A man has been arrested in Idaho over the murder of a teenage girl whose body was found in a river 24 years ago.
Regina Krieger, 15, went missing from her home on February 28, 1995, just two days before her 15th birthday.
Her body was found on the banks of the Snake River on April 15 of that year and she had suffered horrific injuries.
Gilberto Flores Rodriguez (left) was arrested in connection with the death of Regina Krieger, (right) went missing from her home in 1995, just two days before her 15th birthday
Gilberto Flores Rodriguez, 56, from Burley, was arrested on a charge of first-degree murder, Cassia County Sheriff’s Office said on a statement on Wednesday.
Rodriguez, who was once a suspect in the case, is being held without bond at the Mini-Cassia Criminal Justice Center.
Krieger disappeared from the basement of her father’s Burley home on February 28, 1995, just days before her 15th birthday.
A large amount of blood was discovered in the basement, but Krieger could not be located.
However on April 15 of the same year, horseback riders found her decomposed body in a portion of the Snake River where the water had receded near the Montgomery Bridge east of Rupert.
Krieger’s throat had been slashed and she had been stabbed in the heart. An autopsy showed her body had been in the river for at least 30 days.
She is buried in Pleasant View Cemetery in Burley.
Krieger disappeared from the basement of her father’s Burley home, where a large amount of blood was found
Regina Krieger’s throat had been slashed and she had been stabbed in the heart. An autopsy showed her body had been in the river for at least 30 days
'I knew we were getting closer and I was fully aware that it was going to happen,'
Regina’s mother, Rhonda Hunnel, told the Idado Statesman on Wednesday that she had waited a long time in her search for answers on the case.
She said: 'I knew we were getting closer and I was fully aware that it was going to happen.
'My excitement level is very high. I couldn’t be more pleased.'
'I'm feeling a little tingly still. When I first got the news, I got a phone call five minutes after he was
