Man stabbed woman and waited for her to die before driving to police station

A killer walked into a police station and showed officers photographs of a dead woman he had in his car outside.

The gruesome image showed the victim had been stabbed multiple times – pathologists later identified 25 separate wounds on victim Nilda Rivera's body.

As officers from Hartford Police Department in Connecticut, US, rushed outside to find slumped her unresponsive in the car with “multiple injuries” Police Lieutenant Aaron Boisvert arrested Pedro Grajalez, 52, for her murder.

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The killer said “he had just stabbed his girlfriend, and that she was in a vehicle parked in front of the police department,” Lt. Boisvert said in a statement.

Officers gave the 57-year-old victim first aid until paramedics arrived to take her to nearby Saint Francis Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival, Lt. Boisvert added.

Grajalez had driven his girlfriend to a McDonald’s for a last meal before stabbing her in the chest, head, face and arms in a frenzied attack as she sat in the passenger seat of his car.

He said he had waited for Nilda to die before driving to the police station, and had also sent copies of the horrifying photos he had taken of her corpse to her “new boyfriend”.

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Police found the murder weapon sitting between the front seats of Grajalez's car.

When questioned by police, Grajalez blamed the murder on his girlfriend's affair. He claimed Nilda had given his mother’s address to her “other boyfriend,” who he accused of making threats against his mum.

Nilda’s daughter, Yaitza Casanova, said Grajalez “was very jealous. He would look in her phone and delete stuff and go on her social media and delete people.”

She added: “I hope that they do to him what he did to my mother and he suffers slowly.”

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Their mom and Grajalez were in an on-again, off-again relationship after meeting on social media, according to the freinds.

Nilda's other daughter, Daniella Valle told Fox 61: “He talked about how he would never hurt my mother. But that’s exactly what he did. I wake up every day just hoping it’s a nightmare.”

Grajalez has been charged with the murder. Bond was initially set at $1.5million (£1.2million) but was later doubled.

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