A person who pleaded responsible to second-degree homicide was sentenced Friday to twenty years in jail for a 24-year-old murder during which he killed his girlfriend and buried her physique in a shallow grave.
Crespin Nene-Perez, 58, was sentenced for the homicide of Bonny Baker, who was 47 on the time of dying, based on the Denver District Legal professional’s Workplace. On March 24, Nene-Perez pleaded responsible to the 1998 domestic-violence killing.
“Justice could also be delayed, however it’s not often denied,” Denver District Legal professional Beth McCann stated in a information launch.
The Denver Police Division’s Chilly Case Unit and Crime Laboratory, the FBI and different legislation enforcement businesses labored on the case.
On June 30, 1998, Baker was reported lacking. Her stays had been discovered about one 12 months later by two boys driving horses on Navajo tribal grounds in New Mexico, prosecutors stated.
In 2020, Nene-Perez was extradited to Denver from Mexico to face costs within the case.
On the sentencing, earlier than Denver District Court docket Decide Eric Johnson, Baker’s son, Jose Jaurigue, wore a button with a picture of his mom’s highschool picture on it.
“She wasn’t only a mom to her personal youngsters; she was a mom to different peoples’ youngsters within the neighborhood,” Jaurigue instructed Johnson. “In late June of 1998, that mom was taken from us by a egocentric monster who was unable to share her with us.”
