EPA Computer Analyst Declared Dead After 8-Year Search (Pt 2) – Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

EPA Computer Analyst Declared Dead After 8-Year Search (Pt 2) – Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

All new heartbreak for the family of Pamela Butler, the computer specialist who mysteriously vanished has now been declared dead. Michelle Sigona reports.

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28 thoughts on “EPA Computer Analyst Declared Dead After 8-Year Search (Pt 2) – Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen

  1. Update is he finally admitted to it and got a plea deal for 12 years
    Im surprised they didnt just charge him with all that video evidence…ive seen police charge with less.

  2. More than eight years after Pamela Butler disappeared from her D.C. home, her onetime boyfriend has admitted that he strangled her, disposed of her body and tried to hide evidence at the crime scene.

    Rodriguez-Cruz said he and Butler got into a fight in her home on Feb. 13, 2009, arguing over his lack of a job, according to the prosecutor. He said he punched Butler in the face and she fell to the floor. Then Rodriguez-Cruz climbed atop her and strangled her.

    The following morning, Rodriguez-Cruz said, he turned the motion-sensor lights off outside the house and dropped Butler's body out a first-floor window. He moved the body to his car and disposed of it before returning to the home to get rid of her phone and taking some other items.

    it was not until (2017) that police had the evidence to make an arrest, based partly on what authorities said was Rodriguez-Cruz's history of violence toward women. D.C. authorities have said in court documents that his former wife, Marta Rodriguez, went missing in 1989 in Arlington and has never been found.

    Marta Rodriguez, Rodriguez-Cruz's wife, was a 26-year-old nurse aide living in Arlington County when she vanished in 1989.

    No one has been charged in Rodriguez's disappearance. Arlington police said there is an active missing-person case being handled by the cold-case squad.

    Police had cleared the case in 2001 because authorities in Florida found a person who they then believed was Rodriguez living in the state. But when the Butler case was reopened, detectives learned that the woman living under that name was actually an associate of Rodriguez-Cruz falsely using his wife's identity.

    Butler's disappearance and likely slaying remained a cold case for more than eight years, until a D.C. police homicide detective, Michael Fulton, took a closer look in February around the anniversary of Butler's disappearance.

    According court documents, Fulton located a witness who revealed new details about Rodriguez-Cruz.

    The witness said that he had once seen Rodriguez-Cruz hold a gun to the head of a woman to whom he had been married as she begged for her life. The witness added that 22 years ago, he had found a letter that Rodriguez-Cruz wrote, admitting he was "responsible" for the disappearance of that woman. Fulton was suddenly searching not for one missing woman but two.

    Washington Post
    October 6, 2017

  3. She worked for the government. Maybe she faked her own death. Not installing cameras on the side of the house on purpose. Jose could of helped her fake her death. I mean why else would she do so many things out of character.

  4. And he has the gall to post crazy ass angry comments on her Facebook Missing page. A few years ago I read one and it pissed me off so much I actually replied back.
    He killed her and dismembered her and removed her body in those bags. There’s no other scenario that is even possible. He’s not only a maniac but a fucking coward as well.

  5. How stupid are the investigator's. This case should have been solved on the spot. A kid could solve this case. It's simple he killed her by leaving the window open and clearly either threw her body out the window or cut her into pieces to put in the garbage bag. Why didn't he take the polygraph test because he guilty and why didn't the police lie saying that we have you on camera killing her or just make something up so he can confess. This investigation is a joke.

  6. Boyfriend says they broke up and he is going in and out with bags? The poor woman’s body is in the bags. He killed her. You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure that out

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