Man In Jail For Murdering Lover Sentenced To 40 Years For Killing Wife

Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, 55, left, has admitted murdering his wife Marta Rodriguez, right, in 1989 while in prison for the murder of girlfriend Pamela Butler in 2009. 
An 'abusive' husband serving time for the murder of his girlfriend has been sentenced to 40 years for killing his estranged wife more than three decades ago.
Jose Rodriguez-Cruz, 55, was sentenced for the 1989 murder of his wife Marta Rodriguez, on Monday. 
He buried her on a highway median strip on Interstate-95 in Stafford County, , and told their son Hansel that she had left the country.
Marta had been due to testify against him on charges of assault and kidnapping when she vanished. 
Her remains were found in 1991 but investigators only matched the identity in 2018 after a relative of Rodriguez-Cruz's had confounded police by assuming her identity. 
Rodriguez-Cruz was already serving 12 years for the murder of his girlfriend Pamela Butler in 2009, which he admitted in 2017. 
While searching for the spot where Butler's body had been buried, police recalled the unidentified remains of another woman were found a few miles away.  
After seeing his father sentenced, Hansel Rodriguez welcomed the lengthy sentence.
'I'm glad that, despite him being my father, he's off the streets for good'.
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Marta Rodriguez, above, was 28 years old when she disappeared in 1989. She had been due to testify against her husband on assault and kidnapping charges
Pamela Butler, a Federal employee, went missing in 2009. Rodriguez-Cruz admitted her murder in 2017