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A tragic discovery has been made in the case of a missing woman from Utah, whose body was found in an RV camper, prompting a manhunt for her husband who has since fled to California. Authorities have identified him as a “person of interest” in the ongoing investigation.
On March 3, the Saratoga Springs Police Department released a statement regarding the disappearance of Alvaro Jose Urbina Rojas, 57, and his wife of 19 years, Jeusselem Vitola, 43. The couple had not been seen for a week, raising concerns among family and friends.
The couple was last accounted for on February 26, when Rojas drove Vitola to work at 10 a.m. However, neither of them returned home, and Vitola never arrived at her workplace. Worrying about their safety, family members reported them missing to the authorities, sparking an urgent search.
In an effort to track them down, the family searched a storage facility in Draper, known to be where Rojas stored his RV. Despite their hopes of finding clues, the RV was locked, and attempts to peer through its windows revealed nothing.
During a press conference on March 3, Saratoga Springs Police Chief Andrew Burton detailed the family’s efforts, explaining, “They did attempt to look into the trailer through windows 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.