A missing woman in Utah was found dead in an RV camper. After her husband fled to California, police are calling him a “person of interest.”
On March 3, the Saratoga Springs Police Department issued a press release on the disappearance of Alvaro Jose Urbina Rojas, 57, and Jeusselem Vitola, 43—a married couple of 19 years—who had not been seen in a week.
On Feb. 26, the couple’s family reported them missing after Rojas had driven Vitola to work at 10 a.m. that morning and neither had returned, Saratoga Springs Police Chief Andrew Burton said in a March 3 press conference. Vitola also never made it to work.
Family members went looking for the couple at a Draper storage facility, where Rojas parked his RV, said Burton. The vehicle, however, was locked.
“They did attempt to look into the trailer through windows,” Burton said in the press conference, “and did not see anything.”
On March 3, police discovered what they believe was Vitola’s dead body inside Rojas’ camper trailer parked in the storage lot—and he is still nowhere to be found.
Based on camera footage and credit card activity, Burton said police believe that Rojas has fled to Southern California in a 2005 Gray Toyota Sequoia with the Utah license plate #T409YB.
The family of Rojas and Vitola, who moved to the United States 10 years ago from Venezuela and share an adult daughter and a juvenile son, is perplexed.
“They didn't have any rationale for why this happened,” Burton said in the press conference. “They don't have any history of domestic violence. They’ve had arguments over the years, but they’ve never had anything physical in nature, but there had been some talk recently of a divorce over some situations that we're still getting into with the family.”
Police say the couple’s family has been cooperative and the investigation is ongoing.
