Jose Lazaro Cruz was arrested in Costa Rica in 2022 and brought back to Fairfax County, Virginia, earlier this month to face trial in the 32-year-old murder case, police said. CNN reached out to the Commonwealth Attorney for Fairfax County and the Fairfax County Public Defender Office for information about his legal representation. Lazaro Cruz was Jurado’s then-estranged husband and was identified as the alleged killer by police, but he fled, according to Cory. Her 3-year-old and 7-month-old daughters lived with her in the US and her 4-year-old son lived in El Salvador at the time of her death. Lazaro Cruz remarried and had several children since the 1991 killing and “definitely started a whole new life in El Salvador,” according to Cory.

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Persons: Jose Lazaro Cruz, Lazaro Cruz, Ana Jurado, Eli Cory, Fairfax County’s, Jurado’s, Cory, First, Jurado, Kevin Davis, “ Organizations: CNN, Commonwealth Attorney, Public, Office, Fairfax, Fairfax County Police, Correctional Center Locations: Costa Rica, Fairfax County , Virginia, Fairfax County, Fairfax, Canada, Houston , Texas, El Salvador, United States