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A convicted sex offender serving a 93-year sentence was identified as the alleged killer of a Colorado woman who vanished four years ago and whose remains were identified this month.

The remains of 33-year-old Rita Gutierrez-Garcia, who disappeared in 2018, were found by authorities and positively identified, the Longmont Department of Public Safety announced on Thursday.

Juan Figueroa Jr., 33, who is currently incarcerated in a state prison roughly 100 miles south of Denver on attempted murder and sexual assault convictions, is now facing murder charges in Gutierrez-Garcia’s death, Boulder prosecutors said.

He was sentenced to more than nine decades in state prison in 2019, according to online correctional records obtained by Oxygen.com.

“Today, after several years of relentless investigation, the District Attorney’s Office and Longmont Department of Public Safety can announce the recovery of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia’s remains,” officials said in a joint May 19 statement.

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