Man who put pregnant girlfriend's body in suitcase sentenced
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Left: Jose Eduardo Dominguez-Garcia (Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office). Right: Rosaly Cindy Chavarria Rodriguez (Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office).

The Wisconsin man who killed his pregnant girlfriend and stuffed her remains into a suitcase will spend decades behind bars.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, Jose Eduardo Dominguez-Garcia, 27, has been a primary suspect in the death of Rosaly Cindy Chavarria Rodriguez, 25. Her body was found inside a suitcase in an abandoned farmhouse in Wisconsin Dells, a city situated approximately 55 miles northwest of Madison, in October 2020, several months after her disappearance.

On January 8, Dominguez-Garcia entered a plea of no contest to the charge of first-degree reckless homicide. In accordance with his plea agreement, additional charges of homicide of an unborn child and hiding a corpse were dismissed.

According to court documents, Chippewa County Circuit Judge James M. Isaacson sentenced him on Friday to 40 years, with 25 years designated as “initial confinement” followed by 15 years of “extended supervision.” The judge also awarded a credit of 525 days for time already served.

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The defendant was also ordered to stay away from all “victims, their residence or places of employment.”

The quarter-century sentence is significantly lower than what Chavarria Rodriguez’s family had hoped for. According to Eau Claire ABC affiliate WQOW, her parents wanted the maximum possible penalty — 60 years.

“It was two lives that he took away, one was my daughter and the other was the baby my daughter had,” her father, Jorge Chavarria, told the station. “I would like to see the Chippewa authorities give him the maximum penalty. I don’t want them to have flexibility towards him.”

He hoped that the court wouldn’t show compassion, since Dominguez-Garcia did not show compassion to his daughter, the station reported.

Dominguez-Garcia was charged with murder in December 2021, despite his whereabouts being unknown at the time. He was eventually arrested in November 2023 when police in Gladstone, Missouri, spotted a vehicle with a stolen plate traveling through the city. Officers later discovered the sedan, a red Ford Fusion, in a parking lot on the 400 block of NW Englewood Road.

The murder charge was later amended to first-degree reckless homicide.

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