Javier Righetti: Where Is He Now? Explained Alyssa Otremba’s Murder Case
The discovery of the body of a teenage girl who had been raped, later severely burned, and then tortured, stunned the glitzy city of Las Vegas in Nevada. High school student Alyssa Otremba, 15, vanished in September 2011 while she was making her way back from a friend’s house. This horrifying and heinous murder, the specifics of which have been methodically and extensively detailed in Investigation Discovery’s “On the Case With Paula Zahn: In the Shadows of Home,” was solved by police thanks to a hotline tip. If you’re curious about the specifics, the perpetrator’s identity, or their current whereabouts, we can fill you in. So let’s get started without spending too much time.
Alyssa Otremba’s Cause of Death
Alyssa Page Otremba, who was 15 at the time, was raised as a military child alongside her two sisters, Megan and Hayden, by her parents, Scott and Jennifer Otremba. She had just ended her first week as a freshman and was a sophomore at Arbor View High School. She apparently missed school that day because she was sick on September 2, 2011. She wanted to go over to a buddy named Cody to borrow his book because she needed the geometry book to finish her homework. Initially skeptical, her mother eventually agreed, and Alyssa even texted her to let her know she would be home by seven o’clock. Her final text to her mother described how she was on her way home and her phone’s battery was running low.
But her family began to worry when she still hadn’t arrived home after 30 minutes. Around ten o’clock that evening, her mother called the police, and her family started looking for Alyssa. The police found her body inside a tunnel the following day, just 100 yards from her home. She was naked from the waist down and had many stab wounds and symptoms of blunt force trauma. According to police accounts, she had been stabbed more than 80 times in the face and torso. The attack was so severe that the knife bent and a part of it became lodged in the victim’s head.
Who was Alyssa Otremba’s killer?
Alyssa was fairly close to her house when she was kidnapped and slain, according to the blood trail left at the site. Investigators hypothesized that she might have been forced into the tunnel after being grabbed from behind, raped, stabbed, and burned. When Cody was questioned, he said he told Alyssa he wouldn’t be at home that evening. He was eliminated as a suspect once the claim was verified. The case was becoming unsolved since the DNA samples taken at the scene did not match anything in CODIS. The police made the decision to make some case information public while also establishing a hotline and asking for assistance.
Finally, the police were able to apprehend the attacker thanks to a tip from an 18-year-old woman named Elizabeth Morales. Elizabeth claimed to the police that evening she had gone on a date with her lover Danny. After receiving almost 50 calls from his best friend Javier, Danny finally left to assist him. He allegedly told Elizabeth before departing that he believed his friend had killed someone. Danny initially refused to cooperate when the police interrogated him, but when he became terrified of being accused of the murder, he opened up. According to what he told the police, he took Javier to a petrol station and loaned him money so that Javier could fill a gas can. He then drove him back to the crime scene, but as he had already left, he had not seen anything.
The police had a suspect, and they knew that the attacker had returned to burn the body. When the detectives and a SWAT squad proceeded to arrest Javier Righetti, who was 19 at the time, he confessed to raping and killing Alyssa. Additionally, he allegedly admitted to carving the initials “LV” into her body before setting it on fire. According to police files, he reportedly admitted to three further rapes, including two that occurred in the same tunnel where he attacked Alyssa. Javier had a warrant out for his arrest for raping his cousin a month before to this occurrence, it was also found.
Where is Javier Righetti?
In February 2017, Jarvis entered a plea of guilty to 10 counts, including first-degree kidnapping, murder with a deadly weapon, and sexual assault on a minor. Except for the first-degree murder plea agreement that was rejected by both the lower court and the Nevada Supreme court, all nine of his pleas were upheld. A judge determined Javier to be mentally capable of receiving the death punishment on February 23, 2017. After almost three hours of discussion, the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada sentenced Javier to death on March 21, 2017. Javier, who is 24 years old, is the youngest person ever to be executed in Nevada.
The sentencing was well-received by the Otremba family, as Jennifer said, “He didn’t consider her life. We have been striving for her justice. According to court documents, Javier is currently detained at the Ely State Prison in solitary confinement for 23 hours each day.