Police continue their search today for a Brighton Park man who they say stabbed his new bride to death less than 48 hours after they were married.
An arrest warrant was issued Tuesday for the murder of Estrella Carrera, and authorities are seeking the groom, Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, of the 4200 block of South Mozart Street in Chicago, Burbank police said in a news release. He is charged with first-degree murder, the release said.
Jimenez was last seen driving a black 2006 Maserati sedan. He is described by police as 6 feet tall and 220 pounds. Police said Jimenez "could be anywhere and we are following all leads."
The couple was married Friday at Chicago's City Hall. After the wedding, friends and family celebrated with dinner in the city, a rented limousine and an evening at a nightclub on the North Side, police said.
Carrera, 26, and Jimenez were last seen by family and friends about 4 a.m. Saturday, police said.
On Sunday, relatives requested police check on Carrera because she never showed up to pick up her two children and family couldn't reach her or her new husband.
Police found her stabbed to death in a bathtub in her Burbank apartment. She was wearing a silver, sequined cocktail dress, the same one she wore during the wedding festivities, police said. No sign of forced entry was found at the Burbank apartment, police said.
"This investigation is still ongoing and will continue until Mr. Jimenez is in custody for this brutal murder," police said in a news release. "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Estrella Carrera and especially her small children."
Jimenez was charged in 2003 with domestic battery, but the complaining witness did not show up to court and the charges were dropped, according to court records. He also has a 2004 conviction for deceptive practice, a misdemeanor, court records show.
Jimenez is the father of Carrera's youngest child, a 2-year-old boy. Carrera was also mother to a 9-year-old daughter, relatives said.
The couple's wedding was a spur-of-the-moment affair, relatives told the Tribune on Monday.
"She didn't want to tell me she had gotten married," her cousin Sandy Lopez said. "She didn't tell anybody besides her father the day before."
Lopez said she did not approve of the relationship, which had been on and off for about three years.
"He's just a person that had problems," she said Monday, though she declined to elaborate.
Carrera's immediate family declined to comment Tuesday. Jimenez's relatives could not be reached.
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