She was killed in her wedding dress in 2012. The FBI just arrested the man she married.
In 2012, less than 48 hours after she was married, police found Estrella Carrera dead in the bathtub of her Illinois apartment.
Still wearing her wedding dress, officials reported at the time, she had been stabbed more than a dozen times.
Days later, a judge in Cook County, Illinois signed an arrest warrant for Carrera's newlywed husband, Arnoldo Jimenez in connection his wife's slaying at her Burbank home.
After being on the run for almost 13 years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced, Jimenez has been found and taken into custody in Mexico in connection to Carrera's "gruesome" killing.
At the time of his arrest, Jimenez was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list.
"The FBI and Burbank Police Department were committed to bringing justice for Estrella Carrera and her family," Burbank Police Department Deputy Chief William Casey released in a statement following Jimenez' Friday arrest in Monterrey, the capital of the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo León.
The city is about 100 miles southwest of the U.S. border.
What happened to Estrella Carrera?
On May 13, 2012, Carrera was found dead in her bathroom at her home in Burbank.
The city, in Cook County, borders the southwest edge of Chicago.
According to the FBI, on May 12, 2012 − one day after the couple wed − Jimenez allegedly stabbed his wife to death in his black, four-door, 2006 Maserati. An FBI agent told CBS News Jimenez stabbed his wife 18 times.
He then reportedly dragged her body into the bathroom tub of her apartment, the FBI said.
A motive in the slaying was not immediately known.
Who was Estrella Carrera?
Carrera was 26 when she was killed.
According to her obituary, Carrera was a loving mother to two children, now grown, a son and a daughter − one whom she shared with Jimenez.
At the time of her death, The Chicago Tribune reported, the children were age 2 and 9.
Paste BN has reached out to her family.
Born in Texas and living in Chicago at the time, Cook County Circuit Court records show, Jimenez was charged with first-degree murder, and on May 15, 2012, a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
Two days later, according to a news release issued by the FBI last week, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a federal arrest warrant for Jimenez after prosecutors charged him federally with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.
At the time, authorities believed Jimenez may have fled to the Mexican states of Durango or Tamaulipas.
Arnolda Jimenez awaiting extradition hearing in Mexico
The FBI, an FBI legal attaché in Mexico City, and federal court officials collaborated to locate Jimenez, arrested by agents of the Fiscalía General de la República (Mexico's Attorney General's Office) in conjunction with Interpol.
Jimenez remained in custody Wednesday pending extradition proceedings, the FBI told Paste BN.
His extradition hearing date was not immediately known on Wednesday.
He is not expected to be transported back to Illinois for "at least 9 months" as he is fighting extradition, officials handling the case told Paste BN on Wednesday.
It was not immediately known whether he had obtained an attorney.
Paste BN has reached out to the FBI for that information.
Natalie Neysa Alund is a senior reporter for Paste BN. Reach her at nalund@usatoday.com and follow her on X @nataliealund.