A man accused of killing wife on their wedding night in 2012 was returned to the Chicago area on Thursday. Arnoldo Jimenez, a fugitive on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list, was arrested in Monterrey, Mexico in January 2025.
Jimenez arrived at O’Hare airport on Thursday afternoon and was transferred to local custody, an FBI Chicago spokesperson said Friday.
“Jimenez was wanted in connection with the murder of Estrella Carrera who was found deceased less than 48 hours after their wedding,” the federal agency’s Chicago office had announced Thursday on social media platform X.
The FBI worked with FBI Legat Mexico City, La Agencia de Investigación Criminal-INTERPOL and Burbank Police Department on the case.
FBI Chicago had no details about when Jimenez will appear in Cook County court. Burbank Police Department could not be reached on Friday for comment.
Authorities arrested Jimenez last year in connection with the 2012 slaying of Carrera, his wife. He was wanted for first degree murder and unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, according to an FBI poster.
Jimenez, 44, was last seen after an impromptu wedding reception at a night club in May 2012, the day before the body of Carrera was found in the bathtub of her apartment in southwest suburban Burbank. Carrera, 26, was still in the silver dress she had worn during the wedding ceremony at City Hall.
A warrant for Jimenez’s arrest for first-degree murder was entered a few days later, and he spent nearly 13 years on the run before his arrest.
His name was added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list in 2019, with a reward for information leading to his arrest that over the years rose from $10,000 to $250,000.
FBI Chicago and Burbank Police Department could not be reached on Friday for comment about when Jimenez will appear in court.
Investigators believed Jimenez argued with Carrera after leaving their wedding reception in his black 2006 Maserati. Authorities had theorized Jimenez fatally stabbed the mother of his 2-year-old son in the car, then moved her body into the bathroom of the apartment, the Sun-Times has previously reported..
Family members had called police to check the apartment when Carrera did not turn up to pick up the toddler and her 8-year-old daughter from relatives the day after the wedding.
Authorities said they believed Jimenez fled to central Mexico, where he had family in the state of Durango. Investigators tracked Jimenez’s cellphone for less than a day before it went dark, but in that time they saw that he had moved from the Chicago area to southern Illinois, through Memphis and Arkansas before going dark at Hildalgo, Texas, near the border. Monterrey, where Jimenez was arrested, is about 150 miles from Hildalgo in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon.