The Brief A Chicago man accused of killing his wife hours after their 2012 wedding celebration has been returned to U.S. custody after being arrested in Mexico. Prosecutors allege Arnoldo Jimenez stabbed his 26-year-old wife to death, left her body in their Burbank apartment and fled the country. Investigators say forensic evidence and witness statements linked Jimenez to the killing, and he now faces a first-degree murder charge.



New details have been released after a Chicago man accused of fatally stabbing his wife just hours after their wedding celebration has been returned to U.S. custody,

Chicago man charged with killing wife after wedding celebration

The backstory:

Arnoldo Jimenez, now 44, faces a charge of first-degree murder in the 2012 killing of his wife, a 26-year-old woman identified in court records as Estrella Carrera. Authorities said Jimenez was taken into custody in Monterrey, Mexico, on Jan. 30, 2025, after years as a fugitive. He was scheduled to be transferred to FBI custody in Mexico City on June 18, 2026, according to court documents.

Prosecutors allege the couple married at Chicago City Hall on May 11, 2012, before celebrating with friends and family on a party bus and at a nightclub. The group returned to the area of 26th Street and Kedzie Avenue in the early morning hours of May 12. Family members said Carrerra, who was wearing a gold sequined dress, was never seen alive again.

When Carrerra failed to pick up her children later that day and could not be reached by phone, relatives began searching for her. According to investigators, Jimenez called multiple acquaintances on May 13 and described a fight with Carrerra, claiming she had struck him and that she had been injured during the altercation.

Concerned by the calls, one witness contacted authorities and Carrerra's family.

Burbank police officers responding to a well-being check at the couple's apartment on May 13 discovered Carrerra unresponsive in a bathtub, still wearing the gold sequined dress she had worn to the wedding celebration. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

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