𝐀 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐃𝐄𝐏𝐎𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐓𝐎 𝐌𝐄𝐗𝐈𝐂𝐎 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐓𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝟐𝟎𝟎𝟐 𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐀 𝐌∗𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐑∗𝐏𝐄𝐒 Miguel Urbano-Vazquez picked up 39-year-old Sharon Van Gilder at the Golden Rooster Tavern in March 2002. Hours later her 𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲 was dumped on a county road, his DNA inside her. He wasn’t finished. That June he lured a homeless woman hitchhiking to Seattle into a garage and beat her with a wrench while he r∗ped her. In August he and two other men r∗ped and beat a 29-year-old woman in the same garage. In October he slit a 40-year-old woman’s throat and r∗ped her in an alley. DNA finally linked him to Van Gilder’s m∗rder in 2012 — ten years after he m∗rdered her. By then he had already been deported to Mexico. It took investigators until 2019 to find him and until March 2023 for the FBI to arrest him in a town outside Mexico City. He was extradited to Pierce County last year. On Tuesday, 𝟐𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫, a Pierce County jury convicted Urbano-Vazquez of aggravated first-degree m∗rder and three counts of r∗pe. The surviving victims — now in their 40s, 50s and 60s — testified in open court about the hours they spent being r∗ped and left for dead. “𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯,” Van Gilder’s cousin, Brenda Doty, told KOMO News. He’s set to be sentenced Dec. 11 and faces life without parole. 𝐓𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐲-𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬. 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐧𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐞. Source: New York Post