Police in Gwinnett County, north of Atlanta, Georgia, have arrested a man for the death of Saraí Llanos Gómez, the 19-year-old Ecuadorian migrant whose remains were discovered in June in a wooded area near the shore of Lake Lanier. , The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Friday.
The young woman disappeared on June 14 after telling her mother that she had been offered a job as a waitress in Atlanta but in reality they wanted her to prostitute herself in a hotel, according to her family. The detainee, Timothy Krueger, 49, confessed the crime, according to Gwinnett County authorities, who believe the young woman was killed at Krueger's home in Duluth, Georgia.
Local police arrested him on Thursday, after searching his home.
"He was taken to police headquarters, where detectives spoke with him about the incident," Gwinnett police spokesman Sergeant JR Richter said. "Ultimately, Krueger provided a full confession," he added in his statement. of press.
Timothy Krueger.Hall Sheriff's Office
Krueger faces charges of murder and aggravated assault, reported Noticias Telemundo in Atlanta.
Investigators have not determined the girl's cause of death, but Richter said they believe she came into contact with Krueger through a job offer and was killed on June 16, four days before her body was discovered.
“Six weeks ago we had no idea who the victim was and we had no leads on the killer.
After hundreds of hours of intense work, our team was able to put the suspect behind bars," said Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch.
"I pray that this provides a sense of justice to Mrs. Gomez and her family," he added, referring to the murdered girl's mother, Gardenia Gomez.
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Llanos was the mother of two children, ages 1 and 3, who stayed in Guayaquil when she traveled to the United States on August 22, 2021 with a tourist visa and the hope of finding a better life for herself and her family, according to the half Ecuadorian Extra.
He initially settled in his godfather's house in Chicago, Illinois, where he worked in various restaurants and in a food truck.
But she was offered a job as a waitress in Atlanta, with which, they told her, she would earn a lot of money, according to her mother, Gardenia Gómez.
The young woman arrived in Atlanta on June 10 but discovered that the job was not what she promised: "One day before her disappearance she told me: 'Mommy, a Russian has hired me as a waitress in a hotel,' but the next day she told me that she had argued with that lady because it was not the job she had been promised and that it was to keep men company.
My daughter was upset," the woman told Extra.
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Llanos assured that he had threatened his boss with denouncing her for running a sex trafficking network, his mother said.
On June 14, she last communicated with her mother, who lives in Ecuador, through WhatsApp.
From then on she lost track of her.
“He wrote me: 'Mommy, I'm going to eat pizza and watch TV on my cell phone.'
Right away she sent me a photo of the hotel room where she was staying.
It was the last I heard from my little girl.
I don't know what to tell the children, they ask for their mother," Gómez told the newspaper.
