcia told police they had broke up around July 4, 2020, after he reportedly learned that another man was the father of the child Chavarria Rodriguez was carrying.
Medical records showed she was seven weeks and five days pregnant following a doctor’s appointment days earlier.
In August 2020, police located Chavarria Rodriguez’s red 2003 Volkswagen Jetta abandoned in a parking lot.
According to the crime scene photos seen in the video below, investigators found fluids in the trunk that suggested a recently decaying body had been placed there.
Despite this, Chavarria Rodriguez remained missing while her boyfriend left town, began a new relationship, had a baby, and continued living his normal life.
The case eventually went cold until October 2020, when an informant in an unrelated drug case told authorities his friend had found human remains but did not report it earlier because he had prior run-ins with the law.
He later directed investigators to a vacant farmhouse in the city of Wheaton, between 20th and 30th Avenue along the Highway T corridor, where Chavarria Rodriguez’s remains were found stuffed inside a purple suitcase.
The remains were already decomposed, and it took nearly a year for officials to confirm the remains belonged to her, as per Law&Crime.
After the discovery, police also learned that someone had been impersonating Chavarria Rodriguez while she was missing and sending messages to her loved ones in Peru.
The messages claimed she had moved to another state with the real father of her unborn child, who was described as a Turkish man.
Her family did not believe the messages and continued searching for her.
Following the discovery and a lengthy investigation, police identified her boyfriend, Jose Eduardo Dominguez-Garcia, as the person responsible for her death.
After the crime, he placed her body in the trunk of her car and drove around town while the body decomposed. He later placed her remains inside her suitcase, and dumped it at the farmhouse where it was found.
Authorities also found that Dominguez-Garcia had made disturbing Google searches, which further linked him to the crime.
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| Dominguez-Garcia |
Dominguez-Garcia was nowhere to be found after the chilling discovery but he was later arrested in November 2023 in Gladstone, Missouri, after police spotted him driving a vehicle with stolen license plates.
During his interview with detectives, he confessed to the crime and said he picked up Rodriguez on the day she disappeared. He claimed they argued while driving home about who fathered the child she was carrying, which led to the killing.
He was charged with first-degree reckless homicide and on January 8, 2025, Dominguez-Garcia entered a no-contest plea. As part of the plea agreement, charges related to the death of an unborn child and hiding a corpse were dismissed.
Chavarria Rodriguez’s family had asked for the maximum possible sentence of 60 years. However, in May 2025, Chippewa County Circuit Judge James M. Isaacson sentenced Dominguez-Garcia to 40 years, including 25 years of initial confinement and 15 years of extended supervision.
He also received 525 days of time served and was ordered to stay away from the victim’s family.
Chavarria Rodriguez is survived by a 9-year-old daughter, who now lives with her grandmother in Peru. During sentencing, Judge Isaacson ordered that Chavarria Rodriguez’s remains be released to her family so they could finally hold a proper burial.
Remembering his daughter, Jorge Chavarria said, “She was a family girl, she was always responsible. She liked to study. That’s how we would like her to become."
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