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Blanca Salas-Jurado, 28, was found shot to death on October 7, 2016, in the Pinon Pines apartment she shared with her sister and her young son near Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Investigators characterized the case as extreme domestic violence; authorities identified her estranged husband, Gustavo Olivo-Tellez, then 27, as the primary suspect. Prosecutors said the killing was planned over several days and motivated by anger over photos on Salas’s phone that Olivo-Tellez believed showed infidelity.

Prosecutors say Olivo-Tellez traveled from Denver to Glenwood Springs with his then-girlfriend Michelle Castillo driving; Castillo purchased the ammunition later used in the shooting. After the killing the two fled to Grand Junction with Salas’s three-year-old son. Olivo-Tellez was arrested and charged with first-degree murder; his defense argued the shooting was a crime of passion tied to methamphetamine and alcohol use. He was convicted of second-degree murder and given a 48-year sentence. Castillo pleaded guilty to accessory to murder and received 16 years.

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